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by onepointsixC 2y ago
Silicon valley’s foundation is building tools of war to defeat fascists. Today we face a new revisionist expansionist ethno state, and their tech companies are lock step with their government in matters of military and espionage. We can cho
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by onepointsixC 2y ago
I’m sure the Russians and Chinese would love that.
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by onepointsixC 2y ago
This has been a legitimate problem of progressivism which strongly holds it back from gaining more popularity. You cannot be for public transit and environmentalism while simultaneously being against punishing anti social behaviors on publi
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by onepointsixC 2y ago
Intel has more employees than AMD, TSMC, and NVIDIA combined. When AMD leapfrogged them they had less employees than the number just laid off. They need capital to build out new fabs and that has to come from somewhere.
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by onepointsixC 2y ago
It’s not just existing, the Chinese give an order of magnitude more subsidies. The CHIPS act was always been too little. If it at least matched that of China, without considering how much more their subsides pays for in China in PPP terms,
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by onepointsixC 2y ago
It didn't force them to forced them to develop capacity domestically. They always wanted to do that and have been spending princely sums yearly to try to get there. It removed the ability to have a cheap and gradual transition from for
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by onepointsixC 2y ago
There's so much poor analysis on the subject which pretends that Beijing hasn't been dumping orders of magnitude more subsidies into Chip companies. Yes Huawei is still around, China wasn't going to let it fail no matter what
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by onepointsixC 2y ago
The US has lots of fabs already, this isn’t some unknown.
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by onepointsixC 2y ago
That’s well and good for Intel, why would TSMC agree to any of those terms? You’re forgetting that CHIPS wasn’t just hand outs for Intel, but to bring other fabs to the US.
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by onepointsixC 2y ago
Sounds like an easy short for you then.
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by onepointsixC 3y ago
Infinitely more productive? That's a claim. China's rail has $900B in loans, and profits haven't covered servicing that debt for nearly a decade.
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by onepointsixC 3y ago
It passed a bit ago and nearly none of the funding has been actually given out. Fabs are already being delayed awaiting funds.
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by onepointsixC 3y ago
Perhaps I could interest you in some rent control too.
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by onepointsixC 3y ago
The samples are meant to survive the vacuum of space but can't handle some weather? That seems unlikely.
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by onepointsixC 3y ago
Where exactly do you think the people who afford those luxury condo live right now? In the woods? And just because "countless" have been built doesn't meant that there have been enough to meet demand.
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by onepointsixC 3y ago
It's standard for gaming with a regular screen. Not having VR controllers is a huge detriment for VR gaming. Yes there are some games which can work just using hands, but most existing VR titles will not work, and any titles developed
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by onepointsixC 3y ago
>not to sound rude, but that's a bit of a stretch. Not to me. I've spent several thousand hours in VR. When it comes to watching a video with someone else online, the most immersive way is in VR. Things like the now defunct Rab
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by onepointsixC 3y ago
But it's not a mac and gaming is the current biggest application for VR. Apple could have gone on a spending spree and built up a family of games if they were interested.
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by onepointsixC 3y ago
During Covid & lockdowns, loads of people watched movies together. It's not much different from watching a movie with a friend at your own place. VR gives the activity sense of presence which is hard to describe, but basically it&#
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by onepointsixC 3y ago
Relying on outliers for your argument isn't particularly compelling.
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by onepointsixC 3y ago
Apple's largely been affordable luxury that 100's of millions buy. They're more akin to buying Starbucks over Dunk donuts. Their products usually would be in the price range of 1.3-1.5x more expensive than competitors but o
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by onepointsixC 3y ago
Meta Quest Pro has much of what the Apple device offers while providing controllers for a significantly better gaming experience for $2500 cheaper. Considering the strongest consistent use case of VR thus far has been gaming, Apple has a hu
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by onepointsixC 3y ago
> Meta looks like it just got its lunch eaten pretty thoroughly I don't see how you can come to that conclusion. Meta's offerings looks far better in my view. Unless, I'm missing something here, Meta's Quest Pro appea
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by onepointsixC 3y ago
Russia isn't able to sell it to other customers for the same price as they are able to sell it to Europe. Transport, limited buyers all depress the price they can command. The Europeans aren't paying a huge markup - Oil is a commo
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by onepointsixC 3y ago
Sure, but before that gas was funding a self professed foe. It's much better to not fund your enemies.
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by onepointsixC 3y ago
Which drug are you thinking of? Because the recent one that was approved was both highly controversial because the efficacy is extremely questionable[1] and the entire theory of disease is in question as well [2]. [1]: https://ww
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by onepointsixC 3y ago
This doesn't sound legal, and if it is it shouldn't be.
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by onepointsixC 3y ago
>What China is doing meets the definition of genocide (even if they aren't killing people, they're killing their ability to be part of "a people"). What China is doing meets the textbook definition of genocide precise
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by onepointsixC 3y ago
Would you be pleased if that applied to all of your work too? That immediately anyone can start taking your work and making money off of it? Copyright at least makes big players pay the original creators for the rights to the works. Netflix
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by onepointsixC 3y ago
Seems pretty clear that it's meant to be malicious compliance with consent, with consent being automatically assumed unless you say no to this specific scrapper, as though there were even a reasonable chance millions of sites could pos

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