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We saw how fast and decisively modern states can move doing covid, so what is being suggested here is that at the end of the day the current leadership of the EU(especially some of…

Lets talk numbers, rather then just sling cheap unfounded allegations The problem with the way they talk at the big conferences is that there is almost no link between the rhetoric…

No nor does it have logistical capability to deliver even half of the equipment currently being promised/discussed within a time-frame of less then 5-10year. It's all dependent on …

The reluctance of the EU leadership to so anything materially significant about anything they claim to care about is kind of telling. It's either that the leadership is so caught u…

Well either that or completely privatize the infrastructure needed to operate those cars like multi-lane roads and parking lots with no mandatory minimums for road width and parkin…

I think you underestimate what can be done with actual code because the devops industry seems entirely code averse and seem to prefer a "infrastructure as data" paradigm instead an…

But why does it have to be the case that the leadership of an opensource project have to emulate the desperation and authoritarianism of a potentially stagnant tech sector. I don't…

Taking the moral argument aside the fact that the largest best funded navy run by the wealthiest country have to call in airstrikes against barely(if at all) armed fishing vessels,…

I think a fundamental lack of understanding/humility is the core of this conflict along with Mozilla's long and storied history of creating controversies/problems out of thin air. …

Why do we want them to donate money rather then time/people.

Why would we even want that, the whole point is to break the monoculture and single vendor dependency not to create an new mostly irrelevant one to be stuffed with has-been and rej…

But doesn't the codeless "infrastructure as code" kind of smell like cargo cult practices, i mean there might be places where having your infrastructure defined as data is a really…

Blaming crowdstikes QA might feel good but the problem is that no company in the history of the world have been good enough at QA for it not to be reckless to allow day one patchin…

The problem is that without tools and processes to systematically validate those result's people might be perfectly happy about completely inaccurate results. I know i have had to …

If crowdsource QA department is all that stands between you and days of no operations then you chose to live with the near certainty that you will have days rather then hours of un…

Things have definitely gotten better. The problem with the linux desktop was usually that most hardware companies were either not spending any time/effort on non-windows drivers/co…

All of those are product that creates huge risks when deployed to mission critical environments and this is exactly the problem. The entire wintel ecosystem depends on people putti…

Even Excel is beginning to be regarded as a dangerous piece of software that gives the illusion of power while silently bankrupting departments who depend on the idea that large sp…

The liquidation is the company being stripped of assets, who then gets sold of to highest bidder in order to pay the creditors, some of those assets might very well be fully operat…

Going directly after the executives would at the very least be better theater then letting a company pay the government with the governments own money. It probably wont fix the iss…

And even if they do fail it's rarely the end as the bankruptcy process do totally allow for the critical/valuable aspects of an company to continue under new ownership, and the sta…

The solution is probably going to involve dropping our dangerous utopian ideals about how complexity and deviation from perfection is problems that must be solved by any means nece…

And your property rights come from the contract you have with the state. It's all in the formal and informal contract that govern society, and you can(as most suburbanites have) si…