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Can I get this particular Intel rig without the Intel ME backdoors courtesy of the Talpiot program?

No? OK then, I'll stick with Ryzen.


...Which itself has similar "backdoors"


[citation needed]


https://www.google.com/search?q=AMD+backdoor&rlz=1C1GCEA_enA...

Too many links over the years to specifically cite just ONE


Not according to security researchers.


This is nonsense. AMD has it's equivalent of the ME and it's under a lot less scrutiny. If it didn't have "backdoors" it would be a miracle.



Then you just have a system with AMD PSP security issues


Why are people even using Rust and Go, aside from employer say-so? They're not formally defined, there aren't multiple functioning implementations, it's just not a good idea.


Go has a supported alternative implementation, gccgo.


There are formally defined Rust subsets (see Rustbelt).


Thousand Talents Program. I hope these engineers don't plan on going back to Taiwan, it probably won't be allowed by the Communists.


The deepfakes which support the officially blessed narrative will not receive scrutiny, while authentic videos will be "proved" to be deep fakes by some black box machination.

But we've known not to trust anything we didn't personally see ourselves for many decades.


Yet any of the smart home speakers on the market is more than capable of compressing audio.


Look further up the thread. The bandwidth required to transport such data has not been observed. I don't think anyone would argue that these companies wouldn't have the ability to build a device that streamed everything home. It's that to do so would mean there'd be some observable effect in the device's network usage that has not been observed.


Maybe they should start charging Amazon more money to deliver packages than what it actually costs the USPS? Nah that's crazy.


False claim.


Citation needed...


Politifact Article stating the Postal Service doesn't lose money delivering Amazon Packages:

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/apr/02/donald-tru...


I don't believe that's a reliable source, sorry.


The politifact article cites its sources, including https://about.usps.com/news/statements/080117.htm which says "By law our competitive package products, including those that we deliver for Amazon, must cover their costs."

Whats your source that they charge amazon less than it costs them to deliver?


Feel free to link the sources from your Facebook feed claiming otherwise. You're clearly the type to thoroughly vet their news source. I have no doubt it'll be ironclad.


What they're not saying is that the Chinese will have to completely shut down many of their silicon foundries because of a lack of specialized chemicals only available from the USA and Japan.


Until now it hasn’t been cost effective to develop internal sources for these supplies.

Now the US has provided an (essentially infinite) price support for domestic production and all the infrastructure and supply chain that go along with it.


The pressure really must on PLA Hacking Unit 61398 to up their theft of industrial IP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLA_Unit_61398


>It will soon be just as cheap to have your food prepared and delivered as going to the grocery store and making it yourself.

No, no it won't. Why would a person claim something so ridiculous? I can understand if you never leave your little Soho / Bay bubble, but do real actual people honestly think this?


This seems to be already the case in India with the Dabbawalla system [1], so it's not an outrageous idea - it's simply replacing home cooks with tiny commercial kitchens. They can buy produce in bulk at much cheaper rates than you'll find at your grocery store.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabbawala


It's not the case, because it's not possible for food to be cheaper after prep and delivery. It's cheap, but not cheaper than making your own food from scratch. And there's no oversight or health inspections for this mass prepared food either.

But you know this, it's why you said "seems to be" instead of "is," very nicely done.


You're completely ignoring the food cost I just mentioned. For example, the cost of a Big Mac is around 1 dollar. Try making a burger with ingredients from the supermarket for $1, it is impossible. Things easily cost 5-10x as much in retail vs their bulk prices, it is much cheaper to cook for 50 customers at once than for a single meal.

This system is removing all of the other costs of operating a restaurant, so unless you also buy ingredients in 50kg bags for your home, they can definitely make it cheaper.


Are you a natural born citizen? You should know exactly why things work out this way if you are and there's no excuse for your confusion. If you're a green card holder or other non-citizen you can be forgiven for being ignorant, I suppose other nations don't teach people how America works. But if you're on a path to citizenship in any capacity please learn how America works and why. Otherwise you'll be frustrated and unsure of why things work the way they do forever.


Oh no, not the poor poor commercial real estate developers! Anyway all the malls died like decades ago. Have you been to a mall lately? As far as I can tell the only people who go are folks engaged in drug transactions and busloads of tourists from SE Asia.


This isn't just malls. This is concerning ALL retail/commercial real estate, a lot of which has still been heavily used.

Behind this is a lot of overvalued debt, which is at risk. Large institutions essentially treat this debt like dollars and have a bunch of their holding spread across a bunch of mortgage-backed securities such as these. Effectively, debt needs to be written off, and as such, "dollars" will disappear. This could result in some serious deflation.


Sadly the RE people will be fine. They were sitting on a lot of cash, and they're now converting retail spaces into high-tech distribution centers.

The people who will be screwed are retail workers.


The implication is that this, along with the rest of the current collapsing state of the USA is going to just exacerbate poverty and local decline across large parts of the country.


Malls are also a place to walk, shop, and play for families during winter. In colder areas it's often dark sooner so outdoor activities are more limited.


Here in Australia, the big shopping centres (aka Malls), get their biggest crowds in summer. Xmas helps but also there is often a contiguous 3-7 day stretch of >40C(>104F) maximums with sweltering overnights in the cities.

Not everyone has aircon.

Not looking forward to that if COVID is still kicking our arse.


They used to be. That all stopped in the 1990's.


It’s still done over here in the Virginia Tri State (including what Amazon is trying to force us to call Liberty Landing). It’s just that all the malls are outdoors “town centers”, so people still go out for ice skating, like music, winter beer festivals, fireworks, and movies but we do it in the freezing cold.

I think the idea of a indoor mall was great, but it’s a big building that’s hard to maintain.

Maybe future societies will just have geodesic domes around town centers to get the best of both worlds.


Maybe for you. I'm not much of a mall-goer, but every once in a while, I find myself in one of few that are (or were, pre-COVID19) still thriving, and they seem very much alive in this respect.


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