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by hn_submit 3mo ago
How much is this car merely a rabble of Chinese parts made to look like an indigenous Mexican car? I see this as a Chinese ploy to work around the American import tariffs by praying on Mexican national pride for a so-called "national c
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by hn_submit 3mo ago
I find the UEFA standpoint a little disingenuous since commercial interests have been a top priority in football (soccer) for decades. Claiming that allowing investors to participate will hurt the sport are at the very least a misrepresenta
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by hn_submit 3mo ago
The keyword here is "profitability." These companies are hyper-profitable and have a near monopoly in their line of business. Just having companies that barely eek out a living isn't sufficient.
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by hn_submit 3mo ago
But these large tech companies are also the reason America still exists. Without their multi-trillion dollar valuations the U.S. national debt would become unsustainable pretty quickly. Investors look at the potential profitability of a nat
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by hn_submit 3mo ago
I've always been suspicious why Chinese companies are adding internet capability to products where it doesn't make sense. Why would a power converter need internet capability? TCP/IP capability...maybe. But internet? Internet
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by hn_submit 3mo ago
Apple is a case in point. It designs and engineers everything and stringently checks that its Chinese ODMs aren't quietly swapping in cheaper inferior parts or alter its software. I therefore assume Apple products are safe even though
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by hn_submit 3mo ago
You have to realize that in a war China will use everything they can against us, including power converters (force a blackout), cars (drive-by-wire car will drive into a tree to kill a high ranking official), routers (disconnect the inter
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by hn_submit 3mo ago
Why doesn't the U.S. simply ban all Chinese products that have an internet-connected computer in them? That would solve almost all security problems in one strike and force Chinese manufacturers to communicate via Bluetooth and update
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by hn_submit 3mo ago
His extradition case has been going on for more than two decades IIRC. He'll die of old age before he's ever extradited to the U.S. There are too many legal avenues to stall and thwart the case and the U.S. doesn't see him as
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by hn_submit 3mo ago
Look, Big Tech has lost almost a trillion dollars in valuation in a SINGLE DAY. A few more of these downturns and the entire A.I. revolution will be stopped dead in its tracks and we won't have to worry about safety checks, DRAM shor
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by hn_submit 3mo ago
The DRAM market is a notorious pork cyclic business. SK Hynix and Micron have stood on the brink several times. No matter what happens the Chinese will carve out a niche since they're playing the long game. And DRAM will always be need
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by hn_submit 3mo ago
You would think that the DRAM shortage would propel Europe to invest in DRAM fabs. But no, they think it's too risky because prices may fall in the next few years and building fabs costs a lot of money and is hard. They'd rather s
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by hn_submit 3mo ago
Not true. He previously ran a site called MegaUpload which hosted copyright infringing files. This is why he created Mega, which is an end-to-end encrypted cloud storage service similar to OneDrive of Google Drive. Even if Mega users host i
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by hn_submit 3mo ago
I find it wasteful to make a simple clock running a full-scale Linux distro just to fetch and display the time. And it's running Python too, which is an interpreted language which is a 100 times slower than C or assembly. I didn't
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by hn_submit 3mo ago
They'll always rule that the violence was excessive. They'll say you could've slapped him in the face or disarmed the attacker. The only ones getting a free pass are criminals. When they shoot and kill each other judges usual
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by hn_submit 3mo ago
There's no specific law, but a judge will always jail you for manslaughter.
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by hn_submit 3mo ago
There are laws against the destruction of evidence, but I'd argue that there's no evidence in this case since they don't have clear-cut knowledge what's on the phone. It's potential evidence at best and it's
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by hn_submit 3mo ago
Yeah, but without a jury O.J. Simpson never would've walked out of court a free man. For example in Europe when someone dies somebody always has to go to jail, even if they were defending themselves or responding to a potential threat.
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by hn_submit 3mo ago
What about simply not using a smartphone and accessing your data via internet when you're in the country? You could use Mega (secure file storage) to access your files, for example. I wonder if border agents could coerce you into givin
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by hn_submit 3mo ago
They will when software starts failing left and right. And companies too when they realize their developers are unable to fix the software because they have no idea how it works. Companies chasing pipe-dreams of getting rid of all those dev
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by hn_submit 3mo ago
LEA, Customs and intelligence agencies regularly use GDB to hack and extract information from an Android phone. So in that sense it may be a valid concern and reason to restrict this. However, I'm pretty sure these entities will alread
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by hn_submit 3mo ago
No it isn't. I don't trust A.I. to generate maintainable and correct code and the people that use are too lazy or incompetent to write it themselves so I don't trust them either. Ergo: I'd always go for "NO A.I. WAS
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by hn_submit 3mo ago
There's no need for CD, cassette or MiniDisc. These days you can store ALL your music in CD-quality audio on a single solid-state memory card. People clamoring for cassette and CD are a tiny minority. Most listen on their PC or smartph
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by hn_submit 3mo ago
Is Proton U.S. based? I thought they were Swiss.
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by hn_submit 3mo ago
I would argue Anthropic isn't pirating books but merely "reading" them. If they simply buy the books they can read them like any individual does.