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I'd be mindful that having a NATO partner be able to spy is maybe better than having Huawei spy if you have to choose, but yes, I think it's a risk that EU countries should be awar…

No. Unlike a newspaper, they host videos and photos of a third of (?) the US population, have detailed reader data on who reads what when, who is friends with whom, location histor…

Not necessarily. China pursues many objectives when it comes to its national security, such as intimidation and coercion of dissidents or opponents of its regime living abroad. Ass…

EU countries are asleep at the wheel on matters of national security and sovereignty. Spotify is not a matter of national security. TikTok, and social networking in general, has be…

Parent talks about Meta, you mention Microsoft. They are not in the same business. Meta is in the social networking domain, which the communist party in China has treated for years…

As an EU resident your govt likely exerts far more control over media (both domestic and foreign owned) than the US

TikTok's problem isn't with what they say openly, it's with the amount of invisible control exerted by a foreign government.

Compare with China though. There is absolutely no way that a company like Bytedance would be allowed to operate inside China while under American control.

The fact that this emerged instead of IPv6 is a true testament to the power of "good enough hackery"

I feel that the future for Python people who want type safety will eventually be TypeScript on nodejs. Go was intended as an alternative to C++. It seems that in reaction to the un…

Couldn't it just be algorithmic? Go uphill in the summer, then downhill until you hit water, you'll probably end in the same pond?

Musk in 2022: "Shared power curbs the worst excesses of both parties, therefore I recommend voting for a Republican Congress, given that the Presidency is Democratic" In 2024:

If the continental US can do it (and it looks like it might soon, with California voting for it) I'm not sure I buy that argument. Heck if China can survive on one timezone...

Reminds me of "how did this ever work in the first place" bugs. Something that used to work stops working, you look into it, and it seems that the thing looked broken to begin with…

Boggles my mind that after more than 60 years of computer science, we still design tools (programming languages) where the simplest tasks are full of gotchas and footguns. This is …

What if having the resources to develop hardware are not the point? This is a physical business, and supply chain is the bottleneck at some point. Right now it seems that all the m…

Let me put it this way. I don't think you and I are fundamentally disagreeing: money matters, to the extent that it allows to buy statistically better health outcomes and quality t…

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It's not about them opposing each other, it's about priorities.

I'm pretty sure it would've stayed a defcon thing

Streisand effect strikes again Option A: let the dude have his talk. Nobody hears about it beyond the walls of defcon. Move along. Option B: uninvite and call security. Guy becomes…

Two things can be true. Money does buy comfort and care. Also, it does not make one immortal. We can choose what we take away from events. I could choose to feel unlucky that I hav…

Feeling cool for not going to burning man before it was the trend

Next time you're thinking "I wish I was the one who had made a billion dollars with my startup idea", remember that only health and family matter, and to have fun while you're aliv…

It's fine to convey the importance of these things. It's another thing to do it with an implied assumption that OP doesn't know better themselves, which context doesn't really give…