really unfortunately, these few have capability and will to drag everybody else into war

"My second thought is how badly Chinese communism must be doing that they need such a massive effort in order to ..."

China have visa-free visit policy for many countries, you could actually go there to see how "bad" it is

https://www.china-briefing.com/news/china-visa-free-travel-p...

You don’t get the Chinese citizen experience by visiting as a tourist. Even as a fan of western individualist values, I think it would be nice to have some of the nice things China has, like low petty criminality, high speed rail, and a modern metro system. However, there are very real problems with authoritarianism, including the tail end of covid zero which almost incited a popular uprising, getting rid of covid zero without a plan or mRNA, internal mobility control that effectively creates castes, and the lack of full rule of law.

yes, and I think one big reason enterprise might not buy your product even if it is guaranteed to make/save $X is $ is often NOT most important thing to the people make buying decision, specially when it is not your own money to save or gain

This is very true. Look no farther than the perennial problem of department heads spending all their budget to keep their budget. Decision makers rarely care about saving money in isolation.

one thing I liked about cobra is the auto complete support, but I don't like the manual process of define command and parameter and not easy to extend, so I wrote https://github.com/hujun-open/myflags, it is built-on top of cobra but allow uses a struct to define all commands/args and also easily to extend support new types (even existing types)

nah, GPS is needed by US outside US as well, I bet someone will propose a 'great' idea to start charging for it

or they could replace it with Starlink (no conflict of interest, obviously), which can be used for global positioning

Galileo already exists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(satellite_navigation)

sure, but the US isn't going to switch to a network run by the ESA

my point was regarding privitization of public goods (like GPS)

because Trump said TSMC is stealing US chip biz, and threaten 100% tariff [1]. I think this is TSMC's attempt to avoid tariff

[1]https://www.pcmag.com/news/trump-intel-was-great-until-taiwa...

for user wants to have self hosted CA (for testing) with easy to use GUI, XCA is a great option

one thing I agree that software/standard people like to churn, churn is a source of new income regardless if QC could break RSA or not in the future, people could make profit now

one tip of the list I can't agree more is the www.seat61.com for train ticket, especially if you travel in Europe, where train is the most convenient way to travel between cities/nations but man is it such complex system, there are so many different rail companies and lines, this website gives a clear instruction on options, price and where to buy the ticket

or sold to US I could totally see this happening soon

Why would they want to sell ?

And what are they going to sell? The weights and the model architecture are already open source. I doubt the datasets of DeepSeek are better than OpenAI's

plus, if the US were to decide to ban DeepSeek (the company) wouldn't non-chinese companies be able to pick up the models and run them at a relatively low expense?