The important thing is that they are equally sized.

If I had made that as a joke, I’d use a tong out smiley.

They just have so many people.

Yes more than USA and EU combined, but it used to not help much, because they were so far behind. The progress for the past half century is really remarkable by any standard.

Couple that with a government willing to do whatever infrastructure and monetary policy

China has absolutely been killing it on developing infrastructure and education for half a century.
But despite that, authoritarian states, like dictatorships and the 1 party system of China belong to, usually never has that or really can leverage it even if they have decent policies. Because it usually turns out to be a matter of working for the oligarchs, and working for the oligarchs is generally little different than working for the Mafia, and that stifles development. But somehow they’ve made it work in China.

if you’re not particularly concerned with the local environment or economy, you could probably get a lot done.

In some regards they are doing more for the environment than USA. I’m not sure what you mean by not caring about the economy, because they absolutely do. But they have a different perspective on it that seems more like Europe than American. I think what EU is to USA is what China is to Europe in that regard. In China they look more at the big picture, while USA is very focused on the money here and now.

going forward and that probably represents a valuable market.

They already do, in many respects China is already the biggest market, in for instance Mobile phones, Electric vehicles, housing etc. China is already by far the biggest market. And for instance apart from Apple and Samsung being number 1 and 2, China has the next 8 biggest phone makers in the world, and Huawei actually was #1 at a point, until USA prevented them from using Android and the best chips.

What I’m really curious about is the coming mega projects China will probably be able to do, that will potentially far exceed what any other country is capable of. This can be both in engineering and science.
USA did the atom bomb, integrated circuits, moon landing, Internet, and was a leader of democracy for making democracy the most popular form of governance.
No doubt USA has had a historically huge impact on modern civilization, and I suspect we will see similar things from China in the future. Hopefully not so much like the Atom bomb, but more all the other stuff.

Maybe, but that’s a really bad way to trade stock.

You can make improvements without introducing breakage.

For some weird reason it hasn’t affected the Tesla stock much?
FSD is now a proven fiasco, together with obvious declining sales. But now people are buying the next big thing which is supposed to be his amateur robots and AI.
Both areas where Tesla is even further behind than they are on FSD. But some people still refuse to believe Tesla is behind on FSD, despite the evidence is clear that they are.
It’s all build on a scam, and a lot of people are still buying it.
Elon Musk is not a genius at technology or business, he is just a genius scammer.

There are so many things the Linux kernel project does just right. One of them is “never break user space”.
Unfortunately most projects completely fail to get why this is important.
I think one of the worst examples is the enormous setback it caused when Python was “upgraded” from 2 to 3, which meant breakage of huge amounts of libraries, that were never fixed, and was extremely detrimental to Python.

The kernel respects user-space, but actual user front ends do not!?!?!
KDE generally does the same when they upgrade to new versions of QT.

It’s so much a different world, they lose contact with reality.

Maybe he could also become worlds first halved half-trillionaire?

To us, USA is a dystopian example of what we don’t want to become.
It’s really sad, because things were going really well, as in the right direction 50 years ago. And ironically MAGA is pulling even more in the opposite direction, pulling even further away from everything that was good about America in the 70’s.

A teacher talking about whether her students had breakfast is probably just about the least reliable data point I can think of.

It would be very bad for the economy. Exactly what economy “the” stands for is not specified, I can only assume it must be “the” Elon Musk economy.

Yes of course people are paid for overtime, the article doesn’t say anything about not being paid.
I know in USA it’s normal to not be paid for overtime, but USA is not a civilized country, I thought Greece was.
Maybe people need to unionize more.

So people were not allowed to work 13 hours in 1 day up until now?
The rule we have here (Denmark) is that we must have 11 hour rest period between 2 shifts.
The normal work week is 37.5 hours, but if you want you can work 13 hours per day, since that gives you 11 hours rest.

We have some of the highest wages in Europe, possibly in part because of flexible regulation, mostly negotiated directly between unions and employers.
Denmark is also one of the easiest countries to fire people in EU, but we have one of the lowest unemployment rates.
The fact that it’s easy to fire, also makes it easy to make a decision to try to expand or start new projects. If it goes wrong, damage control can be relatively swift, and not break the company if it fails.

Trump is hell bent on accelerating China’s way to the top.
Except in many aspects they are no longer on the way, they are already there, so what Trump is doing, is also helping China increase their lead.
Many think China is still just a low level production hub for the world. But the reality is that China is already outsourcing production to neighboring countries, and China is now among the world leaders in 8 out of 10 key industries for the future, unmatched by any other country or EU.

The best hope if Russia decides to deploy nuclear weapons, is probably that those are expensive to maintain, and Russian corruption is likely to have made a portion of them unworkable.

This is only the beginning, it hasn’t even been a year yet.

Arm needs to have these cases in the EU. USA is way to corrupt to be trusted, and I wouldn’t mind if EU gave Qualcomm a major slap, their practices around patents are despicable both ways.

when does the ride end?

When they come for you.

Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme

That doesn’t sound very high end, I think I’ll wait for the Pro version, preferably Pro Plus.