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I mean if you want to start your own bank and deal with compliance then sure do that! I don't see your point here, there is no sensible alternative to this problem.

Sure the costs for any fintech using these products are the same, but they can offer a million different types of products which make them unique.

Ideally settlement peering would exist for everyone. Cloudflare, like every other sane provider prefers IX routes over PNI since it's less expensive for everyone involved. There really shouldn't be a discussion about whether peering should be settlement free or not.

This isn't technically correct. I believe on the security warning page you can type "thisisunsafe" (just blindly do it) and it'll let you through.

At the very least this works for bypassing HSTS.

The two are equivalent.

I think Google shipped another underbaked product here. They have E2EE implemented for Chrome sync data already. They should have just used that rather than going with whatever system they decided. Adding Google Authenticator to the Chrome Password Manager is probably much more useful than having it as a standalone app.

Arguing that the relationship is inherently completely asymmetric isn't really true either. Chinese companies can't really just create a single website that serves both western and Chinese customers. While nothing legally is stopping them, doing this is just going give your western customers a bad time overall, since content delivery across the Chinese border is all but impossible at any reasonable speed. TikTok is an American company, fully owned by Bytedance yes, but they went through incorporating in America and complying with all local laws to do so.

How many Chinese made websites do you use? Unless you're a Chinese immigrant, TikTok is almost certainly the only one. You might use e-commerce websites like AliExpress, but, again, AliExpress is a specially made website that was designed to follow foreign regulation. Chinese companies don't generally operate in other countries. The only reason TikTok is so popular is because they bought their way into the western market with millions of dollars with the acquisition of musical.ly. You have not shown any empirical evidence of any Chinese tech company actually being successful in the west, that hasn't just bought out some American competitor.

Also, nothing is requiring you to setup servers in China to serve your Chinese audience, and in fact it's almost certainly much more expensive to do that, not just for an ICP license but for bandwidth as well. You can serve your Chinese audience well with servers in Japan, Korea, Hong Kong (for now), or other East Asian countries and as long as you follow Chinese laws, the GFW won't block you.

Sure, following Chinese laws is hard and goes against a lot of free speech principles, but at the end of the day the laws are enforced reasonably uniformly. Banning TikTok or Chinese companies in general just shows that Americans can't handle foreign competition. Instead I believe that a better solution would be to simply create uniformly enforced laws that create federal data processing regulation ... like Europe has already done with the GDPR ...

China bans western websites because they don't follow China's censorship requirements. Apple services exist in China, why isn't Apple a national security threat? They're the richest tech company on the planet, and based in the US.

Sure, I would probably trust Cogent over Comcast, but the current state of the VPN market seems very stagnant in actually diverse network routing.

It's really hard to recommend a VPN for people who are actually privacy conscious simply because you're moving your data to a handful of transit providers that aren't put under nearly as much scrutiny as a normal consumer ISP.

If you're really concerned, just have a CI job that rebuilds and tests with newer base image versions.

As a person who actually plays the game on a M1 Pro MacBook running in x86 emulation, which is not supported by kernel mode drivers, I can tell you with absolute certainty (unless of course Riot has found an exploit that allows installation of unsigned system drivers), that my computer has no non-apple drivers installed.

> So why fool around pretending to maintain it? All they do is merge drivers.

Why aren't they maintaining it? All they're doing is maintaining it!

> Those aren't analogous companies at all. Social media companies don't just deliver content, they promote specific content and optimize thier platforms to increase engagement.

A school investigates all threats equally regardless of how they are communicated. Whether they are mailed, sent via SMS, called in or sent on social media should not matter.

Some of the things in the lawsuit are just stupid like arguing that social media causes them to need to do investigations into threats and such. You wouldn't be suing the USPS or AT&T for allowing the same thing, would you? Sure these aren't the same thing as social media, but whether a duty of care exists should be a relatively similar analysis.

For example, a holding company can buy your company and do ... absolutely nothing, just treating it as an investment. This happens a lot too. Off the top of my head, AMC was once owned by Wanda Group based out of Dalian, Liaoning, China. Yet I'm sure that nobody who worked for AMC could tell, or even knew this was the case.

Personally, I think apple has wanted to switch to USB-C for a while on iPhone. They waited until the EU actually passed legislation so they could find a person to point fingers at when their customers complained about accessories breaking compatibility.