It depends what you mean by ‘security’. Obviously, by introducing more layers, you have more places where exploits can life. However, the biggest threat by orders of magnitude is being tricked into giving stuff up, and that risk will remain constant.

Non-human, uncaring machines who amass and hoard wealth beyond human comprehension honestly doesn’t sound any different than what we have now.

Ah ok. That’s not how I understood your comment initially, but that’s reasonable.

Even if we can’t, should we not try? It’s only, as you say, a few thousand. We can spare the resources to keep them locked up/under house arrest/whatever for the rest of their natural lives if we must.

If we must execute people to heal the wounds inflicted by their sheer callousness, then so be it. But I don’t really accept the argument that anyone is “irredeemable” without even trying.

These two graphs cover different time periods. It looks like the monetization of X lines up with that hump of sharply increased knife crime at the end there.

What, do you think, would be the worst material from which to build a trebuchet and have it still function?

Whenever you enter a new (sub-)culture, you have to learn the social norms. Some people have an easier time, others have a harder time. There’s not much advice we can give you, since every culture is different. Some value privacy, others openness and honesty. Some communicate stuff via head nods, others by how far you stand away, and others by pitching the tone of their voices.

You will learn too, but it will take lots of exposure and trying. Some people will dislike you for not understanding, others will be forgiving. How much you should make allowances and whether it makes sense to tell them that you are autistic depends on their specific culture and personalities. So, uh, good luck.

note: (sub-)culture here does not mean only the nation you’re in, but it can change group-to-group. Essentially it’s the vibe that a group has.

It’s not really “know as 過労死” in Japanese. That’s just the words for “excess”, “work”, and “death”. That’s kinda like saying “it’s known as ‘overworking to death’ in Britain”.

So do goats, but they’re plenty tasty.

Quite often, I find that leaving a post up has value. It nukes context for the posts below it, which is bad. It’s also not great if only part of a larger post is bad, since you lose all of it. Lastly, with a deleted post, it’s unclear if the creator learned from it, or if they removed it to avoid the backlash.

That’s not making an argument for privacy, that’s being a jerk.

They are a supervillain from the Green Lantern comics

Perhaps the idea is to stimulate local manufacturing? But I don’t really see a reason why they wouldn’t just explicitly tell us that if that is the case.

The thing is, that billion dollar is worth a billion dollars of stuff. A weak currency is not the same as inflation. It’s just the value of your currency compared to all the other currencies.

If you are doing manufacturing, then having a weak currency is good. You buy raw materials locally, you take those abroad and sell them, and then you have more US dollars to buy raw materials again.

If you’re importing, though, then the opposite is true. You prefer a strong currency. The USA currently imports more than it exports.

Giving the boffins in the White House the benefit of the doubt, maybe they want to strengthen the manufacturing industry within the USA? They are losing pretty badly to China on that front. (China intentionally keeps its currency weak for this purpose, BTW). It’s pretty clear that the USA wants a war with China, but that’s pretty difficult to supply if you can’t actually make anything locally.

The message is nice, but “being nice” is straight up not a good way to achieve immortality. The people you’ve affected will remember you but one generation out and you’re forgotten. And that assumes people ruminate on the kind acts they’ve experienced a lot.

The people we remember are mostly remembered for doing grand things. Maybe that’s not a convenient truth, but it is true.

The question isn’t whether he was committing treason. The question is why would the author of the article omit this information. It’s highly relevant, even if you don’t believe it’s true.

Again, the article’s title (“Nobody is safe”) is expressly written to invoke fear. The article’s author could’ve written “… And he is accused of leaking information to the west; a flimsy excuse.” or something, but they chose not to included that information.

You’re missing the point.

China might use your data and hurt you in some far future, whereas the USA will use your data right now in a direct and violent way.

I can explain how the US government having access to the database of all of TikTok’s data might directly result in a visit from ICE. The path to damage caused by China may exist too, but is much more nebulous, and much more difficult for China to execute on.

Yes, if you are in a government position, or in the army, you probably shouldn’t use TikTok under China’s management. But Joe Schmoe from California has little to materially fear from them. But he does have reason to fear the USA government who might well come over and arrest him.