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This is most definitely not the case in the late 60s. The Soviets very much wanted to land on the moon up until the Apollo landing.
The cuts to the Soviet space program came after.
Also, the US were there under UNSC resolution. Not so much for the PRC.
Sometimes it isn’t a grand mainstream media conspiracy.
For about a year governments around the world were willing to do _anything_ to get past Covid ASAP. To ignore that and chalk this up to a lazy conspiracy theory has less than zero merit.
It was called horse medicine because the unfortunate people that fell for the kooks resorted to vet sources for it because doctors correctly refused.
I can’t believe the revisionist history on this.
We obviously don’t know either way, but no massive outages so far doesn’t mean Twitter is still operating smoothly.
I had no idea it was from AEI!
Nobody comes close to Netflix in video delivery and client robustness.
I’d say Netflix is many years ahead of its competitors in terms of technology.
At my current job, this was done before I was involved. It isn’t a deal breaker, but it throws away one of the best features of GraphQL.
In the end you just have every client implement the rules that should have been in an API tier (if they are competent), or worse no validation that gets you a giant mess.