context is a bit important, because from the '50s to the '70s, japanese products were largely awful. japanese electronics were particularly infamous.
but they turned things around by continued development and innovation; many were slow to notice due to decades of poor quality.

important to stress the amount of subsidies--far, far greater than any western country, and the core tech (the battery) has also been heavily subsidized for decades, which results in an artificially low price that would be completely unsustainable if coming from a private company in a capitalistic market (even with contemporary western govt subsidies).

the main concern with all of this is "dumping"--if someone gives away free shoes for decades, you may lose all your local shoemakers.
and those free shoes may one day stop being free.

plus internal combustion expertise is not easily acquired (the west spent centuries refining the things), but it is easily lost.

also, many chinese AI company earning projections assumed success in the worldwide market, and interestingly, many are now worrying chinese AI tech may only largely find success domestically.

this brings to mind big chinese tech's recent ~$35 billion order for nvidia GPUs; even with an abundance of cheap energy and the govt's consistent push to use homegrown tech, they still want nvidia.

between ~5% of the population being illegal and people speeding, id choose the people speeding.

you may not care but it's clear many do--to wave them away you may need to invest in a larger paintbrush.

"dead dinosaurs" is colloquial, if you will, but it's still surprising how many believe crude oil is literally dead dinos.

pray where you like, but the presence of ECC is a clue regarding your god's fragility

11010 stored in A is the exact same as 11010 stored in B... but A may change in transit to B.

this is a myth (heard it many times before).

sent through a physical metal cable, digital 1s and 0s are represented by analog voltage ranges
interference can cause a 0 to be read as 1, and with no ECC this might be heard as a pop/click/buzz/anything... an artifact, if you will. and it wont cause the entire song to stop playing.

and the analog side of DACs are still being improved to this day.

doing something because it's cool or difficult is a time-honored tradition, as is tribalism.

there is also a cost to not doing business--for example, europe has only 1 company in the worldwide top 25, whereas the US has 20.
and one of the biggest hurdles to starting a business in europe, per europeans, is regulations.

i applaud the spirit in which the EU strives to safeguard its citizens; however the practical effects are another matter.

practically all cars are currently controlled by such bio-electrical systems; 20-50m people worldwide are injured per year, ~1m die, its the leading cause of death in children and young adults, and costs most countries ~3% of their GDP (source)

therefore it's a matter of performance; a matter of which system hallucinates less, and bio-electrical lot have low marks.

smells of money laundering.

empire building, economic exploitation, and hierarchies are older than books, and who's owed what is a matter of fickle opinion. the available paper trail is unreliable, and just because something was taken from you or you lost it, doesnt mean it was justly yours in the first place.

if the argument is inaction = murder, to show youre not primarily interested in pointing the finger, could you please estimate your own personal child-murder figure?

per the argument, we should all have one.

frame gen's best use-case is turning high fps games into very high fps games--e.g., 60fps to 120+fps.
high fps games have low latency, so you dont notice the little latency FG adds.
if you want CRT levels of motion clarity, you need a lot more than 120fps, and frame gen is really the only way to get there.

as for neural rendering (dlss5), it'll likely be massively refined/rebuilt (like dlss1), amd/intel will release their own versions, major engines will integrate it, consoles will use it, and itll become ubiquitous.

~80% of illegal immigrants do not apply for asylum. perpetuating an abused system is negligent.

framing racism as the great engine of america is simply lazy. if racism were the key, the world would have a great many more superpowers.

NATO is also an international treaty requiring signees to spend at least 2% GDP on defense, but historically less than 20% of members follow the rules. this is one example. asymmetrical expectations for america is not a coincidence.

ICE are formally federal law enforcement officers. you know what this means, unless youre playing dumb for your benefit.

constantly and purposefully getting in their way via persons/cars, threatening/antagonizing them, damaging property (that taxpayers pay for), etc. might get you the antifa purple belt, but most dont see that as a positive thing. calling all this "merely recording the police" ensures you only surround yourselves with people who will share your toothbrush.

murder is premeditated.
basically all arrests are a "kidnapping" if you want to keep such a loose definition and adopt terms for your benefit.

here's the main thing: illegal immigration isnt a popular policy, and just because you have friends or family who are here illegally, doesnt mean you get to impose your will and frame it as a moral pilgrimage.

there is no chinese nvidia; top performing models are not chinese; deepseek was a splash, not a wave; SMIC doesnt compete with TSMC or even lesser foundries.

these are present day results, the sum product of policy/administration/everything, not what-ifs or projections.
if may very well change, but at present, china leading AI is fan fiction.