It’s not as though general public, and lemmy, want the health insurance industry protected more than the “necessity defense”. Mainstream platforms censoring it is oligarchist empire protection they are allied to, just as we accuse all foreign media of government alliances.

Author doesn’t say ignore copyrights. He says ignore the “broad IP” clause in USMCA. Right to repair, right to have your own app store, right to enhance products you own.

Overall good points, but:

The most potent political lesson of the past four years is that politicians who preside over rising prices – regardless of their role in causing them – will swiftly feel the wrath of their voters. The public is furious about inflation, whether it comes from transient covid supply chain shocks, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, or cartels using “inflation” as cover for illegal, collusive price-gouging.

GOP complaining about inflation and deficits is them finding something to complain about a strong economy. PP/canada conservatives complaining about carbon tax is supporting Ukrainian nazis while global diesel/home heating fuel refining was at maximum capacity. The Ukrainian support was common to all parties. They had to make up complaints.

Some other things Canada can do is export taxes on resources and energy. The US can’t replace Canada where it is needed in short term.

The big policy change is opening up FDI to China. Can put restrictions on natural resources to also invest in manufacturing using those resources, but treating the US as the only permissible option for investment is bad for Canadian companies and jobs. While Canadians are firmly programed in US foreign policy propaganda, if Trump/US adopts a “coercion until you accept being a territorial posession”, Canada needs to take a friendlier stance towards Russia, North Korea, China, and deprogram itself from US empire bs. It should continue advertising secession and provincehood to US states.

U.S. sponsored and sponsors many movements around the globe as long as their goals align. That money alone can’t invalidate the cause.

USSC declares money is speech. You not only agree, but go further that money is truth. Naziism and Islamist fascism is truth. Democracy, and political power, is much cheaper in smaller countries made less stable with US extortion and war. Navalny caught on video soliciting MI6 for funding to destabilize Russia. Hong Kong media mogul fomenting protests because of Americas values.

The US empire’s values are extortion, control, puppetry, and war whitewashed/described with a facade of liberal freedom. Every country is to be a pawn for the empire to the detriment of their population. The political establishment’s disdain for Americans provides no valid expectation for the empire to promote humanism elsewhere. Just propaganda.

Then when you get the power, then you get the women.”

Then when you get the power you tell the plebs to make more money. “This is America. If you don’t make more money (for me), you’re a douchebag”.

https://medium.com/@RichieBrownShow/communist-nostalgia-as-the-reality-of-bourgeois-democracy-hits-home-in-eastern-europe-3960aa341560

The most intriguing of these is Ukraine with 2nd highest “communist notalgia” fondness. The survey was done in 2013. You may be aware of a drama thread against you posted yesterday where US nazi empire sympathizing simps circle jerk around denying basic history and current events in Ukraine. Possibly as a result of this survey, CIA/State department invested so much in NGOs to “westernize” youth with agenda of delivering them to the small diehard nazi cohort as rulership class after 2014 black flag operations and coup.

I wonder how much of the nostalgia is that the 60s and 70s provided an easier job environment without pressure for new skills. USA would probably also have a preferred nostalgia for that period, despite draft and Israel related submission pushback. Throughout first and second world, a steep rise in inequality and oligarchy resulted from 1980s afterwards, though Yeltsin corruption was especially bad.

In terms of annecdotes, I do know Yougoslavian friends whose parents could afford cars and summer cottages. But then affording a car in western europe was also easy, and homes in the west, fairly easy. I would say the very strong corruption in elections and media mind control serving oligarchy and empire was the defining moment in manufacturing modern misery.

For the actual policy details not paywalled:

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/nvidia-and-sia-fire-back-at-u-s-govs-new-export-restrictions-on-ai-gpus-to-china

Nvidia:

“It makes no sense for the Biden White House to control everyday data center computers and technology already in gaming PCs worldwide, disguised as an anti-China move,” Finkle wrote. “The extreme ‘country cap’ policy will affect mainstream computers in countries around the world, doing nothing to promote national security but pushing the world to alternative technologies.”

the 50000 GPUs over 3 years per tier 2 country would seem to include consumer gamers from that country, perhaps buying older generation rtx30? gpus. 0 GPUs to China/others. Seems to make tier 2 worse than current China policies, while also “forcing Nvidia” to also only sell $2000 Blackwells in tier 2 countries.

Maybe a backdoor that is opened is to build all datacenters in Tier 1 countries, and then use the 25% allowance to expand to tier 2.

China’s “delete America” program is justified over this, and its not that far behind in single GPU performance, and ahead of rtx30. Just drivers and interconnection that need to catch up. Which doesn’t seem like an impossible task, especially in controlled hardware environments. National resources increasing/doubling for that goal is a likely response.

