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I was just in Hanoi! A thing I learned is that Vietnam is today the second largest producer and exporter of coffee, behind Brazil of course. And per capita, Vietnam produces and exports more than Brazil.

And as for taste - I love the rough and tough flavours of Vietnamese Robusta coffees! The Australian roasted Arabicas are mild and gentle, almost to the point of blandness in comparison.


Large amounts of clothing exports too.

>They already very agressively hide car lithium fires

But you found out... how?


They regularly pop up on the usual guanxi, douyin/weibo etc. They stay up for a few hours usually.


> but they're very frequent.

Yet you state their frequency as some sort of statistical fact. Your anecdotal experience doesn't make it any more or less true.


and you are refuting with even less justification. I told you how to check for yourself if you actually cared about veracity. Best of luck trying to get funding to publish something academic anti-CCP though, but I'd love it if you did. Also this is just a conversation, not an academic debate


> I told you how to check for yourself if you actually cared about veracity.

Which means nothing. You still dont get my point.

> Also this is just a conversation, not an academic debate

It can be both.


The EU has made a difficult problem even worse by switching from pipeline gas to LNG.

LNG has anywhere from 10% to 100% more greenhouse gas emissions, depending on who you believe about how much methane leaks during LNG production and transport operations. Most credible estimate IMO is +60%.


Putin turned off the gas, not the EU


Really? Do you have a credible source for this?


The Wikipedia article cites a long list of reputable news outlets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%E2%80%932023_Russia%E2%80...


But it doesn’t support your claim.

In summary, Russia, after having their dollar and euro bank accounts frozen, demanded payment in roubles. It stopped supplying the gas to the customers who weren’t paying. After that, the EU announced it will stop buying Russian gas completely, and replaced it with LNG.

Thus increasing the greenhouse gas emissions attributed to its gas use by about 60%. :(


"My" claim:

> Putin ("Russia") turned off the gas

Your summary:

> Russia [...] stopped supplying the gas. [...]


Hmm… so are we agreeing that Russia turned off the gas because the EU stopped paying?


>Policies include building one affordable house.

Mine too.


>Poland and the Baltics know they're next on Putin's list.

"Putin's list" is a dishonest meme, just like the "rules-based international order" that the Western nations supposedly embrace.

There is no such list, and there are no such rules. There is only deceitful propaganda used to justify geopolitical ambitions. Don't spread it.


It means have fun, be adventurous, bend the rules a little bit.


Did you feel safe, growing up?


And what lesson should be drawn from that?


That it's easy to build things when you oppress and enslave people.


We seem to get the worst of both.


>They'd need to sell a sub to everyone in Europe and North America.

Yep. Every man, woman and child, and even then provided we include Russia, Mexico, Cuba, Haiti etc, and, out of desperation to get to 1.5 billion, Turkey, which is in Europe a little.


That's all true... however the point that Google will get just $1 billion per year from Apple for the AI service is still insightful.

If AI use via Apple represents 10% of the total that vaguely implies that the total AI market is worth around $10 billion per year (which admittedly seems a bit low), and if it is just 1% (which also seems low) then we get $100 billion per year upper-end estimate.

Which just is not enough to justify the current valuations of AI companies.


If AI use via Apple represents 10% of the total that vaguely implies that the total AI market is worth around $10 billion per year (which admittedly seems a bit low), and if it is just 1% (which also seems low) then we get $100 billion per year upper-end estimate.

This is a bizarre way to try and estimate market size.

Maybe Apple’s AI represents 100% of the market! Maybe it represents 0.000001%! We can make up any numbers we want!

Anthropic subscriptions alone already dwarf your $10 billion number.


Uber was recently said to have a $1500 per head per month AI budget (1). Business use dwarfs consumer spend.

(1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48383056


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