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I bet he’s just upset because of this 🤣 https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/nvidia-amd-china-chip-sale-revenue-us-1.7605805

I’m guessing they did a cost benefit analysis of all this before starting the project. :)

The whole notion of dismissing information because it’s from a state media source is so bonkers. You don’t have to accept their framing, and you can go look up other sources to get different perspectives on a particular piece of news. The reality is that any outlet will have its own biases and leanings. That doesn’t mean the news it reports should be discarded out of hand. I read mainstream western media every day, yet I hardly agree with any of their opinions.

bye lib

It all comes down to economics in the end. All these governments have to have at least some level of legitimacy to stay in power, and if the economic situation continues to deteriorate then we’ll see more and more of what’s happening in Argentina and Chile with growing public unrest and political instability. Meanwhile, the US ability to provide military strength has also been greatly diminished over the past three years. The US is literally not able to keep up with military production to shore up its proxy war in Ukraine. On top of that, they’re propping up Israel, and attempting to confront China. The empire is spread very thin right now.

But the elephant in the room here is that America’s own economy is on life support right now. This whole economic integration with the US that you’re talking about is predicated on the US boosting Latin American economies. What happens when the US has a 2008 style crash, which seems like the most likely scenario in the near future?

I mean we’ll see what happens, but personally I cannot imagine that the US has the capacity to dominate Latin America right now. It’s also wroth keeping in mind that the US itself is on a brink of an economic collapse at this point.

I don’t know that it will. The key weapon the US used against Latin America before was economic warfare. Now that an alternate economic bloc exists, it’s going to be much harder to subjugate Latin America, and the US simply does not have the means to do this through military force.

More energy being spent cooling data centers on land ultimately heats up the whole system more, including the oceans. This is why you should pay attention in your physics class at school kids.

Importantly, it looks like this is going to be China’s position going forward.

looks like they took it down, but they did release it under Apache license originally, so here’s a fork https://git.sr.ht/~yogthos/quelmap

The current right wing government will implode eventually, and communism being incubated in Kerala will be very valuable when that happens.

The drones don’t even have the range to go from Russia to Romania last I looked.

People in Africa are largely using phones from China which don’t run Android. For example, Huawei has its own HarmonyOS now, that was forked from Android a while back and it’s no longer compatible with it.

I do think that Linux based phones would be great, but it doesn’t seem like there are any viable options in the foreseeable future.

To discipline labour. It makes those who weren’t deported more scared, and thus more open to accepting increased exploitation.

The whole notion that voting is the only action one can take to participate politically is absurd. You can join a union, educate people around you, organize strikes, do mutual aid, and a myriad other things that don’t involve voting for a party that’s simply less heinous than the alternative.

That’s not a lot by LLM standards. :)

Again, it’s very weird to single out one type of control character. You have to compare syntax trade offs holistically. However, even when you straight up compare parens, there isn’t a significant difference. Pretty much every language, except those using whitespace, will have two parens for arguments and curlies for the function body, or a statement. This is roughly the same number of parens you end up with in Clojure, minus all the other characters. The difference is just not that dramatic in practice.

It’s incredible to see how Europeans are looking at what happened to Ukraine and thinking yeah we want some of that at home too.