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Solar manufacturing is not destroying China’s environment, fossil fuels are. By a massive margin.

They need to get off that merry go round as quickly as possible. While the efforts they’ve made are incredible it needs to continue to accelerate.

I wouldn’t say they’ve achieved these prices through subsidies in the way many people think. government support pushed their entire renewable industry ecosystem, western manufacturing went belly up, and now they are reaping the benefits.

This feels more like he has contractual obligations to be on stage for a certain number of minutes.

it’s one of those pop idol malicious compliance tantrums. “so I have stand on stage for the full 90 minutes?”

“ill show them…”

high speed train in china is fuck planes, not fuck cars.

imagine what happens when a plane ticket is half or a third of the price, and you land down town at subway station…

now the subway… that’s fuck cars.

if you think that the high speed rail in china is a net negative, i have a ghost city to sell you.

China was briefly an observer state to Warsaw Pact and then pretty quickly completely withdrew.

After sino-sovet split in the early 60s Sino-soviet relations did not really normalize until Gorbachev.

There’s a bit more to it than that. But yes EVs are subsidized in China.

I worked in a business where we had one product that was useful for automakers but especially useful for EVs. About 8 years ago the EVs in China were mostly cheap shitty BYDs.

Seemingly out of nowhere, the government changed a bunch of rules and regulations for new cars. Within a month design teams were being established at every major automaker in China focusing on EVs. It was a great year for us.

Key EV components, especially the materials to make batteries, started to come down in price.

Then the green plates started turning up. Every city has its own rules for car registration, some places like Shanghai, would auction new number plates each month resulting in a low supply and high demand. It was possible to buy a car cheaper than the number plate. Then if you register an EV you can get a green plate for almost nothing.

About 3 years ago the cities started requiring new taxis and busses to be EV. Places like shenzhen just converted everything to EV. Released licenses for training and testing self driving.

Charge stations started popping up everywhere. There’s no way a shopping mall or new residential development could avoid having at least a large section for charging. My own home, converted an entire floor to charging parking stations in the underground car park.

Finally tesla set up Shanghai giga factory. I have no idea how they managed to make that deal but not long after they started shipping model 3s domestically they slashed the prices down to cheaper than a niceish BYD.

If you go to Shenzhen today about a third of cars are EV and you will see a dozen brands you’ve never heard of before (some are terrible cars, but most are reasonable quality and a handful are bullshit luxury)

As in tradition in China, the government will now let them go into a price war to push the manufacturers to find cheaper ways to make them. Many will go bust or give up.

my mum bought me a vic-20. it was beat up and didn’t have a tape deck.

I had type my games in from a magazine in basic for a summer, I was hooked.

My uncle gave me a photocopy of a book about assembly for c64 and showed me intros on his c128. He had no idea about programming, he just figured I’d be into it. I worked my heart out to get the cash together for a c64 AND a disk drive.

I have to assume that openAI also paid for the books. if yes then i consider it the same as me reciting passages from memory or coming up with derivative text.

if no, then by all means, go after them and any model trainer for the cost of one book.

Asking an LLM to recite an entire novel isn’t even vaguely a thing yet.

I didnt like friendlyjordies brand of humor. not one bit.

when he started going after that dog cunt broz I couldn’t help myself. I had to watch.

by now I love him, he’s become a hero of what free speech (such that it) is in Australia. served with a massive dose of sarcasm and ridicule.

I’ll keeping giving him money and watching his shit while he keeps going there and calling out all the bullshit that goes on in australian government.

doesn’t Chinese have pronouns though?

她 she 他 he 它 it

or am I missing something ?

I didn’t like infinity because of a big pile of little things. half of which could be described as just habit.

probably I wouldn’t have been okay to stick with it but Sync came to lemmy. sync > infinity hands down. try it.

lemmy is crowded with the FOSS and privacy crowd. it’s what makes lemmy so much better than reddit.

ita reasonable that a paid app, with ads and telemetry isn’t their traditional jam.

maybe I misinderstand your meaning but at its heart the real problem is that chip engineers salary has been stuck at ten years ago for about twenty years. Like 50k usd.

This in and of itself is not a huge problem but with no downstream opportunities there isn’t enough talent considering a career toward the top of the value chain.

The 1980s and 1990s saw alot of people come back to Taiwan, but the 2010s and 2020s sees it happen in another direction (mainland, the salary is awesome).

Of course many will say factory workers don’t need to smart enough to do design. but IC production is complicated and needs skilled labor with some understanding of what they’re doing.