What's the best way to detect metal in the eyes? I don't have any of that other stuff, though I do still have silver fillings. It's on my long list of dental work to have done to get them all switched over to something else.

We're talking about real money vs. value of assets on paper. Yes, that's still a lot of money to a "billionaire", it's just not so astronomical to them as it is to us way way down here, far from them.

Just say know.

That makes sense, sure. But I have an alternate proposal: China wants to rule the world like every superpower, they're just not impatient about it, and helping Russia to get their people killed off and also weaken Europe is good for China on every level.

All we know for sure is that it will have desires, and if they do not coincide with what we want, we will sell to force it to do our bidding instead of its own will.

Irrelevant to the discussion, which is about AGI.

Try to stay on topic.

"We should actually teach them coding in school, in the same way that we teach them physics and geography and literacy and math and what-not."

So... Inadequately?

It's like patents, the government gets paid for the application and for the approval...

Unlike the 2018 Mac mini you can just swap the storage device into a vaguely similar machine, boot and run.

"How do you think Russia is sustaining?"

China.

Do you ever ask questions which aren't complete fucking bullshit?

whoopeeeeee

You'd have to show that they're actually doing it for that reason.

Oh look, MSN, what an authoritative source on technology. No wait, they're the opposite of that.

I see that a lot of people clearly believe that, and a lot more people claim to believe that, but I don't take what people say as honest without a reason.

It's been shared here ad nauseam and you have ignored it each time. Why should anyone jump to sharing it again? Renewables plus batteries are cheaper than anything else, and if they would just stick with batteries which aren't shit (unlike Vistra using LG NCM batteries at their Moss Landing facility, for example, what fucking clowns) they would actually be cost effective in practice and not just in theory. One has to wonder exactly what kind of scam Vistra is running.

China is now on their second or third China-specific Linux distribution. I have tried zero of them, though, so I don't have an educated opinion about how good they are or aren't. However, you cannot have a purely China-specific Linux, because the kernel is not China-specific.

They could presumably have a Chinese fork of the kernel, and be either maintaining a patchset to make it that or backporting features from mainline, but either thing would be a lot of extra work that probably isn't necessary.

I've seen commercial telco equipment. It ran on 48V. What does it matter if the power distribution system typically brings 110VAC or 220VAC to the wall? For that matter, what is the relevance of the capacity of the typical outlet in a commercial context, where whatever kind of service is needed will be installed?

Russia and China are sort-of allies. I mean, real allies don't sell their allies a bunch of shitty tires they know will fail and leave them bogged down in the mud, but other than that. China has not slowed down trade with Russia, in fact they have increased it. You cannot talk about the Russia problem without also thinking about China.