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by wumeow 3y ago
This won’t happen because the cost/benefit ratio of attempting this is extremely high.
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by wumeow 3y ago
It’s still there in a little set of icons you have to memorize the meaning of and that will be changed two versions from now by the next PM who wants to juice up their resume.
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by wumeow 3y ago
Please reread the definition of “controlled by a foreign adversary“ in section g1.
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by wumeow 3y ago
Knowing and doing are separate skills.
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by wumeow 3y ago
> And if it were ten open-source projects […] The alternative wouldn’t be to use a smattering of open-source stuff, it would be to go with a different cloud provider like AWS or Google. > Do you really think the alternatives are more
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by wumeow 3y ago
I don’t understand your comment. Microsofts failures are a threat precisely because it is so used, especially by the US govt. And they may spend a lot on security, but their recent failures have been pretty amateurish. A recent breach they
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by wumeow 3y ago
Microsoft’s security failures are a threat to national security. Microsoft itself is not.
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by wumeow 3y ago
Notice that really only 13% of households can’t absolutely afford a $400 dollar expense, and the difference between the 32% for $500 vs the 40% for $400 > Sixty-eight percent of adults said they could pay an expense of at least $500 usin
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by wumeow 3y ago
I still think it’s funny that the notification they pushed said “your government” instead of “our” or “the”. https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/7/24093308/tiktok-congress-b...
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by wumeow 3y ago
I wish you good luck because you’re in for a rough time.
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by wumeow 3y ago
> The US doesn't want to start a war with China. The US wants to prevent China's rise. It wants to do this as cheaply and as efficiently as possible, and if it could do it by a cheap cyberop/magic-wand/whathaveyou it
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by wumeow 3y ago
Your mental gymnastics is concluding that the US wants to start a war with China. And I don’t mean diplomacy with China, I mean diplomacy with the other Indo-Pacific countries.
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by wumeow 3y ago
Ok, your post is just pure gish galloping. Basically, you think that the US is forging alliances in the Indo-Pacific because it wants an excuse to go to war with China and crush it. In reality, the US is using its military, specifically it’
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by wumeow 3y ago
Ok I’ll spell it out. A) China is not infiltrating US infrastructure to prevent the US from “agitating” a war on China, they’re doing it to deter the US from coming to the defense of Taiwan or other allies or partners in case a war breaks o
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by wumeow 3y ago
China needs to do two things to avoid war with the US: don’t invade Taiwan, don’t start fights with US allies in the Pacific. So far, they have been agitating for both of those things.
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by wumeow 3y ago
Yeah, and it was terminated. Much harder to put this genie back in the bottle.
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by wumeow 3y ago
This is some wild mental gymnastics. The US is not the one agitating a war.
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by wumeow 3y ago
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/17/china-lobbying-tikt... > In a statement, embassy spokesperson Liu Pengyu said that the “Chinese Embassy in the US tries to tell the truth about the TikTok issu
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by wumeow 3y ago
The Tencent version is overly long and drawn out, has mediocre visual effects and production, censors key parts from the book, has bad english-speaking actors, but has decent writing and is interesting to watch. The Netflix version has awfu
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by wumeow 3y ago
Was this mentality imported by said immigrants or home-grown?
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by wumeow 3y ago
Not looking forward to mobile CCP data collection machines roaming American streets.
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by wumeow 3y ago
Every time I tune in, I measure the time-to-race, which is the amount of time that passes before race becomes the main topic of discussion. Usually it’s less than 15 minutes.
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by wumeow 3y ago
>> In China, I was able to leave my computer at my table in a cafe without fear of it being taken because I knew every square inch of that cafe was in the view of cameras. > China's state surveillance and massacres of dissiden
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by wumeow 3y ago
Anti-Americanism is cool and intellectual-coded. F35 hysterics is just an instance of that.
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by wumeow 3y ago
> They're out of lives to spend and frankly, they should accept a diplomatic solution. Maybe, but that’s not an argument against giving them military aid.
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by wumeow 3y ago
We need to save weapons for the Taiwan conflict.
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by wumeow 3y ago
People will make fun of you for being unsophisticated, but it really is this simple.
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by wumeow 3y ago
Given who your owners are, I sincerely doubt that.
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by wumeow 3y ago
These guys are correct: The Tiktok bill is essentially section 310 of the Communications Act of 1934 but for apps. It’s actually quite sensible.
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by wumeow 3y ago
lol it was 212 to 212, that’s exactly what almost happened! And the only reason this passed today is that Republicans think they can kill it in 2 years.

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