Makt it simple. It's a two team system. It's not two party. Parties have ideals and common beliefs. Supporting Team Red or Team Blue has very little to do with ideals. It's all about the sport now.

The US says we do it to them too, but we're the victims.

Funny thing is, hacking the US is easy. China is hard.

Asian Americans make up about 4.5% of the US military, and 4.3% of the US intelligence services. Assume about half of that is Chinese American. Assume half of that speaks at least one Chinese language proficiently, expect less than one quarter of that reads and writes one of the two written Chinese languages with high school proficiency. In other words, even with state-of-the-art AI, the US cannot even read the signs on the toilets in China let alone figure out which system to hack. And placing insiders within Chinese government organizations is near impossible.

By contrast, China has nearly 400 million English speakers of which more than a million are proficient enough to pass as American. They also can blend in perfectly in US government installations.

So, if I were a gambler, I know who I'd bet on here.

I designed a $300 100km range, nearly silent, EM shielded autonomous drone that could fly formations using visual tracking of its peers. It identifies targets through heat signatures, up to 12 at a time. It aims for non-shielded body parts and fires several rounds in rapid succession of slow acting tranquilizer darts.

It can be used to remove enemies from battle, 1000 drones should be able to effectively demobilize 500-2000 targets. With additional training, they should be able to more effectively target and reduce battlefield opponents. With better pharmacology, it should hopefully leave combatants safely unconscious for 30 minutes. Slow acting tranquilizers are key. It allows disarmament forces to move in as well as allowing the enemy and friendlies to pass out in a position that won't result in asphyxiation.

I'm trying to design a very inexpensive POW detainment camp with the highest living standards possible.

In short, I strongly believe modern warfare should be forced to become non-lethal. Only animals would order the deaths of children. And you're truly worse than an animal if you order your own children to kill other people's children. We have alternatives. We can easily render all human combatants useless on a battlefield. We can render human pilots obsolete and we can make extremely inexpensive torpedoes capable of targeting, swarming and sinking any naval vessel. All that's left for the animals is long range missiles. I seriously believe that someone will be able to beat those too.

We need to as quickly as possible remove lethality from war. An teenager or young adult in an opposing military is not an enemy. It's a child being misled by an evil person. The same is true for our side. If we keep sending our children into battle when we can accomplish the same or more without them, we are beyond hope. And if we kill other children when we can simply capture them and teach them we don't wish them harm, then we're just filth.

Is the crumby US market which is jam packed with opportunists, cheaters and thrives worth the effort?

Let's just start by stopping production of 110v devices.

We just don't need the US.

You're confusing things.

You also can't buy milk with a treasury note or a savings bond.

Crypto would be a terrible choice because it's highly vulnerable to attacks. We may not have the tools today, but eventually bitcoin will be thoroughly cracked. Crypto can only serve as a short term solution

First, XMPP is and always has been crap. Try to implement an XMPP client or server from spec. Come on... I dare you. The only thing XMPP did right was to make a more cryptic spec than SIP.

Next. Why would Facebook want to? Where's the ROI?

Robots need power semiconductors, not processors. Huawei Atlas and similar systems can run remotely to provide compute which drops power requirements to watts locally rather than kilowatts when battery power matters.

As for software, ROS is open source as well as many others. China can fill in the rest.

Precision components. Now we're making stuff up. I have bought miniscule high performance, high torque linear actuators from China. Tiny high performance toroidal geared closed loop motors are available everywhere. Then there's precision metal and carbon fiber 3d printing all over China. Someone one was desperately looking for fancy words and just made this one up.

China will eventually greatly leapfrog the US and the US simply can't compete. The US will spend years debating what to do and eventually fund some government contractors to compete. Google, Amazon, Boston Dynamics, Tesla, etc.., will never be able to keep up. Do you have any idea how hard it is to get a custom motor made outside of China?

"American technology should never be used against the American people," said Jeffrey Kessler, Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security

This blacklist is precisely what he is worried about. By blacklisting large customers from buying American tech, China is forced to develop their own.

Humor me.

China can't buy state of the art tech
China builds a competing product.
They use that tech to build their own new products.
They sell their tech for much cheaper
The rest of the world buys cheaper stuff from China.
Western companies can't compete

I just ordered a bunch of Chinese FPGA development kits. I would have bought Intel, but they're too expensive. Thanks to US blacklists, China built some cool looking FPGAs, they're 22nm, but I'm not making GPUs and I'm guessing 14nm and probably is coming soon. I'm excited to try them. They claim to have 12.5ghz serdes.

I won't invest in crypto unless it helps me launder money, buy hookers, import drugs and sex traffic.

(for people who can't read between the lines, that was sarcasm. No need to call the cops)

The point is, crypto serves two purposes.
1) hiding transactions
2) fostering gambling addictions

IP is the biggest load of crap ever.

If someone else made something, I can make it too. There is no IP that can't be copied and generally improved upon with little more than a video or a few pictures. "IP theft" just cuts back on the time needed.