The whole national security justification and warmongering bent is troublesome. AI must serve war and US supremacy, and must be used against American people to ensure the supremacy.

I’m not sure what tier 2 loses in terms of access.

This obviously continues the Chinese need to “delete America” and capitalize competition to Nvidia, where they are not horribly behind H100 if that is the tier 2 standard. Tier 2 is now automatically motivated to help China to help themselves. Nvidia buying Trump is an easy path to get their oligarchy prioritized over bad arguments against capturing smaller global market that reduces innovation.

ty. Comments are angry that this was posted, but it was worth reading.

The tldr of link to AI is that AI was useful in modeling proteins, and LLM predictivity has been used to predict DNA sequences. Fine, “closer” is clickbaity, but article gives overview of potential, and approaches focused on getting there.

I know why it’s being banned or has been banned or whatever.

Maybe you don’t. It is the only non zionist media platform in the US. The zionist offers to buy it are happy to not include the algorithm behind its success. Just to let them censor it. The ban did move forward during the Oct 7th and election cycle psyops, and Tiktok did not prevent voter suppression that gives Israel 4 years to implement its final solution.

It doesn’t specifically have any strong/empire reason to be banned now. FB/Google/Musk donations to Trump are new reasons, that can enhance their properties.

If you actually knew all of this already, then you might not ask why it matters. Do you “know differently”?

Article 5 just requires a meeting to discuss actions. It is not as strong as it is made out to be.

US military will pay Open AI for this. More than $200/month. Of course this gets shut down.

Removed by mod

all the time, but the result just calls a pizza delivery chain.

Looks as though close to 40% is Europe. Putting a 10% export tax on EU destinations would be a slight revenue increase for them, in addition to increasing the price paid by EU. Even 5% export tax with EU sabotaging competition in their market would be a net profit increase.

Proof that EU is run by CIA agents who corruptly engineer buying the most extortionist energy from US only.

It’s more like the Jupiter 1 “fuel consumption” for 30mw output can be way overestimated.

only be 2x less efficient.

More technical description is combustion is 50% as efficient as a fuel cell. It is very significant difference.

It’s a fair point, and typical thinking, but wrong. Deflation is better than inflation.

First, in general asset inflation vs goods inflation is usually different. Then for goods inflation, there is no good measure. Substitute goods exist.

Asset inflation definitely improves lives of the rich. Your “hoarding scare” can happen when savings/bond rates are higher than inflation. That is the genuine hoarding motivation. Lower interest rates supported by deflation supports more borrowing for more production/housing, with lower financing costs passed on to consumers. Either way, all money in the banking/financial system is hoarded money, and fractional reserve lends more the more demand for money there is. Deflation is better than inflation for this.

For goods, electronics and now EVs are deflationary. Your phone from 2008 cost the same as one from this year while having 100x less power/apps/value. While it can make sense to wait on tech/value improvements, competition/innovation creates work, and the deflation is the cause of that innovation, and there is a replacement cycle. Energy, food, clothing deflation would allow for higher consumption and also more work, though rarely would there be expectation of continued sustained deflation. Deflation is always technology or imported/slave labour costs. Never domestic wage reductions, unless slavery pressures can be manifested. Tariffs can stop it though.

Any economic competition creates a deflationary pressure. Deflation can be renamed value enhancement. When you favour inflation over deflation you are saying, “scarcity good, competition bad, innovation bad”

Jupiter 1 hydrogen gas generator engine

https://newatlas.com/energy/worlds-largest-pure-hydrogen-electrical-generator/

at 15kg per kw, this is 300x less efficient than a fuel cell for just electricity output. Distributed fuel cells can use waste heat for domestic hot water needs.

A better use of combusting H2 for electrical power generation, is changing the input valves on electrical generating NG turbines. That is just 2x less efficient than a fuel cell.

He’s dead right.

Humanist economics has a central pillar: abundance. Profit maximization requires scarcity, and geopolitical or other suppression of competition. In addition, higher interest rates prevent abundance, and funding of supply increases of farming production, and increase housing costs, insurance greed, and so affordability of other stuff.

The war on Russia led to higher interest rates in order to ration oil use, and employment, again limiting production.

Deflation is not even bad for the rich. Lower interest rates stabilize housing prices, and reduce government deficits, and improve financial asset values. Wages don’t generally go down, and they definitely don’t go down under policies of abundance.

Abundance means more work is available. Prices are lower letting workers and others afford more stuff leading to more abundance. UBI is the most important anti-slavery (also humanist) and prosperity (also humanist) policy alternative. It is inflationary, but makes high paying work that outpaces inflation easy to find.

The key about inflation vs deflation is how balanced income growth is relative to inflation. If it is only oligarchy making income/wealth gains, then you should address your complaints to that structure instead of the inflation.