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...but these pay for themselves?

Taiwanese and Hongkongers agree & enjoy their freedom.

This "Western..." thing is something that is used often in Chinese PRC propaganda, to discredit free press and the rule of law as "Western" ideas. Yet, China has no problems following the "Western" idea of communism ;-)

Your Lichtenstein example is nonsense. Liechtenstein is not "partly democratic" but fully democratic. It has a monarch as Head of State (like the UK and others), and an elected parliament that enacts the law. It is also a direct democracy, where voters can propose and enact constitutional amendments and legislation independently of the legislature. The fact that the prince got a few more veto powers in 2003 does not change anything about the fact that it is democracy, and - equally important - people have full freedom of speech.

I think he would. Look how the EU/NZ is not helping Taiwan - in order to not offend China. It is a shame.

And yet most of us "buy stuff" to show the world roughly how much money we make.

I don't think Sikuli is unknown at all - I have used it for a long time. But there has not been much progress over the last years, especially the OCR features are lacking. A good alternative to Sikuli is the newer Kantu, which is also much easier to install (just a browser extension + small native EXE).

https://a9t9.com/kantu/x/desktop-automation

Starbucks, McDonalds, KFC = unimportant. The world's best food is Chinese food anyway. China won this "war" hundreds of year ago

Boeing = no chinese competitor available

Apple = is feeling the pressure now

Ok, I am late to the show. Where can I watch the recording?

Targeted ads/messages beyond very broad categories such as "business owner" or "looking for a vacation" should be made illegal. This time the law needs to safe us from technology.

No, not for EU citizens.

Nice & useful. I just wish this worked for Youtube videos,too. Currently I am using Copyfish to grab text from images/videos: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/copyfish-%F0%9F%90...

Copyfish works well, but since it is a generic solution for copying text from embedded subtitles/images, it is not optimized for language learning.

DJI is impressive - but is DJI leading because of AI? To me, that is mostly manufacturing. And this is indeed an area where "the west" is severly lacking. (Disclaimer: I am no drone expert, so this is a real question)

The verge says the camera is "...somehow even better than Google’s Night Sight". That is nice - but not a "wide margin".

...in what area is China actually leading? Catching up and leading require two very different skill sets.

Here is 习近平 himself saying so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iBJK-doMM4

"We do not promise to renounce the use of force and reserve the option to use all necessary measures."

PRC is threatening a military attack on Taiwan. Xi said so just a few weeks ago. I have never heard a similar statement from any Taiwanese politician in this century.

All that Taiwan wants is to stay independent and democratic.

Can any other Traffic-Aware Cruise Control (TACC) stop in such a case? (Real question, I don't know).

My current understanding is that Tesla's TACC is the best on the market. Correct?

Unfortunately you are the exception, not the rule. I know a few truly addicted computer gamers. They are in their 30-40s now, still sitting in their little room playing all day. Lonely, no friends, no social life. Like drug addiction, it is not pretty to see.

But lucky you, you will never meet them on the Google Campus. FANG is Tobacco industry, V2.0.

I guess in pretty much every country on earth you will get an apartment and more if you are a chess champion.

...or maybe the reason Greece does not have enough money is because rich Greek don't pay their taxes?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Greece#Lagarde_l...

Yes. That is my major concern. In fact, it has already happened! We have already Greece (with its China owned ports) blocking an EU statement:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-un-rights/greece-block...

In other words: The direct cost of the insulin for the average German is not $55, but $0 - since it is covered by the mandatory health insurance.

That said, don't worry that you do not get enough back from your health insurance. This will come soon enough when you get older ;-)

Interesting. I thought Baidu and Alibaba are supposed to be leading AI companies. If so, why would XiaoPeng not partner with them?

Uh, that is a big negative sign for me, because they have an an "employer active" account. In other words, they pay for the privilege to get reviews deleted.

> 100% approval rating of our chief executive officer.

So I am 99.99% sure that HR was tasked with removing bad reviews ;-)

I am not sure about the US, but in Germany 40% of the electricity is already renewable. And most Tesla owners I know use a 100% renewable plan. It costs just a tiny little bit more, for example from here: https://www.greenpeace-energy.de/privatkunden/oekostrom.html (page in German)

X is too fat for Europe and China. Y is perfect.

We use Skype for the same purpose. It has all the PROs but none of the negatives. Same is true for any other free/freemium chat or communication tool.

Interesting. As the next step for automated testing, browsing on the cloud browser images can be automated with the kantu browser extension and its image and text recognition features https://a9t9.com/kantu/docs/xclick

I sat in the Taycan at a Porsche sponsored conference last year. The design feels so plain normal and boring to me. The Model 3 design is 1000% more innovative. I am convinced that car museums in the future will have a Model 3 on display, but not a Taycan.

That said, if you like Porsche, the Taycan gives you a Porsche with an electric motor. That is the only innovation I can see here.

You should talk to your government then. Nobody is against Google going back to China. It is about Google developing and supporting censorship (tools),

"Many Chinese"... where did you get this number from?