It actually is his surname. His grandfather was a Korean with the surname Son who emigrated to Japan during the Japanese colonial period. The family adopted the Japanese surname Yasumoto in an effort to avoid discrimination. Masayoshi Son reverted to using his Korean surname Son when he returned to Japan after studying in the USA.

It makes no sense to claim Chinese courts have a lot of power, although it may seem that way â" itâ(TM)s supposed to seem that way. One of the foundational principles of Chinese jurisprudence is party supremacy. Every judge is supervised by a PLC â" party legal committee â" which oversees budgets, discipline and assignments in the judiciary. They consult with the judges in sensitive trials to ensure a politically acceptable outcome.

So it would be more accurate to characterize the courts as an instrument of party power rather than an independent power center.

From time to time Chinese court decisions become politically inconvenient, either through the supervisors in the PLC missing something or through changing circumstances. In those cases there is no formal process for the party to make the courts revisit the decision. Instead the normal procedure is for the inconvenient decision to quietly disappear from the legal databases, as if it never happened. When there is party supremacy, the party can simply rewrite judicial history to its current needs.

An independent judiciary seems like such a minor point; and frankly it is often an impediment to common sense. But without an independent judiciary you canâ(TM)t have rule of law, just rule by law.

Hereâ(TM)s the problem with that scenario: court rulings donâ(TM)t mean much in a state ruled by one party. China has plenty of progressive looking laws that donâ(TM)t get enforced if it is inconvenient to the party. There are emission standards for trucks and cars that should help with their pollution problems, but there are no enforcement mechanisms and officials have no interest in creating any if it would interfere with their economic targets or their private interests.

China is a country of strict rules and lax enforcement, which suits authoritarian rulers very well. It means laws are flouted routinely by virtually everyone, which gives the party leverage. Displease the party, and they have plenty of material to punish you, under color of enforcing laws. It sounds so benign, at least theyâ(TM)re enforcing the law part of the time, right? Wrong. Laws selectively enforced donâ(TM)t serve any public purpose; theyâ(TM)re just instruments of personal power.

Americans often donâ(TM)t seem to understand the difference between rule of law and rule *by* law. Itâ(TM)s ironic because the American Revolution and constitution were historically important in establishing the practicality of rule of law, in which political leaders were not only expected to obey the laws themselves, but had a duty to enforce the law impartially regardless of their personal opinions or interests.

Rule *by* law isnâ(TM)t a Chinese innovation, it was the operating principle for every government before 1789. A government that rules *by* law is only as good as the men wielding power, and since power corrupts, itâ(TM)s never very good for long.

People compete for jobs and jobs also compete for workers. Nearly anyone will work any job for the right price. That's called free-market capitalism or supply and demand. Please stop the corporatist, Chamber of Commerce propaganda. We've been hearing this for longer than I've been alive by business owners who bitch to old-school business-friendly Republicans and their local Chamber of Commerce about not being able to find workers willing to work sub-market wage jobs. All you have to do is pay more and people will apply. They give BULLSHIT lines like "Americans don't want to..." You're either really full of shit or fully duped if you're repeating this stupidity. Please stop!!! So anytime you say "young people don't WANT" some job...please kindly go fuck yourself. Pay me more money than I am making as a software engineer and I'll gladly go out in a field and pick strawberries.

This is a simple free market situation. You pay minimum wage to pick produce and Starbucks pays $1 over minimum wage to work in air conditioning at your local strip mall and what the fuck do you think would happen???? Sorry, jobs compete for workers as much as workers compete for jobs. Saying "young people don't WANT" to work some job is complete bullshit.

It's like me going around and saying "No one will hire me as a heart surgeon because I'm black." (when I didn't even go to medical school and have no relevant experience).

As the kids get older, a LOT are going to want to ditch the chromebook because they see richer kids doing the same. It's similar to the green vs blue bubble phenomena where kids make fun of students without ios devices. Kids are shitty...I think they were actually shittier in my day...my kids and their peers seem to be better. However, nearly EVERY middle schooler plays Roblox these days...and the experience sucks on most chromebooks.

Your question is valid. The answer is simple. the "Tangerine Terror" can only stop new fabs getting here. The fabs that TSMC and Samsung already have in USoAn soil will remain there AND be upgraded.

The sole process of building a fab that can sustain the cleanliness needed for chipmaking (significantly more clean particle wise than an Operating Room, although less asceptic) is super-Expensive. even before you deploy the Litho Equipment. Also, the load bearing on the ceiling for the waffer transport pods is out of this world. Also, moving around the litho equipment after deployment is super expensive too (revalidation and re-calibration galore)

Also, with the world the way it is, neither Samsung nor TSMC can afford to risk full stop production in the mother-land due to military action (NorK or China), or to Earthquakes (Pacific Fire Ring). So they will keep building outside of their motherland. Be that the USoA, Canada or europe, Who knows?

