Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26124 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
They have had a drought for a few years which has led to reduced traffic capacity .
Interestingly searching for this story, Google returns page after page of links to a (legitimate) study showing that a lot of the Panama drought was due to el'Nino rather than climate change - all from sites called "climate truth", "carbon action", "global weather truth". Odd that all these new sites are suddenly at the top of the search results head of the BBC
Ford will get an exemption, Maga can't have F150s getting more expensive. The whole point of tarrifs is that the executive gets to decide who they apply to.
Remember last time when he threatened tariffs on Mercedes built in America because he (pretended) to not like all those 'foreign' cars on Wall St.
And Hitler was just doing a Charlie Chaplin tribute act European tour that got a little out of hand.
That's why Musk followed it up with the innocent explanation :
“Don’t say Hess to Nazi accusations! Some people will Goebbels anything down!” “Stop Gőring your enemies! His pronouns would’ve been He/Himmler! Bet you did nazi that coming,” Musk added.
Deepseek isn't really revolutionary or even better than openAi etc, it's a pretty standard 'state-of-the-art' mixture of experts model.
The breakthough was puncturing the pitch/business model of openAI and friends = this is very hard and takes infinity money. Give us more money because the more money we get the more valuable we are and nobody can compete with us because of how much money it takes, and so we are worth even more money.
China not having to pay starting salaries of $250K to anyone who can spell "AI" and having existing models to train with also helped !
It's analogous to US car makers in the 60s/70s making ever bigger and more ridiculous cars and then the Japanese coming in with cheap reliable economical small cars. Ford could have been making VW Beatles but it was making so much profit from F150s that it needed to convince everyone that a pickup was the only way.
Build the data centers somewhere with lots and lots of cheap environmentally friendly Hydro power, in the same time zone as Silicon Valley and with no import duties and a trans-pacific trade deal.
As a bonus any of your staff that are trans, or pacific, don't need to fear a 4am knock on the door
President pardons cop-killers who tried to help him stage a coup, he then gives controls of government purse-strings to his financial backer who then installs his own minions to take over the data.
Just normal day-day operations of the body-politic. Pretty much what Jefferson and Franklin had in mind.
>Deepseek spent a lot more on GPUs and operating costs than the ~$5 million they are claiming
Deepsek stated that the $5M was only the GPU time spent for the final training.
How you want to expense the R&D and costs of staff depends on what you are trying to prove.
It's a little like the stories about India launching a rocket for what Nasa spends on Powerpoint licenses. You get a productivity boost by not having to pay engineers $400K, and you save by not having a lot of legacy infrastructure to pay for - but it's also a cheaper not being the first people to do it.
Except they are adding tariffs to specific US products that people can live without, have alternatives and target American politics.
>The most obvious thing to increase taxesimport tariffs on is American "whiskey"
The nice bit is that booze is only sold in provincial owned government stores in most provinces. So local politicians can just decide not to stock Tennessee not-whisky
Looking forward to an end to the current 100% tariff on Chinese EVs
