Japan being a democracy is somewhat debatable. The LDP is so entrenched that the people really have very little say in what happens. All discussion is within the party. The party is the ruling class.
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Left wing governments can be authoritarian too. It's a concept that spans the left-right divide. You can be a authoritarian centrist if you're prepared to enforce adherence to your values. It's just that you probably don't need to be.
In my option it's the extremes that need to be authoritarian because nobody would put up with their shit unless they were forced to.
The Japanese government is very static. Since 1955 the LDP has ruled almost continually (Lost 1 out of 23 elections) and has very rarely even lost it's overall majority.
At the last election there was a big movement for change, and even then the LDP still won, although without a majority. It's not surprising that people would feel disillusioned with democracy.
Might need a third one in there.
Education allows you to reason about what you're being told and filter out a lot of the bad stuff. It's not perfect, but it helps you spot egregious "facts" and label the speaker appropriately as untrustworthy.
I think with a lot of these chips geared at AI there's so much variation in how performance is measured you can say things like it beats an H100 inferencing on a specific INT4 model and that might be true. However, it might only hold for that narrow case.
So press releases aren't worth much to me. Show me benchmarks.
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I don't see how Huawei could have made that jump. There's a lot of generational knowledge and software development behind Nvidia's chips. No company can become a competitor first time.
I'd have expected overproduction to push the frequency up anyhow.
Agreed, but the depth of most people's political analysis is "they scare the people currently in power", and that's enough.
It's not stupidity. It's desperation.
It's very much an easy/west split in Germany, and the fact is the east is still feeling the effects of soviet control. What works for the richer west is not working in the same way in the east because the problems are different.
When you're hurting, more of the same isn't a rational option.
I always thought the was a global shift coming although in my mind it was going to be to do with the end of the oil / gas era.
I thought that as countries moved away from fossil fuels, power would shift away from the US, Russia, and Arab states. As renewables replaced oil, energy generation would become far more diverse and distributed. Each country would be able to utilise their own resources (Solar, Wind, Geothermal, Hydro) and so not have the external dependencies they currently do if they're not an oil producing nation. They would all gain stability through self reliance for critical needs.
I think we've already seen this in part with the EU disconnecting itself from Russian gas due to the invasion of Ukraine. Russia didn't have the power it thought it did over Europe because there were alternatives. The EU was able to minimise gas usage and get what it needed elsewhere.
Part of me wonders if Russia kick-started a strong independent EU and now Trump is giving it another boost with the trade war. China is trying to step into a "vacant role" which the countries are just freeing themselves from. They don't want another sugar-daddy that keeps the lights on.