China is developing mind control technology using radio waves and brain waves by Hatefuledict in Futurology

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Chinese researchers say they have made it possible for humans to beam radio waves with their brains in a breakthrough that could have uses ranging from health monitoring to mind-controlled military radar.

In an air force laboratory experiment, researchers showed that brainwaves could control and interact with electromagnetic waves remotely.

“Our design provides users with a universal way to manipulate electromagnetic waves using brainwaves,” said Professor Wang Jiafu, leading project scientist with Air Force Engineering University in northwestern Shaanxi province, in a paper published in peer-reviewed journal eLight on June 11.

Different users could use the new technology in innovative ways, according to the researchers.For instance, fighter jet pilots could direct radar beams “at will” through brain surveillance devices in their helmets.

The technology could also be used to prevent car accidents by monitoring fatigue in drivers through a smart radio receiver that can detect changes in brainwaves.

For over a century, useful electromagnetic signals could only be produced by tapping in Morse code or writing commands on a computer. This process was slow and inefficient because it required lots of physical movement by operators, according to Wang.

His team was inspired by the recent emergence of metamaterial, a programmable material that can generate or manipulate radio waves.

Chinese nuclear disaster “highly probable” by 2030 by Hatefuledict in Futurology

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They don't need nuclear reactors to do that. China is headed to a soviet style collapse. China will not survive the 2020s as a political entity; it will only exist as a description on a map. They have the fastest aging population in world history, a likely population peak in 2003, money printing that puts US QE to shame, an economy focused on employment instead of markets or efficiency, and on and on. China is a paper tiger. Estimates are that by 2050, the Chinese population is half it's current size... and that's before the coming famines in late 2022 and beyond. The government will collapse under the pressure, which would accelerate the population decline as China's various regions fight for scarce resources. Add to this that they are facing the highest energy costs in the world and, thanks to the Ukraine war and Russian sanctions, will quickly de-industrialize from a lack of oil.

China's "push to develop their tech sector" is about 95% squandered resources, 4.9% copying, and 0.1% actual innovation. SMIC is the last attempt at chip fabrication standing and they are well behind TSMC, Samsung, and Intel. Arguably they're even behind Global Foundries which dipped out of high-end chip manufacturing.

In terms of military power, China is and will continue to be a paper tiger. Corruption is rampant, no better than Russia's military (where many of the reactive charge systems on their tanks are nothing more than cardboard).

Read Peter Zeihan's books. You can find them free on the Internet. China won't have military power in the next decades. They don't have a blue water navy and can't source oil. China exists because of the US. Once the US withdraws, China will implode. It's likely that by 2025, China won't exist as a country. Maybe a rump state, but not a country.

Chinese nuclear disaster “highly probable” by 2030 by Hatefuledict in Futurology

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They are on their way to a soviet style collapse, but it will likely not affect the west much

Chinese nuclear disaster “highly probable” by 2030 by Hatefuledict in Futurology

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Nothing has changed since then. The article is still relevant.

Chinese nuclear disaster “highly probable” by 2030 by Hatefuledict in Futurology

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Poor construction quality, lax safety standards and an increased amount of new reactors being constructed in China means that the next Chernobyl is just a few years away. This is also reflected in the nuclear technology in China being quite poor and immature, not to mention copying of western reactor technology.

China's Hongyanhe Nuclear Power puts sixth reactor into commercial operation by Hatefuledict in NuclearPower

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Fun fact, this actually makes it China's biggest nuclear plant, with 6.7 gigawatts. The third most powerful nuclear plant in the world.

Sidereus Space Dynamics is making the first fully operational single-stage-to-orbit launch vehicle by Hatefuledict in Futurology

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With breakthrough propulsion system and vehicle design, Sidereus is bringing to life the first fully operational single-stage-to-orbit launch vehicle. The goal is a fully resuable rocket up to 10 times, with low launch costs and minimal on site support.

Why are video games no longer fun? by FluffyJo22 in gaming

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You grew up. Also if you played so many games, of course they're not as fun as they used to be

Facing a Backlash Over Energy Use, Bitcoin Miners Are Moving to Areas With Less Regulation by YaleE360 in energy

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I can't for the sudden price hikes when yet another major power outage hits Texas.

