What other fair measure is there? Unless you expect China to somehow reduce its population to US levels, per-capital is the only way to do it.

And let's not forget that a lot of those emissions are things made for American companies and sold to Americans.

Because China's population is 1.4 billion people.

What's more important is the rate of change. Every country goes along a curve where emissions increase, peak, and then drop. China was on the up slope as it industrialized, and is now starting on the down slope. The peak was far, far below where the US and Europe peaked per capita, the only reasonable measure unless you think their One Child policy was a good idea.

The rate at which China is installing renewables and storage is staggering. Just the newly installed renewable capacity from 2025 produced as much electrical energy as the whole of Germany consumed that year. Just the new stuff, and this year they are on track for it to be even more. They are adding more than a Germany sized amount of renewable generation to the grid, PER YEAR, and accelerating.

If Europe and the US were doing that too we would be in a much better position regarding climate change. It would doubtless be a huge boon for those economies as well.

China's per-capital emissions are falling now.

The US peaked around 21.5t in the 1970s. China peaked at around 14.5t in 2025.

I suppose it's possible China will grow again in future, but it's looking unlikely given the amount of renewable generation and storage they are installing. The war with Iran has helped that too.

There are issues with the quality of Nintendo's emulators too. They just aren't that good, and actually seem to have got worse over time as they are ported to new consoles.

It's kind of crazy that you even have this problem in 2026.

In Europe carriers are generally required to carry each other's traffic, with fair and reasonable pricing. That way consumers have signal almost everywhere, regardless of what network they are on. They are required to do international roaming at cost as well, so in practice most providers just offer it to consumers for free. Your phone just works, everywhere.

In fact, China's per-person emissions peaked at a fraction of the US ones, and the European ones. They were never, and will never be as bad as us.

The sad part is we could be boosting out economies by making this stuff. Yeah it's hard to compete with China's manufacturing, but we have national security BS to help with that.

It's bad when your universal character encoding scheme requires you to select the right font to fix its shortcomings.

It kinda did. Stallman used to have a Chinese laptop which had a MIPS CPU. I think most, if not all of it, was made in China. Certainly the CPU and boot ROM were, which is what he cared about.

That was back in the 2000s. A decade ago there were Chinese manufacturers making licensed AMD CPUs, with a few tweaks to remove the US designed hardware random number generator and replace it with a Chinese one. Performance wasn't as good due to lack of cutting edge fabs, but it ran x86 code well enough for a lot of people.

Now that Chinese fabs are coming up to speed it is getting more viable to produce high end devices entirely domestically. Fast RAM was another big piece of the puzzle.

Not just when it isn't working properly. They will have to have someone adjust the fridges all day, every day.

In Europe they pay a spot price for electricity that varies with demand and availability. Consumers pay a flat rate, but large businesses can save huge amounts of money by reducing demand when electricity is expensive, and increasing it when electricity is cheap.

So they have their fridges follow the price, while keeping them within the legal limits. If electricity is cheap they might drop an extra degree or two, then coast through the expensive periods.

Chances are they save far more than these incidents have cost them, and they will be insured, so they will not be air gapping anything. They will try to secure it and continue saving money.

He's just another example of a billionaire who thinks he is a genius when it's obvious to everyone else that he was just in the right place at the right time. Nvidia has some good engineers, and lately has benefited from the AI boom. That wasn't some master plan on his part.

It's not hard to understand. One of the biggest risks to human, historically, has been starvation, so we evolved to avoid that as much as possible. The body has powerful mechanisms to make us eat, and to make us think about eating.

The problem is that now we have a lot of highly processed food, and "natural" food is less nutritious than it used to be even just decades ago. Once the body calibrates to the processed stuff, and the natural stuff doesn't offer much nutrition, as soon as someone tries to eat more healthily their body goes into starvation mode and does everything it can to resist. Dieting becomes extremely difficult, and resetting the calibration seems to be almost impossible without GLP-1 drugs.

Not like this. Even purely "natural" food is less nutritious now.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/a...
https://www.independent.co.uk/...

We enshittified food and this is the result.

Unicode was a bit of a disaster for Chinese though, because they tried to merge it with Japanese and Korean.

I don't think it matters that RISC V originated from the US though, as long as there are no licencing fees and no intellectual property claims on it.

Huawei has a track record of coming in and becoming a major force in foreign tech, like enterprise network hardware, cellular, WiFi, and so on. It all depends on the licencing, and the Chinese government is probably keen on it as well because it means the US can't cut them off from such things without completely screwing themselves as well. A kind of mutually assured destruction.