I don't feel like China operates under the same geopolitical philosophy as Russia, they have other ambitions that I think are better served by avoiding wars. But who knows given the way things are going.
It's clear if you pay attention, that China's putting inordinate efforts into other places. Africa is one example. (Probably the principal example.) So they clearly have ambitions that lay outside of Asia.
No one fakes moves like that at that scale. They're serious about what they're doing.
Because war is economically expensive, they subscribe to certain philosophy and would prefer continue trading with Taiwan rather than turning it to rubble.
That being said, even if they would. Under that assumption, I find the idea to further provoke them to doing that morally repulsive. It's an egomaniacal move that disregards Taiwanese people.
The calculation is a bit different for a dictator though.
They won't be affected personally (unless the country rebels against them) so they can be fine to tank the economy if it gets them closer to some other goal (such as megalomaniac world domination).
A military fight wouldn't serve China's interests. Pouring money into their domestic fabs and using the same market-flooding and subsidies that they're known for in other fields to take customers from TSMC would be a smarter move. They probably wouldn't be taking over the high-end CPU/GPU marketshare anytime soon, but could put significant pressure in other areas while developing capability.
Two reasons why TSMC operations in Taiwan would cease: 1. Skilled workers to develop and operate the fabs. I doubt it that the Taiwanese would happily continue to innovate under a (possibly violent) Chinese regime. 2. Supply of fab equipment from ASML and other Western companies.
It (optionally) integrates with the Apple Music Android app now, and offers to add to your library there whenever you scan a song, so I assume it's a good funnel for them to get people into their service ecosystem.
Famous composers mimicked other composers plenty, or parodied other composers, copied them or played homages. Mimicked, yes, famous composers definitely did mimic other composers.
Prokofiev Symphony No. 1 is one of the more famous. It mimics Mozart and Haydn (obvious choices!)
Stravinsky’s Octet is another.
There are plenty of other examples. Those are just two of the more obvious ones. Bach did it. Beethoven did it. Mozart did it.
I guess the subtle distinction here is that these great composers probably did it because they simply could do it as one deliberate choice among many. Lesser composers may be stuck mimicing a few styles because they lack the skill to go beyond them.
But if some unpublished work mimics a certain style, I would assume that it is an exercise to gain a better understanding of that style.
Fritz Kreisler faked some old composers'---e.g. Vivaldi's---work, claiming to have discovered some unpublished manuscripts, but later revealed that they were his own compositions all along.
It was mostly a prank on the music industry, but nonetheless, mimicry of style was involved, and was enough to fool many people for years.
Huh? Bach was the greatest recycler of all time. His keyboard suites were all styled after popular dances in Europe: the Allemande, the sarabande, courante and gigue. He just one upped them to a whole new level.
If you listen to Haydn's sonatas, do you feel the resemblance of Mozart's? Well, because Haydn taught both Mozart and Beethoven.
The people who set the prices of labour based on the productivity of the worker. The Global Council of Price Fixers, who if not but for, we could take all the profits of the engineers and redistribute them to the teachers. So that we can make sure every $1 an engineer could've turned into $100, a school can turn it into 50 cents.
I stumbled on wwwoffle about a month ago. I don't really have a need, but it just seems incredibly cool, and bit like a hold out from a different time.
Many of these project from the late 1990s just seems so well design and build, solving very interesting problems, many of which we don't necessarily have anymore. I was also looking at uw-imap (which is no longer maintained) and the simplicity of just going "Your mail box will be in mbox and authentication is passwd" brings a bit of joy.
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