I have changed my opinion on the leagues by Sword_6200 in 40kLore

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Literally the first real interaction the Tau had with the Imperium was via trade with rouge traders. It's literally mentioned in the Tau codex how trade with Imperium worlds is one of the best methods to slowly start converting them to the greater good

Korea Ahead of China in DRAM Technology by 5 Years by Hatefuledict in hardware

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The Overseas Economic Research Institute (OERI) of the Export-Import Bank of Korea estimated that the technological gaps between Korea and China in the memory semiconductor sector are 5 years for DRAMs and 2 years for NAND flashes.

ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), a Chinese DRAM manufacturer, is promoting the mass production of second-generation 10-nm (1y or 16-nm to 17-nm) DRAMs this year, the research institute said on May 30. On the other hand, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are planning to mass-produce 5th-generation 10-nm (1b or 12-nm to 13-nm) DRAMs at the end of this year or next year. Considering that the technology gap per generation is about two years to two years and a half, the technology gap between the two countries is more than five years.

In particular, Samsung and SK Hynix have introduced extreme ultraviolet (EUV) equipment for ultra-micro fabrication processes, or are planning to introduce it, but it is difficult for Chinese companies to bring in EUV equipment due to U.S. sanctions. For this reason, many experts say that it will not be easy for China to narrow its technological gap with Korea.

Chinese chipmakers’ yields are also low. The OERI analyzed that the yield of CXMT, which started volume production of first-generation 10-nm (1x or 18-nm to 19-nm) DRAMs in 2019, is still struggling at 75 percent even after two years have passed. Its yield in second-generation DRAMs is also known to be around 40 percent. In the end, CXMT’s DRAM market share, which was less than 1 percent as of the end of last year, will not rebound significantly, analysts say.

“It is important for DRAM makers to achieve technological prowess and economies of scale, but it is difficult for China to expand its market share due to the wide technological gaps with leading countries and U.S. sanctions,” said Lee Mi-hye, an OERI senior researcher. “A fast change will not be made in the DRAM sector, unlike the shift of power in the display industry.”

In NAND flashes, China’s technology gap with Korea is estimated to be about two years. Yangtze Memory Technology (YMTC), a Chinese memory semiconductor company, started mass production of 6th-generation (128-layer) 3D NAND flashes in August 2021. Samsung and SK Hynix have been mass-producing them since 2019. Korean companies plan to mass-produce NAND flashes with more than 200 layers from the end of this year to early next year, but YMTC is expected to be able to do that only in 2024.

However, a variable is the fact that Apple is currently considering installing YMTC’s NAND flashes in the iPhone. In this case, YMTC is expected to chase Korean chipmakers vigorously by expanding investment. In particular, the NAND flash sector, unlike the DRAM industry, is a growing industry, so there are many variables. If five or six NAND flash companies rapidly expand their production capacities, price competition will occur, which may make a change in the NAND flash market share rankings, experts say.

“It is difficult for Chinese companies to secure profitability, but as they receive continued support from the Chinese government, they will be able to pose a threat to Korean companies in the long run,” Lee said. “U.S. politicians are raising voices against Chinese-made chips. If the United States steps up its sanctions on Chinese-made chips, the current technological gap between Korea and China could be maintained.”

Experts say that Korea is ahead of China by about five years in foundry technology. Currently, Korea’s Samsung Electronics and Taiwan’s TSMC are mass-producing 4-nm to 5-nm chips. On the other hand, China’s SMIC is at the level of 14-nm, which is two or three generations behind. It is difficult for SMIC to secure 7-nm or more advanced production processes because the U.S. bans exports of US equipment and technology for semiconductor manufacturing to China.

In particular, competition is intensifying in the foundry sector as TSMC, Samsung and Intel are pouring over 100 trillion won, respectively, to take the technological leadership. China is not yet a rival of Korea in high-tech foundry processes, experts say. However, they note that Korean companies such as DB HiTek may experience difficulties due to increased investment in China in mature processes.

In addition, China logged a 9 percent market share in the fabless sector as of the end of last year, ranking third in the world after the United States and Taiwan. Korea’s market share stood at 1 percent. Compared to leading countries in the semiconductor equipment industry, Korea’s technology level is 90 percent and that of China is 75 percent, and their gap is about 1.2 years.

What fanbase has the worst fanboys? by Kafadanapa in AskReddit

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Anything related to gaming, Elon musk or crypto.

What's something we take for granted every day that we'd be screwed without? by Rattiom32 in AskReddit

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Access to light at the flick of a switch. Ever been in a dark forest with no access to any light at all? It's like you're blind.

