Nice MO (besides the voting manipulation)
Oh no, that argument about current capabilities ruins my whole schtick, let me pick up a PS so I can counter argue a red herring…
You must be from the US
edit: more than half of the people in the world live in Africa/Asia, I don’t see those regions being particularly affected by rare earth metal restrictions. Microsoft, OpenAI and Apple et al might be fucked though, and that means that scenario would be a good thing.
TIL a steady transfer of rare earth metals from China is necessary for all of the computers of today to continue working. Is it like a subscription. Rare earth pass, subscribe now.
Otherwise, ya, hermit life FTW
Richard Wolf had a very good take on all of these Silicon Valley “disruptors”. It’s basically been the neoliberal US american MO for the past quarter century:
Step 1: get a bunch VC money by promising the moon
Step 2: “disrupt” by undercutting the established moon due to lack of regulation. Even though it’s an inferior product, it’s VC subsidised, so it’s cheaper than the established businesses.
Step 3: due to lack of regulation, your business drives established operators to bankruptcy. This is basically dumping but the regulation hasn’t caught up.
Step 4: become the monopoly and suck as much money as possible from your customers to generate “shareholder value”
It’s the murican VC MO:
Why compete when you can buy the competition before it even develops?
We live in a timeline where the chances of that happening are non zero.
ACAB is retarded, especially in Europe.
I couldn’t read past the bio, gave me Linkedin PTSD and my confidence levels cratered. That’s the IT equivalent of fake quotes with abstract art backgrounds on facebook, it immediately disqualifies the author.
This is hyperloop levels of stupid about something that, when looking exclusively at the general public, has the same amount of uses as hyperloop did…
Or they can do what they normally do, steal it and then sue to be considered the original invento/founder and then make a Hollywood film about how they invented it/found it.
You’re being downvoted, this is a perfect example of:
*they hated Jesus because he spoke the truth 😂🤣
Is this what the proton dude meant?
They learned from Israel <3
James Bond was on the wrong side of history after all!
“Kids, play nice!”
Oh look, it’s the second shoe dropping.
Or, they fuck off leaving space for competitors to develop. Isn’t that the essence of capitalism? I guess the US keeps living in the “rules for thee but not for me” philosophy.
Yes, you would. Some of the best alternatives are German (like Hetzner) and they don’t take off because of US government influence stopping local businesses from accruing profitable contracts both in the private and public sector.
I’d love to see tariffs on US tech Invaders and a moratorium forbidding US companies from buying EU direct competitors for 20y. A cursory look over the meta anti-trust suit should tell you why. Meanwhile MS has killed Nokia, Skype, still owns (and continuously enshitifies) Mojang, just to name a few.
Deals with Australia are a dangerous thing. See AUKUS. I’d be unsurprised to see the US leverage their outsized influence over AU to pressure France.
So, it does look like the CEO of Proton was on to something.