Korkki

Korkki, 3 days ago

political elites in Europe are afraid and fear upheavals are coming in the coming years and months because of the cost of living crisis and the war. They try to clamp down beforehand to preserve their own power. This always happens when things go bad. The leash is kept looser when people behave and it’s tightened again when the opposite happens. There is no real freedoms that is given to the people by the elites, because what concessions they give willingly they can just as easily take away when they no longer feel like it. Provided that they think they can get away with it.

Korkki, 10 days ago

Nice and fun, took me like 5 mins to finish tough.

Korkki, 19 days ago

tbh, a word being a slur depends on the use case. No word in isolation definitely is or is not a slur.

Korkki, 28 days ago

Good. Necessity creates innovation. not so good for ASML that is getting competition created for it by the sanctions that aren’t doing so hot.

Korkki, 1 month ago

it’s not like human brain memory or consciousness is that information dense. They just did that high of a definition of a scan.

Korkki, 1 month ago

Re-establishment of clans and tribes will soon become an economic necessity for the poor. Unions would of course be better, but I’m not holding my breath.

Korkki, 1 month ago

While wikipedia is decent at giving overviews on some scientific and technical topics, but when there is a topic about something that is historical and/or any way politically or monetarily relevant there will be an edit war to change it to suit one interest groups wishes or anothers. It really is a cesspool of psyops, misinformation and articles to be basically corporate PR at certain topics, and that is just because google usually gives wikipedia articles as first or second result on any given subject and it’s a really cost effective way to propagandize people and doing it is really low cost. Now Russia just monopolizes the propaganda inside their own borders.

Korkki, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

International law in this context just means that a single global hegemon can no longer push everybody else around and call it’s will and interests “law”, and therefore claim that it’s interest somehow benevolent and part of how just things are. That is exactly what “rules based international order” means.

Not that we have ever had any law that equally applies to everybody equally. All laws and even international law needs a hobbesian Behemoth that is more powerful than any other to enforce “international law” and is in the end above it since it is at the best position to enforce and set the “law”. The UN and it’s institutions are basically basically a discussion club by design and it can’t do shit so post 1990 world the Behemoth has been the world hegemonic United states. Now that US has declined relatively as Russia, China, India, Iran, etc have risen it finds itself unable to enforce anything through hard or soft power and therefore the idea of law, stability and peace under US dissipates. Not that it was ever lawfully, peaceful or stable, that illusion only applied to the western core nations of this now dead American world.

Korkki, 1 month ago

Cold war boomers trying to legislate tech they know nothing about

Korkki, 1 month ago

It’s the only big non-US owned social media. They hate that because it’s much harder to control. It’s not even about the profits to be had, tiktok gets more eyeballs and especially it gets the young people’s attention and has more public thrusts than all of the MSM combined and because Bytedance doesn’t hate their HQ in the US the US government, intelligence or special interests, can’t just call them and strong arm them into censoring whatever talking point that they don’t like currently. It’s not much more complex than that. “Chinese spying on Americans” is just projection of what all the other platforms do.

Those who push this will not be happy no matter what Tiktok does or whatever concessions it makes. They already hold american data in American and EU data in the EU for example. Did that stop the “muh CCP influence” propaganda? Well, no… Their main goal would be to get Bytedance to sell the platform to Americans, atleast the american business. I guess they would rather let it get banned and sacrifice American or even all the western markets than to let that happen. It would be a loss to them either way.

Korkki, 3 months ago

No onko nää asiantuntijat nyt niitä samoja ihmisiä jotka puhui hävittäjien puolesta tai lobbasi juuri F35:sta tänne. Eihän ne nyt ikinä tule sanomaan että joo virhe tuli tehtyä, olin väärässä, perutaan kaupat.

Korkki, 5 months ago

All of the sanctions and European energy security were banked on the idea that Russian frontlines would collapse under the super Nato equipped Ukrainian counterattack and then there would be a regime change in Moscow and gas would flow again. Now Ukraine is on the backfoot, there is no change in Moscow and Russia oil still flows to Europe, but only through intermediaries and loopholes, because there really never was an short to medium term alternative for it in the way the global oil market is structured. The sanctions were actual serious sanctions and their architects thought that they would actually work, but the decisions were made on faulty assumptions of effectiveness of sanctions and the structure of Russia economy.