So, is not like Samsumg or TSMC will vacate the USoAn fabs and let the buildings go delerict, or sell the empty husks of the buildings to "someone else" for pennies on the dollar.

If they get feed up with the "Orange Terror", they will stop new GreenField fab building, expansion projects, and maybe even cancel projects in very early stages of construction, but very advanced constrution or operational fabs will go ahead.

As others stated, it's a chromebook running IOS. I don't think many will buy it as their primary work laptop. However, I can picture every family with small kids buying this instead of giving their kids Mommy/Daddy's old laptop. If it has enough power to run Roblox, it will be one of their biggest hits of all time.

I am surprised Apple hasn't done this before. In our house, my wife and I run macs. One kid has a chromebook. One has a cheap Windows laptop. Why? because macs are expensive and the chromebook barely gets use and the windows laptop is just a gaming machine and honestly mostly runs Roblox Studio, occasionally games that are also available on consoles.

We'd love to replace both with these and just run Apple stuff...single family iCloud account, share peripherals more easily...no need to troubleshoot windows stupidity...no need to worry about what ads Windows is serving my kids.

This is the smartest thing I've read about Apple in a long time. It's smart to focus on luxury, but given how weak Windows and Android are ATM, why not make a power play to expand the userbase...especially for families like ours where we gladly pay for premium Apple devices for ourselves and professional use, but stick to budget devices for kids...ensuring that we're locked in even longer and moreso.

Their concern is they won't have the soldiers or economy to invade Taiwan as easily in the future. For them, it's an act now or regret it in the future calculus...and to your point, the only reason I can see for them to want to own Taiwan is as a manipulation of the population and national identity. "Don't question that you property is under water and your job prospects are shrinking and everyone you know is getting poorer...One China!! One China!! One China!!!...support the troops!!!"

I agree 107% with you. Just a few points:

Samsung is an option for fabinng advanced chips.

TSMC and Samsumg have fabs in the USoA

nVIDIA already worked with samsung (RTX 30x0 and similar AI chips)

nVIDIA invested in Intel because it is cheeeeeeap right now AAAAAND because, in the current political climate, investing in a non-USoAn company is frowned upon.

Samsung is still an option if TSMC and Intel fail. Not as good as TSMC, but leading edge enough.

Loongson is a very capable MIPS derived design. Its claim to fame was a set of extensions that accelerated emulation of X86 VMs via QEMU.

nVIDIA,meanwhile, is NOT interested in X86 (or MIPS, for that matter). They are interested on ARM for the short and medium term, and on RISC-V for the long term.

Try the same idea agai, but with an ARM or RISC-V company as the acquisition target.

And about the geopolitical implications of acquiring a chinese processor developer, I will not talk.

And please remember that nVIDIA also makes networking gear (mellanox aquisition) and miscelaneous chips. So, it would not be out of the questions to throw intel a bone, and fab that (and not AI chips) on intel.

Fair criticism, but Ji has explicitly made serious threats and China has been building up it's Navy...and they're getting more desperate due to a demographic collapse as well as a trade war which they're losing (we're not winning...we're losing as well)...but things are dire for China. Their window of a successful invasion keeps shrinking. In fact, it could be a piece of cake if it wasn't for TSMC. So while they've been planning on invading since before I was born, they're actually taking unprecedented steps to prepare.

If anything, prosperity and growth was the main thing keeping them from invading, IMHO. They can grab Taiwan...or be in the good graces of the international community who was tripping over themselves to do business with them and help them grow their economy. Their growth is an unprecedented economic miracle. No one has ever grown that much and changed so profoundly so fast. But...now that the growth is slowing and there's a probable trend of deglobalization, highly linked to COVID...they're less dependent on the international community. Also, their population keeps shrinking...their coffers are shrinking...and most scarily, the people, accustomed to 3 decades of growth and expansion and seeing their prosperity diminish rapidly and are at huge risk of getting upset.

While China is authoritarian, it's a fuckton easier to be a despot when the people love you. How do you distract a population from their economic issues?...a war!!!

LEDs are a lot more efficient, so you can get a lot more light with a lot less power consumption and heat. This lets you get a lot more light out of a smaller fixture before hear buildup becomes an issue, and you can afford more lamps for the same power budget. That means more light being produced. And yes, a lot of light pollution is reflected light.

Most of the prestige TV came well after reality shows became popular. The Real World premiered in 1992. Since then, we've had Dexter, Game of Thrones, Sopranos, Stranger Things, Yellowstone, Alien Earth, Peacemaker...whatever your favorite show was probably came after Reality TV started taking over in the early 2000s. Some theorize it was a response to network TV showing garbage reality shows in prime time....you can watch Big Brother or Biggest Loser on broadcast TV or watch Game of Thrones or Stranger things on cable or streaming...they stepped in when the networks were trying to force The Apprentice down our throats.