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Defender does not have to win every time. That is what defense in depth is all about. Multiple lines of defense.

NSA banking EternalBlue was the reason for Wannacry ransomware proliferation, which killed people due to downtime of hospital systems.

Profit as intended means producer surplus. Economic theory predicts producer surplus reaching 0, while consumer surplus getting maximized. That is what competition does. It does tell everything about markets. This does not happen because of IP doctrines, which distorts competition. And advertising, which causes information asymmetries.

The parliament can block legislation indefinitely.

DMA, like any other regulation that preceded it, was severely lobbied down. It happened in spite of EU. There is too great of a democratic consensus for it to be completely ignored. Do not get this wrong.

The solution is complete zero trust and distrusting the network in organizations. You should treat the internal network as external -- hostile. Google does this. They were the first ones to widely adopt zero trust with BeyondCorp and there has not been a Google internal organizational breach since Aurora (which made them adopt BeyondCorp, what they call zero trust).

You have completely managed endpoints, strong hardening of the endpoint and complete inventorization of all the resources in the organization. You have certificates installed onto each device. You have an ACL engine that determines whether a user should get access to a particular resource. You can use deterministic lists and also incorporate heuristics to detect anomalies (working hours, etc). All Google internal apps are internet-facing. You can open them, get redirected to the SSO portal. Come and do try to get in. You will not.

Many of these security problems are solved. You just need to implement the solutions.

Oil, as any energy, has multiplier effects. That 200B USD is responsible for major part of the 100T USD.

Sal Khan in the past has made his position clear that he supports austerity and private schools in the United States. This, if anything, is continuation of the con he always propelled. Edtech will replace teachers has been a talking point for a decade now. Too bad, there's no reliable evidence it improves learning outcomes. There is not any evidence for the latest "Microsoft figured out how to mine the essence of your child"-migo, either.

Should have weathered the storm and realized LLM craze is at its peak, and will die down. We are at Juicero juicing phase. Instead, they decided to kill their brand value.

Concrete lasts longer. Concrete also absorbs CO2 from air. In its lifetime, it is expected to absorb all the CO2 emissions.

Emissions do not really matter for a material that can last hundreds of years. Genociding old growth forests in Europe for biomass "renewable" energy, though. That's a problem.

As they can. It is still largely a developing country with half the population in poverty. If we are to take United States' historic emissions and equalize it to per capita, China can pollute at current rate till death of universe. This inconsequential of an argument you are making. Green colonialism is not desirable.

Americans also consume way more per capita than Europeans. For future trade deal deliberations, EU must demand US pay for its pollution. Carbon credits, but not for goods, but individuals. Tax the carbon of imports, too.

It's astonishing how much impunity US gets on not doing anything of value in regards to the Climate crisis. China leads in solar rollout, China leads in EVs. China leads in HSR. EU leads in building codes/insulation/heat pump adoption (you can't import most of the heat pumps into US because uhh scary refrigerant is being used!).

There was no "Crisis". Market cost structure changed. So did the incentives. The market balanced itself.

Those talk that about "disinformation" do so to assume some moral high-ground. The reasonable ones assume all the information out there is hostile and seeks to influence them. Because that's precisely how human interaction works. It's for the individual to discern the quality of information.

The patronizing attitude towards philosophy of epistemology is truly baffling. As if one is able to make such vast statements.

By mainstream media losing credibility in an online age and being unable to reinvent itself, thus grasping for correct-sounding thought terminating cliches such as "disinformation is on the rise", with no substantiation?

And, published by the outlet that has claimed China is near about collapsing just soon since 1990. The most credible MSM outlet there is.

No, I am not being attacked. Issue is widespread.

More: https://github.com/jsdelivr/jsdelivr/issues/18565

And arguably U.S. has more protectionist trade policy than EU. It is in a trade war with China, it has always historically preferenced American auto makers (chicken tax) and it even goes so far as to discriminate its dear allies with Inflation Reduction Act.

Not to speak of "Buy American" laws which there's multiple (granted EU is "granted" "American" status under these laws -- but that can change at any time).

Europe's protectionism is mainly in foodstocks. And that protectionism is in part motivated by real reasons -- that of food safety (American cows injected by Bovine somatotropin, a harmful to humans, growth hormone, etc) or heritage (protected geographical status).

