Our major exports to the US are electrical equipment, precious stones / metals, medicines, machinery, mineral oils, and iron & steel. So these sanctions will mostly hit factories. If you’re an average consumer and don’t work in manufacturing, you’ll probably be fine. (You might want to stock up on any generic medicines, though. They have very thin profit margins, so companies here might simply stop exporting to the US if they get spooked.)

Didn’t they get a lot of computer hardware from Russia recently?

The article says he worked from China, for US and European companies. Which explains both the pay difference and the concern about the sanctions.

Ming Chinese ships reached East Africa, and may have crossed the Cape of Good Hope. Although, to be fair, the later Ming were generally isolationist, and discouraged overseas trade.

This doesn’t really make sense. Why would your computer give the GPU / NPU access to GPS location? Unless Nvidia is somehow embedding GPS sensors in their chips - which would be obvious to Chinese cybersecurity - this should be a simple software fix. Intel Management Engine is a genuine risk, but I think China has banned / restricted Intel CPUs already.

That, and France also has an economy.

They have nukes.

they should be built/deployed at a capacity as its needed in order of minimizing waste

Building at capacity might not be the most efficient solution. First, towns grow. Second, China keeps costs down by standardisation (the Chinese HSR system has, if I remember correctly, 3 models of trains and two standards of track). And third, China is vulnerable to earthquakes and floods. So having alternative routes is useful.

This chart is a good example of what happens when transport infrastructure is judged through a purely economic lens versus what happens when affordable travel is seen as a necessary feature of a civilised society. (Not to mention the jobs created and the carbon saved.)

You discuss the CPC while playing video games? Weird flex, but okay.

‘President’ is mostly a ceremonial office, so they should be able to smile and wave, entertain any visiting dignitaries, and read out whatever speeches Parliament writes for them in a pleasant voice. A feel-good origin story would be a nice bonus.

I see plenty of people, even on this site, who are calling for peace in Ukraine. Unfortunately they get shouted down by armchair warriors who just see all this as part of their geopolitical ‘game’.

The only acceptable western leader to me is one who leaves BRICS alone. Partly because I live in it, and partly because it now contains the majority of the world. Also at least don’t enable literal genocide. I definitely don’t want them to cause internal chaos wherever they leave, but destroying the World Bsnk / IMF and other instruments of neocolonialism would be nice.

People who support genocide are scum. It’s that simple. (I don’t think these three are neoliberals, though.)

1. There’s an uptick in ‘Unknown’ (currently at 26%).

2. Linux adoption might have slowed down because India - US relations have improved since then, because Trump can be distracted by promising him trade deals. Of course the deal he wants (giving US agri companies access to the Indian market) will face opposition from farmers’ unions, so I’m not sure what the govt’s long-term plan is.

One good thing is that when a govt dept switches to Linux, it sort of sticks. And govt contracts are very profitable, so we’ll likely see greater interest from both hardware and software companies.

How does your doctor have a say in your rent agreement?

White text on white background. Sigh.

9% in India. But this is down from a peak of ~15% late last year when the govt was worried about US sanctions and was pushing for Linux adoption.

However, in reality if the governance sets the standard, they can have almost always the cheapest prices. Wide reach, built transportation systems and probably incentivized contracts.

Yes, and yes, but why are either of these a bad thing? Cheap, good quality food seems like a good thing to me.

Essentially everything that fucked up India with the British during ww2.

If the British provided cheap food, they could actually have avoided the Bengal famine. (Unless you mean some other fuckup I’m not aware of.)

The UN headquarters are in New York.