Good for you!

Unfortunately, the world is not made up of just you, and plenty of assholes don't give a hoot about other people's kids. They're not even aware they're near a school because they're responding to a text message while driving.

The uyghurs are currently being used as slave labourers all over China. It's called "mandatory work training" when they put for instance a professor in the English language to work as a manual labourer to give him "a better work ethic", in exchange for food rations and a bed in a guarded camp.

Normally people call that slave labour, but if you feel it's normal, feel free to come and work for me for the same conditions and rates.

China just opened a 1GW vanadium flow battery plant. That's a single plant. It cost $810 million dollar USD.

Although I'm pretty sure GB can't build a battery at that scale for that price. It was built in Xinjiang so they could have used slave labour for quite a bit of it. But even assuming twice the price, it would help the windfarms so much to have that kind of storage. Imagine being able to store 8GW of power from that farm.

I'm with GP: it's almost criminal to not spend another billion dollar and add at least 1GW of battery power to the windfarm.

Since this is news for nerds, and nerds know him by his handle much more than by his actual name, using his handle is more useful than using his name.

If I want advice on security, Mr Rosenberg doesn't carry quite the same weight as Moxie Marlinspike.

Given the forum, I'd expect readers here to know that.

The Netherlands were leading in the field of windmills for a long time, and in the 90's we had the best wind turbines in the world. But they still needed a small amount of govt subsidies at the time.

And then we got a free market government that decided that the environment was a stupid leftwing hobby (they were also firmly in the pocket of Shell, who later betrayed them - which is what they deserved), and shut everything down. So when windmills finally took off it was Denmark that created the biggest companies in that area and NL now has to buy them. This was just a political play. And that has happened in many countries.

The free market is nowhere as free as you might think.

China has engineers. We have MBA's.

I know which one I'd rather have.

And another thing: if you have the right business partner you never get that issue in the first place. I was once asked if I wanted to go into business with someone. I had a good idea and he liked it. Turned out he was pretty high up in Chinese intelligence. No problem inside China, but would have created lots of trouble outside of it since I work for my own government as well. So I declined. But I'm pretty sure we'd never have had any issues with bribes.

You're overestimating the amount of bribery going on. You don't need to bribe anyone to start something. They only come to you when you actually start making money. Quite refreshing actually, and it works very well for startups.

If you want a dynamic economy, ignoring IP laws internally works pretty good.

Or you could tell it to behave like someone who actually can code, and check all pre- and post-conditions, and invariants, so you don't get exceptions.

Thanks to the Tech bros, we're having a hard time stopping EU democracy from collapsing.

The EU controls zero percent of its main social media. The USA will as of next week control 100%, same as China and Russia. And while the EU isn't run by totalitarian assholes that need full control over the media to maintain their grip (like Trump with tiktok), we also don't need to be naive about the intentions of the criminals now running the show in Russia and the USA.

Social media is currently weaponized to support other corrupt criminals, and if the EU doesn't take control they will find out what regulatory capture means, soon enough.

The EU should, in short order, do the following:
- make sure companies cannot be purchased by anything with a non-EU UBO (maybe with a condition that it pays back all tax advantages it ever got)
- no startup is allowed to exit to a non-EU entity unless it has zero intellectual property.
- all social media in the EU needs to be isolated under a EU legal entity.
- all algorithms for social media recommendations need to be fully transparent to everyone (under the AI Act there is some movement in that direction, but not enough)

And to stay relevant in the AI age:
- all copyright limits on AI training need to be removed, they're only there because of Reed Elsevier and Springer anyway.
- no Cloud (or AI) solution is allowed for use in any company or for government work, unless it runs in the EU under the control of a fully EU-based legal entity.

I'm sorry, that information has a purple classification. Are you a mutant, by any chance?

if it keeps out people like you, I'm all for it.

True. Capitalism works best if the profits are for you and the costs for your customers or workers. But that's why we have compliance with penalties. The EU is increasing the number of compliance regulations for this every year. With good reason.

But the first rule should be: don't store data you don't need for your business process. Treat data as toxic waste: less is more.

indeed, it's pretty easy to set up. Except if he was the one setting it up, with a key that was excepted from this rule.