notaround1111

"What is the China Threat?"

That the CCP attitude towards privacy, civil liberties and the legal rights of its citizens gets exported to the rest of the world.

When is Europe going to finally recognize it has agency? Blaming the US for waves vaguely things while being mostly stagnant for decades isn't a good look, especially when you've been either an active participant or wholly complicit in those things.

If you like arresting your political adversaries I'd recommending moving to a country like Belarus. I hear they also like disappearing journalists who expose truth regardless of the political inconvenience.

ends-justifying-the-means thinking leads to very ugly things.

Korea ended in a draw b/c the soviet union was entering the conflict in support of mostly defeated NK/PRC forces and the fear was it could escalate into a nuclear war.

Vietnam is more interesting but I think it's very unlikely that a conflict with the PLA today would unfold in the same way.

Figuring out what type of conflict would force China into a nuclear exchange is probably the only question worth asking. would liberating Tibet and Xinjiang do that? Probably, but it also could be the case that Beijing wouldn't risk being vaporized themselves for a people and place they deem so inferior.

Fighting an adversary like the PLA in occupied areas like Tibet, Xinjiang, HK and maybe Taiwan someday plays to the strengths of the US armed forces. It would be an embarrassing disaster for the PRC that would very likely lead to a collapse of the party and force them into some type of hermit kingdom, like NK.

The US has been in near constant war for almost 100 years, having big parades with uniforms doesn't make up for that.

I've also noticed a large influx of new accounts posting low quality, politically charged comments in the past few months. You can find plenty of those in this thread.

I think its pretty likely that we're headed for an extinction type event for upvote based "anonymous" message boards like HN, reddit ... or at least a significant decline in their usefulness

Customers are also to blame, when comparing the costs of two services they tend to look at the cost of an instance hour, or lambda execution and often don't look at transfer costs.

Even if a cloud provider had competitive transfer costs they likely wouldn't attract any new customers and would have less margin left over to subsidize the main cost customers look at, $ per instance hour.

The less attention is paid to transfer costs the better for AWS/GCP/Azure. Why hasn't a spot-market for transfer been introduced? Same reason why I can't sell my unused home internet bandwidth to my neighbors, the money is in controlling the means of transportation/communication and the providers want to keep as tight a control on that as possible.

> arguing that disclosing the records would violate laws that prohibit the transfer of data potentially containing state secrets to foreign entities.

If there is fraud its likely state sponsored fraud, I have a hard time imagining another reason to explain this type of position; open to hearing other ideas. Honestly it's quite brilliant, instead of selling bonds just list another company in the west and skim money off the capital raised there.

looks like its around 40% according to the world bank (https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NV.IND.TOTL.ZS?location...) which is probably based on data provided by the CCP. which kinda makes fact-checking data a fool-errand anyways.