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Comment Re:Easy fix ... (Score 1) 29

the green thing to do is build products on the continent they will be sold on.

If the raw materials are all on one continent, the end users are on another, and the finished product is less massive than the raw materials, it's going to require less shipping to build it where the raw materials are then ship it to the customer.

Sure, assuming the pollution of resource acquisition and the pollution of manufacturing is also figured in. Otherwise a locale might externalize the pollution to falsely appear greener than they actually are.

Also, what about things like coffee, that simply don't grow everywhere they are consumed?

No one said manufacture locally is always possible. Just that a goal of being greener may justify different practices than a goal of having cheaper goods. "Cheaper" has a cost at times; pollution, labor abuse, predatory behavior, etc.

Comment Taiwan is last unconquered part of China (Score 1) 45

They haven't invaded Taiwan in the past 75 years. Is there some reason to think they will in the near future?

Taiwan is the last region of China the remains unconquered by the Communists. It is literally the remnants of the National Government of the Republic of China that ruled China until 1948. It was defeated on the mainland and fled to Taiwan where it relocated the capital of China to Taipei, Taiwan and still claimed authority over the mainland. This was recognized by the UN and various nations for a while. Then reality was recognized and a Two-China policy was held for a while. For diplomatic reasons a One-China fiction is popular today. Fiction as in Taiwan's independence is simultaneously recognized and defended. The CCP finds Taiwan independence embarrassing, insulting, and would love a reunification, a forceful one if necessary. As we saw with Hong Kong where the civil liberties - guaranteed by the treaty with the British regarding the handover of Hong Kong - have been forcibly removed, violating the treaty.

What spared the Nationalist government for the last 75 years was the CCP lacking the amphibious capability to take Taiwan by force. And the CCP is currently working to gain that capability. While warning Taiwan reunification by force is an option to them.

Comment CCP says a forceful reunification is an option (Score 1) 45

They haven't invaded Taiwan in the past 75 years. Is there some reason to think they will in the near future?

Other than the CCP says a forceful reunification is always an option? Other than building the military capability necessary to do so?

"BOTTOM LINE
China is systematically preparing for a forceful reunification campaign by redesigning and intensifying military and civilian-military measures such as military mobilization, amphibious capabilities, standardization of operations, and resource stockpiling.
The People’s Liberation Army’s expanded and improved military exercises around Taiwan since August 2022 have been shifting toward more coercive and multi-domain operations to assert control over the region.
These systematic and incremental military and civilian-military measures might provide China with the tools to successfully conduct a potential forceful reunification with Taiwan in the near future."
https://www.fpri.org/article/2...

Comment Re:Oooo, scary! (Score 1) 45

The difference is that the US keeps the hacking in government hands and restricted to authorized contractors. Not much of a difference, really.

Completely different, a Chinese civilian in the US can be acting as an agent of their government under this reported new authorization. That's farming out to civilians as opposed to the keeping it inside government as you say.

Comment To store the diskette images (Score 1) 70

Commodore 64 Ultimate will include 128 megabytes of RAM and 16 megabytes of flash memory. It connects to modern monitors via HDMI in high-definition 1080p resolution and features three USB-A ports and one USB-C port.

Why would you need any of that for a commodore 64? It was released in 1982. The original had 64kb of ram.

To store the diskette images

Comment Re: Federal Law Says No (Score 1) 104

I think you think you're clever, but a) understand that your justification ("they're awful for lots of reasons") would have in other times and places been the same justification other people could have used against groups like homosexuals, and b) I rather suspect you fling the term Nazi or fascist around at nearly anyone who disagrees with your politics, which then just makes the term a crutch for you to dismiss and/justify whatever things YOU want to think or say about them. Or do, like "banning them as a political party".

Comment Re:AI the ultimate cut and paste coder? (Score 1) 66

Whatever. I disagree with that statement also. I find that the AI can write very acceptable code even when the 'algorithms' are not well known. They may have been encountered in some obscure training documentation or code sets that hardly any human has seen.

I'm not sure how you are disagreeing when you are saying pretty much the same thing. "So yes, if you carefully sequence questions to fit such automation, it can go find reference code for you and build it out step by step." An automated search leading to more possibilities to evaluate. It then "cuts and pastes",

Also I find that the better models can interpret your intentions from prompts quite well even if there are spelling errors, and often elaborate it better than you were able to state it. When companies say their new code is written mostly by AI I have no doubt they are truthful.

I think one of the new skills for humans to develop is how to phrase the questions to give the AI the best hints possible.

Comment Re:Arguing over default of op-out vs op-in? (Score 1) 41

People had that hope for bodycam footage but police were hardly going to let themselves be held accountable... it's now routine to refuse access and cameras 'malfunction' and footage disappears so often to be blatantly deliberate. Good luck getting any footage unless it exonerates them.

Then that undermines the their word against your word tradition.

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