Given the horrible legacy of Japan in Taiwan, the fact that Taiwanese prefer to align with today’s Japan than China illustrates just how much they don’t want to be governed by the CCP.

It’s OK, you’re on Lemmy, we all use Linux here so you’re among friends (or bitter enemies if your distro of choice is Ubuntu)

Currently, no (other than the microphone). Android apps are sandboxed and the Signal app encrypts its data so it isn’t readable from the outside. There is however a real concern if using keyboards with predictive text, because the keyboard knows what you’re typing into Signal.

You may be right, but I hope you aren’t.

The dotcom crash was no joke. Most people here weren’t around for it (as adults at least) so they brush it off. I’m not saying this next crash won’t be bad, I’m saying it won’t have the knock-on liquidity effects of 2008.

I believe the reliance on index type funds has increased at a drastic rate.

Very good point, although this will disproportionately harm regular folks like us, and the people in charge don’t really care about that so it won’t be as disruptive as somebody important (like a bank or a hedge fund, neither of which rely on index funds) getting into financial trouble.

Yeah, this article should compare nVidia’s revenue to the US GDP (both measure of annual production). But we know why they aren’t, as it wouldn’t produce an alarming stat.

Not really, because Nvidia’s revenue is far less exorbitant than its market cap. I’m not sure why c/technology is suddenly a dumping ground for every random Medium blog, which is as trustworthy a news source as somebody’s Facebook feed.

The AI bubble will pop, but will likely be more like the doctom crash than the 2008 one. It isn’t as interconnected with the rest of the economy.

If KDE had a toggleable tiling feature like PopOS it would be the perfect DE.

Zoomers are in their 30s now? [insert Matt Damon ageing GIF]

Goes to show how impossible it is to get an Italian to stop talking.

Classic. The Monroe Doctrine exists to ensure only the US can meddle in the Americas.

Inflation is arguably down solely because of susterity measures which have not addressed any fundamental problems, only kicked them down the road.

Except, if we were to read the article, things are materially worse than when he took office:

Milei had predicted a V-like recovery with the creation of new jobs in a more prosperous and stable economy. Instead, the economy stalled out, declining in the second quarter compared with the previous three months. Unemployment is at 7.6%, up from 5.7% when Milei took office. And Argentina has about 200,000 fewer jobs since he took office, government data shows.

I wonder if this ties into our general disposability culture (throwing things away instead of repairing, etc)

Eh, she’ll probably just be Abe 2.0, but without the exhortations for people to fuck more.

No, I excluded India because they only intermittently had great power status. Iran was one for 2000 years and China for… 3000 or so? India was too at times but not in a consistent fashion - it wasn’t even really unified for at least half that time.

Tagging @BeefandSquints@lemmy.dbzer0.com as well as this is in reply to them.

Iran is a country with remarkably smart people.

It always has been. Look at the Islamic golden age for example - so many of the great artists and polymaths were Persian. They have such an incredibly rich culture with a VERY long history, easily up there with China who I’d say is their only real competition in that regard.

Should cable subscribers be counted 200 times, once for each channel?

True - I guess it depends on whether we’re defining “subscribers” as people or total paid accounts.

I don’t think those numbers are additive like that - you’d be double-counting people.