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> Underdogs with nuclear weapons? For most of their existence their much larger Arab neighbors (who had the backing of a superpower) had the explicit and oft-stated goal of destroy…

> What's with this "rebuild the American manufacturing base" part? The US is already one of the top manufacturers in the world. Maybe so, but the US's manufacturing currently isn't…

> You should only be buying from an American supplier, even though we just spent 30 years shutting them all down > Factories won’t be growing up out of the grown churning out parts…

> (a) does not harm China, as intended, as they are still the only viable place to purchase these items, yet (b) actively harms business in the United States, as we are paying the …

> What I don't understand is the response. The burden of this cost has entirely been placed upon US businesses I don't think that's true, which is proven by the fact that China is …

> Developers are the only people Apple really needs to make Macs for and that's a pretty small market in the grand scheme. Creatives doing photography, 3D, video, etc. have long le…

> let me piggy-back, is Apple going to have proper HDMI ports in future? Im going surface book the moment my current macbook stops working. Unlikely. That would require a 180 degre…

"Suicide drone" is just a trendy name for really old technology. Most people already know of them as "[guided] missiles."

MIPS must've been in pretty bad shape if they were acquisition material by a startup. You'd think the acquisition would've been the other way around.

Hopefully they're laying conduit with new road construction. I read somewhere that there are proposals to mandate that (can't remember if it was state or federal level). Edit: seem…

> So... two of the routers affected by the recent VPNFilter malware? Interesting choice. If you're looking for a router that's never had a documented security flaw, you're probably…

> Maybe SWAT can use this to validate that it's actually the right house when serving a no-knock warrant. How would a stick figure images help a SWAT team validate that they're at …

> Meh, that seems a little sensationalist. Any significant metal would likely throw this in a loop Maybe even chicken wire in the walls.

> Because people rely on reviews and ratings to buy stuff? There are people who try to make a living on YouTube. Demonetization hurt them and they have a ready-made audience to ven…

I read a ~400 page abridged version, but I do feel I missed out.

> If Amazon wants to implement a stricter review check you can rest assured that it will be like YouTube demonitization all over again. Why would it? No one makes money from legiti…

This seems like it's probably unhelpful and out-of-date. Any such how-to guide really should cover some kind of obfuscation to avoid the anti-VPN blocks. For instance, apparently t…

> Most of the repelled rules were in effect only since 2014. I don't remember the web being a terrible place before 2014. The now-repealed rules were a codification of the pre-2014…

> It is a matter of record that some local politicians made speeches about how the new freeway would benefit the original city it runs through. I think they use the phrase "torture…

Do you have a source/cites for this list? I'd to give it to my congressman.

> I'm pretty sure freedom and democracy are a really good match for Chinese culture (probably a better match than American culture? hard to say). It works well here. But that's jus…

> I'd say it's not irrational to consider the possibility that these firms either are directly or via the Taiwanese government cooperating with US cyberattacks. But to be totally c…

> The actual attack vector relies upon drivers signed by Taiwanese chip makers. But that's not a hardware attack. IIRC, Stuxnet used driver signing certificates to bypass some OS-l…

> Their dependence on American silicon may in fact be their greatest security risk. It's clear that the US and its allies will weaponize this advantage (see Stuxnet) Please elabora…