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How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA

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Re: How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA

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Post by dragontamer »

Nextgrid wrote: post #329
gusfoo wrote: post #320

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> And how far out is that? These guys have a 100% market share https://www.asml.com/en/products/euv-lithography-systems at the 'extreme' end and, obviously, everyone else is trying but haven't really shown much promise. Here's a good background article on the topic: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/03/12/...

> everyone else is trying but haven't really shown much promise What was the incentive/funding for their attempts? In a non-national-security scenario it makes sense not to try too hard because you can just buy ASML's solution. With China it's a bit different, if they decide it's a matter of national security and pour Manhattan-project-levels of money/resources into it, they could make faster progress.

Well yeah. No one is saying that China cannot do that. Just that the political calculus is that it's better for China to spend their resources on that, rather than building up troops and warships.

Force Chinas growth to be more expensive. It has nothing to do with not believing China can do it, it's about slowing them down in a task we believe that they can do.

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Post by Niten »

dpedu wrote: post #313
einpoklum wrote: post #282

Let us remember what this is about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFUkfmnCR7U the scale of destruction in Gaza is horrendous: Its dense cities reduced to rubble, as though after a nuclear strike. The death toll is not yet known. the lower bound - the number of bodies counted by the ministry of health - is at around 69,000, while the Lancet estimated over 186,000 (and that was over a year ago), or nearly 7.9% of the…

It's worth noting that the Gaza Health Ministry is a government agency and the de-facto government of Gaza is Hamas, and therefore the health ministry _is_ Hamas. Casualty numbers released by the ministry have already been statistically dubious, and seeing that Hamas would only benefit from inflating these numbers, it is likely they are not accurate numbers. https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/how-gaza-h…

Additionally, it's crucial to recognize how Hamas's health ministry numbers never distinguish between combatant and civilian deaths

Re: How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA

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Post by Mikhail_Edoshin »

immibis wrote: post #117
sfifs wrote: post #113

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I'm very surprised the US doesn't seem to be taking the risk of Ukraine becoming a Nuclear Weapons state seriously. By now, they surely would have had time to develop get to the brink of weaponization as a backup plan - they've after all always had a nuclear industry. If they do so and offer cover to their neighbors who realize NATO may not be sufficient, we are in for interesting times.

Ukraine WAS a nuclear weapons state, until the US agreed to protect them from Russia with the US's nuclear weapons, if they gave up their own.

It wasn't. It had some weapons on their territory but could not use them. The red button was always in Moscow.

Re: How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA

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Post by ben_w »

general1465 wrote: post #358
paulddraper wrote: post #318

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s/leaver/lever/g (from context)

I apologize, English is not my first language, so sometimes I am freestyling it.

Don’t worry too much, most native speakers make mistakes like this every day.

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Post by earthnail »

lukan wrote: post #356
kakacik wrote: post #347

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Luckily for whole Europe russia is very incompetent at doing anything serious, and complex projects like war are as serious as it gets. They routinely fail at logistics even now, corruption and nepotism is how puttin' built his whole empire, you don't suddenly get competent people at key positions of power just because it would make sense. So whatever happens (apart from nuclear holocaust everywhere around the world)…

"I know it sounds gloomy, but only if you have your head too close to the screens daily. Worse had come and gone than incompetent russians." Depends where you live I suppose. The baltic states are rightfully worried and take it a bit more serious. And yes, russia on its own is not that dangerous to whole Europe. But russia in combination with north korean soldiers and supported by china .. and some european states th…

I don’t fully understand that bit about the EU turning evil. Care to elaborate?

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Post by dmitrygr »

> he calls on the EU to activate an existing blocking regulation (Regulation (EC) No 2271/96) for the International Criminal Court, which prevents third countries like the USA from enforcing sanctions in the EU. EU companies would then no longer be allowed to comply with US sanctions if they violate EU interests.

A cosmic game of uno? i reversed your reverse!

Re: How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA

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Post by samdoesnothing »

I don't really have an opinion here, I just find it funny that depending on who is being sanctioned and why, these threads can have very different opinions on the morality and legitimacy of government intervention. For example when the EU imposes on American companies, it's often cheered on. But when the tables turn it's criticized. Regardless of the legitimacy of the complaints, perhaps people can recognize that when you give governments power, they won't always use it in a way that you agree with, and perhaps it's better that they don't have that power to begin with. Just a thought :)

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Post by pyrale »

a2tech wrote: post #46
embedding-shape wrote: post #22

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> It used to be that the US stood out because it took the law seriously and believed in its ideals to do the right thing I think it looked like that, because the US always been very effective at propaganda, and until the internet and the web made it very easy for people to communicate directly with each other without the arms of media conglomerates. It's now clearer than ever that US never really believed in its own…

I’m an American and I can safely vouch that myself and most of the people I know deeply believe in the American ideals that have been presented as gospel for decades—fair play, hard work, rule of law, loving our neighbors (regardless of legal status), and to a one, believe that as soon as you swear your oath at the immigration court, you’re an American, regardless of the circumstances of your birth. The situation we…

> The situation we find ourselves in is that the American of today does not represent us well.

The thing the person you're replying to points out is that, while you may be earnest in your comment and representative of a majority of US citizen, that is not how the US as a country has worked for a very long time, and it was possible because you and your fellow citizen were either too ignorant or not involved enough.

I'll simply point to the history of Central and South America as evidence of my claim.

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Post by paulddraper »

general1465 wrote: post #358
paulddraper wrote: post #318

Earlier quoted context omitted.

s/leaver/lever/g (from context)

I apologize, English is not my first language, so sometimes I am freestyling it.

And perhaps you've learned British English.

It is spelled "lever."

But British English pronounces it like "beaver."

And American English pronounces it like "never."

Re: How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

aqme28 wrote: post #9

This is a weapon that the US has been honing for a long time. Pretty much every modern company has some footprint in the US (for example, maybe trades on a US stock market) and is liable for even mild sanctions violations to the tune of millions at least.

Ah, now I understand why Cloudflare was down.
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