And, very soon... every game you buy for PS or XBox will quite probably have this happen... so what if you spent $90 for GTA8 when the license agreement for the songs used in it expires and they delete the game from your inventory (even though you bought it 3 weeks ago).
Remember when you bought the new CD from Busta Rhymes in 2000, and it still works today? Weren't those days great?
$29 when Stack Overflow did it five years ago.
https://stackoverflow.blog/202...
Many of their customers are in the US anyway. It makes sense to build there if that's what your customers want. Of course politics plays a role too!
It's not just the chips but also the packaging and supply chain. Making chips in Arizona that have to be sent back to Taiwan for packaging is costly.
The existing TSMC plant is at an early stage of a long term plan. That overseas packaging is likely temporary.
There's another angle that Trump likely would hate. The Arizona plants allow TSMC to legitimately send a bunch of Taiwanese to the US on L visas.
Really? He frequently comments on being in favor of legal immigration and legal guest workers, especially those of a highly skilled nature.
Just wondering if TSMC is doing this because they think it makes financial sense (capitalism) or because a certain republican made an offer they can't refuse? (dictatorship)
Domestic manufacture can be required for use in Department of Defense related projects, national security, secure supply chain in the event of war, etc. Its like having a foreign company open a factory in the US to be eligible for a contract. Happens under all administrations.
During covid this idea was extended to medical stuff too, like the protective equipment that was no longer made domestically at the time. I guess public health stuff could fall under national security too.
If the punishment is a fine its legal for a price.
The whole effort of design of software systems is ultimately the effective management of complexity. Complexity of features that provide real world value is the developers problem to manage. If "technical debt just keeps compounding" it is probably best to find a better developer.
I love scapegoating individual developers as much as the next guy, but if you take a look at the Win32 API, you'll find loads of fun "features" such as:
- Every single function that takes a string has two implementations: one that ends with the letter A (and takes its strings as ASCII) and one that ends with the letter W (and takes its strings as UCS-16). And then it has a preprocessor-define (with no suffix) that gets expanded to either one implementation or the other, based on your compiler settings.
- windows.h defines preprocessor-tokens for min() and max(), which means any C++ program that ever calls std::min() or std::max() will error out with a very strange compile-time error, if it included windows.h first; the work-around is to define NOMINMAX first to prevent windows.h from polluting the namespace.
- Modern windows is perfectly capable of arbitrary-length file-paths, but ships by default with a 260-character filepath limit anyway, "to preserve backwards compatibility with older software that expects that limitation to be enforced". To get correct behavior you have to hand-modify your registry; otherwise you find out about this limitation when you go to unzip a
These are all defects that other OS's simply don't suffer from, either because the other OS's were designed correctly from the beginning, or because the people in charge of the other OS's long ago took the hit (in short-term breakage) and fixed the problems rather than letting them linger forever to preserve backwards compatibility.
All Windows developers (good and bad) have to deal with these issues, probably forever, and every line of code they add to work around these problems has to be supported and debugged and tested as well, hence the damage compounds.
That is, isn't this illegal? Or is it just that no other presidency thought of doing this particular cash grab?
Before Trump
No, before Clinton. That is when the new normal occurred. Where a President could lie to a judge while under oath and remain in office because the majority likes his agenda. After leaving office, Clinton negotiated a deal where he had to surrender his law license due to his ethical failings.
This is the problem with setting new normals, the other side will go there too. Its never a one time event.
Before Trump, it was a cultural norm that a President of the United States was expected to follow ethical and moral guidelines as well as laws; not only because anything less would be dishonorable and a disservice to his country, but also because otherwise he would pay a steep political price for his unethical behavior. Trump's most significant political innovation has taken the form of figuring out how to convince a plurality of the American public that the only real standard for Presidential behavior is "whatever you can get away with".
The Constitution and the proper functioning of our government assume people of good moral and ethical character who will at least try to abide by the spirit, not just the letter, of the law and do what's best for the country -- you know that whole "oath" thing. No administration is perfect, but we really don't have that with this Administration, who actively tries to get away with whatever they can in furtherance of their self interests and agendas, even if it's not what the people want or is in the best interest of the country.
isn't this illegal?
It depends. If it really is just an API there might be legality problems. However if its about colocation where a subscriber gets a “closer” connection to the truth server publishing the info, that might be legal. The later sounds like what the algorithmic traders are doing. Get a close connection to AP and other news agency lines.
Too much is not enough.
