Considering he’s barely been in 100 days, 90 days is forever.

All the EDA tools for silicon design are Linux based.

• US put up tariffs
• Chine put them up in response
• They now both drop them for 90 days

Nothing has been achieved.

What goal are we closer to? What does Trump want to get out of these negotiations?

So what has changed from before all of this? What have they agreed to that makes this all worth while?

My company is transitioning to teams. Most of our engineering is on Linux.

Can Microsoft please hurry up and break teams so we can’t transition?

The oil price.

It’s a response to Putin demanding Ukraine not be resupplied by it’s allies. An equally pointless demand that the Europeans are saying “No!” to.

Or emacs

“Bettors lose”… Bookies win.

Is this news?

Network transparency

Yes, it was a big shift relative to what they’re used to, but the fact that even then the LDP is still the largest party must have been soul crushing for some.

If you’re only doing university for a piece of paper, you done gone screwed up.

University is to learn how academia works so that you can continue your development independently afterwards. You become capable of researching topics, reading the papers and solving a problem you’ve never faced before.

Nobody ever tells you this, but your first degree is more about developing you than developing your knowledge. If you just askGPT the whole time you’re cheating yourself.

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.

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.