clarionbell

And the chips will be manufactured in China. Truly a genius move.

It's very simple. Anything that hurts the enemy is good. That includes the civilian population. Actions like this increase general discontent, produce negative economic impact and divert attention from other areas.

And the required investment is minimal.

No. Because neither storage nor generation is evenly spread. In some places you would have nothing, in some you could have potentially hours.

In practical terms, you would most probably get nothing, because situation like this would lead to complete grid breakdown and interruption of service.

Sorry, but this is so vague that I don't know if there is any impact at all. What is the bit rate of these communication channels? How did agents communicate with each other to coordinate on which channel to use in the first place?

There will be a point in the future, possibly near future, when AI will be capable of reliably producing encyclopedic content, and we'll have tools to verify that the content produced passes reasonable standards.

Today is not the day. Especially not regarding the verification.

>> As any wise country would do when faced with superior technology, we should import it with the condition of technology exchange.

Europe tried doing that. And our green technology sector promptly collapsed, because it couldn't compete with Chinese undercutting our prices. The only thing left now are wind turbines, but Chinese are making inroads there too. In the meantime, the green transition barely moved a needle when energy shock arrived in 2022 or this year. Rendering rest of our industry, especially chemical industry, uncompetitive.

Utilities are one of the cases where market dynamics break down. It's very obvious why, when you realize how difficult it is build even a relatively simple electrical transmission system, or a power plant. The barriers to entry are extremely high.

Furthermore, switching from one provider to another is inherently difficult. There is only one set of pipes leading to your house, how you going to switch to an alternative? Who is going to build the line for the 1 new customer?

And finally, splitting the business across the vertical doesn't work either. Generation of power is tied to grid management, this is tied to transmission maintenance and expansion.

All things considered. Monopoly emerges naturally and rent seeking is pretty much given. There are only two options left. Either the utility is operated by government for common good, or it the monopolist is so heavily regulated and controlled by the government, that it is, in effect, its extension.

Regulation by 3rd parties. People use phones for payments and accessing sensitive services. But these apps work only on Android / iOS. There those who don't seek this use case, but there are rather small and increasingly shrinking minority. This is compounded by the knowhow needed to install non-stock OS on phone in the first place.

This is a well known issue in Europe. Companies operating in the defense industry, even well established ones, can not access regular banking services. This issue affects even countries where ESG is not considered a priority, such as Czechia, because only branches of international banks operate here.

Because Vienna politicians have some sense.

In other words, people will lose jobs with no off ramp, horses will get dumped somewhere (because they can't be used for any work, or slaughtered), city will lose one more tradition and get a bit more bland.

No wonder, with the industrial collapse and increase in prices.

I believe that their fabs are running at full capacity already at this point. If they were to announce new GPUs, where would they make them?

I doubt it, because if they did, Russina and Chinese state media would be blasting it non-stop.

Yes, it's there. Th series is kind of all over the place.

Good thing that sanity prevailed.

It was bombed, and things moved on even more smoothly.

I know that speech protections are not exactly maximalist in Canada, but surely this can't be compatible with the charter?

I'm afraid your are misinformed. Perhaps the biggest desalination in Israel Sorek, on the Med coastline.

They are however, in talks with Jordan about piping water into the Dead Sea, and there is a similar operation for the Galilee.

There are however various salt mining operations around Dead sea using brine. That is, both in Israel, and less extensive in Jordan.

Not really. There is EU regulation. But is not really well enforced and offers some interesting loopholes, like zero-rating.

It isn't. But reform would a political suicide, because all of these people are voters. So the status quo continues, and for now everyone can feel great about how caring the society is.

If EU were to "leverage" ASML, and that would require rather unlikely approval of Netherlands, it wouldn't end very well.

Already shipped machines can not be taken back, nor can they be stopped. Sure, you can cut the support, and buildup of new fabs will be stalled. But the other side, Chinese or USA, has many more levers to pull. Raw materials, energy (LNG), was majority of consumer goods, solar panels, batteries, semiconductors. EU doesn't mine or make most of them, and isn't nowhere close to even starting, instead, industrial base is already shrinking.

Even worse, ASML may dominate EUV, but other suppliers do very well in DUV. The moment ASML becomes unreliable, all of them will get infusion of money, as they become national security issue.

What about ASML subsidiaries in USA, like Cymer and ASML Wilton, will they take the bullet for the parent? Or will they become part of new competitor, with all the knowhow.

And China has already set domestic capacities in this area as a national priority.

Sort of yes. But it's nowhere near as much as some would like to believe. It mostly concerns those who have unclear immigration status, had their funding cut off, or don't care about money.

Now, that is quite a lot of people. But not nearly enough to reverse decades of brain drain.

Good news: we have discoverd FTL! Bad news: the ship came back *wrong*.

I would be surprised if a significant number of people anywhere had a basic statistical understanding. It is a difficult topic.

In my experience, when someone mentions burning library of Alexandria, they are either exaggerating, or have a poor grasp of history. Usually it's both. This post, the discussion, do not change my mind.

https://itsfoss.com/news/glimpse-gimp-fork-archived/ Yep, it's dead.

Seeing things that don't exist is generally detrimental to your short term survival.