This presumably, finally explains why there's so much pineapple-motif furniture.
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> The problem isn't just the data, it's the propaganda and the reach of the CCP.
The problem is the method by which each entity might effect their goals.
In the US: Go to FISA/FISC and request a warrant. Otherwise, request a surveillance warrant in normal court.
In China: Go to the company in the dead of night, and tell them what they need to do.
In the former, you at least have a paper trail. In the latter, you have nothing.
Interesting parallel to learned helplessness. [1] (Note: not making a value judgement, just using the psychological terminology)
If (a) you are a company that exists in a state where the government can and does intervene at any time for purposes of social engineering, then (b) you would expect, over time, to develop a culture that deprioritizes considering social consequences, as (c) it's not something that's reliably in your control.
By taking a more active hand in private-social interactions, it would seem the CCP ironically makes those same companies care less about it proactively, and simply follow the letter of the law.
If they want access to the US market, perhaps they should take that up with their own government.
I feel like this always get short shrift in whataboutism discussions.
In China, everything is by law in service and subordinate to the Party.
In the US, not.
That seems like a pretty big difference.
Work in semi-related process automation, and this. So much!
Software engineers can't begin to understand what happens when you change a hotkey, when someone has been doing something 100 times a day for 10 years.
Source?
Last I saw, there was 48 hr+ viral persistence on plastic and steel. [1] [2]
[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019567012...
What about when we consider the opposite? How many insignificant-in-the-moment-seeming changes never effect any sort of larger change?
Assuming diversification is the goal, your comment would only be true (that 1+1 and 2 are equivalent) if the constituent parts of hyper-scale companies operated independently. In reality, I'd say that rarely happens.
At best, you get something like Facebook (there can only be so many true chiefs). At worst, you get something like GE (cannibalizing viable businesses to feed others).
And all of this is to say nothing of that fact that, historically, Amazons don't become 2x Amazons with the frequencies that {mid-cap} become {large cap}, simply by virtue of total addressable market maximums in mature business areas.
And yet there seems to be a surprisingly little amount of "What choices did Asian countries make in 2002, 2003, and 2004? Which were effective / ineffective? What were their economic impacts?"
Instead, at the highest Western government levels, there seems to be an assertion that no one has ever faced anything like this before, and the choices that need to be made are without precedent.
The important point is not what people believe, but what the CCP itself believes.
It seems natural for all governments brought to power through revolution to overestimate and fear the power of revolution. Especially when they knowingly don't have a firm grasp on public thinking, due to continued suppression of open, free media.
If we started seeing local governments having openly KKK or neo-Nazi majorities, the freedom of speech balance would substantially alter.
First amendment rights in the US are typically circumscribed only via a requirement to show actual, existential harm.
What generally happens is: (1) associate is dispatched to pick an online order, listed by SKU and bring it up front, (2) they arrive at the bay and start looking around for a match, (3) while they are supposed to verify down to the SKU level, sometimes they say "DeWalt 20V circular saw" = "DeWalt 20V circular saw", grab it, and move on, (4) repeat for the next order.
That's assuming there's stock in the store. In the event it's Ship-to-Store, you add the additional touch of warehouse getting it right. Although in my experience that rarely goes wrong (because automatic verification, etc as things go out).
I always do a SKU / item check if there's anything that might be a problem. In my personal experience, it happens ~1:50 orders (usually with easily confusable substitutions).
Perhaps somewhere we could take lessons from with regards to public health policy.
Unfortunately, no country had ever dealt with anything like this. /s
I don't think that follows. You realize the world is capacity constrained on leading-node fab capacity? And that by going fabless, AMD now has no guaranteed capacity?
When in reality we're talking about a greater portion of venture capital.
Lockheed Martin. Boeing. Raytheon. General Dynamics. Northrop Grumman. Huntington Ingalls. United Technologies.
It's essentially the performance of a composition vs the composition question again: at what point am I mimicking someone to the extent they have a valid claim on a portion of my work?
I expect it'll enter the courts a few milliseconds after someone clones a dead actor (without their estate's permission) for a new performance.
There's always been an inherent tension in the US distinction between a law of nature and a creative work though. It seems a bit silly for me to claim patent / trademark on a vector that encodes my likeness.
E.g. training off Schwarzenegger and offering an Arnold transform