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What you're seeing is the distilled (no pun intended) result of realpolitik at play. China's labs aren't as open as they are out of altruism, but rather to capitalize and undercut …

Depends. Are you a Chinese/Taiwanese national or diplomat who holds a strategic value to the CCP?

> We didn't review the entire source code Then it's not fully investigated. That should put any assessments to rest.

My local GPS + PPS based NTP server finally pays off.

None of my opinions of this manifesto are positive. This is a defeatist position. It dangerously conditions people to be more casual about their privacy and safety. There are still…

Why would (should) they? The tarrif is biggest contributor to the would-be price increase, and they want to offload the blame to the policies that enacted it. Why do you think you …

- Over 50% of the workers flew in from Taiwan to work on this plant and make these chips. - The chips still need to fly back to Taiwan to be packaged as there are no facilities her…

How about we continue using something more convenient like a standalone dryer and focus our energy usage reduction on the largest target -- which is manufacturing by a whopping 76%…

Before anyone jumps on a new text editor band wagon, just a note on the license they have you agree to in using it: "Customer Data consisting of User content created while using th…

You can examine the contents of the shell script yourself -- but how is this any different from running the rest of the application without examining the source? Do you just draw s…

Why not? There are perfectly legitimate uses for this kind of technology. This would be a godsend for those suffering from paralysis and nervous system disorders, allowing them to …

And expensive...and out of reach of most of the people who need it.

Yep. I have Monaco installed on my Linux and Windows machines as a basic requirement for doing any sort of plain text editing.

Why anyone would continue to use their service after their amateur hour operation was revealed is beyond me. That's not to say their competitors are guaranteed to be better. Really…

If Digg is of any indication, it takes a series of negligent and greed-driven actions to scuttle a social media platform, but it is possible. Reddit has been more or less re-invent…

Instead of warning consumers, why not do what regulators do and, well, regulate? Here, you have entities storing unsecured funds and doing god knows what with it. In the interest o…

Disappointing. Sad to see such a wonderful app likely meet its end. This is to be expected when you pin your existence on the good graces of a for-profit company. Reddit wants IPO.…

Providing feedback to large corporate machines is akin to screaming into the void at this point. Sometimes the void hears you and responds with a generous canned message. Other tim…

1. These jobs are situated in Africa for the precise reason that other usual outsourcing countries have become increasingly expensive and prohibitive for this type of work. These w…

Because it's in reference to "honor killings" that still take place in certain cultures.

Beyond the serious dependability questions Google raises, I feel bad for the millions of units of OnHub, Nest, Stadia, and other hardware that are still perfectly functional, but r…

Ten years in IT, I've been part of roughly 4 acquisitions across a few jobs. Each time the line delivered to the employees is more or less the same: "don't worry, we don't intend t…

Do you have any studies that link microplastics to early onset colorectal cancer or you're just making wild claims?

No, more like X-37B, but perhaps one that can skim the atmosphere, i.e. with scramjet propulsion.

I don't see how China would willfully continue send these balloons without expecting a symmetrical escalation. Sure, they managed to send a few relatively undetected until the past…