I think most countries spy on their citizens

we should not be OK with that

the man has rarely been proven wrong in anything tech related he has said

cool joystick

Presumably because they haven’t invested in AI.

Presumably is carrying all the weight of your whole post here

Perhaps we could get a non-biased opinion and also from an actual expert rather than some finance ghoul who really doesn’t know anything?

I also hate banks, but usually those guys can sniff out market failures way ahead of the rest of us. All their bacon rides on that, after all

They did an attempt at VR

but it was a me-too attempt, almost a copycat of existing hardware... hardly innovative

Why do you think using energy is bad by itself?

Building infrastructure has an environmental cost. Even if they're building them for themselves, wasting the energy produced on AI and some other bullshit will worse our climate catastrophe while delivering nothing useful in exchange

And he invented JavaScript in a cave, with a box of scraps

Guns have useful legal purposes

Weapons are tools with only one utility, kill people.

I have my doubts about whether it was really a supernatural event

don't worry, it's just a fairy tale

Shit, I remember having to wipe my boss’s computer back in '03 because he clicked on an attachment called something along the lines of “bigtiddies.mpeg.exe” or some shit.

I could almost hear The Office theme song playing while I was reading that

Decentralization is, by definition, censorship-resistant, just hop to another instance.

or roll your own instance, with blackjack and hookers

maybe because most people lurking around here knows it's trivial to bypass wired's paywall

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sorry if the data I brought disturbed your China bashing, you're free to ignore it

Workers don’t have too many rights.

Maybe not stellar but still better than quite a few of the 135 countries surveyed by this NGO in 2022. Behind Brazil, Russia and South Africa but ahead of India. Better than the so-called "land of the free" also, so maybe the joke's on them?

we all need a little swap here and there, right

We all share the same planet.

Maybe it's time to share everything else. Why should we need to live in poverty while folks up north are living large?

Fuck them all rich countries. They got dirty rich exploring the global south and now want them to be condemned to be eternally poor.

Crypto has been hitting all time highs this year; there’s just more bros than before.

There's a sucker born every minute

I was only answering your question. It was shortsighted to close down those production lines. The obvious answer is to rebuild the capacity to make those chips, which will of course be expensive and may not even pay for itself.