With these sorts of stories, it would be a good idea to specify which version of TikTok it refers to. As an Australian, I don't really care what happens to the US version.

It'll take at least 5 years for China to pull ahead in semiconductors and commercial airliners, but otherwise Krugman's thesis is basically correct. And I hate agreeing with Krugman ...

The US will never catch up in cars, drones, batteries, solar panels. nuclear power, shipbuilding, steel, copper, aluminium, rare earths, or electricity generation.

Bicarbonate ions are alkaline.

I've noticed that sometimes when playing loud music my computer will wake up. My best guess is that the vibrations are generating mouse movement events and deactivating the screen blanker. Annoying.

Personally, since Spotify gave me 15 hours of free audio books each month, I've read a lot less. Does that make me less literate?

45,000 delegates needs 100-200 plane-loads, and Belem only has one international airport. It'll be a crowded customs queue ...
I guess there'll be a lot of cheap airfares for outbound flights during the conference, because those planes will mostly be flying out empty.
But it's a 12-day event, and few people will stay the full 12 days, so I guess the load will be spread out a bit.

It'll take a few years for Chinese GPUs to catch up with NVIDIA. But if Chinese firms are locked into the CUDA stack they'll have to keep buying NVIDIA anyway.

So I suspect the Chinese government is encouraging tech firms to stop using CUDA, so they can switch to Huawei or Cambricon chips at a later date.

Many coffee suppliers are selling to China now.
1. China is rapidly developing a taste for coffee.
2. American tariffs on coffee exports.
3. The EU Deforestation Act makes it very hard to sell to Europe (illiterate coffee farmers can't supply the necessary paperwork)

Headline: "Palantir might be the most overvalued firm of all time"
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.economist.com%2Ffina...

That could explain the 9.4% drop.

Marvel has been adding a lot of humour to their MCU movies, so if you count them as comedies it probably affects the numbers.
It's hard to draw the line and assign movies to one category or another.

Presumably the tracker figures out its location using a GPS fix, but how does it communicate that information back to the US authorities?
Radio signals aren't going to work internationally. Look for unsecured WiFi? A mobile SIM with a global roaming agreement? Apple AirTags?

The vehicles might be competitive in the US, behind 100% EV tariff walls, but won't stand a chance in the rest of the world (except maybe Canada, which has similar tariffs). The Chinese manufacturers are way too efficient, and make really good cars.

And Huawei gets to price their GPUs 15% higher, and invest the proceeds in making the next generation more efficient.

Whatever number Luckey comes up with, expect that to be the new laptop tariff.

NIMBYs would object to the construction of a nearby coal plant as well.