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by shortsunblack 3y ago
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. Ch
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
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 deve
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
You do not have the same problem, though. Sandboxing on mobile OSes is much more severe. No app can just magically access the rendering context of other application without elaborative million dollar exploits.
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
Meta can choose not to operate in the environment. It won't, though. Showing ads (not personalized) still yields them a profit in EEA market. And under GDPR we have a specific definition of consent. Your liberatarian dilusions are not
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
If Intel is so important to national security, it should be nationalized. If Intel is not willing to willingly invest into U.S. manufacturing, it can be targeted with tariffs. A corporate handout by the taxpayer is not what should happen, t
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
Consent under GDPR has to be 'freely' given. Economic coercion is not freely given consent. Further, fundamental human rights are not for sale. No person can contract themselves into slavery, even if they are "willing".
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
Which is idiotic, as having your seeds on your desktop no longer makes it two factor authentication, rendering the use of phrase factually incorrect.
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
The problem is monopolization of markets that are typically contestable. All computers are Turing machines and all the code is just assembly. There is zero technical rationale for the restrictions Apple imposes. And the assumption in free m
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
Giving 7 billion to a food programme is irrelevant when you have policies that enslave Global South to monocropping and force them to import your exports with IP laws (GE seeds) or when you have protectionist subsidies (as U.S. notoriously
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
China is deurbanizing and dedensifying. It's a popular myth that Chinese cities are dense. Density peaked a decade ago. This will spell economic worries someway down the road as maintenance upkeep costs start to kick in.
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
Buybacks and dividends are not the same thing. Buybacks get preferential tax treatment and are in their entirety manipulative (that's why they were banned under SEC rules until Reagan deregulated capital markets) to the market it serve
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
Concrete sequesters carbon from air. In its lifetime, it is expected to sequester all the carbon associated with its emissions. And of course, concrete lasts much longer than any timber structure even in idealized conditions for timber. And
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
It is to be said though that rebar in concrete does not last. It is also to be said concrete industry is highly innovative and there are alternatives in the market and in R&D to steel reinforcement. Fiber-reinforced concrete for example
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
Ability for timber to sequester carbon is really complicated. Most studies that arrive at positive conclusions for industry ignore land-use change associated emissions. I.e razing an old-growth forest only to plant plantation trees. Old gro
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
It's not a 'strong statement'. It's a statement supported both by rationality (more inputs spread out across less users) and empiricism -- there's countless case studies arriving at same conclusions. Here's som
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
Old streetcar suburbs are much denser than typical American suburb today due to increased setbacks, lot coverage rates and other factors. But yes, even streetcar suburbs get subsidized back then. The subsidy is just more productive in it op
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
Actually CLT is wonderful for one story house. The foundation becomes much cheaper because of walls being low weight. This can massively reduce home cost (as concrete is expensive). The bad thing is that CLT itself is more expensive. The co
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
which is fine, if they are willing to pay the full cost of it. suburbia is massively subsidized.
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
All computers are Turing machines.
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
NATO is one-sided alliance in favor of US. It literally makes so that American weapons manufacturers are preferenced over domestic military industry, which now is more or less dead. Europe used to have lots of successful weapons manufacture
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
European Commission's disdain for rule of law gets demonstrated once again. First with Schrems I, Schrems II cases, where the commission kept editing documents struck down by CJEU by couple sentences only for the same document (but ren
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
Words 'zoning', 'nimbyism' are not mentioned in this article.
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
There should be sth closer to an 'iron fist' approach, though. GDPR is a general data protection law. It's the lowest common denominator for all of industry. Industries that are particularly invasive to privacy are to be (a
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
The GDPR comment perhaps is indicative of this out of all. GDPR enforcement has been small, ineffective and nowhere close to "every kind of violation gets an expensive lawsuit attached". It's as if this is meta-commentary.
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
There is no such thing as "contractual consent". Consent under GDPR cannot be "contractually" given as part of a blanket clause in a contract. It requires criterion like informed, easily retractable, uncoerced, etc. GDPR
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
Spirit of the law is literally a thing and EU courts interpret in line with it. Each and every EU directive has first lines state the spirit.
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
You are arguing valid points with some inherent assumptions that are not guaranteed to be met by everyone. 'Discrimination' is not "bad" per se. It is merely a social contract to prohibit it to some protected classes. Di
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
Some people want areas without kids. Why should that be illegal? Kids ruin most things, as as society gets older and childless, those that want to have fun in said society will lobby for changes. Movies in cinema all suck ass because they n
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
The simple truth is that due to decades of lack of investment, chronic individualism, poor vocational schooling and inflated university degree costs, US workers cannot compete. They are less competent, less disciplined, less skilled. Some o
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
The policy now will be that each kernel bug will get assigned a CVE. Which means DoSing security researchers. If every bug is related to a security vulnerability, then no bug is related to a security vulnerability. The goal here seems to be

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