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Comment Re: Sony, say goodbye to the Chinese market (Score 2) 190

This is a silly conclusion. A walled garden is the last thing they want in many areas. Instead they want their artistic works to be competitive international. Overall the gaming market in China is low value. They sell ripped games on Taobao and knockoff emulators of many old consoles. They have a few titles that are first class and they want those to sell overseas because they can be sold for 6 to 8x the market value price in China.

China isn't worried you are going to take their vidya games...

Comment Re: So they kind of are (Score 1) 42

Talking about talking points... basically most evee country not bogged down by legal suits is going more greeen. I think China is basicallyone of the few not because the probably is capacity not an acceptance of the problem. You admit oil and coal invested in green energy. That's the article, nothing more... it's fucking clickbait

Comment Re: Big Whoop (Score 1) 86

Actually they are getting banned. I'm in China and there are already reports. I think they cross reference IP to region. Not sure how regularly and tools exist to "game accelerate" similar to a vpn but haven't heard a clear what works.

This being said, I think it's Russia and China with the uses that are cheating. Seen a few wtf videos but haven't dropped with them. The server setup of the game is strange, I've gotten 50 ping to US players... so I'm guessing there's a pretty easy loop hole to cheat.

Comment Re: Breeder reactors (Score 3, Interesting) 77

Basically yes. The original nitpick for what's green was saying no waste product but panels and turbines need to be replaced, so the line was redrawn to be no radioactive waste. Radioactive waste is annoying to deal with but I think some advanced designs highly reduce it or reuse waste in a 2nd stage reactor.

What are human timescales though. If you mean the period of time we have been a species, then breeders could likely see us for a fair longer but we have to consider accelerating change and how power demand grows at an accelerating rate. If we are space faring and seek renewable energy, well railguns launching things to space or the industrial scale to build a carbon nano fiber space elevator, then you are talking orders of magnitude more energy than we generate now. This is why the classic idea of a dyson sphere arrises.

Will humanity achieve those time scales, I wouldn't bet on it but it does kind of point to harnessing the suns energy as the ultimate objective. One might even argue wind energy is just an alternative means to harness wasted energy from the sun, as it becomes heat, and shapes a planets climate. It's a very interesting theoretical space.

Comment Re: It uses contractions??? (Score 1) 72

Not artificial but an artifact. Lore had too much emotion and specifically it made him bitter. Data was designed to be more ignorant but his creator still had intentions for him to one day be more emotional or as we often call it, "a spiritual machine".

The only artificial limitation set on Data was that he was suppose to more slowly achieve the emotional complexity of Lore. This is a design limitation in the sense of seeing an issue in the first gen model, Lore.

The fact Data can't use contractions, seems to be a subtle artifact from his limitation but not likely the cause.

Comment Re: Cue conservatives screaming... (Score 3, Insightful) 128

I like you and applaud you for highlighting the difference. I'm more liberal now but was raised in a conservative family. What seems "neo" conservative views in the era of Trump is a farce and I'm sure many traditional conservatives are disgusted by the division it has created within the party and ideology.

Comment Re: And yet⦠(Score 1) 147

If you read Mao's "The New Democracy", he makes it clear the pathway to Communism requires capitalism. I'm sure people will say something like I'm just a Chinese shill but if you understand their policy/doctrine it's clear they are way more capitalistic than communistic. In fact calling themselves communists is just something they do to make them feel good when being authoritarian.

Comment Memory (Score 1) 194

It's interesting this hasn't entered the debate yet but they are banning memory modules on the basis of national security.

We can debate whether sanctions against Chinese companies are on the basis of security concerns but not the potential.

Here however even the potential for Micron to produce anything that's a threat is in question... so the justification itself has been voided by any reasonable person.

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