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?
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…
Huh, did EA just got me excited for a Star Wars game!? Whoooot?
Or they can do what they normally do, steal it and then sue to be considered the original invento/founder and then make a Hollywood film about how they invented it/found it.
All of this is true. I neglected to mention that because I didn’t think you could survive with 150€ a day in Paris as a tourist
150€ will net you a stay in most countries in the EU except scandinavia and too big cities.
For 150€ a day, Budapest, Warsaw, Split, Prague, Vilnius, Salamanca, etc.
Be mindful of where you rent, make sure to have travellers insurance, don’t get scammed for BS reasons (like peeps trying to make you believe you need to pay high money to use the autobahn in Czechia). Be mindful of pickpockets anywhere southwest of Paris and enjoy the food and locals.
This is a pretty good take on all of this. MS, Sony and Nintendo have done nothing but enshitify their platforms in the past few years and yet, they increase the cost of admission at every enshitification step.
You’re being downvoted, this is a perfect example of:
*they hated Jesus because he spoke the truth 😂🤣
Cool, shit is bad for you if you eat it, 100%.
Go try that now.
No, Apple bent the knee for concessions on tarifs. If you live in the US the chance your comms are backdoored on iOs is 100%.
Is this what the proton dude meant?
James Bond was on the wrong side of history after all!
Oh look, it’s the second shoe dropping.
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.
So, it does look like the CEO of Proton was on to something.