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The federal and Ontario governments have said repeatedly that they want to build a lithium battery industry. I worry we are arriving too late now that Sodium Ion is upon us but I am probably being too pessimistic.

None of that depends on this deposit specifically though. Canada already has lots of Lithium reserves. Much of it is in the same district as this. Of course this could end up being the biggest and truly be “the anchor” I suppose.

But still lots

Congrats on being the only person that apparently read the article before commenting.

I am sure you are thinking of BreX.

Other than Canadian investors and mining as a general theme, I cannot think of a single reason to link the two stories.

Also, BreX never claimed “inexhaustible” anything and was certainly not “the last time” for anything either.

Canada has more mining companies and mining investment than any country in the world. These kinds of discoveries are common-place. There have been many, many discoveries and success stories in the decades since BreX.

And this is just another Lithium deposit. Not the biggest in the world and probably not even the biggest in the James Bay district.

This is just an ad for a satellite exploration company. It is not even that big a deal.

From the article, “That potential would place Cisco among the largest hard-rock lithium deposits now being tracked in the James Bay region.”

So, not even the biggest in the area.

Also, Sodium Ion is about to make Lithium much less of a big deal.

Still great economically but hardly as world changing as the headline makes out.

Trade is essential. It is not really optional.

So, the trick is to find the best trading partners.

I would rather not trade with China. That said, China is currently a better bet than the United Staes.

China is more conservative and takes a longer view. They want stability. They offer consistency and determinism. The United States in contrast offers chaos.

Of course China will act in their self-interest. But at least they believe that a stable and dependable global trade system is in their best interest. They will be predictable. You can anticipate their interests and plan around them. As such, they make a far better trade partner than the US.

I totally understand the reaction. The objection makes sense.

The Distrowatch numbers are clearly nonsense. The biggest reason they are nonsense is because they feed into each other. “Oh hey, I have never heard of MX Linux, I wonder what that is”. Click. And nobody needs to be told what Ubuntu is.

But I full expect the traffic pattern at a website like OSI to be quite different. And what brings people to a license page to begin with?

Anyway, we can see from the results that the methodology is not as flawed as we fear. Because it closely aligns with other sources.

But again, I get the objection. We would have to take these conclusions with a grain of salt and agreement with other sources before basing any decisions on it.

Still, I found it interesting.

Thankfully, we have much better data on license popularity than we do for say programming language popularity, or Linux distribution use for that matter.

Fair enough I suppose. There is no guarantee that pageviews reflect usage. In this case though, the error is likely to skew even further towards popularity.

The OSI website is not Distrowatch. Why would a user be looking up a license?

I would say that “I would guess” that the OSI page view ranking mirrors real world popularity. I do not have to guess though as I can see that this is the case. So I will have to settle with saying I am not surprised.

I mean, I would not trust the results too far down the list but I fully expected the first 5 or so to align.

The day ARM announced their lawsuit against Qualcomm, I said that Qualcomm would switch to RISC-V on the high-end and I still expect them to do so.

Who wants to invest in home grown chip tech just to be told by ARM that they do not like your strategy or that they are not monetizing it enough? RISC-V offers total control over your tech investment strategy.

Qualcomm has not built out the ecosystem in that market yet. They can switch. And longer term, RISC-V is the clear market leader anyway. It will be the better developed ecosystem.

I would expect Snapdragon to stay ARM, but a new RISC-V family can grow beside it.

Apple is too heavily invested in ARM to switch. But most others designing and deploying their own silicon to desktop or server would be better off without ARM.

And RISC-V is already killing it in microcontrollers, automotive, and healthcare.

The place ARM is most entrenched is mobile. That is going to take longer. But if you look at ARMs licensing business model there, there will be a dozen RISC-V players playing the same game against them. That makes it very hard for ARM in the long run. It will be hard to outrun them all.

I think the novelty here is “actual” Amiga drivers in that you are running the Amiga code and not a reverse engineered implementation.

It would be so great if the world actually had the resolve to pull that off.

It is what should happen but I am not holding my breath.

The most important thing going on between the US and Canada (the countries in play here) is the renegotiation of CUSMA/USMCA. A savvy business type that knows the US playbook intimately is exactly who I would want at the helm.

This guy is not being brought up manage social programs or the environment. He is the US ambassador.