A great example of this is the US sanctioning Chinese companies forcing them to make a better version of corning/gorilla glass known as Kunlun.
Where they haven’t made many inroads is software. Unfortunately, US tech companies still dominate the world. Hoping this will end sooner than later.
For real, Russia is calling with a word for OP.
You are correct 1.4 billion. Thank you.
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This is very impractical for a population of 3 billion people. Luckily, China has access to a lot of fresh water.
The reason I mention this is someone was suggesting they could use desalinization plants on the West Coast of the US to help with fresh water. Providing some supplemental water is one thing, but providing the majority of water is extremely problematic in not just energy usage, but also the incredible amount of salt that is produced.
That is just one plant that produces almost half of what a country of 3 billion uses. That is a lot of salt.
Once again that is per day which would be just under 42 million tons in one year. To put that in perspective, it is about 7 great pyramids.
This is just one desalinization plant. Producing fresh water from saltwater has this unfortunate and insurmountable side effect. Dumping back into the ocean is the most realistic solution, but it severely damages the ecosystem.
Yeah, I like fresh water and salt for sure. The issue is that would be 115,000 tons of salt per day. It becomes a problem dumping it back into the ocean and storing it is expensive.
3 million tons of fresh water
35 kg of salt per ton of sea water. That means there are 105 million kg of salt or about 115,000 tons of salt. That is a lot of salt.
What could possibly go wrong.
That was how they used to do things, and I am sure there may be some people who still operate like this.
Modern bookies use juice which amounts to small fees to make profit, balance the books by encouraging betting on both sides, hedge their bets by passing on risk to larger bookies and/or betting sites, and of course ban players if they are winning too much.
The deregulated nature of this form of gambling results in a lot of corruption and predictive betting is even more problematic.
The goal is engagement. If you don’t understand drawing as many players on both sides of the bet is the most profitable for them then you must not understand how this really works.
You must be operating under some profound misconceptions of what modern bookies for sports betting do.
That is some serious spin on a garbage gambling system that is easily manipulated. Like sports betting the goal is to try and get both sides to bet as evenly as possible and then take your cut off the top.
These markets are useful to take money from rubes and all your spin on their usefulness amounts to an endorsement that there is some value if you look hard enough. Hint: there isn’t.
The physical discomfort lasts 2-3 days so probably three bottles if you are trying to stay intoxicated. This is NOT recommended and will likely do permanent damage to your liver because Nyquil is actually a cocktail of multiple drugs that can and will build up in your system.
It is more nefarious than that. It looks like a big oil crash is coming that is going to devastate Asia, Australia, and Europe. Trump may be an idiot and an ass to boot but he is pulling all the levers to make oil tycoons very very wealthy in the future.
No distractions, I am trying to drive here!
Take a tip from Nintendo marketing.
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Trying so hard to be a troll it hurts I guess. Cheers!
Sorry, I meant for big businesses like Microsoft and then the major cloud providers. I do hope the world wises up and develops their own solutions in the future. US companies are not to be trusted.