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- Comment on TSMC suspended shipments to China firm after chip found on Huawei processor, sources say 3 weeks ago:
I’m sure TSMC would become untenable if either the US stopped buying or selling to them, though I tend to disagree and think that not licensing US tech would kill them faster. I’m pretty sure that many of that tech is not available from anywhere else and would just cause a full stop of their business, at least for some time.
- Comment on TSMC suspended shipments to China firm after chip found on Huawei processor, sources say 3 weeks ago:
There is likely a lot of US tech in that chip. TSMC is just a fab, they don’t have a lot of their own technology, they buy thousands of pieces of tech from all over the world to make their chips. A lot of that comes from the US.
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- Comment on US Record Labels Sue AI Music Generators Suno and Udio for Copyright Infringement 4 months ago:
If they are using GPL code, shouldn’t they also release their source code?
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- Comment on Most useless superhero accessory 7 months ago:
All that runnin’ around has gotta get tiring after a while though, no?
- Comment on Don't forget! 7 months ago:
I’ve lived here for 24 years, I’m not a tourist ;-)
- Comment on Don't forget! 7 months ago:
I’ve worked in pretty much every CEE country and most cities the last 22 years and really can’t say I ever felt unwelcome, even in places you’d traditionally consider hostile like smaller cities in Russia. There are certainly places that are easier to get around but I really can’t say I’ve ever felt truly unsafe or unwelcome even when making questionable decisions.
- Comment on Don't forget! 7 months ago:
Americký expat
- Comment on Don't forget! 7 months ago:
That’s when they send the mind control sound. If you don’t destroy all the speakers by then, you will be under their control.
- Comment on Don't forget! 7 months ago:
Já jsem cizinec.
- Comment on Don't forget! 7 months ago:
Instructions seem quite clear- pierce your speaker with a toothpick.
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- Comment on A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us. 8 months ago:
See my post above in the thread where I show the laws I am talking about and cite source.
- Comment on A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us. 8 months ago:
See my post above with citation.
- Comment on A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us. 8 months ago:
This article summarizes the subsidies I’m talking about. Here’s an excerpt:
For now, the important point is that trucks generally are more profitable than cars thanks to two big government incentives, both of them historical footnotes.
The first is the so-called chicken tax, a 25 percent tariff imposed by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 on foreign-built work vehicles as part of a chicken-related trade war with Europe. If you’re making a pickup or cargo van in the United States, profits should be higher, because foreign factories can’t come close to undercutting you on price.
The second incentive lies in the fine print of Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards adopted in 1975, Gerald Ford’s reluctant response to a crippling Middle East oil embargo that sent gas prices soaring. To protect American commerce, work trucks and light trucks were subject to less-strict CAFE standards than family sedans. Trucks are also exempt from the 1978 gas guzzler tax, which adds $1,000 to $7,700 to the price of sedans that get 22.5 or fewer miles to the gallon.
- Comment on A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us. 8 months ago:
That’s because the USA subsidizes bigger trucks as “work vehicles”. This practice needs to stop and they need to be taxed more than smaller vehicles.
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 8 months ago:
I prefer it too, but if something works well and saves me time and effort for $2, I don’t make a big deal out of it.
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 8 months ago:
It has had such a massive positive effect on my life relative to the price.
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 8 months ago:
I’ve used them all (probably 20+ different OS’ in my lifetime), and they all have a place. I use Windows, MacOS, and Linux daily, each for what they are good at. Maybe people should use what works best for them?
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 8 months ago:
There are free OS alternatives out there (which I suspect you already use but just want to poop on other’s parade).
I assume that if someone’s already using Windows, a paid OS, they are willing to pay $5 to make it usable.
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 8 months ago:
Install this., you will thank me later.
- Comment on Cisco to lay off more than 4,000 employees to focus on artificial intelligence 8 months ago:
No, it’s a euphemism for “screw the people who are left, we need a quick reduction in our cost structure so that we can take bigger bonuses”
- Comment on Apple fans are starting to return their Vision Pros 8 months ago:
I have only owned an oculus quest, and a PlayStation vr2, So I have never had this issue before
- Comment on Apple fans are starting to return their Vision Pros 8 months ago:
Yes. If “Sadly It’s Bradley”'s YouTube channel is anything to go by, furries (and maybe enterprises) will be the primary purchasers of the AVP. He’s absolutely over the moon about it.
- Comment on Apple fans are starting to return their Vision Pros 8 months ago:
There are amazing VR games like HL:Alex and Resident Evil. Not as many as we’d all like but then are out there, and I do believe as porting becomes easier, we will see more AAA titles like this. And honestly playing these games in VR puts their flatscreen versions to shame, so I do think this will become more popular going forward. For AR we are just at the beginning. I think AVP has proved the concept that you could use such a device for productivity, but I think mass adoption will take many more iterations. But I am sure that bothe AR and VR have long futures ahead of them.
- Comment on Scientists develop game-changing 'glass brick' that could revolutionize construction: 'The highest insulating performance' 9 months ago:
Yeah but then I’d have to stop throwing stones, and that’s one of my favorite pastimes.
- Comment on Scientists develop game-changing 'glass brick' that could revolutionize construction: 'The highest insulating performance' 9 months ago:
I can’t imagine there’s any reason they couldn’t make an opaque version of the same. Would probably look pretty cool in black.
- Comment on France uncovers a vast Russian disinformation campaign in Europe 9 months ago:
Yes this should have been done better. I remember when they did the same thing in the USA they at least listed all of them so you could to see what they were up to.