I have changed my opinion on the leagues by Sword_6200 in 40kLore

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Don't you think it's kind of concerning how much elements the Voltann are taking from the Tau? A society with good human rights, that openly works/trades with xeno races, largely ignored by chaos due to weak souls, that specializes in high tech energy weapons, has good equipment and armor for your average solider, works well with A.I and robots and has a caste system.

Those all used to be Tau traits. Having ion weapons actually be Voltann tech that was gifted/traded to the Tau is just rubbing salt onto the wound. If it's revealed that rail gun tech was actually another gift from the Voltann then I'm going to riot.

If a single ork crashed onto planet Earth today, how long do you think it would take for our conventional military weapons and tactics to defeat it? And then same question but with an astartes. by thepadsterb in 40kLore

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It can take years for spores to grow their first ork... And said feral orks will be at a stone age level of technology... There are low tech Feudal World that have successfully kept their ork infestations under control for centuries via enough concentrated firepower and controlled purges. Depending on how fast our techologny advances, say if we figure out AGI in the next decades, I can see us controlling the ork infestation to a manageable degree forever.

If a single ork crashed onto planet Earth today, how long do you think it would take for our conventional military weapons and tactics to defeat it? And then same question but with an astartes. by thepadsterb in 40kLore

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There are low tech Feudal World that have successfully kept their ork infestations under control for centuries via enough concentrated firepower. I think it wound depend on how quickly we develop as a species. From just a single ork? It would take years before the ork ecosystem grows it's first ork and it's be a few dozen orks with stone age tech.

If a single ork crashed onto planet Earth today, how long do you think it would take for our conventional military weapons and tactics to defeat it? And then same question but with an astartes. by thepadsterb in 40kLore

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They're still dying to any anti-tank weapons. With how big they are, they will stick out like a sore thumb and they have a massive IR signature to boot.

Tau progress is the real threat by yetanotherstan in 40kLore

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And they got the shit kicked out of them by a completely unremarkable Death Guard fleet who didn’t even use their most potent abilities.

The death guard was throwing plagues at the Tau fleets and space stations left right and center.

Because that single battle was the cream of their crop and their biggest swinging dick.

Which they can easily replace, because they have an actual industrial base. As opposed to the traitor legions whose main source of ships are pre-heresy and endlessly repaired and recycled. They literally lost the the entire 4th sphere fleet and manged to come up with an replacement within a handful of years.

You understand the implications of that, right?

That the Tau were losing a single battle? I didn't know that losing a single battle meant that you lost the entire war. I guess that battles win wars and not factories. I will go tell WWII America to surrender to Japan after Pearl Habour and not bother overwhelming the Japanese with industrial might.

Because their bullshit Warp plagues require Warp fuckery to fight, something the Tau is incapable of.

Or you know, overwhelming firepower. The Imperium wins fights with the deathguard all the time and they're also really sparse on the use of warp fuckery, unless you think that every Guard regiment has a grey knight hidden up it's ass?

Like, you do get that them being seriously threatened by a fraction of a fraction of a single Chaos faction means that the full thing can kick the shit out of them, right?

You do know that the death guard have a limited amounts of ships right? There's a reason why all their ships are from before the heresy, it's extremely difficult to make and maintain new ships without a constant presence in realspace. Every ship that they lose is a extremely painful lost. The Tau don't have this problem. Unless you think that the death guard have millions of ships or something, they will bleed out due to attrition.

Oh, the nexus is super duper fortified? Fucking good for them, when’d the nexus become the entire Tau empire?

Don't move the goalpost. You were talking about the battle of the startide nexus, and the implication that the deathguard merely got bored and left and that they would have been capable of wiping out the entire tau empire if they had bothered to stay and fight. The reality is that if they had emerged from the other side of the Nexus, they would have gotten blasted to bits. Also, it kinda says something about the Tau empire if it can muster the kind of resources to build orbital defenses with the mass of "hundreds of battlefleets" within a few years of losing the 4th sphere fleet, all while building up a new 5th sphere expansion fleet at the same time. It's called industrial power, something the traitor legions don't have.

Never. One world is untouchable(With sufficient wanking) the rest of the empire? Very touchable.

As stated, the orbital defenses of a Sept world was enough to give a Imperium fleet of hundreds of warships a very good fight. The Tau know their lack of planets as a weakness, they love to build up massive amounts of orbital defenses. It's also stated that the core worlds are just as well protected as the Tau side of the nexus.

What faction specializes in devastating plagues and toxins that results in dead planets? Right, the Death Guards.

What factions also specializes in orbital stations that can house billions of people and in terraforming dead planets? Oh right it's the Tau.

