Nice MO (besides the voting manipulation)
Oh no, that argument about current capabilities ruins my whole schtick, let me pick up a PS so I can counter argue a red herring…
You must be from the US
edit: more than half of the people in the world live in Africa/Asia, I don’t see those regions being particularly affected by rare earth metal restrictions. Microsoft, OpenAI and Apple et al might be fucked though, and that means that scenario would be a good thing.
TIL a steady transfer of rare earth metals from China is necessary for all of the computers of today to continue working. Is it like a subscription. Rare earth pass, subscribe now.
Otherwise, ya, hermit life FTW
Richard Wolf had a very good take on all of these Silicon Valley “disruptors”. It’s basically been the neoliberal US american MO for the past quarter century:
Step 1: get a bunch VC money by promising the moon
Step 2: “disrupt” by undercutting the established moon due to lack of regulation. Even though it’s an inferior product, it’s VC subsidised, so it’s cheaper than the established businesses.
Step 3: due to lack of regulation, your business drives established operators to bankruptcy. This is basically dumping but the regulation hasn’t caught up.
Step 4: become the monopoly and suck as much money as possible from your customers to generate “shareholder value”
It’s the murican VC MO:
Why compete when you can buy the competition before it even develops?
We live in a timeline where the chances of that happening are non zero.
I couldn’t read past the bio, gave me Linkedin PTSD and my confidence levels cratered. That’s the IT equivalent of fake quotes with abstract art backgrounds on facebook, it immediately disqualifies the author.
This is hyperloop levels of stupid about something that, when looking exclusively at the general public, has the same amount of uses as hyperloop did…
James Bond was on the wrong side of history after all!
“Kids, play nice!”
Oh look, it’s the second shoe dropping.
Or, they fuck off leaving space for competitors to develop. Isn’t that the essence of capitalism? I guess the US keeps living in the “rules for thee but not for me” philosophy.
Yes, you would. Some of the best alternatives are German (like Hetzner) and they don’t take off because of US government influence stopping local businesses from accruing profitable contracts both in the private and public sector.
I’d love to see tariffs on US tech Invaders and a moratorium forbidding US companies from buying EU direct competitors for 20y. A cursory look over the meta anti-trust suit should tell you why. Meanwhile MS has killed Nokia, Skype, still owns (and continuously enshitifies) Mojang, just to name a few.
And here it is gents, this and some old fashion bribery nicely explains why NV got some tariff and export restriction exemptions. The US government is a good old fashion racket.
Before the sale when Igor still wrote for them, Tom’s was pretty well respected as was Anand.
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Oh look, another Tom’s guide advertorial masking as original content…
Were long due on some guillotine action.
I refuse to pay for placebo when it costs more than actual medicine.
Yours is an absolutely asinine take.
And as a final note, there is no evidence homeopathy has a positive effect globally in the German population that is non inferior to not having it at all.
And as an important tool for those thinking the placebo effect is at all relevant, please keep in mind the design of the study you read and the disclosures (or lack thereof) at the end of said study. We’re still reeling from the sugar industry effects on research into nutrition.
So, it does look like the CEO of Proton was on to something.