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Could you explain some specific ways in which they are ahead?
For starters they can sell EVs at a profit, a feat which I believe only Tesla has managed among the US manufacturers.
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Could you explain some specific ways in which they are ahead?
Their world leading battery tech is much cheaper and last longer, as they bet on the right tech compared to basically every western car company. Their cars overall are much cheaper for equivalent or better quality. Their car companies are desperate to stand out given there are over 100 of them so produce wide ranges of extra features and designs.
And of course they are cheaper, they are selling in a market with much lower price capacity. They would not be nearly so cheap if they sold in the market like the US, so it is not sensible to compare prices as if they would.
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That's basically it. The Chinese government views the rest of the world through Hobbesian self interest, but in the late 20th century financial way. They want your money, but lawfully. The US has turned into something much more vindictive and unpredictable, including threatening to invade Canada.
Lawfully? How many IPs have they stolen from universities and companies across the world?
And thanks to genAI, it will soon be obsolete.
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I'm not saying that it's trolling, I do think they genuinely want Greenland at least. I'm saying MAGA people, the portion of the voting public which actually support the administration, think it's trolling. The level of genuine support for it is virtually zero. That's the reason it hasn't already been done. I hope I'm not talking to a wall here, because I already clearly explained this above: "most magas I talk to tr…
I don't know what to tell someone who says ACTIVE, ONGOING, OFFICIAL NEGOTIATIONS that left the foreign country (who thought we were meme'ing until they met with our OFFICIALS) in tears, are just memes. Meaning to or not you are running defense for it, as news coverage/sane people have done continuously for Trump with the 'it's just Trump being Trump'. Don't do that. Don't let them do that. This is the United State P…
You've got a legitimate reading comprehension problem right now, because I am not saying that, have not said that, and have explained this to you three times now. Kindly calm down and read.
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Nice. IP is one thing that has ruined many things. Unless you are WIPO and Oracle Fan. All current AI companies are closed. What benefit? Most things from Uni are published openly. BTW, did people in US pay royalty to China for inventing paper?
Yeah, people forget that IP is a social construct, and there's no reason a different society can't simply have different constructs. Open source / Free software is a different social construct too; and Stallman would have us live in a world where nobody is enriching themselves with proprietary technology they exert unfair control over. Problem has always been ensuring that people who have brilliant ideas get appropri…
This doesn't happen anymore, and the sooner the contributors to our industry learn this, the sooner we can start fixing it.
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Intellectual property as it exists and is used today overwhelmingly is used to stifle competition and lock down monopolies. It's used to project power internationally by deputizing foreign countries to protect American business interests. It's a far cry from how it's popularly presented as a way for the "little guy" to protect their inventions.
I see you’ve never invented anything that you’ve risked having stolen
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The trade balance as a number shouldn't matter, but offshoring critical manufacturing capability and production ecosystems does. China has at least 2 key advantages in manufacturing -- cheaper labor and laxer regulations. If the US were to embrace and extend robotics and automation more vigorously that first point could become moot. Also the second point as far as labor regulations go, and if environmental regulation…
1. The US industrial output has been growing for decades[1]. US manufacturing is doing very well, it's US manufacturing jobs that aren't due to automation. 2. Manufacturing as % of the population has long been declining globally including China. Labor cost is a very minor expense in modern manufacturing unless we talking something like clothing. I don't think Americans miss the millions of jobs they had 60 years ago…
Being that so many companies have moved production to China to make their products cheaper, I'd be curious as to what then comprises those savings.
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Lawfully? How many IPs have they stolen from universities and companies across the world?
"stolen" should not be used in conjunction with IP, "infringed" if you like. To steal is to deny the original owner access to their property. That is true for physical objects, if I steal your wallet or your car you no longer have it. But if I illegally copy some of your IP you still have access to it. Sure you may experience some financial prejudice from that but you still have it.
The fact that IP is unnatural and relatively new is probably the reason why so many people can't seem to apply the proper terminology around it.
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As a Belgian, I don't think there is much point in creating a fake account. We know the US is different than Trump. But yet, here we are, a wannabe dictator is in control now of the US. We realized that we have way too much dependencies on the US in a very short time. It's not going to be easy to unbuckle a >70 year old partnership, but not being prepared if he succeeds will be worse, just ask your Canadian friends.…