Wish there was easier way to customize/set favicon for bookmarklet. Right now you can export bookmark, edit in <A ICON> data, and import. If you have multiple chrome sessions you need to import on all devices within short period or icon will reset to default globe.
>it's impossible to know whether any of the Chinese brands are actually trustworthy and of high quality.
IMO people buy cheap generic Chinese brands for the same reason they buy cheap dollar store products. They're gambling they can pay 30% the price for 90% of the function. Amazon reseller premium = they're paying slightly more for returns in case things break. They can save more buying from Ali resellers. Even more while temu subsidizing orders. The only people looking for quality are people who order from resalers of established PRC brands, i.e. Xiaomi. In the days before Amazon cracked down, you had brands like MPOW decide better marketting strategy was to give people gift cards for reviews and give no question asked replacements well outside of warranty period. Pretty win-win for consumers.
IIRC EU/EUCLIDES exploration of EUV light source concluded synchrotron easier/cheaper to _technically_ operate long term, but exploration limited to 8W, compact designs. As far as I can tell, getting to higher power = scaling up size to 100s of m = made it logistically infeasible to build/plan fabs around. The Tsinghua SSMB design is 40m diameter, which is compact enough to be useful. Also ASML chose laser plasma because they thought synchrotron was too expensive to build, but years of technical challenges and a machine costs 200m, next gen will be 400m... that's already the price of multiple small synchrotrons. TLDR is laser plasma, works, is very expensive to operate, and ASML is probably locked in due to sunk cost.
Is the suggestion elites were controlling access to procreation? Maybe men were also just killing each other extra fierce in the land grab. Uncompletely uneducated speculating on my part.
Definitely a factor. As agrarian societies expanded into hunter gatherer territory they would kill the men and take the women. Agriculture did not spread because it was a better deal for the individual at the time, it spread because it could support higher population density and specialization, including a warrior caste. And thus was more succesful at conquering and holding land.
Framing is America foreign policy, WW2->Coldwar was US helping Soviets defeat the Nazis on the battlefield and subsequently coordinating with Nazis to try to undermine Soviets / Communists post war or for various US interests.
Full circle is splitting it off again to Google Listen. Either way I wanted to migrate to podcasts for a couple years but they never had opml support. I just hope they might take it slightly more serious now, add some playlists and transcription since it's part of youtube. But knowing Google.
They had one of the OG podcast apps, Google Listen from 2009, year after first Android phone release. Probably part of someones 5%. Which was surprisingly functional, and of course they killed it 3 years later.
No, the problem is PLENTY of people want to buy to speculate in PRC RE bubble, which cost even more in terms of misallocation long term. Hence RE crackdown, now there's vacancy rate / oversupply of ~50m units, which can be soaked up in ~5 years of urbanization. PRC urbanization goal in next 5 years is 65->70%, 75% around 2035, that's 140m bodies = more than 50m households. That's not even considering many of these vacant units are for 10s of millions of youths kids once they get married. Sure some speculators will get fuckedjust like millions of forclosures in US during GFC, some of the units are genuinely misallocated (poor geography relative to demand etc). That's unavoidable when a bubble gets popped.
The current problem isn't excess housing stock, 50m is wasteful but not excessively so buffer. The problem was presales was tying up too much investment in RE, driving up housing prices and affordibility. Central gov wants people to invest in SMIC not Evergrande, so 3RL crackdown which is going to take a few years to unwind as central gov forces developers to finish or return deposits while they're being slowly dismantled - priority is to make buyers whole. In the mean time there's some capital stuck in the system, which is bad but not end of world. Medium long term, PRC's initial shitty housing stock is approaching 50+ years end of life, and demand for new replacement square meter is going to kick in.
TLDR is the inefficiency is not primarily the surplus, it's the bubble, and the bubble sapping investments away from other sectors.
The entire EV graveyard narrative is extra retardedly overblown by western media (like bike graveyards). There's a few car share fleet graveyard and subsidy scams amounting to a few 100s of thousands of heavily used urban fleet cars or useless scam chasis. This is out of growing 2-3m total car share fleet and projected 100s of millions of future EV sales. Now both sectors have or is active being consolidated to drive out bad players. Bluntly, it's fucking nothing, a few billion in waste vs 100s of billions gained per year in building new sector. Hurricanes destroy significantly more cars than that every few years in the US. Like everytime PRC decides to go HAM on pursuing an sector, there's some initial overcapacity and waste but things even out when sector matures. Ask any auto export power if they would waste a few billion dollars and few hundred thousand scraped hulls to be where PRC EV is now, and they'd say yes to a trade 10x that.
Baseline PRC unemployment is 5%. CNN cherry picking some interviews of milleninials in tier1 cities who don't want to work hard, i.e. not do well compensated manufacturing jobs because it's manual labour... or women getting discriminated against for being old (who btw will have a house waiting for them as part of marriage package) illustrates what? Either way, article talks about urban subjects, who by definition are already urbanized and already home owners.
The TLDR is PRC urbanization strategies isn't targetted at tier1 cities, it's targetted at tier 2/3/4 cities. They don't want tier1 cities getting denser, they want density to spread, especially to increasingly developing interior provinces and where most of the new industry hubs are being situated. Incidentally, a lot of the extra shit potential speculative RE is happening in this area. There's plenty of rural people from these regions that PRC is trying urbanize but being priced out due to richer tier speculators driving up prices.
lol wut, reality is PRC urbanization is increasing at 1-2 percent per year. Housing sales are down by 1/3 due to RE crackdown, but they haven't stopped. Speculators have stopped buying, people who need a house to live in / urbanize are still buying. Useful idiots are pretending entire RE market is destroyed, but it's just less than what it was.
>Why? Because they are doing exact same thing they are afraid of.
By this measure, US would be saturated in Huawei phones like PRC is in iPhones. And US streets would be clogged with Chinese cars the same way western cars on PRC streets. Hell Ericsson and Nokia are still winning token 5G contracts in China. "Exact same thing" would be PRC/CCP allowing western brands to sell in PRC except in niche security circumstances. Question is whether US is more of a security state than PRC, or benefits more from protectionism of incumbant industries.
Because US manufacturers will eventually get out competed even with reciprocal 25%-50% import taxes. With how things are going I'd be surprised if US even allows PRC cars from Mexico or Canada on US roads.
