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An Australian economist has argued China has “hoodwinked” the world on net zero in what he acknowledges could be seen as a “controversial” take.

Leith Van Onselen, chief economist at the MB Fund and MB Super and co-founder of MacroBusiness, told 4BC host Mike Jeffreys that while Australia and other countries are making sacrifices for the good of the planet, the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitter is not, and therefore “we’re basically shooting ourselves in the foot”.

“I’d argue China is the largest beneficiary of the West’s net zero policies,” Mr Van Onselen said on the radio show.

“It’s not abiding by the same rules and what we’re effectively doing is, while we’re reducing our carbon footprints through these sorts of policies and giving us expensive energy and shutting down manufacturing and becoming less diversified economies, China is simply expanding its carbon output and expanding its manufacturing sector at our expense.

“The world’s not getting cleaner. We’re just shifting the pollution away from us, to China, and it’s actually less regulated in China.”

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He referred to a Reuters report from August that found China had boosted domestic coal production and imports to record highs.

It said production from China’s mines hit a seasonal record of 390 million tonnes in July 2024, up from 378 million in the same month a year earlier, and imports surged to a seasonal record of 296 million tonnes in the first seven months from 261 million tonnes in 2023.

Mr Van Onselen concluded: “I think we can all agree we’d like to have a cleaner planet but the whole idea of net zero is completely impossible or ridiculous if China is not involved.

“If we’re going to make sacrifices, China has to make sacrifices.”

Several businesses from day cares to grocery stores and hair salons closed on Monday across the US in a loosely organised day of protest against President Donald Trump's immigration policies.

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Hello! Migrated over to Lemmy. I've noticed in the past few weeks a lot of posts/comments about protests, criticizing Nazis and Elon being censored/removed. This was all magnified in the past few hours as /r/whitepeopletwitter was banned tonight to satisfy fElon.

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and we all sucked the sand off each others toes?

So I was taking my extended family to our bi-weekly Italian restaurant outing. I think we were being good customers. We each ordered 1-3 dishes each, various sides, and 1/2 a dessert per person. I ordered loud enough that the waiter could hear me well. Then I said "that's it, we're done". He said "thank you", but only gave half a smile to us before sending our order to the kitchen. I just feel that I'm owed more respect than that after patronising his owner's business helping him have a job.

To be a really nice customer, we had him separate the bills, because we know that's simpler than just us splitting it ourselves.

So ungrateful.

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After completing the first two chapters of Alan Wake 2, i decided to take a quick break before starting the DLC (i believe they start in the story, but i'm not 100% sure). I decided to take a break by playing Assassin's Creed Rogue. This isn't the best well crafted AC game in my opinion, but i have a soft spot for it because it was the first AC game i bought myself. I was really wanting Unity, but didn't have a PS4. So instead younger me went to my local walmart to buy a PS3 copy of the Sims 3, and got talked down by my parents because they weren't sure exactly how raunchy the sims could be and wanted to do their research first. So they ended up letting me buy this instead because they knew that i could "responsibly consume Assassin's Creed".

This game uses the same engine as Black Flag, and shares a lot of assets. It also ties the Kenway Saga too Unity in a fun way that i won't spoil. It does have an air of being hastily put together though, which is especially evident on 4K resolution. I keep having an issue with an enemy type called Stalkers, and some of them are in dresses. and i've been having an issue where they all die legs up in the air, and concerningly their entire body is plainly missing under the dress. I also feel like the collision is a bit jankier than Black Flags. I keep feeling like i get caught on things.

Despite these bugs though, the world is really pretty. Unity's will probably be one of my favorites for a while, but this one takes place in the northern Atlantic (a setting i wish was explored more because i love the cold more than tropics) with ice and snow in some places:

It makes for a really pretty setting that is fun to explore. I don't feel like i've ever seen a game with a setting like this. Maybe Assassin's Creed 3, but i feel like i remember that staying far warmer for the most part and staying out of the arctic.

The game also sees a return of one of my favorite features in Black Flag: The fish pond. This pond is so pretty, i really like just standing and looking at it whenever i pass by.

The game has a few fun moments too it as well. There's a moment where you're at a party and there's fireworks going off. all the guests there are commenting on it. I've seen fire works in real life, but even i stood around admiring them lol.

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Not sure how I feel about the gold vs production mechanic but the rest sounds really cool.

It's the same error if I try VANILLA or GAPPS

[SOLUTION] It works after you enter a password using "lxpolkit".

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DeepSeek is said to have access to tens of thousands of GPU accelerators for the development of its own AI models, including H100 GPUs, which fall under the US export bans. The reported costs of just under 5.6 million US dollars for DeepSeek v3 probably only represent a small part of the total bill.

In the paper on the V3 model, DeepSeek writes of a comparatively small data center with 2048 H800 accelerators from Nvidia. The company calculates hypothetical rental costs of 2 US dollars per hour and H800 GPU. With a total of just under 2.8 million computing hours (distributed across 2048 GPUs), this comes to 5.6 million US dollars.

However, the developers themselves cite a caveat: "Please note that the above costs only include the official training of DeepSeek-V3 and not the costs associated with previous research and ablation experiments on architectures, algorithms or data."

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Semianalysis has looked at a realistic cost breakdown. According to the analysts, DeepSeek has access to about 60,000 Nvidia accelerators through its parent company High-Flyer: 10,000 A100s from the Ampere generation before the US export restrictions came into effect, 10,000 H100s from the gray market, 10,000 H800s customized for China, and 30,000 H20s that Nvidia launched after more recent export restrictions.

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Semianalysis calculates that the servers required for the 60,000 GPUs cost around 1.6 billion US dollars. The operating costs are on top of that. This does not include the salaries of the development teams.

According to DeepSeek, 96 percent of the 5.6 million US dollars quoted is for pre-training. This involves training the final underlying model. The paper ignores the previous development effort, including all the innovations incorporated into DeepSeek V2.

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