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Interesting idea.

Have you thought about integrating support for timecode? Dante support also might bring your software to professional venues.

What is sadly ironic is that every manufacturing industry this administration wants back in the US- the US spent decades getting rid of those exact industries in order to focus on higher wage, higher skill roles in services, etc.

That said, the US should never have gotten rid of industries that are critical for defense such as semiconductor manufacturing and ship building among others. That those industries left the US to go to Japan and then Korea and then now China- those were terrible mistakes that were made.

That Uzabase ownership of Quartz never made sense. What a clueless decision. Buy an ad-based media property and change it to subscription- of course you'll make less with a major change in the business model.

if all you want is a denoise plugin, you shouldnt be using a general purpose AI- you should be using a specific tool like DxO PureRAW

Toyota has designed and built that vehicle for that SEA market. Sure could it sell in the US? To some who want that, but the US is over-served for pickup trucks (granted not at that Hilux Champ price point.)

Toyota has spent a lot of money to build the Tacoma and Tundra in the US because Americans want vehicles built in America (plus the chicken tax.) There's little reason to import the Hilux Champ, especially now in light of the additional US tariffs not to mention that it would not pass all of the required regulations that the US has.

> It doesn't feel right.

Who would you have as CEO?

Nikon has just released a powered zoom lens. So hopefully there will be more of these in the future.

https://www.nikon.com/company/news/2025/0213_imaging_02.html

for 3 and 4 the native apps support those formats but you may be happier with VLC which is available for iOS as well.

The mistake was for the expenses to be so high. It's because she previously worked at corporate channels that had those positions so she hired for those roles without understanding that a new channel in a crowded segment (cooking) will take many years to build an audience.

If she had done more of the work herself, it may have meant longer time between each video but more potential for the channel to be profitable.

Profitable channels, and there's not that many of them, usually take many years to get to profitability- or some semblance of being able to live off YT. Without that patience and keeping costs down while income is low, is a recipe for an unprofitable channel.

Time and time again we see the US moving production of some key product or material overseas only to regret that decision a number of years later. It happens over and over again.

Market forces are great, but should be ignored in key sectors that are important for national security. That goes for rare earth minerals or shipbuilding or key supplies for munitions or PPE that we needed during the pandemic, (etc.)

In this case, semiconductors are a segment which Japan was leading back in the 80s. And Japanese inputs have been continuously critical for even today's leading edge semis from TSMC as well as for others like from Samsung or AMD.

So if the Japanese govt. is going to 'bet' on anything, then betting on a segment where Japanese inputs are critical, and where Japanese companies had led the world previously, is a safer bet than a segment where there is no history or inputs.

> They are blocked because they don’t censor content.

These platforms certainly do censor content. They have large teams globally that do just that.

Reciprocity is key. Google and Facebook and most Western web services are blocked in China.

If that is the case, then there should be no complaint with blocking Bytedance/other Chinese apps in the West.

Great storytelling. I worked in open source for a decade (at Mozilla during the rise of Firefox) and Mozilla hired many from their OSS contributions to Firefox. Its not an easy path, and it pays to specialize in an important niche, but it can be done. Finding orgs that support remote work even when management changes- that's the challenge.

Token ring networks! So glad we moved on from that.

Not Japan, fwiw. Japan has been very reasonable for real estate for decades. We're now seeing inflation in major metro areas but outside of that, it's very reasonable.

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Levine being at Bloomberg (which is a central org in finance media) is important. That finance media can support a Levine and his salary is also important.

Until there are significant financial damages associated with each of these breaches, companies just won't invest enough to secure the information. These sorts of breaches should be existential to the company- they should never happen. And yet because the penalties are almost nothing, companies just are not incentivized to secure the data appropriately.

If a breach meant the firing of the CEO and the CTO and the board, then you'd know that companies would spend a lot more on security and privacy.

As someone who spent 5 years in China pre-pandemic, China is a threat to many nations due to their growth. The Chinese govt. is specifically targeting key markets (EVs, solar, battery tech, steel, semiconductors) and China makes much more of those items that can be used internally in China. So China ends up driving any non-Chinese battery or solar panel manufacturer out of business.

If Chinese EVs were to be sold widely in the US, they would be less than half the cost of any Western-made EV and would take over the EV market. A future where Chinese companies own the EV market in the US with all of the American user data going back to servers in China- that's just not a future the US govt. wants- no govt. (outside of China's own) should want that.

Then there's the whole Fentanyl epidemic in the US and elsewhere. That is largely due to Chinese chemical manufacturers who are selling the chemicals to Mexico and then those drugs are smuggled into the US. There are many to blame here but the US has been pushing China to ban the sale of these chemicals outside of China for a long time without agreement. China realizes this is important to the US and it's being used as a key trade issue.

"doubling down on liberal democracy" got us to where we are now wrt China. China doesn't respond to liberal democracy. They only respond to force or trade embargos, or tariffs. That's what was learned as Xi decided to become dictator for life.

Certik is widely used in the blockchain industry for smart contract audit/verification.

A lot depends on where you ski. If you're skiing in the Northeast US, where conditions are often icy, then yes tuning matters a great deal. If you race, or want precision in your turns, then tuning is important.

If you're a powder hound in Utah or Niseko, then it matters a lot less.

Either _that_ is the joke for Altman or there are lot of Johansson fans at OpenAI.

Bloomberg's Odd Lots Podcast had an ex-CIA officer, Phil Houston, on in April of 2024. He was promoting a new book but he had a lot of great advice for anyone to use regarding 'tells' when people are lying. Murati was clearly lying- that's obvious then and now.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/an-ex-cia-officer-expl...

Chip War is good.

Acquired Podcast has done a great TSMC deep dive.

https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/tsmc

Asianometry has done a lot of semicon videos with lots of ASML EUV videos.

https://www.youtube.com/@Asianometry

They should never have agreed to holding the Hugos in China.

Those 3 are not that important. You need either a significant high tech manufacturing industry (US post-war, Japan, Korea, Taiwan are all significant manufacturing nations), you need significant capital (debatable for UK), you need talent (UK has no history of chip manufacturing), etc.

Asianometry has a number of explainer videos on TSMC. I recommend them:

https://www.asianometry.com/p/tsmc-briefly-explained