Maybe it's because people already know or, at least, suspect NSA backdoors in Windows. The network gear is a moot point.

... which, to be clear, is a good thing. Working around the compiler is dangerous and a code smell, so it shouldn't be something that is easy to do. It usually indicates that either the compiler's capabilities aren't sufficient to meet your needs (in which case, a better solution would be either a better compiler, or to re-evaluate the wisdom of your approach), or that you are doing something the wrong way and should find a way to do it that works with the compiler, rather than around it, so that you get the benefits of the compiler's co-operation.

> That's not a "greed is good" Gordon Gekko speech

You say this, but then you say this:

> but because money is how we keep account of the things we do eat

If you think people should be able to coordinate the economy and grow/create the things they want, such as food, what you are saying is that greed is good. Wanting to be alive and having things to eat is greed; all wants and "needs" are just greed after all.

Its a political question; given the earths unknown but certainly finite ability to support human life, should people's wants and needs all be thrown equally into a market competition to see what gets satisfied, or should some learned elite decide the questions of whose wants to live are allowed and whose are not.

> At some point they will run out of other people's money to spend on energy solutions that can't make a profit ... but there's politics getting in the way.

Both of those statements are true; what you dont seem to realize yet is that you cannot both want to fix the "climate crisis" and want to believe in basic economics: that people's wants should be served by a market. You have to discard one or the other.

If education was an easy fix, we'd have an educated populace and ClickFix wouldn't be a problem.

The fact is, we live in eternal September. No matter how many people we educate, there's a unending firehose of exploitable n00bs arriving to replace them.

Nice

If you're going to attempt something outrageous that is almost certain to fail, why not a Space Elevator? On the off-chance you do succeed, that would be a hell of a lot more valuable.

A baby in a cradle is the wrong analogy -- a better analogy is an internal organ inside a body. Yes, you can (with advanced technology and at great expense) remove the internal organ from the body and keep it alive externally for some time, but it's going to be unpleasant for everyone involved, and sooner or later the disembodied organ will wither and die, unless it is returned to the environment it was specifically evolved to live within.

Hey, yo! Y'all heard about the Zune? I heard it's pretty dope, yo.

Are you sure it wasn't the North Carolina bankers?

Or, California wankers?

They will supply each satellite with an ice pack to dump waste heat into. SpaceX will launch regular resupply missions with fresh ice, as necessary.

OTOH the nice thing about software is that it's easy to update, so anyone is free to replace their slow/inefficient software with a faster/efficient version as soon as they obtain it, at which point their fast hardware should run the efficient software very quickly. Nothing (except possibly bad management decisions?) is preventing anyone from creating efficient software, either.

Defies the thermal limits, probably.

Was there ever a ban, or just tarrifs high enough to price Chinese vehicles out of the market? Since Waymo isn't selling vehicles, perhaps that isn't an obstacle for them.

What sort of "Palantir-specific skills" do you think would not be applicable to another job?

Maybe they were; at this point they seem to be reduced to trying to invent a more compelling form of interactive pornography that they can sell subscriptions to. Color me underwhelmed.