armed robbery impossible you say? The thug with $5 wrench will have a word and some thumps...

Stablecoins can be taken by force ($5 wrench) or fraud (stablecoin theft a growing problem, look it up)

Texas has a bottom tier government.

programmers of some control systems have such concerns, such as power generation and distribution, medical, transport, military, manufacturing, and environmental hazard detection.

yet here you are on the global comm grid, but maybe running your computer on compost or pig manure methane, right?

Solar can supplement in most places in USA, not replace the grid.

Meanwhile 45% of Africans have no electricity at all. Will they get a power grid in the next half century? They mostly won't get solar either in the next 25.

lolz "rare attacks"... actually we're involved in a couple dozen proxy wars that most people could never name a third of. We're killing Venuzuelans that might or might not be cartel smugglers while war mongering.... even though Venezuela supplies less than 6 percent of narcotics to USA and the country with more and worse cartels supplying the bulk of our narcotics is our best buddy. But we press for regime change there...war for power and profit is what that's all about.

Afghanistan, yeah they did not attack us on 9/11 and so we spent 2 trillion dollars and 20 years to replace the Taliban with .... the Taliban. Then bugged out leaving billions in weapons to the enemy and getting our own and allies killed. Yay USA.

We gave our best buddy Saddam money and dual use tech to mass murder Iranians, then turned on him for power and profit. Sure he was an evil dirtbag, just like many of our other allies and value trading partners. That stupid war destabilzed the region and caused the creation of ISIL. Yay USA.

Just some examples, the epic stupidity always blowing up in our face and covering us with feces is of course a longer list.

smarter countries like S. Korea and China build nuke plants at a third of the cost we do.

Nuclear construction is not just happening in China but India, Russia, South Korea, Egypt, UK, Turkey, UAE, Bangladesh, and Japan. Again, smarter countries than the USA.

Nuclear is for base load so the turbines can go full tilt, the rest can be renewables with cheap energy storage which should be very soon.

Clearly you haven't studied the fundamentals of quantum computing which are marketing hype, hooey, pandering to venture capital investors or being researchers planning on all of the above.

You are delusional and have no understanding of even basic science or engineering. The nation needs a grid to make things and to power over half its dwellings.

Africans aren't getting the energy a modern house needs from their panels on shacks.

sounds like a cover up over a lot of sheet.

oh no, never do that. I always plead duvet myself

It'll be at least half of that in ten years.

The Zoomers have no interest in cable TV.

> Why not just build the proper infrastructure with what we know works?

I tried to do this locally. The government allows the pole owner (electric or telephone usually) to charge $50/mo/pole to the startup that wishes to hang wires.

The owner pays $5/mo in property taxes to the town.

There are exceptions for large corporations that are in the state's good graces.

It's just to keep competition limited to the cartel.

Short answer: corrupt government.

This was my first thought as well.

Such marketplace confusion!

The entire EU is a protectionist bloc Canada is protectionist coffee. Tariffs are wonderful, useful tools when other countries use them. But when Trump does them they're bad. As are so many other policies like deporting illegal aliens. Obama and Biden did more and entire states and cities did not rebelv and nullify federal authority like it was fort Sumter 1865. Pure TDS.