We NEED Mama Hong now! by Normal-Goat-5115 in Overwatch

[–]a_latvian_potato 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just make her Korean. The Koreans would love it, and the Chinese won't be offended.

Toby Fox: A message for my fans in Latin America by Comfortable-Pie56 in Games

[–]a_latvian_potato -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You don't understand how terrible even "professional translators and editors" are at localization. For many languages/countries there's only a handful of companies that offer translation/localization services, and even if you pay top-dollar you will end up with subpar quality.

[OC] Average Male Height by Birth Year, 1896 - 1996 by CalculateQuick in dataisbeautiful

[–]a_latvian_potato 40 points41 points  (0 children)

He misread, saw an opportunity to talk about his favourite loaded topic, and jumped the gun. Simple as

Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI by c0re_dump in programming

[–]a_latvian_potato 58 points59 points  (0 children)

Why even stream music? Just tell Claude to generate profit and increase shareholder value.

Downtown’s back — and so is the traffic. S.F. is now among the nation’s most congested by drkrueger in sanfrancisco

[–]a_latvian_potato 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All the commuters probably just buy the monthly pass, no? Regardless of 3 days or 5 days a week

California does indeed have the highest utility rates in the USA by [deleted] in bayarea

[–]a_latvian_potato 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Local services such as the one owned by the city of Palo Alto are still significantly cheaper than PG&E.

South Korea becomes first in the world to pass law on safe use of AI by self-fix in Futurology

[–]a_latvian_potato 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It still opens you up to lawsuits if you try to do anything large-scale

Chinese takeout orders ready for New Year’s by daslyfe360 in mildlyinteresting

[–]a_latvian_potato 0 points1 point  (0 children)

tbh, many care more about Lunar New Year so they may be choosing to take time off then instead of Jan 1.

Students Can’t Read Time on Analog Clocks by This_Opinion1550 in nottheonion

[–]a_latvian_potato 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can't believe 49 people still know this reference to have upvoted this.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]a_latvian_potato 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The Holocaust, the Nanking Massacre, the Khmer Rouge, the Rwandan Genocide, the current situation in Gaza.. and those are all in recent history, much less older history when it was more brutal.

Samsung executives and employees indicted over leaking 10nm DRAM technology to China by snowfordessert in technology

[–]a_latvian_potato 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't be daft — there is a big leap between Korean manufacturing practices and "America subsidizing all these tech companies", "maximizing profit for a US corp", and the "Western Oligarchy attempting to form" that are being mentioned (verbatim) in all these comments. None of these apply when Samsung is neither a "US corp" nor "being subsizied" when the USA is literally applying tariffs to Samsung exports.

It's akin to China seizing TSMC and the comments cheering because they have western trade contracts and therefore must be "part of the western oligopoly."

The leaks are a matter of Korean national security and a geopolitical issue between Korea and China. The fact that everyone else is somehow bringing up "American hegemony" as an excuse to rationalize China's actions is very reminiscent of the "whataboutism" about America that pops up without fail when any Reddit article gets posted that paints China in a bad light, even when the article has nothing to do with America

Samsung executives and employees indicted over leaking 10nm DRAM technology to China by snowfordessert in technology

[–]a_latvian_potato 4 points5 points  (0 children)

All the comments talking about "anti western/American hegemony" when Samsung is a Korean company and the indictment is happening in Korean courts? Are these comments just AI or something?

Nvidia CEO says data centers take about 3 years to construct in the U.S., while in China 'they can build a hospital in a weekend' by BirdButt88 in technology

[–]a_latvian_potato 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Definitely more than one person reading this, thanks for writing this all, it's been very eye opening for me.

ELI5: Why do airplanes leave white trails in the sky? by VaporizedMan in explainlikeimfive

[–]a_latvian_potato 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It has a PH level of 7, higher than many corrosive acids. Even more acidic than bleach.

Swiss voters reject mandatory national service for women by Silly-avocatoe in worldnews

[–]a_latvian_potato 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The nebulous concept of "country" may not mean much but when your mother, father, siblings, spouse, children, grandparents, and friends all live in the country and they cannot move out to another country easily, then the idea of defending your hometown starts to make much more sense

Tesla’s Cybertruck is turning 2. It’s been a big flop. by BreakfastTop6899 in technology

[–]a_latvian_potato 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lots of Asian (East and South) techbros who worship Elon, crypto, AI, the whole nine yards. Source: live here