Credulous boomers that think it's 1950 and the people inside their teeve^H^H^H^H^Hcomputer are benign white folk like them.

Nothing would make it “help get a little closer to making it a reality” if it’s not physically possible, and there’s a very strong argument that that’s the case. If nothing else, the maximum specific tensile strength allowed by covalent bonding - which is fundamental physics that we can’t change - combined with the reality of defects in a 36,000 km cable - is far below what’s needed to build a space elevator in Earth gravity. It might be possible to build a space elevator on the Moon or even (in the far future) on Mars, because their gravity is such that real materials could potentially do the job. But doing that involves bootstrapping an entire offworld industry, which is far beyond anything even the most advanced nations are capable of currently, let alone a technologically stunted oil state.

There’s no chance they’d actually succeed in building a space elevator. The Line is at least theoretically physically possible with current technology, even if it was always an obviously spectacularly bad idea. A space elevator is not.

there are 5 billion Roblox accounts created

5 billion more accounts than you have brain cells, apparently

With a president who solves an existential threat by finding the best expert he can find, and using his own formidable political skills and charisma to run interference for that expert.

Seriously, Comacho was a meathead, but Iâ(TM)d vote for him.

The current eruption of export bans on "AI" hardware started in Trump's first term, in 2019, with Huawei and Huawei affiliate companies. But yes, your TDS point is valid: Biden et al. built upon Trump's piecemeal export bans with comprehensive, all-of-China, bans, in 2022. This has nothing to do with Biden vs Trump, etc. It's a continuation of ITAR thinking going back 50 years.

wait, which restaurants require an ID scan??

GlobalFoundries' FAB1 is strictly silicon-based CMOS stuff: small audio amps, LED drivers, smartcard chips and other low power RF devices. No SiC or GaN production. So FAB1 can't help with the Nexperia embargo at all. GlobalFoundries does make such devices, but those foundries are in the US.

While I wonder if that's actually true, it wouldn't help. Nexperia, the supplier at the heart of this debacle, makes power and analog stuff: GaN FETs, bipolar, power diodes, etc. These aren't ECU MCUs. They're big power devices, using specialized materials: silicon carbide and gallium nitride, for example. You can't make these in just any old 90nm processor fab.

It's great to see all this. Consequences of the the romper room mentality of EU technocrats and citizens dwelling under the umbrella of security provided by others for generations, inventing fake problems for themselves. Pretending to be—and being politely treated as—peers, the whole time. That's over now, and it's glorious. Time to set aside the holier-than-thou vanities and be real: you can no longer rely on the rest of the planet doing all your dirty work.

No man is an island. It's basically impossible to do anything that affects nobody else. If you kill yourself, you might have kids than then needed to be provided for by the state. If you harm yourself, even if nobody is obligated to help you, you can do emotional/mental damage to others who observe your suffering. If you decline protection of infectious desiese, you out others at risk. And so on and so on. Libertarians hate this one weird fact ...

The US won't even permit companies in foreign countries from selling related tech willy nilly. Wtf make you think a domestic company with breakthrough lithography technology will just sell out to foreign randos however they please.

Try making some sense when you post stuff.

Least surprising thing ever. There aren't many old school free thinking hackers around here any longer. Mostly you have Madrassa educated commies that glommed onto the tech world when the money got good. There is zero daylight between them and the CCCP on most issues.

"Almost nothing in the real world is a 2-player game"

That's quite untrue if you ignore rounding-error players in a substantial number of markets.

Gracious of you to make a joke that illustrates that you actually understand how braindead your original analogy was.

For sure. And that's why I think it's important to distinguish harm caused despite good intentions and reasonable practices being followed from harm caused because someone did not follow reasonable practices or actively chose to cut corners.