Well… Communism.

Communism as Engels described it is the abolition of private property. Everything is free to all. However the result is a society with no form or structure.

If you want a loaf of bread you go to a baker, right?

• Since you own nothing, you cannot trade for the loaf.
• Therefore bread must be free and the baker must give the bread to you and everyone else in the community.
• The baker feels he’s getting a raw deal. It’s a lot of work and he has little time for himself.
• Tomorrow he decides he’s had enough of baking. He becomes a sculptor reusing his ovens as a kiln.
• The community, bereft of bread and starving, rises up against the former baker forcing them to bake the bread community needs.
• Now we have forced labour.

And that’s just bread. What about the people that do all the jobs we don’t want to do? Collect rubbish, maintain sewers, or mine minerals?

Communism leads to one of three outcomes IMHO:

1. All are equal but because no one can rely on the community for anything everyone must be self-sufficient. Human society regresses back to hunter gathering.
2. People are forced into working roles they don’t want to do to support the broader community. Some people decide those roles (Ruling class). Some people enforce those roles (Enforcing class). Everyone else is subject to those roles (Working Class). An authoritarian totalitarian state.
3. You give people doing vital jobs needed by the community some kind of recompense. If it’s someTHING you give them, well that’s now private property and you’ll get a trading system soon after. If it’s power or privilege, you’ve invented a class system.

So to answer your question…anything that looks like communism because I don’t see how it doesn’t end in disaster. …and I’m fine with Socialism. I think the ideal is a socialist/capitalist balance.

They overlap. Js is a shit technology for the blind.

Dynamic sites that move / hide / unhide components as you do things are unhelpful and confusing. A screen reader will tell you what’s under the cursor right now. If that changes, you don’t get notified that you’re now pointing at something else.

Static sites are better for accessibility too.

When you’ve got the Pope mobile in your sights, you’d hope that might make you question whether you’re on the side of righteousness.

Just as the economy is battling serious headwinds, Mr Xi’s campaign to drive out corruption and enforce loyalty in the top ranks of the Communist Party is generating turbulence.

Hmmm… Drive out bad corruption and enforce good corruption. Right?

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.

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.

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.

…is going the other way.

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.

Alternative headline.

World’s oldest person dies.

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.

Pretty much anything over 10,000 employees. You can’t really organise that many people in a productive way. Let’s face it… You’re exploiting something.

Only when you’re already in a hospital when the injury happens.

It’s known to melt witches in seconds.

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.