cdmckay

I believe they lost their license when they sold XScale to Marvell.

Funny, that would make me want to use Ansible more.

Can you give some examples of tools optimized for x86 that would run worse on ARM?

Apple invests an enormous amount into R&D to make their devices. For example, they make their own CPUs, which happen to be some of the fastest ARM chips you can get.

I don’t think it’s any different from consoles. The main difference is that with a console you know what the deal is.

With an App Store app, the problem is you don’t know if Apple is going to deny your app on an inconsistently applied rule after spending 2 years making it.

It’s a public insurer?

And when he delivers the API in 2 months, it's not what the customer wants and has a bunch of problems that are difficult to fix because he delivered it all at once instead of incrementally.

I've never heard that before.

Is there an article or some source you can link to so I can read about it?

What less than ethical history are you referring to? Have they deleted posts before?

He didn’t not support gay marriage, he actively gave money to oppose it. That’s a little different.

When they had the cryptography restriction, I’m pretty sure it was still ok in Canada to export it. That’s why OpenBSD is based in Calgary.

It’s also a bit different when you’re catching up due to interference/imperialism by foreign countries (like the US) in your country’s affairs from the past 100+ years.

Why wouldn’t the state help develop its industries?

Yes, the US government is well known for its lack of corruption.

The US has their own aristocracy, they just don’t have titles: the Rockefellers, the Mellons, etc.

Shall we expropriate them too?

Because American companies definitely don’t sell your data.

What issues with iPhones?

They still have it where I live (Catalonia, Spain).

Also, the fact that was repealed doesn’t really say whether or not it was a good policy or not.

Isn’t the USA doing this very thing with sanctions against Venezuela and Iran?

Even if you’re not an American company, you can be punished by the USA for doing business in countries that they have sanctioned.

So let’s not pretend like this is some horrible future, it’s already the present.

I think it is helpful because it’s asking for consistency.

People are (rightfully) outraged when a protestor dies in Hong Kong, but protestors also die in the US.

For example, the Kent State shootings: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings

The point is that if you’re demanding a certain standard from China or other countries, you should demand that in the US as well.

So China is bad because they invested in eastern EU countries?

The GP is calling for consistency. Calling out “whataboutism” does not make that an invalid point.

> that keeps its people in chains

The US has the highest incarceration rate in the world, by a large margin, almost 7 times that of China.

I think the word you want is colonized, not modernized.

The US let Canada be Canada by forcing them to renegotiate NAFTA and then unilaterally imposing steel and aluminum tariffs while the negotiations were going on as leverage?

The US is by far the biggest bully in the world and has been since WW2.

My impression would be that China isn't going to flip a switch after 50 years and suddenly switch to the Chinese system.

I would imagine they would do it gradually like they're doing now.

Or maybe the people in China are happy with their system? Not sure how that makes them cowards.

China has already stated their real intentions. After 50 years of autonomy, there will be no 1 country, 2 systems. They stated this when they took over control of HK and Macau.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_country,_two_systems

Nickel and dime’ing is easier than innovating.

Which companies were blocked by China from operating?

You realize that sanctions also kill people through lack of supplies like medicine being available, people being unable to economically support themselves, and, if the sanctions cause the government to collapse, all the death that results from that.

So let’s not pretend sanctions are somehow nonviolent.