Yes, I understand that more mining could be done, but what I was saying is that I don’t think it could be sustained to the level of silicon. Bismuth is a rare mineral, and 100 times more expensive than silicon.

Not an expert, but high purity bismuth seems 6x more expensive than high purity silicon. I could be wrong.

they would only be able to tackle a very small fraction of that.

It would be for ultra premium performance chips, which China has a low share currently.

I understand more bismuth mining would be needed to support price stability, but scale could mean lower prices. China has special needs in that innovation is required to escape US tyranny of global IP.

They have a ton of stuff to figure out still. Seems a longshot, tbh.

… from Brazilian subcontractor.

Xinxiang propaganda is a politicized process that involves shit talking 100% against China more than truth about any current oppression.

BYD, like most Chinese EVs are manufactured with extensive robotics. They are not manufactured in Xinxiang. Xinxiang mining activity is mostly for solar panel inputs. Not EVs.

Seagull is a good car, but it is ultra small… The major achievement is a $300/kwh price for just the battery in China. Would be easy to pay for car just from V2G or V2H+solar value. Ultra small also means the highest efficiency, and range charged per hour.

There are a lot of cars that are model 3 “sized”/comparable. BYD seal is $30k in China ($2000 less), and more expensive than Tesla in Germany. It might be a better car to boot, but its not helpful comparing Tesla to Seagull prices.

quick lookup showed pure bismuth at $300/kg. That is not too expensive to make chips, but it would divert demand away from other uses, and we’re gonna need a bigger mine. China will find a way, and likely cost reductions will result from volume.

Still, this is a couple of years (wild optimism and resources devoted to it) at least away from Chip products.

Rainy season in Northern Africa has a lot of land to form storms from sand as cloud seeds. Gulf and Carribean sea are almost always hot in summer. Relatively shallow. Northern South America also has rainy season and helps form storms that go north.

South America doesn’t get as much help from Africa storm formation, and south atlantic does not have a history of being very hot.

The form above 10^* lattitude. Their natural direction is to go straight towards their respective poles, but high pressure systems steer them with the trade winds. Extremely rare for a storm to even go slightly towards the equator

AMD uses opencl as its high level API. Nvidia, Intel also supports it. Chinese cards might too. Very few LLMs use high level APIs such as CUDA or OpenCL

OpenCL not mentioned, and so raw hardware level code most likely. Maybe no one else cares, but higher level code means more portability.

Pete Hegseth, who said the US will halt all offensive cyber operations – and planning for such operations – against Russia.

This does not confirm headline. Basic respect while negotiating peace shouldn’t be propagandized this way.

That is probably it. Age verification seems overkill on hassle and intentional/accidental privacy risks.

These are sold as daily health supplements, where internal dose would seem much higher than topical applications. If its dangerous, it shouldn’t be sold to anyone is all I can understand.

Lucky for the pedo, you never have to prove you are under 18, if that is what you tell the website.

cosmetics that contain certain chemicals like Vitamin A or alpha hydroxy acids.

I believe I can buy a ton of these chemicals over the counter and shove them all at once down my cockhole without ID. Is dabbing a smidge on my cheeks dangerous?

same analysts that got it wrong are invited to inform congress again.

It’s not racism. It is propaganda group think. As long as US tells itself it is winning, and needs war to keep winning, then US empire is well funded, and no change in policy ever needs to be considered.

In truth, if Aliens provided cheap stuff to trade with US, it would seem obvious to trade instead of going to war, except if an oligarchy controlling every member of government to protect their fiefdoms had their way. Our rulership only ever wants to hear confirmation of their propaganda lies. Heresy has never been welcome.

couple times a year I drive around 1000 miles per day

You can use the savings of having a $20k city car to rent a $70k monster car a couple of times per year, and come out way ahead. You probably need more luggage space on those trips anyway.

Why can’t they put a 600miles battery with 2 motors for awd

They do that for more expensive models.

The advantage of small batteries is higher efficiency and more range per charge hour in addition to a cheaper car.

They’ve assisted US law enforcement with phone access. An Apple whistleblower leaked that Liz Truss texted Anthony Blinken “it’s done” 1 minute after nordstream pipeline explosion. US congressional pressure on tech has definitely put a shift away from “don’t be evil” to “national security champions”.

They are legally obligated to deny any cooperation with US government. I don’t have proof that they provide access.