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I eagerly await legal challenges for this.

I think it's rather naïeve to think that nation states are going to be the main actors of this battle.

If you get some banks and companies trying to enforce compliance to a regulatory system, maybe. Anything outside of that does not cause a war in my mind.

If this case comes down to who the consumers hate more it has to be Epic games and Fortnite.

Sure Apple has a bad timeline but they did what they were allowed to do and Epic Games only attack is the environment it happened in.

I understand this but I was trying to get OP to decribe the middle east as was her/his example.

Right I was asking him to describe the areas/tribes in the middle east that were split between a few countries.

I mean the oligopoly of labour markets globally (especially for tech) has really not changed and there is less VC cash out there to sate people who want to work for their own vision.

Mixed success. For google it has been somewhat a failure but the business model for disrutpion was exported and a few companies have been able to take root.

A few weed like companies (resiliant but too small) have popped up to cover how the landscape never really changed.

> not consider much of the existing structure

Could you provide examples of such structures?

Too little too late. Now there are competing emotive arguments that bury the lede.

I'm not liking the timeline either. News agencies are really dropping the ball on this one.

US foreign policy on telecoms, freedom of speech, ect is full on clown car right now.

Special interests are so cram packed we cant even see the windshield of the car we're driving.

Im starting to agree that US should or potentially could have a larger share on the legwork for telecoms, fiber, and community servicing. I'm not sure how long starlink ect will be competitive with the bandwith, total information speeds in the future.

Now all an agitator needs to do now is to send a few obviously dq'ed ballots to influence how people view the election.

Perhaps the days of TMS from a distance are not too far ahead.

I think the reduction of occupational hazards from deindustralization has made the largest impact.

>No matter what TikTok does

In my opinion the claim of persecution based on origin is unfounded. The apps have demonstrated potentially illegal actions by gathering the data how they do. I don't think they are the only ones that do this in the market but that is besides the case. I hope more get unmasked. This EO may produce precedent in regining intrusive borederline illegal spying (intrusive data gathering) via social media sites and applications. POTUS does have the power to reign in companies operating in the US market especially when demonstrating potential harm to citizens.

I'm worried about the asymmetry of enforcement as much as you are. However, I wouldn't put it past the current POTUS to do something stupid and invalidate his athority.

Please read the original paper to look at the data otherwise there is not much to discuss

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17761-w

agreed

I don't think it was over a kiloton

You think this hasnt already been happening?

We are truly in the age of rich data pirates. I dont see them becoming extinct any time soon with decent ROI like this.

I would be curious to learn the % of origins for most attacks.

[1] Incompetence by dumb employees

[2] Insider attacks

[3] Paid cybersecurity protection racket that take down strong systems with stolen tech

[4] Unskilled or understaffed security employees

Perhaps a potential USPS credit union would disrupt payday loans.

> I don’t know what this means.

That means expanding these requirements to other departments will need sigificant political backing and will be very unpopular. I do view benefit funding requirements as necessary.

> politicians like to be able to pay current employees with future taxpayer money and advertise they are keeping taxes low now so they get elected

looks like you agree with me on that.

> Not letting USPS set it’s prices is what might make it non competitive with UPS/Fedex.

That is an entirely different discussion that would garner my interest.

I agree that this was a kneecapping and completely disagree that we need to privatize the USPS. Current administration has gained the ability to raise the price for packages coming in from China[1] and it has tried to charge Amazon more using USPS by witholding a federal 10 billion loan[2]. There are many more instances that reliably indicate the USPS recieves consistent hostility from the federal government.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/25/postal-compromise-close-as-u...

[2] https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/trump-postal-service-cha...

> If anything, all entities promising retirement benefits should be forced to do it the way USPS does

That would be nice but [insert financing excuse here] others cant do it too.

> Too bad it didn’t apply to governments, because if it did, then my kids and I wouldn’t be stuck paying for labor performed 30+ years ago because all the city and state governments decided they can just promise to pay people with future taxpayers’ money by underfunding defined benefit pension plans and retiree healthcare benefits.

Yes but forcing just USPS to do it was an attack on USPS because it has to compete with private companies. State and local run organizations have no such competition thus 'locally too big to fail'.

I've heard of some interesting talk about making a working USPS federal credit union/bank for a variety of services to the public that might prove lucrative and something that would potentially ease USPSs cash troubles. I'm not an expert into the economics about that and it might prove disruptive to a lot of businesses.

Just as a reminder for everyone reading this the JCPOA has been violated for almost a year by Iran and they seem to be much closer at maintaining weapons grade enrichment and warheads.

> Trust is the most expensive thing in the world, and you can lose it so easily

Amen to that.

> The cutoff “not only compromises OTF’s mission but sabotages USAGM’s as well

> Users “are asking, what’s going to happen now? What are we going to use? Who has our data? . . . Are tools like Signal and Tor going to be safe to use if they lose the funding to update their code regularly?”

I'm feeling it Mr. Krabs please stop witholding payments.

It's like watching people who dont care destroy what's left of the unknown on our planet for selfish ends. There is knowledge that humans will never access because of need and greed.

We need every child to watch and learn about this as they grow up. They will be fighting climate change for the rest of their life.

> Our calculations suggest that at least a power of several petawatts is needed

Good to know

It's not very effective against places with low US economy exposure.

Economics dont happen in a vacuum