All of the US colonies, implementing age id verification for everything is to ensure direct control of any dissidents to US empire/oligarchist supremacy.

The difference between developed world democracies and other governments is that all opposition parties are allied with CIA and by transposition, Israel. Divisiveness purely to achieve maximum corruption is formula for rulership, and praising “freedom supremacy” is just a tool for corrupt warmongering. The only protection from CIA overthrow is to fight their hybrid control, and disruptive terrorism, operations. Chinese government is not trying to oppress their citizens or economic pluralism. If surveillance allows unattended ebike charging, and no crime, then that is a net benefit compared to loss of making WInnie the Poo jokes.

Palantir, more than all other US tech oligarchs, is dedicated to Israel supremacy, and Israel/Palantir now embraces full Trump/MAGA platform because fascism is more pro Israel/Oligarchy than pluralism. The absurd pace of AI investment in US is entirely based on the certainty that the US govermnent/military will buy all of the datacenter time. Destroying US economy to feed tech and climate terrorist energy oligarchs.

War on China and Russia is a losing proposition for both humanity and the west. Collapse is destined because for the last 25 years, “we must bankrupt ourselves, or humanity wins” has been the bipartisan CIA/Israel mantra that no one ever challenges, and news media feeds 24/7.

All big tech is firmly allied with US empire, and all of them are very polite to MAGA/Israel, with data collection used to help it. Palantir has the software to mine it effectively. US oligarchy, Palantir/OpenAI/Oracle/Tesla has been especially desperate this week. All the money, explicitly, must be given to them or China wins. It’s not even core science/technology anymore, its pure software/datacenter oligarch giveaways needed.

for solar, a 5km diameter solar farm might hold 10m square meters of panels. at 250w each, 2.5gw solar farm. 4 times a full moon, is 1/100000th the rated capacity (noon at equator) of panels, and so 25kw of power. At 10c/kwh electricity revenue potential, such a farm (exists only in China) could break even offering to rent night light at $2.50/hour.

Batteries charged by solar can deliver profitable electricity at night for far less than 10c/kwh.

If you just want more light somewhere, it would be far cheaper to do from ground systems.

Apple specifically is provably charging countries without tariffs: https://iphone-worldwide.com/

Have the world subsidize US sales, just because they’re used to paying a little more. Not surprised that other goods would use same strategy.

It’s vital that America wins by racing ahead and winning developers worldwide," he added.

“vital that America wins” is main reason China will win. US is only interested in Skynet/surveillance system for Israel first control over population as the customers for AI. Musk needs MechaHitler to destroy Tesla sales, and control a robot army for fascist extremist political power.

The entire vision of “America must win” is the usual militarist throwing money at oligarchs philosophy. OpenAI confidently declaring US government should guarantee its impossible loans to help it. “winning developers worldwide” = CUDA… I don’t hear Jensen saying he should share CUDA with other US firms: AMD, qualcom, apple, intel.

Oligarchs are just saying they should get all the money or China(Russia, Iran…) will win is a US governance mantra that ensures their collapse. A country on the verge of collapse is incapable of reaching Skynet. There will be a bubble in everything else, if all US wealth is thrown at Skynet oligarchy. Already, skynet ambitions is forcing high ram prices for everyone else. High electricity prices in US. Mass layoffs.

China is extremely far ahead in robotics and self driving. Their open LLM models are more useful with more global downloads than US. They are certain to win because they have energy capacity, and a manufacturing sector that is the only consumer of useful AI/robotics. They need tech advancement for survival instead of oligarchist plunder of what is still treated as unlimited money, that still mostly gets funneled through TSMC.

China has much more research/education levels. It already has all the NVIDIA gpus it wants through black market at prices equal to US, and it packages about half of NVIDIA gpus.

Where AI can help a human/business user help humanity boost production/productivity, Chinese research efforts will help. Skynet will just destroy and extort humanity for those who control AI to control humanity. It is naturally less trustworthy to rely on the openly evil, than on open models.

SAltman and the circular investment crew are pivoting to a pump and dump scheme on server hardware

Or just resell their contracted RAM that they can’t pay for, for even more.

why does “AI” need so much CPU RAM

It doesn’t really, though CPU inference is possible/slow at 256+gb. The problem is that they are making HBM (AI) ram instead of ddr4/5.

could be a bios setting that allows your ram to work at lower speed.

Indeed awful. AFAIU, it is stockpiling HBM memory ahead of next generation “GPUs”, rather than existing product volume. I’m especially disgusted that prices in non-tariff countries are higher than in US. If this were to last, gddr5/6 computer ram would start to make sense. NVIDIA has been behind starving memory supplies for competing platforms (usually AMD) in the past.

This pricing is both huge inflation, but also huge drop in sales, because we have to wait for it to get sensible.

Firstly, foreign students are capped at 8%

Is that a new cap? Just for graduate schools? It’s been a while since my annecdote or Uni experience.

I know people who were qualified for graduate school, but did not get in. Mainly because foreign students pay better. There would actually be a more diverse/enjoyable university experience if more Canadians (say at least half of students) were admitted.

Putin made significant reforms from CIA stooge, and therefore loved “democratic leader” Yeltsin’s corruption was reformed. Western propaganda still portrays the oligarchy Yeltsin helped create (to enrichment of western financing) as in control of Russia. Reality to Russians, is that CIA puppetted nazi Ukraine instigated this war for diminishment of Russia goals, and defense of Russia is needed, and Putin has done a competent job in growing a war economy with good pay for everyone who wants a job in Russia. Western propaganda carries no weight because west hates an independent/cohesive Russia.

Venezuela is target #1. Very unlikely to use nuclear weapons. Bomb some more people, and declare victory after Exxon contract awarded.

He won’t confront China

It’s a real concern, but Ukraine war is proceeding to its just conclusion. EU will accept it better than they let on. It’s expected that world will allow US war on Venezuela without any compassion, just weapons profits. Because resisting US through proxy war is more profitable than sinking its air carrier battle group, through nuclear strike/torpedo, there is less risk of doomsday than 1-2 years ago. Europe will try to get nuked though.

from Russian perspective it would be far preferable for the US to get embroiled in their own version of SMO in Latin America for years to come.

exactly my point. This is not good for world./humans.

Yes. Yet another blatant war of aggression by US. More nakedly obvious than usual. Dependence on Russian military aid for months or years to fight it off as a proxy defense against the US is a less optimal/just outcome than ending the war immediately with an explosion in the ocean. World continues to normalize US behaviour instead of assisting its collapse.

It’s just making arms trade profits the solution instead of ending the aggression as the solution.

how Venezuela defeating the Burger Reich would create dependence on Russia

Viet Cong “won” with 10:1 casualty ratio, but more specifically, got a stalemate that lasted longer than US patience. Failure to capture or hold Venezuela by the US is a Venezuela victory, but it will come at costs. Dependence on Russia is needed to prolong a stalemate, where stalemate = eventual loss of patience by US.

if Russia sank a US carrier group that would be the start of WW3

No. Ends war on Venezuela, and ends illusions of US power projection. Whether nuclear weapons are used or not, there’s a right to sink boats making baseless attacks. There’s no reason to start a war on Russia after that, and no one would want to.

The torpedo has huge range. The goal could be to end war instead of humiliation/stalemate, but with dependence on Russia.

I don’t like this. Not because Venezuela doesn’t deserve help defending itself, but that Russia could “live test” it’s new nuclear powered torpedo by sinking the Gerald Ford air carrier group. Ending war before it begins, and there still remains the possibility of ending it quickly after it begins. is a more human strategy than maximizing Venezuela dependence on Russia.