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S-192 t1_jae1cu3 wrote

Volume is still not necessarily the strongest indicator. It's difficult to see if this is a direct outcome of a 'more innovative economy' or if it's just the sheer volume. As we've seen in the US, academia is experiencing mass publication spam and cross-references between low-impact papers. It's entirely possible to see mass citation of a very meaningless paper.

As far as them being a major hub for high end/'deep tech', they just aren't to our level. I'm not sure how to quantify the gap other than in production numbers (and in the volume of business activity in adjacent/prerequisite supply chains) and they just aren't there yet with that stuff.

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BabylonDrifter t1_jae10ec wrote

They put a slamhound on my tail in New Dehli, slotted it to my pheromones and the color of my hair. It caught up with me on a street called Chandri Chauk and came scrambling for my rented BMW through a forest of bare brown legs and pedicab tires. It's core was a kilogram of recrystallized hexegene and flaked TNT. I didn't see it coming.

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S-192 t1_jae0wqz wrote

US/EU. China's economy is experiencing a period of burnout. We have chief control over the most cutting edge AI, which is expanding and improving by orders of magnitude, which drives insane network effects for all participating and adjacent industries.

China's certainly maintaining threat status, and their constant IP theft could certainly drive sudden leaps in progress, but we'll see.

I'm more concerned about China's global Imperialism, laying claim to natural resources/mineral rights across Africa, LatAm, etc, than I am about their ability to catch up to our leading edge of tech.

Hell, they've been trying for like 20 years now to catch up to our offshore/oil tech (which is very low tech stuff compared to this semiconductor shit) and they're still at best making janky knock-offs.

Edit-- lol you're the guy claiming China's 18 trillion dollar economy is larger than America's 25 trillion. If you honestly think every single competitive edge of ours is 'legacy' then you're really just playing the doomer.

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DangerStranger138 OP t1_jae09ad wrote

MEAT OF THE ARTICLE CLIFF NOTES >Customers have also faced ā€œauthentication issuesā€ while trying to access paid TV channel apps such as MTV or Starz using their Dish Network logins, ā€œCertain data was extracted,ā€ the company said in a statement Tuesday. The acknowledgment is an evolution from last week’s earnings call, where it was described as an ā€œinternal outage.ā€ > >Dish Networks’ website was down for multiple days beginning last week, but the company has now disclosed that ā€œinternal communications [and] customer call centersā€ remain affected by the breach. Dish said it had retained outside experts to assist in evaluating the problem. > >The intrusion took place on the morning of Feb. 23, the same day the company reported its fourth-quarter earnings. > >Shares dropped over 4% on the news and a double-downgrade from Bank of America.

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S-192 t1_jae062s wrote

If we had legitimate evidence that we could hold against them, this might make sense. But if you're referring to the outcome of the DOE investigation, the outcome provided no actionable evidence. It's the 'best guess theory' based on investigation by the DOE. The rest of the Intelligence community has differing views on this, and no one has the evidence we'd need to credibly pursue remunerations.

And no way would China pay it. And no way would anyone lift a finger to make them pay it. The best thing we can do is work overtime to install Intelligence assets in China's scientific community to better monitor what's going on so we can prepare for or avert stuff like this. They do the same to us, only we have proven that we have far more effective safety measures and systems to keep our public safe at the scale we're discussing. And they have shown (not just with COVID-19), they can't be trusted with a lot of this shit. The majority of epidemics/pandemics in recent times (human and non-human) have come from them and their inability to manage public and livestock health, as well as dangerous research containment. So we just do the best we can to stay apprised/invested in those activities, and we plan courses of action/response if needed when we smell danger.

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LowGradePlayer t1_jadztjx wrote

Steal or copy?

What fantasy are you living in?

Who care how they get it, they are the worlds largest economy and their kids are all coming outta school as match and science genius whereas our kids still struggle with pronouns.

They have the US in the rear view mirror.

Any advantage we may have is just legacy and will soon evaporate.

We are lucky they don’t make cars, yet.

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bigj4155 t1_jadzpy7 wrote

God I wish with every bone in my body that the world would band together and tell Apple to F off. You want excel / word / powerpoint on a mac? F off. You want windows to boot on your mac? F off. Want Adobe on a mac? F off. Just basically treat apple as they treat everyone else. Until they open up keynote, imessage, imovie then they can go pound sand.

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S-192 t1_jadz7a8 wrote

This is an important step to do that. It's often hard to be independent without being #1. We do this with our military, with our energy grid, and more. If we can be #1 then we have no need to rely on others.

People who are "ahead" usually get there by going through intense refining of supply chains, talent pools, infrastructure establishment, and more...the kinds of things that promote independence. When others take the lead, countries usually don't go all-in on independence because it's just cheaper/easier/better to rely on others.

People who shit on globalism are as uninformed/economically illiterate as those who thing globalism is a fix-all. The web is complex and independence is, depending on the subject, as useful as it can be foolish/destructive.

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