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It isn't just Musk, there are plenty of reputable journalists and scholars who argue the same point. Noam Chomsky for starters.

Highly useful if you are building a Digital Control Grid.

Yeah, I wish journalists would just look up the EM-ployment rate and go from there. The official "unemployment" rate is based on who is collecting benefits. It doesn't count those …

>Apple has low volume sales? In comparison. Android phones (in total) outsell iPhones because they are cheaper/more affordable. Sure Macs and iPhones may sell more than an individu…

>TSMC now has fabs on U.S. soil. It will take years to get to the level of skill TSMC in Taiwan has. I don't think Washington should spend money and lives on defending Taiwan. My p…

Well, actually they have a new model. I call it the "Apple" model. Low volume sales on high value items where you can charge more. Even NVidia has moved to this model: make your mo…

But increasingly this describes Western countries more and more, particularly the United States.

Fair. And I agree with nearly everything in your comment. One thing about tRump, is that he is more blatantly obvious about the "bully" side of America. He is not the first bully; …

What about TSMC?

>We have thus far been supremely lucky that irrational actors have not acquired a nuclear bomb. Cough, cough. Who is currently in the White House?

This wasn't sarcasm. Gov't contracts are where a lot of people make a lot of money. And Palantir and ICE are definitely a thing. I know that sounds purely political but these are r…

I'm surprised. Usually, the gripes are the compile times or the lack of tooling compared to other languages. For functional programming its quite expressive. ZIO and Typelevel Cats…

Me too. It's my favorite language by far. So expressive. Although that can be a downside.

Aren't the AI Datacenters for the Digital Control Grid, so govt contracts?

Well their choice is as a USA/EU Vassal state or Russian one. I'd say neither is an attractive choice.

If AI was utilized to eliminate the "shitty" jobs I'd be more enthusiastic about it. AI Robots that clean toilets so humans don't have to? Yes, please. (Yes, I get it that at prese…

I would argue that it is rent-seeking and asset accumulation that is a big problem. If the wealthy elite invested in production rather than consuming assets that would improve thin…

Thanks. You're comment made me laugh.

Yes, THIS!!!!!!

Israel IS the USA in the Middle-East. However, in a post-oil world will it still be a thing? For now, there's still the Petro-dollar.

It depends on what you use for sunscreen. A lot of sunscreens have aluminum in them and there are many that have it but it is not listed as an ingredient. Zinc oxide sunscreen is a…

You have a point, but remember tRump gets to pass himself off as the "good" guy. Also, there is absolutely no way that Israel gets to act autonomously. They are a vassal state beho…

People voted this down without any response. Oh wow, what has happened to hacker news?

In the case of Cuba I imagine it's simply just political control, vassalage, control of the hemisphere. In the case of Venezuela it is Energy Dominance. The USA wants to control Gl…