BYD is already facing scrutiny for running Evergrande like accounting, and a lot of political pressures from other Chinese manufacturers. The risk is that they collapse like Evergrande, and that they drag public debt into it. The CCP might prop them up, so it light be safe. A car is different from a book, because you need lifetime service for it. If they go under, you might lose access to parts.

Getting to deprecate legacy support… Yes please, let me get my eraser.

I find most tech debt resolution adds code though.

This sounds like an absolute nightmare. Listen to the techbro leaders talk about the general population, and imagine them owning what manages your brain… Ieam electrically, as opposed to indirectly.

He likely brought a ton of capital with him.

I still think that they have been looking for an excuse, in order to change the paradigm in a fundamental way.

This is likely a part of the Authoritarian plan, as opposed to a response to loss of control.

You should read their policy

On YouTube I watch a guy Jay Legere who installed a Bluetti solar and battery system. I think that Anker has a system too.

If you have a few grand about, there are company that sell very easy to use kits that are quite handy.

This AI tech, smat-home, cloud compute etc would all be amazing if we could trust that it wasn’t built to harvest us.

We, the people, have become the Commons.

Probably not me. Most of the recorded incidents are against Chinese families that have emigrated.

I complain about the CCP here and there, but not likely enough for any attention to be warranted.

Except that there are credible reports of the CCP running police operations on foreign soil.

That was yesterday. It doubled since then IIRC

Americans have a history of the most insidious manipulations in the politics of other nations - did you see their Sec. of state try commemorate the CIA backed coup of Cuba.

About “crying” over foreign interference, you are wrong. In the last 4 years France, Canada, Germany, Romania, Sri-Lanka, Australia, all of the Baltic nations andore have a had credible complaints of attempts from foreign nations trying to use propaganda and more to influence elections.

Let’s not try to convince ourselves than only the Americans are misbehaving.

Can we not bother deciding who was the biggest nightmare, and instead focus on finding models for the best countries.

I am so sick of the “at least the USSR had…” or “at least China does…” conversation. Can’t we have a “Finland has high happiness, broad socialist protections, and a fast moving economy” kind of conversations.

For this number, is it related to the Chinese government GDP numbers, or independently measured? My understanding is that the CCP use GDP differently that the West, in that they release numbers which are prescriptive estimates and goals, as opposed to statistical results.

~~Why is that better than usb-c? ~~

Wait… Power the other way. Whoops, I get it.

What’s funnier is that the Americans could have dropped Chinese raw materials if they had built a collaboration before tariffing China, but the current Government have only one tactic: try to bully everyone at once. They really did make their own mess.

Their x86 fabs are producing a 5 yr old Intel node, and with unknown defect rate. This is about getting down to the modern node size to (eventually) to get competitive with the two major ARM nodes.

This could be great news. RISC5 could be great for diversity in the processor space. I at will take investment on the scale that only a national investment like China can invest to get it to compete.

Does China have the Fab capability to build these, or do they need foreign production?