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First, thank you for the article and discussion. Do you have any thoughts on the role and practicality of deterrence in this space?
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China imports coal from the United States.
They have huge amounts, but want slightly more. They're the biggest coal producer, producing half the world's coal, and then consuming it too, along with importing an extra 10% which is coking coal for steel making. They have lots of lignite and bituminous coal, which is fine for heat and electricity, and would be fine for turning into gas and liquid hydrocarbon fuel if that was useful.
[0]: https://www.eia.gov/coal/production/quarterly/pdf/t9p01p1.pd...
[1]: https://www.eia.gov/coal/production/quarterly/pdf/t11p01p1.p...
It does feel mad that we outsource so much of our national infrastructure maintenance to China. When/if they invade Taiwan, how are we going to do anything when they have that sort of leverage over us? It was bad enough with Russias gas
Well US is not dependent on anyone for her Energy needs. Unlike China. Its quite vulnerable on that front if a few pipelines blow up ala nord stream. This is also why the US has such a large presence in the middle east.
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However as a fellow european, having worked for large "national/eu important companies", this article resonated a lot with me and my frustrations. Granted I don't do anything "security" related.
Everything in "it infrastructure" has been outsourced to India, at best Poland. You have competent people in eu offices that don't have the power to use their own hardware. You have to beg for weeks to barely skilled ticket masters from outsourcing companies, endless meetings.
All eu staff is relegated to feature factories or process managers. Zero ops. "It's not our core competency."
I refuse to ever again work for the large "of national security" european companies. It's soul crushing. And it is very clear nobody cares.
It hurts me everytime I read how tens of billions are allocated for whatever EU soverignity. I have been in way too many 10 managers 2 engineers teams with way too many long meetings begging teams from $indian_outsourcing_company to let me do my job.
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Yeah, sure. But the US chooses who it integrates with militarily. An alternative approach would have been to say "hey, yeah we can see why you'd want to join - but this will foment tensions with Russia, so you can't". That is the kind of diplomacy would have prevented Russia from invading its neighbours. It would have been difficult to get worse outcomes with that approach than what the powers that be managed to get…
The only thing that would have changed is that Russia now also could invade the baltic states. Why do you think Russia would not have invaded Ukraine if the NATO had not been expanded?
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> Change Healthcare has lost $872M since it was attacked in February. The question is, what is the cost to secure? I've been in so many meetings where the cost of security is 10-15x the cost of a breach. It's horrifying.
Part of this is that nobody has cared about security since the beginning, for basically anything in tech. It’s an industry-wide issue that permeates every level of the stack. And so yeah, individual companies trying to retrofit security onto a jenga tower of technology is going to have to spend a ridiculous amount of resources to have any kind of impact. I don’t know what the answer is, but I too believe things won’t…
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Yeah, sure. But the US chooses who it integrates with militarily. An alternative approach would have been to say "hey, yeah we can see why you'd want to join - but this will foment tensions with Russia, so you can't". That is the kind of diplomacy would have prevented Russia from invading its neighbours. It would have been difficult to get worse outcomes with that approach than what the powers that be managed to get…
So what was first, Russia invading neighbors, or neighbors wanting to join NATO? I'll give you the answer: Chechnya. Thinking that Russia would never invade an independent Georgia or Ukraine is very naive, to say the least. If you want a "neutral" country, take a look at Belarus. A neutral country in Russia's eyes only has connections with Russia, not with the West. They make it very clear which countries they want "…
Doesn't seemed to be true, considering Ban for men's leaving country, forcefull conscription and cancelled elections
I've been unemployed ever since.
I'm getting antsy about income and getting no traction on my job search.
How many other people are advanced in tech but having some difficulty finding work right now?
How tempted will they be to switch to black hat for income?
I can't be the only one thinking this way.
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Part of this is that nobody has cared about security since the beginning, for basically anything in tech. It’s an industry-wide issue that permeates every level of the stack. And so yeah, individual companies trying to retrofit security onto a jenga tower of technology is going to have to spend a ridiculous amount of resources to have any kind of impact. I don’t know what the answer is, but I too believe things won’t…
> I don’t know what the answer is, but I too believe things won’t change until the day someone figures out how to push a “kill all humans” OTA update to all the self-driving cars on some random Tuesday afternoon. Even in that case I’m pessimistic that any action will happen. People will go on TV and say grave things, hearings will be held. Fingers will be pointed. Task Forces will kick off. Reports will be written. B…
When there is a real problem, people act upon it (assuming society is functional - otherwise the country simply dies). That’s why there is no better training for war than war itself. Ukraine has already unrooted all of the peace & love & no armament folklore in France, and even turned a lot of ecologists into pro-nuclear voters.
So yes, I wouldn’t be surprised if guarantees of offline mode (with regular drills) were passed into law for electric cars and everything cloudy, including IntelliJ.