Nobody thinks they’re incapable of working this out; we think theyre deliberately advertising something dumb that lay people won’t necessarily understand is dumb. Replying that they have smart engineers is stupid because no-one denied it - we just don’t think they used those engineers to come up with the idea.
You seem to be in a weird state where every hostile act that both China and the US carry out is a reason to stop doing business with the US but not with China - unless you want to reassess the starting point where you said the Netherlands needs to leave itself open to pressure from China in this instance, every though that won’t cause dependence on the US, only a shift in balance.
Even with the hostile trump regime, China is still more hostile towards EU states than the US is.
New cold war
Litmus test: who bears responsibility for the war in Ukraine?
Do you think they will completely stop doing business with someone that steals* their shit
*as much as this can be called theft, something which took place in specific non-arbitrary circumstances, rather than the Dutch government just thinking “I quite fancy that”
The UK undertook a similar action earlier this year when British Steel was threatened with going defunct by its Chinese owners. Business between the UK and China did not collapse as a result.
By realistic: China is continually carrying out low-level hostile actions against other nations - cyberattacks, IP theft, currency manipulation, and also this kind of attempt at industrial subordination. It’s realpolitik, which means that if it gets detected and a credible negative response, their reaction won’t be to cut off all trade; it will be to stop doing deals which they only wanted to do as a way of carrying out this kind of manipulation. If it were to cut off all trade, what you’re saying is that Western countries should roll over and accept abusive practices by China so as to avoid being dependent on the abusive USA. It makes no sense.
If you think that China is not actually doing anything that even deserves a response, then feel free to say so, of course.
What is causing “complete dependence on the US” here? Taking over one single Chinese company doesn’t do that.
And chipmaking is dominated by the US, China and Taiwan (which is not immune to influence from the other two parties, lol) so how exactly can one avoid dependency on or the other, except by balancing dependency between the two?
If you really think this means “complete dependence” then explain how.
It is far from clear that dependency on the us is worse than dependency on China. A couple of years ago even suggesting it would be lunacy - it’s only even remotely credible just now.
Yeah, I consider it real because they’re administered by the Nobel Foundation. Nobel didn’t set up any of the prizes himself - they were created after his death by the foundation set up to d execute his will.
But the prize in economics is awarded by the Nobel Foundation. It’s a real Nobel prize, just not one of the original ones
Yeah, it can work, because it’ll trigger the recall of different types of input data. But it’s not magic and if you have a 25% chance of the model you’re using hallucinating, you probably end up still with an 8.5% chance of getting bullshit after doing this.
The model we have at work tries to work around this by including some checks. I assume they get farmed out to specialised models and receive the output of the first stage as input.
Maybe it catches some stuff? It’s better than pretend reasoning but it’s very verbose so the stuff that I’ve experimented with - which should be simple and quick - ends up being more time consuming than it should be.
While expensive for the EU, tariffs on Chinese products are probably sensible.
There are a few actual sane reasons for imposing tariffs, and one of them is protecting critical industries that you can’t afford to lose because doing so would expose you to greater risks. Steel, due to its impact on downstream sectors, can reasonably be taken to be one of those. Look at the pain on relying on Russia for energy and how much weaker it made the response to their invasion of Ukraine. Losing critical industries to China makes it harder to exert pressure on China in the future, and easier for them to exert it on the EU.
You’ll probably be unable to use it for major sites due to how much it’s blocked due to abuse coming through Tor exit nodes.
Progressive Web-apps are a particular kind of web-app. The person you replied to just referred to “webapps”, not this special kind of web-app. Firefox has always supported web-apps.
The nature of progressive web-apps means that you can use them even if the browser doesn’t explicitly support them. All that explicit support does is wrap the web-app in an icon and reduced browser window.
I don’t know what that button does but I’m fairly sure it’s not about support for web-apps. Firefox has always supported web-apps, because web-apps are just interactive websites.
Webapps are now supported on Firefox? Holy smokes!
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The “Gaza Riviera” was Trumps plan to complete the ethnic cleansing of Gaza by forcing out all the Palestinians that Israel hadn’t managed to murder, whereas this plan seems not to feature that particular aspect. Calling them the same thing is dishonest from that point of view.
The main issue is the slow roadmap towards self-rule.
The scope for European leaders to be lying is limited, though, because they are absolutely right in saying that if Russia feels it succeeds in Ukraine, they won’t stop there; they’ll take a little nibble of the next country, and then the next. So while they might feel they can get away with not backing Ukraine as thoroughly as they pretend they are, they cannot afford for Ukraine to lose.
The claim that Europe is stretching out the war is usually thin cover for the idea that the good, swift end to the war is for Ukraine to concede to Russia’s expansionist demands.
While the article does criticise Russia once, at the end, it also uncritically parrots the Russian line about its infringement of NATO airspace and the cause of the war in Ukraine. If you don’t want to call it tankie, we can still call it that lies and propaganda.
When I got a kindle (10 years ago) I did it on the basis that it was possible to strip the DRM of the books and load them on another device. I’m not going to be tied to some shitty platform for ever more. I must say though that when I have bought books on other places, the process of stripping the DRM and getting the book onto the device has been an absolute ballache - presumably the same for any device when you’re not using the native store.
I won’t be going back to physical books though. I bought a hardback for the first time in ages and my wrists don’t like it. Nor does my partner when I’m reading while they’re trying to sleep.
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Let’s not submit, upvote or read dumb shit like this.
European countries are imperialist for not wanting to be forced to submit to Russian demands in the future
OK tankie.
Dumb thermostats last for multiple decades.