Korkki, 7 months ago

For german government “Never again” meant just never again genocide against jews. All other people are fine and free game.

Korkki, 7 months ago

Germany has been the second largest military supplier to Ukraine after the US. They are very much providing for that war too.

Korkki, 7 months ago

They will try it again in like two to three years from now. This time they will just do a under the radar and somewhat diluted version of it.

Korkki, 7 months ago

Uskon että koko artikkeli on liioittelua. Tähänkin olisi kuitenkin helppo lääke. Nimittäin tuomita Israel ja saada aikaan tulitauko ja sitten joku kestävä ratkaisu Gazan ja länsirannan suhteen. Tää on tietysti mahdotonta Euroopan hallituksille, koska jenkit ja britit seisoo kuitenkin israeli takana ja Eurooppa ei ikinä seiso yhdysvaltoja vastaan. Hamas taas on lähempänä Vietkong kuin ISISiä ja kaikki mahdollinen terrori tulee, random lone wolf toimijoiden käsistä, jos siis tulee, eikä Hamasin tai hezbollahin. Ei kuitenkaan ole Euroopan hallituksilla muuta ajatusta päässään kuin tuomita palestiinalaisten taistelu oikeudesta kotiinsa ja siten luoda ISSI:kselle ja vastaaville se tekosyy. Veikkaampa vaan että jos jotain lännessä tapahtuu niin se tullaan myös spinnaamaan siltä kantilta, ollaan nyt sodassa Israelin rinnalla “ääriliikkeitä” vastaan ja tätä sotaa voidaan käydä tukemalla Israelia entistä enemmän tavoitteeissaan luoda etnovaltionsa puskutraktorein ja pommein.

Korkki, 7 months ago

No helppo lääke on tuomita Israel ja saada aikaan tulitauko. Kestävä ratkaisu on sitten eri asia, mutta voi yksinkertaisemmillaan ottaa sellaisen muodon että toinen osapuolista murskaa toisen.

Korkki, 7 months ago

Musk-, tesla- X- and SpaceX bashing are all equally obnoxious. I’m so tired of seeing why circlejerking about how twitter sucks and reading all the articles with comments about why Tesla stock is crashing, twitter is dying and people celbrating how it’s great that some supposedly misfortune fell of Musk because of his hubris. Reverse fanboyism is as annoying as actual fanboyism for all the same reasons. To me anti musk crowd is now the more annoying one who became the thing they were opposing. So yes please shut up about Musk and ban everything concerning him for all I care.

Korkki, 7 months ago

Remember that Huawei already broke through the mobile SoC barrier that was thought to be impossible with their new chip recently? Oh I wonder what is going to happen next… Well the Chinese have been much further in their domestic GPU/AI accelerator development. They just end up creating Chinese domestic competition and at worst global competition for US tech sector. I say Washington is desperate and treading water with it’s sanction war and will end up slowing china for a bit on the short term, but en up shooting themselves in the leg on the long to medium term with this one.

Korkki, 7 months ago

Is it as bad on Nvidia?

Korkki, 7 months ago

No kyllä tää wunderwaffe ihan varmasti on se joka katkaisee kamelin selän.

Korkki, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

problem is not on a development level, but rather on a project management and (particularly) an executive level.

In any industry as time progresses the production becomes more and more capital intensive and that needs more and bigger investors and all that capital means that there is a bigger risk and that is mitigated by the investors by requiring “their guys” to staff the management and these people are unusually really bad for the technical and actual value side of the business on the long run, because they are usually people with financial or marketing backgrounds. They fundamentally work by the logic of profit maximization and there are always easier and more surefire ways toi achieve that than with supplying a good product. It’s even worse when the end product is something that could be considered “art”. In AAA it all eventually leads into pushing bland installments under rushed deadlines for the same once successful franchise out one after another, just because that is where the risks are lowest and money is still being made.