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'Rip and Replace': The Tech Cold War Is Upending Wireless Carriers

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2 points·by scilro·3 yıl önce·0 comments

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scilro
·7 ay önce·discuss
All you need to fix that is 3:2 pulldown, which all modern TVs should be able to do.

Unfortunately this is another basic feature that tends to be "branded" on TVs. On my Sony Bravia it's split into a combination of features called Cinemotion and Motionflow.
scilro
·7 ay önce·discuss
It's most accurate to say that China is still run by folks who are committed communists. These planners, by virtue of their decades of experience, understand the social value of markets and broad based technological growth, and want to wield those even better than liberal planners.
scilro
·7 ay önce·discuss
"diversity" is an overbroad concept that covers many disparate social practices, a lot of which have nothing to do with technological progress.

I guess that the more focused question is whether China needs to import some amount of tech talent to succeed, at least temporarily. The reporting on this EUV prototype does suggest that that is what they did, giving foreign researchers special visas and whatnot.
scilro
·9 ay önce·discuss
Seconding/thirding the request for diarization! I would use this as my main transcription app if it had that.
scilro
·12 ay önce·discuss
For what it's worth, he was able to roll back. https://x.com/jasonlk/status/1946240562736365809
scilro
·geçen yıl·discuss
I have to admit that the objective and historical parts of your analysis are completely correct and well researched, even though I totally disagree with you about the subjective merits and morality of the whole thing. Kudos.
scilro
·geçen yıl·discuss
I'm really glad you posted this, it's good to know that I didn't mess up the calibration of my (much humbler) 3.1 system.
scilro
·geçen yıl·discuss
US unipolar hegemony has averted an all-out war, but it has also been very bloody, or at least immiserating, for people at its periphery.

Multipolarity doesn't imply we go back to the 1910s. The idea would be to strengthen multilateral institutions that put a check on things like the World Wars.
scilro
·geçen yıl·discuss
>Even if the US and China were at parity in AI systems, it seems likely that China could direct more talent, capital, and focus to military applications of the technology. Combined with its large industrial base and military-strategic advantages, this could help China take a commanding lead on the global stage, not just for AI but for everything.

China spends 1.5% of its GDP on its military. The US spends 3.5%. I get that the two countries are engaged in competition for dominance, but why is China the bigger threat here?

Also, there are a great deal of groups and institutions out there that are pushing for more diplomacy, more cooperation, and a ratcheting down of tensions. If Dario is going to get political anyway, why not go that route?
scilro
·2 yıl önce·discuss
You're not wrong, but what you're describing is referred to as "seller-side inflation" or "excuseflation."

Article from a year ago: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-09/how-excus...
scilro
·3 yıl önce·discuss
The author failed to cite hard numbers, but they can be found elsewhere:

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/dollar-d...

"In a Monday note, strategists Joana Freire and Stephen Jen calculated that the greenback accounted for about two-thirds of total global reserves in 2003, then 55% by 2021, and 47% last year."

You can make the argument that the decline of this number will be a lot slower than 2021-2022 going forward, or that it will perhaps bottom out at a relatively high number. But the trend is there.