Human history is messy...

At least it was when I stopped playing a long time ago.

Yep. I would read all my email forwarded to my own servers, but the MicroShit stuff apparently trashes forwarding rules frequently. I could do automated diagnostics (sending test emails), but at some point things are to broken that investing time makes sense.

Works in marketing, politics, and other areas of human interaction.

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It's short sighted of a special kind, even.

2-3 decades ago, it was car manufacturing. Every car maker by then knew that the Chinese would steal the tech. There's a famous example of a Mercedes Benz factory making busses which for the first year or two sold like hot cakes. Then demand suddenly vanished. Research found that the chinese joint venture partner (you had to joint venture in those days, not sure about now) had copied the entire factory, brick by brick, one city away. An exact copy making the exact same busses, just without Mercedes Benz in the loop. And, of course, slightly cheaper.

Everyone knew that.

And yet everyone went to China. They figured that it was still profitable to accept that risk.

Of course, the fact that CEOs these days change every few years and get a severance package large enough that they can immediately retire doesn't exactly make them long-term thinkers.

Heck, stop getting any food that is available locally. It's insane that I can buy some food that was grown in South America, shipped to Asia for processing and packaging and then shipped to Europe for less than the same food grown in Europe.

There's quite a bit of utter insanity there.

Yes, but this cuts both ways. These days, a LOT of essential day-by-day supplies are manufactured in China. If China and the G7 stopped all trade tomorrow, the damage to the G7 would be bigger and more immediate than that on China.

True. Germany is learning that lesson now that cheap energy from Russia is no longer available and its export business can't compete anymore.

Now get Skyrim running on it!

True (wrt x86 still being present), it's just that ARM may have realized a bit too late that their Neoverse pricing might have been a bit too generous.

Their licensing model isn't complicated. You either get a design license or you license cores/core families. Amazon, for example, is (or has been) using fairly bog standard Neoverse setups with small-ish L3. If they intend to license newer iterations of Neoverse then they will pay accordingly.

Anyone with a full design license (such as Apple) gets access to the entire version. Apple fairly recently updated to a v9 license (M4, probably others) so they're good for awhile. Each individual license may include exceptions, and of course ARM could leverage those for additional revenue opportunities if they can convince companies like Apple to agree to more-restrictive design licenses.

Last I knew they were moving to all web-apps with web-terminals for everybody.

Yes. And if Trump's massive abuse of that power is not enough, nothing will be.

Yes. Welcome to the newest "shithole" country.

In some parts of Europe, that would mean executives getting punished personally if caught.