Conversely, Europe has a very liberal taxation regime for American corpos. That's why Ireland is the tax haven it is (same for Luxembourg and some others).

Business models do not have by their own virtue validity. They are only as valid as they are societally useful (and) as a side-effect produce economic value. Which can either be captured privately, or publically or on the consumer side (consumer surplus).

Not allowing iPadOS to be a full fledged OS, when it literally can (an iPad is just a Macbook Air with no keyboard at this point) is intentional attempt to reduce consumer surplus. The state can intervene to limit such technically unjustified attempts. And it should. And it does (thankfully).

That is not copyright but a geographical trademark. And trademarks are for the protection of consumers. Champagne is a type of sparkling wine made in the region of Champagne, France. If it isn't made in Champagne, France it, by definition, is not champagne. It's sparkling wine.

And this almost always comes with reduction in quality. A premium product gets watered down and Walmartified. Happens with cheeses or any other fancy foodstock.

Refusal of United States to recognize European geographical quality marks was one of the reasons why TTIP trade agreement failed (that together with United States wanting Europe to severely reform its legal base for the betterment of American corporations).

No. Huawei gear is not allowed in US telcos because American telco kit suppliers lobbied for such a ban.

American crusade against Huawei happened the same year Huawei broke the record for most phones sold, surpassing Apple.

Great news. Concrete industry continues to excel in its innovation, contrary to wood construction industry. Which only excels in its innovation of continuing tree genocide. The novelty is the continuation of unsustainable practices. Concrete absorbs CO2 from air. In its lifecycle, it is expected to reabsorb all CO2 associated with its emissions. If you can create carbon neutral cement, this means that concrete construction is carbon negative.

Journalistic objectivity is not real and has never existed.

It is much better when a journalistic outlet acknowledges its plausible biases and lets the reader make up their own mind. This ideal gets further stretched with "citizens journalism" where normies do their own journalism. You expect to some system to emerge that allows for audiences to converge on the "truth".

Anyone that espouses these idealistic ideals of "objectivism" has drank the koolaid. And of course, The Objectivity always somehow accidentally converges to the status quo. Is it because the status quo is? Unlikely.

It's ironic. In 90s U.S. purposefully sabotaged Japanese chip industry with tariffs and other coercive measures. Today, a Japanese company buys out a poster-child of American industrial capacity.

What use are chip factories in the United States when you cannot sell them to the largest market of chips that only will become even more larger as Chinese middle class and their consumption grows?

Related shenanigans: KPMG is the leading green-washer

https://www.icij.org/investigations/deforestation-inc/audit-...

And Bell Labs existed mainly because of the taxation system of US. They needed to do R&D spend to use as a tax write-off. That's why the most productive years of American tech were the years with highest rates of taxation.

Pretty much proof that OSS != automatically more secure. And proof that OSS projects can get backdoored. See this for more ideas on this issue: https://seirdy.one/posts/2022/02/02/floss-security/

AMD has 1.5x larger market cap than Intel. All in 7 or so years where it was near bankruptcy. During AMD's weakness, Intel had near monopoly position on chips. It racked up all the cash it could. It hasn't innovated ever since. Chiplets came from AMD, 6 cores as minimum standard came from AMD (Intel sold 4 core entry CPUs well into Zen era because that's all you need!). Affordable motherboards (together with partners) and strong commitment to socket longevity came from AMD (AM4 is still supported and new products with 5600x3d are still released). In reference, Intel before AMD's Zen would release a new socket for each yearly release.

And in fabs, Intel just isn't nowhere close. How's the 12nm++++++++++++ going? China is 5.2B of AMD's sales (2022). That's 65% of U.S.' with enormous growth potential as Chinese middle class gets richer. Europe is 1.77B of AMD's revenue. How does the capex investment equation play out when your 5.5B of sales just disappears into thin air?

China is banning Intel and AMD chips from their gov't use. When they catch up with tsmc in 7nm, they'll likely make an import ban on all U.S. chips. Who then will AMD and Intel sell to? Aging European population? Africa as it develops? Africans are likely to buy Chinese chips, seeing for all the material infrastructure China invests in.

Intel and AMD will only sell to American-alligned countries, which are declining. Seizing the company and milking till it runs dry is the right move.

Intel had all the capital it needed to innovate. It did not. The company is unable, despite all the cash it has on hand. It's a lost cause. One hopes AMD continues innovating.