I worked for a hosting company and the boss was a super fan of Supermicro. He was 100% with them. He liked deals and they'd call us weekly if they were long on something.
If this is true I am truly shocked. Supermicro was founded in Taiwan. I have been on livestreams with a friend who moved there and had Chinese Air Force planes flying over the bay outside his window. He said they will test defenses a couple of times a year. To live with that and still decide to betray your country as well as giving China a step up in the AI race.
Idk about the percentages but my impression is that there is a substantial pro-unification contingent in the Taiwanese population. Not everyone sees it as a threat, to align with the CCP. Maybe this co-founder believes it's better to hedge their bets this way?
The article at least makes it look more like an issue in terms of American law rather than Taiwanese law/policy. I'm curious if a Taiwanese reader would view it as betrayal, or as just corporate fraud.
I am certain they sell a lot of servers to China. I agree with you that there are citizens who want reunification with China. Despite China funding and promoting unification lavishly the numbers are falling. Last poll I could find from 2024 is that it is only 6.7%.
You are correct what they did is a violation of American law. I could not find evidence but my gut tells me he also violated Taiwanese law. Taiwan does not want to lose access to Nvidia chips as an untrusted partner.
One or both of the Knoll brothers came back to Ann Arbor several times and taught an introduction to Photoshop class. I wanted to attend but it sold out within hours and sitting up in East Lansing by the time I found out it was always too late and they only taught the class once every five years or so.
I thought this was very well done. It is a little awkward when you have the sound muted and are watching the subtitles only to have them switch to French and have to unmute the sound as the speaker is talking in English but after awhile you get used to it.
I have actually visited some of these companies operations in Hawaii in my previous career as an agronomist. A lot of them are located on Molokai which is off the coast of Maui and is quite rural. Dekalb has an operation on Maui itself.
Got a friend in Detroit who has a startup that takes the audio from a city council or school board meeting, uses AI to summarize it and then has a talking head read it newscast style.
Love seeing a totally different approach here with Ten Miles Square where the guy takes data from city government in Washington D.C. and builds news stories around it.
It's rather cool that this guy was able to do it himself. But it cost him more than if he got an outside lab to do it for him. Maybe it's worth the premium not to have his DNA in a federal law enforcement database. Pretty soon I'd be willing to bet you'd need to run your llm locally if that was your primary concern.
The main issue is there really no good way to take an action based on a manually sequenced genome like this right now, with a few exceptions.
It's good to know what can be done at home with reasonable costs for the hardware and software, but one should not expect this to produce somethign that will change your life for the better.
Turns out the people who jump the turnstiles of subways are way more likely to commit violence or vandalism than paying riders. For years the Left said fare enforcement efforts were a waste of money, turns out they were wrong.
I'd be curious whether these people would still commit vandalism at the same rate if the subways were free in the same way that roads are free. And if so, I'd presume there would exist a good way to catch them for vandalism rather than jumping turnstiles?
This is the second attempt Detroit is making to capture the drone manufacturing business. Three mayors ago around 2006 the city made a major push to attract drone manufacturers. At the old City Airport there had been a school for training airplane mechanics. The city at the time was hemorrhaging money and kept cutting the budget for the school until it collapsed.
So they took those same buildings and offered cheap rent to drone companies. They attracted a half dozen drone startups. There were no longer any commercial flights at the airport, just the occasional private jet so there was plenty of room for drone test flights. I attended a meeting there and was pleasantly surprised both at the tech and the enthusiasm. Unfortunately the Chinese also had their eye on the drone market and crushed American manufacturers.
Now the city has re-launched the airplane mechanics school in the old airport buildings. The focus for drone manufacturing is now downtown and they're aiming at defense and commercial delivery markets. Detroit has to advantages: low cost and its the manufacturing capital of the United States with lots of resources to offer a startup.
If this is true I am truly shocked. Supermicro was founded in Taiwan. I have been on livestreams with a friend who moved there and had Chinese Air Force planes flying over the bay outside his window. He said they will test defenses a couple of times a year. To live with that and still decide to betray your country as well as giving China a step up in the AI race.
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