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OpticalWindowson New Intel CEO rehiring retired CPU architects

We need aged and revitalized tech to breakthrough some copyrights.

I'm sure this type of tech can be rebooted at any time depending on the need. I think a sustainable commercial model would be difficult with the global slowdown. Many of these moonshots might sadly end earlier than anticipated. I don't think COVID is the end of all momentum in startups but it sure feels like it may take a generation to return.

OpticalWindowson Facebook sues two Chrome extension devs for scraping user data

It's malicious actors all of the way down /s

OpticalWindowson CIA rebrands to encourage diversity but identity of logo designer remains secret

After looking at the logo I know why

OpticalWindowson Airbus hit as new US tariffs come into force

there is no reason to reduce tariffs in the immediate future and tariffs are typically a long term function for them to work. the true winners of this is embraer, Bombardier, and a few others.

Driving a wedge between us, eu is laser focused by many non eu, us companies due to the amount of possible market share gain. China is coming out with their own air transport company as well as a few other industries.

So really it is US, EU vs the world in some of these interests.

OpticalWindowson Intruder at the top of the 20 meter amateur band?

Neat. thanks for the article lmh

OpticalWindowson What Is a Gamma Squeeze in the Context of Stock Trading?

agreed this is a very interesting thread

OpticalWindowson Robot Made of Ice Can Repair and Rebuild Itself

Abominable Icerobot: an attempt

OpticalWindowson Facebook Indefinitely Suspends Trump

100% of the difference was military authorization for extra security and media slant. On some level this was allowed to happen.

OpticalWindowson Sealed U.S. Court Records Exposed in SolarWinds Breach

globally iran looks like they want one.

OpticalWindowson Sealed U.S. Court Records Exposed in SolarWinds Breach

I can't imagine the amount of political capital they gained from that information. By political capital I mean blackmail.

OpticalWindowson Paris's 400-year-old book stalls fight to survive

The tourism industry is dead without local government support. It will remain on life support until COVID is over or the lenders decide to scrap it. Pivoting to a local market will likely result in less revinue and a lot more competition. Banks might see an opportunity in creating other jobs but I doubt they will invest with a lot of uncertainty.

OpticalWindowson EU Signs €145B Declaration to Develop Next Gen Processors and 2nm Technology

so thats where the NATO money went

OpticalWindowson SolarWinds hackers were able to access Microsoft source code

Nobody has a choice but to trust microsoft. Amazing.

OpticalWindowson Erdoğan’s censorship now targeting media outlets in Europe

He seems dead set on buying into the chinese model of governance, russian military hardware, and larger regional ambitions. All of those still seem to be out of his grasp.

OpticalWindowson North Dakota needed to hire Latvians to manage an ancient state computer system

>There's just no need to pay Americans for work like this

Is Doug Burgum aware that not every american is rich and has well paying jobs?

>not when we can save taxpayer money with international contractors

So lets give away taxpayer money away from our communities?

OpticalWindowson A new population of blue whales was discovered hiding in the Indian Ocean

Hide and seek champions of 2020?

OpticalWindowson UK and EU agree Brexit trade deal

Crap and suspicious timing. All of the emotional maniuplation for this? shame

OpticalWindowson Things You're Allowed to Do

so if you are poor there you're much less likely to get richer relative to your neighbors? nice

OpticalWindowson City’s $2.5M relief fund depleted within hours

This is the tip of the iceberg

OpticalWindowson Things You're Allowed to Do

I appreciate how nordic countries have a somewhat income balanced fines and practices and they still have decent amount of wealth inequality (much less than US however)

OpticalWindowson SEC charges Ripple and two executives

Thank you for your great writeup and sources.

OpticalWindowson Things You're Allowed to Do

Well things are way worse about this in europe than in the US. US justice system is selectively varied compared to others. Europe you just pay the flat fee. In the US you can get a little popular/street justice into it.

OpticalWindowson The web is 30 years old today

There may be a few sites I don't know about but I wish there was a reputable resource that saved archived information. I think libraries should archive everything on the internet if they haven't already. It would be really neat to give students the ability to surf the web of 2001's ecetera.

By archiving the internet I mean everything. Search engine performance on each date, ads, social traffic.

OpticalWindowson How AltaVista, the first good search engine, fell into the digital abyss

>Google has definitely just plain delisted a lot of older sites

This really sucks. What are the alternatives?

OpticalWindowson Zoom Executive Accused of Disrupting Calls at China’s Behest

yes getting the entire western world to use compromised telecoms seems like a great idea

OpticalWindowson Amazon Is Allowing a Chinese Knock-Off to Destroy Our Startup

Look enforcement is typically difficult for anything being sold. The problem is many magnitudes larger than current abilities of enforcement agencies and a lot of these actions are in very grey legal areas internationally.

I believe we could legislate and leverage the executive to force agreements but anything done will likely be an uphill battle with no end.

OpticalWindowson Amazon Is Allowing a Chinese Knock-Off to Destroy Our Startup

as long as wealthy US investors get a cut nobody in the legislative will do shit.