It's really funny. EUV being the hot topic now is soooo funny. China was blocked from buying EUV tech from ASML and Canon. Heads up! Canon copied ASML tech! Or did they? EUV is basically just 121-10nm light. Anyone who can produce a coherent source of EUV light with a ~10w energy yield and can produce a precise enough laser scanner can build a lithography system. The wikipedia article on euv lithography more or less spells out everything you need to know about photo-polymerization of etch resist. And except for specific numbers, it was mostly obvious.

So, China loudly announced a ~0.6w (if I recall correctly) EUV solid state laser diode. And the "experts" in the new made bullshit claims about how it's no big deal because ASML ships 100-150W chemical lasers and China would need years to scale.

Guess what.

China would ideally produce a 10W single element diode, but a high density, phase synced multi-element diode will probably be ready in a month or two. And solid state is a minimum of an order of magnitude better than chemical. This is because a solid state coherent light source can be millimeters from the target surface without lenses. Tube lasers will be much further away and require much more powerful sources due to loss, diffusion and scatter.

So, China should be able to produce more stable lithographic equipment for less than pennies on the dollar... And ASML and Canon will have to cut their prices to about 1% to remain competitive.

The result is, these companies won't be able to justify large R&D budgets and won't be able to shift into photonics when the time comes.

This is because we were so concerned about IP theft that China was forced to make their own and they did it much much better. It will take years for the Taiwanese and Japanese to catch up. The US and Europe can't because we don't actually make LED chips.

Stop whinging about IP theft and complain instead about how China invests in doing things smarter and cheaper. Empires have collapsed because people spent all their time bragging about how great and important they are while everyone else just blew past them. (That was a poke at British hubris)

Just because China doesn't attract western Europeans and Americans doesn't mean they don't attract foreigners.

China is also smart. Look at Huawei for example. They're building up engineering offices everywhere. The US is unique in the sense that it draws opportunists. Europe really sucks at investing in people. Even though English literacy in Europe is extremely high, and I have never worked at a company in Europe where English is a problem, most European countries are not great destinations to work at for five years. Germany would be a disaster for most, France, a total waste of time. Poland has awful infrastructure for migrant workers.

China has a pool of roughly 1/3 of the world's population to hire from easily. Unlike nearly every other country, Chinese STEM workers prefer China and actually want to go home rather than bringing their families with them. Additionally, many Chinese workers don't trust foreign school systems for their children. The schools in China have rapidly reached top levels.

Yeh, the US attracts talent, but it sucks at keeping it. But also its really bad at breeding it now.

76% said it was unlikely or worse. 24% said it was likely.

Would 100% agree if their funding didn't depend on it?

Are many interviewed morons compared to the others?

Were the questions worded entirely wrong?

Most importantly, does anyone reading this have the slightest clue about economics? The billions spent on GPUs creates buzz and predictable share volatility for investors to see rapid short term ROI on trading. Everyone involved gets rich.

Network+ and Security+ are such garbage. I took Network+ because someone else paid and wanted my opinion. I didn't even bother completing the paperwork for issuing the cert. I wouldn't want it on my CV. By comparison, Microsoft had a pretty fun network cert I took at lunch one day. It was much better and well worth the 15 minutes it took.

IT Security curriculums are such garbage that I am utterly uninterested in hiring anyone who shows up with them. IT security should be a specialization during masters studies. Without a legitimate computer science foundation you can't possibly understand IT security.

Religion is always a bad thing in school. My kids had 12 years of Jesus is a swell guy nonsense. They rarely had teachers who believed it though.

The real problem will be that agricultural states will be badly hurt. They reproduce the most and lack the jobs for population growth. They have to urbanize and if a child is raised in Farmville, they'll have great difficulties relocating if the other state don't respect their education.

How many atoms does it take to build an electronic transistor?

How many atoms does it take to build a photonic gate?

How many atoms wide toms wide does an electronic or photonic trace need to be to be stable?

If we use the absolute minimum number of atoms, what will the failure rate be over what duration?

What is the minimum dimensions of a stable semiconducting lattice?

All semiconductor fabs in the world will reach these limits in the near future. All other advances will be related to more efficient stacking, cooling, use of newer materials, etc...

Unless we can reliably go subatomic we're at the end of the road. No companies (or countries) will have any advantage due to transistor, trace, inductor, insulator size. Packaging, yield, etc... Will be the deciding factors.

Within 5-10 years, Chinese companies will commoditize chip fabs and companies using western tech that cost billions will have to compete with companies all across the world able to deliver similar tech using fabs that cost a hundred million or less.

Don't forget, patents are royalties paid by companies who use other companies' tech. When Trump and Biden restricted that tech to China, they effectively blocked western companies from licensing their tech to China and blocked China from paying those patents. So, China can build all of these technologies relatively patent free.

In the short term, fabs make sense. But many of these fans won't be worth much once anyone can buy a leading edge fab for a hundredth of the price.