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by ardy42 6y ago
>>>> Democratic ownership can counter act the tendency to grow and absorb competitors, because each new worker who gets a vote waters down the votes and control of their fellows. Plus the bigger the organization gets, the slower
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But not invincibly so. You usually want your defense industries located in the rear, not near your front lines. The US relying on critical defense suppliers in Taiwan is like the Soviets doing the same in Cuba (which they didn't do).
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But even if that's true, there's no law of nature that compels Apple to buy from suppliers located in China or locate its operations there. It could cut ties and pull out (and Apple's one of the few companies with the resour
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> But owning shares mean owning a part of a company? Does that mean that when a company’s shares are invalidated, then the company is now worth zero, and anybody can buy it for a penny? Are the owners forced to sell everything for a penn
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> And that's why all those countries are firmly beholden to the US, for protection. Yeah, but from the US perspective, it's the weakest zone of that protection. So they'll be firmly beholden until suddenly they're no
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> because ultimately the great majority of their customers do not care, as simple as that. They might care about local issues, wedge issues, but ethical and moral concerns in another country? not so much. Big luxury brands such as Apple
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> We talk about slavery, that ended with state actions. I'm not sure China cares, and accordingly the practice will continue. You're correct, but there's another angle to this than ending the practice: moral complicity. An
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>> tyrannical dictatorship > I honestly think that's a bit too far. Tyrannical oligarchy moving towards dictatorship, then. Better?
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>> What surprises me is the lack of urgency on the part of the US government. A lack of competitive chip manufacturing in the US is a threat. > My bet is they consider Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea well within their sphere of infl
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> This really be true. So much of the certification Ive seen are bogus nogus even high schoolers can figure out. I suppose the software world cares less about looking good on paper and more about practically writing software of good qual
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> That was a link to an obsolete LTO-2 drive. If you’re using LTO-8, which is the current generation, you’d get a 10-pack of 12TB tapes for around $500. Noticeably cheaper per byte than hard drives. But it looks like the cheapest drive o
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> The prices are much cheaper now. You can get a single tape drive for under $300 and enterprise grade single tape drives for under $3k. Those tapes only hold 200 GB, and you can get a 10 TB hard drive today for less than $300: https:&#
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> The NYT Helped a Vindictive Teen Destroy a Classmate Who Uttered a Racial Slur The NYT published its piece after the "destruction" [1] happened, so it's pretty inaccurate to say it "helped" with that. The ac
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> The Russian CPU isn't surviving in a market How so? It's actually not that different from Apple Silicon when you think about it. Apple Silicon: you only get it when you buy an iPhone, iPad, ARM Mac, etc. in the Smartphone or
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>> On the right, there seems to be a growing view that "free speech" means that you should be able to say whatever you want (even if it's literally a factually untrue lie), and not experience any social censure and be w
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> Just because someone used Yandex as a hyperbolic analogy doesn't mean we're talking about Yandex. But my point is that email itself is an insecure technology, and not even Phil Zimmerman bothers with PGP [1]. If you want to
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>>>> Imagine if we lived in a society where public school didn't exist. >>> This assumes the market wouldn't self correct and private schools became the norm. > What about poor people? I think there are 60
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> 5 years behind for a system you can actually use is pretty decent IMO. And probably more than adequate for the kinds of applications you'd use this in. Military technology needs to be state-of-the-art for ruggedness and reliabili
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> That just seems to me like a choice that very few humans are actually going to make. It seems very HN to take the perspective of an aloof farmer-of-humans rather than that of an actual human.
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> The GP isn't saying this is happening, though. They're saying that selling rich people overpriced kale and strawberries can fund further research and innovation. Maybe the next step is corn. Maybe it's bankruptcy. But it
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> My thinking: this is basically in the category of national-prestige project, where the ability to do domestic production in certain product categories is basically about national self-image rather than a commercial concern. No, it&#x2
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> People doing things that they don't want the FBI/IRS/etc to see, but don't care if Russia sees is probably a broader set than that. If you want to avoid eavesdropping, it's probably best to avoid email altogeth
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>> In my 20+ years of being a professional, and especially after having been in leadership positions I’ve always been careful to watch what I say, when, and to whom. This isn’t paranoia and I haven’t felt “unable to express myself”, t
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>> Also this gem: "These clips also revealed flight in hazardous conditions including heavy rain, fog, snow, and close proximity to buildings in downtown Philadelphia. There was also posted proof of the pilot intentionally losing
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> In 2018, 66% of democrats believed it was “probably true” or “definitely true” that Russia “tampered with vote tallies” to help Trump win the election. It's worth noting that (at least with the phrasing you're giving) that d
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> The sad part is that CA remains a one party state and this will just get swept under the rug. The power is too unchecked. And I'm guessing the reason for that is that politics has gotten too nationalized, and the state-level oppos
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> The lack of background music and pace is really interesting to me. Compared to a typical "how it's made" video [1] (which I feel has a similar level of detail), this video feels significantly more digestible. Those mome
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> If the patent is protecting some business's hockey-stick growth, it's worth the fee, so it fulfills the original purpose of patents, that is, avoiding trade secrets while protecting cash-cow inventions for a limited time. Was
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> We , that is you are free to devalue Facebook stock at any time by not buying it. > The fact that most people are not doing that should tell you that you are not as much a part of the dominant "we" as you think. You miss
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> There is no "we" allowing or disallowing anything. Who is this "we" and why do use suppose they have some divine insight into the ideal allocation of capital? You only really own something if enough people in socie

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