It's a good summary of much of the specifics of the situation but his conclusions aren't quite right. Ignoring Taiwan in relation to the overall strategic conflict with China's regional dominance ambitions is either disingenuous or ignorant to reality. Letting China do to Taiwan what it has done with Hong Kong, or more likely, Xinjiang is not the end but rather the beginning.
I am incredibly ignorant of this market but I'm struggling to figure out the value of replacing a $100k/yr tractor driver in relation to the overall margins from acres worked?... I mean. a tractor doesn't need to drive the acreage year round. The food produced per acre seems like a lot.. I'm guessing a tractor works a field a couple times a year? so 10% or less of a $100k/yr salary?.. Is this really worth it? A cross-country truck driver is limited to the amunt of cargo it can haul, and is needed constantly. I get the value there. I must be missing something on farm tractors..
I really appreciate you putting this out there. Doubly so with the respectful treatment of it. And for the record my take is very similar to Moxies. But, many comments so far have attempted to refute your critique, fundamentally, on a point of scale (i.e. 100% of Mastadon is a rounding error to overall messaging traffic, so the percent that run servers is doubly irrelevant).
From a VC backed point-of-view that is a legitimate point of push back at this stage. From a technology leader point of view, it is not, exactly. Early adopters have _something_ to adopt early, because of these fringe groups. This is where creativity starts and eventually meets engineering and productization. Some things do shake out to 90/9/1 for _all_ internet traffic in a certain category. Some don't. I think pressures also ebb and flow. I remeber when Googles moniker of "don't be evil" wasn't an ironic, bitter joke.
Except that the timing of those don't line up. Money supply increasing leads inflation, there are almost no instances of CPI increase leading inflation. [edit to add:] (except one very small blip at the beginning of recovery from the great depression)
My personal running definition is something like: "The Web3 vision is that by leveraging publicly distributed, trustless cryptography, a contract and payment system can be tightly coupled to services, thus enabling truly decentralized coordination, execution, and delivery."... it's pretty dry. I have been writing as an exercise to force my analysis and understanding of this topic as of late. Here is my longwinded version:
The piece was beautiful, and very much worth the long read. I think if it had some kind of reading time estimate at the top of the article, the random-click-throughs may be less put off. I've been maning to do that for pieces I plan on writing. When picking up a book you can feel how long a read it is, flipping through a magazine you can see how many pages an article is. A single scrolling web page that you click to, blindly, can ambush you from a time cost..
The same happened to me. Bought a few things over the span of a decade and a half, sold a few things. Never any problems or returns, on either side, all good reviews. After about 8-9 months of not using my account got the same summary execution with no recourse. I think I originally opened my account in like 99 or 00 such and had a nice short handle.. It pissed me off enough to never use eBay again.
Your statistics are wildly off:
UK Homicide rate 2018: 1.20/100k US Homicide rate 2018: 4.96/100k
And making something illegal is not the key factor in comparing countries:
UK Drug Overdose Deaths 2020: 7.6/100k. US Drug Overdose Deaths 2020: 28.1/100k.
As long as the container isn't leaky, the benefit there is that it makes recovery, back-ups, and isolation easier. For example, dev VM isn't where you would have your creds for bank, SSH keys, etc. So isolation of (more) sensitive, daily-use data is easier. Snapshots of VM are cleaner and fast to rollback, etc. The OP was looking for reasonable mitigations that don't make daily usage a complete drag. I think VMs or other containers fit some of that bill.
It's a lot of work, and congrats on getting this far, but I would imagine there would be a bit of a trust hurdle to overcome being a platform provider? You have to prove performance and reliability obviously, but also the fact that you aren't end-running your customers or stealing IP, I would wager. Free is always a red flag. How are you planning on addressing the trust factor?
I do think there is, maybe a purposeful almost?, disregard for environmental conditions. The epidemiologist in question, Dr. Tegnell (interesting that the article made a distinct effort not to use any of his credentials or titles), did say that if you try to compare things in context that the results are very inconsistent: "Covid doesn’t care about history or language, it cares about socio-economic status or migrant backgrounds or crowded housing. That’s where Sweden stands out in a Nordic context, but not so much in a EU context,”" Per capita comparisons are almost meaningless as factors such as population density, public transit, climate, socio-economics, and others have significant impact.
Combined with an understanding of the technology involved, executive rule making, and the most probable implementation for liability and profit on the part of the car companies. And this federal mandate will deny citizens abilities to disbale telemetry or the network functions of the car. That is how it will play out.
It provides central surveillance, monitoring, and control with a legal mandate to interface with domestic law enforcement. It is the government version of Apples photo surveillance system except controlloing peoples mobility, which is far more dangerous.
This is the same form of false banner under which apple is deciding your photos and your phone are no longer your private property. The ultimate goal is centralized monitoring, surveillance, and control. They are barely trying to disguise it anymore.
It actually is possible, but at very low bitrate. I've seen more than a few demo's showing at leats 9600 baud is possible. But you need someone on the other end to set up the gateway.
It got me wondering if the increase lift capacity would be added factor, but quick calculation shows that it would only gain an extra ~1% of lift. So it would really just be a cost question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifting_gas
Agree with some of that. It is a concern when an elected official, with no other source of income, becomes wealthy in office. But their leading bullet point isn't about that. It's a billionaire, who _then_ ran for office. It's very clearly trying to equate wealth with wrong-doing by association and implication, without any specific claims or substantiation. And it undercuts the story where it is cases of bribes, theft, and corruption.
It also seems a foregone conclussion that if you are wealthy, you don't deserve privacy. Admittedly, some of that gets fuzzy if you run for a public office, but that isn't really the underlying notion being put forward here.
Hmm.. the article reads more like biased, sensationalism than unearthing some grand cosnpiracy. If there are some actual crimes mixed up in this they undercut the importance of those with foaming-at-the-mouth hype bits like "billionaire owns a $22mil home in france".. Are they saying it was purchased with tax payer money? or bribes? That is just one exmaple of the overwrought nature of the piece. I think they do justice a disservice by trying to imply (without explicitly calling _or_ substantiating) wrong-doing everywhere there may be wealth. Focus on the actual crimes..
You are conflating corporate income tax on profits with all of the other taxes businesses pay. Those get passed through as cost of doing business and ultimately into the cost of goods sold. Regarding profit, you are also missing the point of profit objectives, which get tacked onto the cost of goods sold, because taxes aren't a surprise to businesses..
By that logic the poor in the US have the most power? As they pay generally close to zero direct taxes (indirectly they pay the corporate taxes and gas taxes and such as hidden costs in their daily consumption)...
I've supported IJ for years and watched them fight these civil forfeiture cases onesey-twosey, but I really don't understand why they haven't gotten to SCOTUS and why something so blatantly against the constitution is allowed to stand (among many things, I know, but...)