Unlike the oil dependency system, where there's actual scarcity of the thing you need (oil), there's nothing special about building solar panels that locks you to China. Basically any country could build it, but they need to figure out how to build stuff in general (as opposed to outsourcing like the last three decades)
Western cloud alternatives might stumble upon other issue: western governments forcing said cloud providers to add filters to their pipelines. It might start as just a filter to prevent gun parts, but there's no reason it can't evolve into a filter that blocks you from making replacement parts for commercial products in general.
I keep hearing those marvels about how lightning network solves everything and gives everyone a pony, but it is currently estimated to perform about 200k transactions per day.
Whenever people start arguing about inefficient government they should be reminded that pix costs like 10M USD a year to run. An absolute bargain for what it delivers.
LLMs are modeled with Internet content so that they have a good model of human languages. When you use them via most UIs currently offered right now, however, they will first come up with a few search queries and use the result of those queries to augment their answer.
This game is awesome, but I wish it had a "expand this already existing in real life network" mode. Like, I know I can simply trace over existing rails, but doing that manually is tedious and costs in-game dollars.
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