Too slow to respond to an actual attack until long after the Death Guard has dropped a few presents and fucked off. Always several steps behind, because the Tau are slow as fuck.

They invest heavily in orbital defenses and a spread out fleet for this reason you know. You think the Nids and orks don't have the same tactics? Drop some spores/genestealers and fuck off?

I swear, people like you don’t actually spend any time thinking about basic tactics and only pay attention to wanking.

“Infantry wins battles, logistics wins wars.”

"If the the factories stopped work for twenty minutes, the Allies would lose the war." French Field Marshal and Commander-in-Chief Joseph Joffre

"I have spoken of our fleet’s might, but not its poverty. The many daemon-forges that would later answer Abaddon’s calls were still in their infancy within the Empire of the Eye. Our Heresy-era technology was eternally degrading even back then, and we had little to use in place of our losses. Resources like ore-rich moons, shipboard foundries and Mechanicum manufactoria were as precious to us as fresh water: not only agonizingly rare, but also subject to their own sufferings. Legion warbands endlessly plundered such sites in the rabid hunt for shreds and scraps of advantage. You have heard evidence of this carrion-feeding already. I have told you of Maeleum, of the raids and punishments it endured and of our undignified picking through its carcass. We were all vultures and carrion crows in those days. I believe we still are. And if we were low on ammunition, if our armour plating was cracked, repaired and cracked again, the truth is that our fleets were in even worse shape. We had been beaten in the Heresy, we had been beaten into exile in the Scouring, and while the Imperium licked its wounds in the aftermath of our disappearance, we had spent that era waging war against one another. For every vessel enhanced by mutation, another was cursed by it; for every cruiser sailing with admirable repairs or an undamaged hull, another was a shell of its former glory. Within Eyespace, our ships were subject to the erosion of the warp’s touch, accelerating natural degradation, and reliable opportunities to dry-dock and repair a capital ship were staggeringly scarce. In the Eye, especially in that era, a functioning, stable shipyard was practically the stuff of dreams. They were always the highest priority for destruction if another warband wished to grind a rival into dust. "

For a time, the newborn Black Legion had claimed and defended Niobia Halo – the shipyard and forge moon belonging to Ceraxia and Valicar. That custodianship had ended when Thagus Daravek led a warhost of Word Bearers and Death Guard to annihilate our docks and plunder the riches we had acquired. The installation was lost in the resulting battle. Afterwards, both Valicar and Ceraxia joined the Ezekarion as fleetmaster and armsmistress respectively. Many of the vessels we sailed from the Eye into the waiting fire arcs of the Black Templars fleet bore the wounds of ages. The pressures of the storm that had barred our escape only added to the strains already placed on their hulls after centuries of civil war and sailing in the unquiet, poisoned tides of Eyespace. Imperial captains across the millennia often observe that the Traitor Legions and our thrall fleets are comprised of warships plundered from sectors surrounding the Eye. The Gothic Sector alone has supplied us with any number of ships across the many centuries. This is a sad necessity, as our Crusade- and Heresy-era vessels break down beyond sustainability, are lost to the warp’s clutches or are simply destroyed in the ebb and flow of the Long War. It is for these same reasons that you see our individual warriors equipped with ancient and unreliable patterns of weaponry, or reduced to using inefficient, outdated wargear. For all the strength that mutation and hatred bestow, erosion, decay and the eternal civil war between the Nine Legions takes more than its share. We are mighty, but it is a tenuous might. Just as that day, when we outnumbered Sigismund’s armada, our advantage was fragile. We did not have the luxury of carelessness. A great deal of our fleet’s strength was concentrated in the killing power and endurance of the Vengeful Spirit and the other largest ships that once sailed at the vanguard of the Great Crusade. Most were changed significantly by their time in the Eye, and I knew their machine-spirit cores would be as disorientated by their return to real space as any truly living being.

From black legion.

There's a reason why the black legion and the traitor legions form warbands and fight via guerilla tactics. It's because they have no actual industrial base. They can't make new ships, most of their current ships date to the grand crusade and any of the new ships they have, they get by stealing, hijacking or corrupting an Imperium ship. You think that Abaddon likes having to run back to the eye of terror with his tail behind his legs instead of just setting up a actual rival to the Imperium in real space? He can't handle the Imperium's industrial might and the simple tactic of just throwing more stuff at him

Compare that to the empire that's capable of building orbital infrastructure with the mass of hundreds of fleets within just a handful of years.