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Russian EW is not even close to American. Excalibur just uses GPS, just about any EE here could come up with a jammer. Cruise missiles use terrain tracking in addition to other means so they can operate with in a contested environment.

Silicon valley’s foundation is building tools of war to defeat fascists. Today we face a new revisionist expansionist ethno state, and their tech companies are lock step with their government in matters of military and espionage. We can choose to either defend our democracy and the world’s most diverse nation or not.

I’m sure the Russians and Chinese would love that.

This has been a legitimate problem of progressivism which strongly holds it back from gaining more popularity. You cannot be for public transit and environmentalism while simultaneously being against punishing anti social behaviors on public transit. If public transport doesn’t feel safe to riders they will use personal transport instead. But the notion that some people may hold some responsibility for where they may be in life by their own decisions is so repulsive that instead no one can be held accountable for the most extreme behavior in broad day light. Liberals should be thankful that Conservatives have collectively tied an anchor around their necks to someone so broadly repulsive and criminal as Trump, as if there were simply a boring Conservative alternative elections would have been blowouts against them.

Intel has more employees than AMD, TSMC, and NVIDIA combined. When AMD leapfrogged them they had less employees than the number just laid off. They need capital to build out new fabs and that has to come from somewhere.

It’s not just existing, the Chinese give an order of magnitude more subsidies. The CHIPS act was always been too little. If it at least matched that of China, without considering how much more their subsides pays for in China in PPP terms, then we’d be in decent shape.

It didn't force them to forced them to develop capacity domestically. They always wanted to do that and have been spending princely sums yearly to try to get there. It removed the ability to have a cheap and gradual transition from foreign ones to domestic ones.

There's so much poor analysis on the subject which pretends that Beijing hasn't been dumping orders of magnitude more subsidies into Chip companies. Yes Huawei is still around, China wasn't going to let it fail no matter what. It was worth doing because without US withholding western technology the plan was to gradually replace piece by piece of the supply chain with domestic ones. Instead Chinese companies must do a lot more at once which comes at a greater costs.

The US has lots of fabs already, this isn’t some unknown.

That’s well and good for Intel, why would TSMC agree to any of those terms? You’re forgetting that CHIPS wasn’t just hand outs for Intel, but to bring other fabs to the US.

Sounds like an easy short for you then.

Infinitely more productive? That's a claim. China's rail has $900B in loans, and profits haven't covered servicing that debt for nearly a decade.

It passed a bit ago and nearly none of the funding has been actually given out. Fabs are already being delayed awaiting funds.

Perhaps I could interest you in some rent control too.

The samples are meant to survive the vacuum of space but can't handle some weather? That seems unlikely.

Where exactly do you think the people who afford those luxury condo live right now? In the woods? And just because "countless" have been built doesn't meant that there have been enough to meet demand.

It's standard for gaming with a regular screen. Not having VR controllers is a huge detriment for VR gaming. Yes there are some games which can work just using hands, but most existing VR titles will not work, and any titles developed for it will lack input complexity of ones which do support it.

>not to sound rude, but that's a bit of a stretch.

Not to me. I've spent several thousand hours in VR. When it comes to watching a video with someone else online, the most immersive way is in VR. Things like the now defunct Rabb.it or Watch Together are for many technical reasons better (no screen door, don't need any bulky headset). But it doesn't feel like being there with your friend.

>Difference is proprioception enables you to feel limbs that are actually there, which is not as good as tricking your brain to feel something that it's not there.

I've witnessed dozens of people who can "feel" a virtual touch from another avatar on their avatar. VR tech from 5 years ago was good enough to already elicit such reactions. The determinant seems to me to be time spent in a sufficiently immersive virtual world. And we've had those for many years already.

But it's not a mac and gaming is the current biggest application for VR. Apple could have gone on a spending spree and built up a family of games if they were interested.

During Covid & lockdowns, loads of people watched movies together. It's not much different from watching a movie with a friend at your own place. VR gives the activity sense of presence which is hard to describe, but basically it's even more of a social experience.

Relying on outliers for your argument isn't particularly compelling.

Apple's largely been affordable luxury that 100's of millions buy. They're more akin to buying Starbucks over Dunk donuts. Their products usually would be in the price range of 1.3-1.5x more expensive than competitors but offering something which is uniquely good. This product is 3.5X more expensive than the next comparable device while missing key capabilities.

Meta Quest Pro has much of what the Apple device offers while providing controllers for a significantly better gaming experience for $2500 cheaper. Considering the strongest consistent use case of VR thus far has been gaming, Apple has a huge miss IMO.

> Meta looks like it just got its lunch eaten pretty thoroughly

I don't see how you can come to that conclusion. Meta's offerings looks far better in my view. Unless, I'm missing something here, Meta's Quest Pro appears to provide basically 95% of the experience for $2,500 less, while providing great controllers for gaming. All in a form factor which IMO is better (no wired hip battery).

Russia isn't able to sell it to other customers for the same price as they are able to sell it to Europe. Transport, limited buyers all depress the price they can command. The Europeans aren't paying a huge markup - Oil is a commodity sold on an open market. Any oil that was originally from Russia had to been sold to an intermediary at a significant discount.

Sure, but before that gas was funding a self professed foe. It's much better to not fund your enemies.

Which drug are you thinking of? Because the recent one that was approved was both highly controversial because the efficacy is extremely questionable[1] and the entire theory of disease is in question as well [2].

[1]: https://www.npr.org/2021/06/07/1003964235/fda-approves-contr... [2]: https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/alzheimers-theo...

This doesn't sound legal, and if it is it shouldn't be.

>What China is doing meets the definition of genocide (even if they aren't killing people, they're killing their ability to be part of "a people").

What China is doing meets the textbook definition of genocide precisely because they are purposefully restricting birthrates.

Would you be pleased if that applied to all of your work too? That immediately anyone can start taking your work and making money off of it?

Copyright at least makes big players pay the original creators for the rights to the works. Netflix going ahead and making money off of subscribers while paying nothing to creators would be a significantly worse situation.