All of this means it’s becoming harder for global companies to operate in both the US and China, Peter Mandelson, a former European trade commissioner who co-founded the consulting firm Global Counsel, said during an interview in Hong Kong. “A rupture has emerged,” said Mandelson, now a close adviser to UK leader Keir Starmer. “This is a very strong headwind blowing across the global economy, and international companies need to navigate that.”

Neoliberals are now scrambling to kill neoliberalism.

Some academics became liberals after having flirted with Marxism. This is relevant why exactly? I mean, I can cite many great minds who remained Marxists and even advanced the theory. Ever heard of Paul Cockshott? Alan Contrell? David Zachariah? Emanuel Farjoun?

These guys (and some others) actually worked on Marxist economic theory and modernized it. They lived through the collapse of the USSR and remained steadfast in their beliefs. And I haven’t talked about countless other minds in anthropology, history, contemporary social studies and philosophy who have used dialectical materialism as a foundation to achieve great results.

And so I want to emphasize something.

every single one of them gave up and became an egalitarian.

Is blatantly and literally false.

I can perform a completely independent experiments in my house.

And I can scream into the abyss, it’s just as relevant. The absolute majority of actually useful and relevant science is performed socially for social purposes.

I make a hypothesis that my stove can boil 1L of water in 10 minutes.

You aren’t even supposed to do a scientific experiment in the way you have just described. Or rather, there is neither a universally agreed upon scientific method, nor would your described experiment hold up to any standards.

An actual scientific experiment into water boiling would involve at the minimum

1. A model predicting the speed of boiling based on relevant variables
2. A collection of many data, and preferably corroborated by independent sources
3. Statistical analysis of the data (there are many methods to choose from) to gauge confidence in the model.
4. Publishing or proofreading of the results.

However, at each of these steps, you have a choice of how to approach the problem. And this depends on what you are trying to do, and what the best standards in the industry are. The process has also changed over time.

And this reveals the problem of many people’s metaphysical approach to science. They treat it as if it were a platonic ideal, or floating constant in the human minds pace. In reality, “science” is an industry with its ever-changing standards, culture, interaction with the rest of society, and a million other complexities.

The broader field of academia and getting scientific papers published is more of a governance thing than science.

You cannot separate the 2. There is no pure science out there which can be done without “governance”.

What the fuck are you talking about?

the T150 A demonstrates an extreme resolution of 120nm during the lithography process

This sounds like a very large feature size given the existence of 3-5 nm process nodes. Or am I missing something here?

Is there any benefit to supersizing wind turbines? Is it more cost effective, or is the main benefit the reduced land use?

I mean this one could actually be at a big cost. It would take a lot of effort to switch the world’s digital systems to be fully quantum secure, but this situation was inevitable either way.

Copying tech is not so easy, especially when much of high technology is designed with preventing such copying in mind (thanks capitalism for spending effort on important matters such as slowing down technological adoption).

Blaming the working class for carbon emissions would make sense if we had actual control over government policy.

Imagine being kidnapped, and your kidnapper feeding you meat while berating you for not being vegan.

Yeah I was wondering what the hell was up with the 3000 transistors thing. That’s barely anything. We are going to have to wait before the techs full potential can be seen.

I mean, if you get into any real depth with math, you are going to reach a point where you can’t use conveniently use words to describe the symbols being manipulated.

As an example for the math I am doing literally right now, I very much prefer using C⁺_R compared to “semi circular arc in the upper half of the complex plane with radius R”, or M⁺(f(z)) which means “Maximum of the magnitude of the function f(z) over C⁺_R”, which if I were to write out in full, would just become a clusterfuck.

Also you still wouldn’t be able to get rid of symbols because some symbols are placeholders and straight up don’t have any meaning in natural language. This occurs often in physics as well, not just pure maths. For example, the laplace transform of any function is written as a variable of “s”, but “s” doesn’t have a clear meaning (at least as far as I know).

I personally lost all interest in math because there are way too many opinionated or non-standard symbol definitions

That seems like a strange reason to quit math since most symbols are pretty well agreed upon, and maths has little to do with the actual notation either way.

I would have quit math if I had to do algebra with names instead of letters.

Zeekr said it had opened more than 500 ultra-fast-charging stations across mainland China

Nice to see that this is a mass produced and already deployed technology instead of just some prototype years away from commercialization (as is often the case with tech that the media hypes up).

This is the study the article references

A massive pipeline of projects shows it’s possible to make large strides toward clean, around-the-clock energy using existing nuclear technology—if accompanied by generous financial terms, consistent state support and rigorous safety standards.

Well well well, China consistently proving that the free market is inferior time and time again.

Case in point, the companies say, is Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., China’s most advanced maker of memory chips. YMTC was blacklisted by the US in 2022 after intense lobbying from American memory-chip maker Micron Technology Inc.

Lmao that’s the same micron technology that “mysteriously” failed a cybersecurity review in china recently and got fucked 😂

As the defacto leader of the company becomes stretched thinner across his various enterprises, such as SpaceX, The Boring Company, X, and now xAI, there is growing concern about the time Musk has to focus on Teslas’ growth, strategy, and day-to-day operations. It seems, however, that shareholders are eschewing these concerns, and voting in favor of the package.

Tesla shareholders are idiots and deserve wasting this much money on the ass-clown.

:( I don’t get it