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He wasn’t stuck : his lawyers would contact the State Department and arrange a surrender. There is also the case of limited validity to return to the US. He chose to apply for asylum still and exiled himself.

I am not making the case one way or the other because https everywhere was beneficial. But he signed up for a security clearance and knew what his obligations were (eg allegiance to the US)

That’s true

Yes so his default option was to return to the US and face arrest so he applied for asylum (as a US citizen still)

He wasn’t stateless. Stateless means no country recognizes you as a citizen. He just faced arrest if he returned. Same as any other fugitive. People seeking asylum still have a country and citizenship. Also he wasn’t facing treason charges. He was charged under the Espionage Act and with theft of government property. There were others in similar situations that faced up to 45 months in prison and Eric Holder was willing to make a deal in 2015.

He basically is on self imposed exile in Russia.

I get it I didn’t leak national security information but it doesn’t change the fact that he wasn’t stateless. That’s the part I was referring to

He actually fled the US before the leaks became public to Hong Kong but it was a calculated risk because Hong Kong has extradition treaty with the US. So he was fleeing already.

He could have returned to the US however he would have most certainly faced arrest. So he asked and was granted temporary asylum in Russia. If my passport is voided for whatever reason then I am returning to the US. I am still a citizen and so was he.

But naturally he didn’t want to be arrested so by definition became a fugitive.

People became ambivalent. Snowden fled eventually to Russia. Some people viewed him less relevant over time as the archive merely trickled out. When he fled to Russia, he looked less like a martyr and more like a national security information leaker or spy like Robert

A lot of what sounded extraordinary in 2013 is now baked into everyday discussion like metadata and mass surveillance. He is also available less for interviews because he is in Russia.

Basically bigger fish to fry

This isn’t the gotcha you think it is. They do.

Ok that’s pretty creative to say “America did it 200 years ago” into a permanent license to copy and steal. Hell of a standard

Huh? Patent systems go back hundreds of years! Yes nobody owns the idea of the lathe. We need to get past that. But for centuries, societies have recognized that someone who spends time and money developing a particular invention or manufacturing process can have legit rights to it

This is all a bit of a strawman. Lathe technology as a concept isn’t being disputed as stolen. Tariffs don’t fix the copying problem. My point is the country in general has a policy of copying and stealing

I agree some policy choices were made to get us in this situation. Biden largely left the first Trump era tariffs in place. The disagreements are on the broadness of them

how does a small US manufacturer compete when a foreign producer can duplicate 70–80% of the functional product at a fraction of the cost?

That’s my point

I don’t think it’s completely fine to steal others technologies and products no. There are ways to be competitive and in an ethical manner

Yes, I agree that China can copy Sherline’s IP and it’s a form of theft. An estimated 70-80% of the parts can probably be made in China. If you would like a breakdown I can provide it.

Sherline, for example, specifies spindle nose runout of 0.0005 inch or less and spindle end play around 0.0002 inch or less, using two 20-mm ball bearings with adjustable preload. That’s only about 13 µm runout. A Chinese factory can absolutely manufacture that.

Manufacturers such as SIEG took conventional lathe architecture and mass-produced it.

There is nothing original going on there lots of copying

How much is because of Chinese clones/stealing of IP thus making manufacturing in the US cost prohibitive?

Controlled narratives

I had access to an invite only forum I don’t remember the name of but got access to it by word of mouth. It had Xbox games, movies, everything. No torrent, direct download. This was 2003-2004 timeframe. I eventually stopped using it but it was the best

Yes and no. For example if you are doing Azure, technically Azure can see tenant traffic I believe and you need to use both a Platform Key and CMK for data rest. VMs need encryption at host turned on too.

There is nothing to say that a determined adversary may still get at your data so it needs to stay in country.

Typically 300 miles geographically but could be hard in some Gulf States

DDS is terrible.

So like Open Mission Systems (OMS)? https://www.vdl.afrl.af.mil/programs/oam/OMS_Marketing.pdf

Are any of these truly alternatives? MinIO is built for scale and not small projects. Ceph is maybe closest.

> If you have YARD installed, and you install this gem, then YARD will load and run whatever is in ./script.rb from inside the gem.

How is that not a security issue in of itself?

XEP-0198 is great for session management. But, Android and iOS don’t really want apps maintaining persistent sockets. WhatsApp solves this by leveraging the push infrastructure when the app is suspended.

Agree this is a broad statement for any use of AI for any purpose. Open ended prompts / requests are bound to lead to misleading results, hallucinated responses, waste of tokens, etc

This is a different argument now. While better transit /may/ reduce uninsured driving, that doesn’t make urban planning the root cause of it.

Also, stealing food because you are hungry isn’t analogous to driving uninsured or justifiable for stealing food. Quite the leap! Really? No one does that.

The problem with that analogy is people aren’t machines. They’re making choices.

Bad city design can make things harder, sure. It still doesn’t remove personal responsibility for choosing to drive illegally.

You are making excuses.