I mean... I'm not

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USDC is a CBDC

American companies can make good things, as long as they're not too complex and quite overpriced. The people making them need to feel like kings. The root of this is complex, but in broad strokes we inherently value simpler, more durable solutions and are trying to overcome systemic financial pressure

Avoid falsifiability and you'll always be right

That didn't take long 😞

Rust is still safer by default when concurrency is involved. There are C/C++ techniques to narrow the gap (MISRA) as well as formal verification systems (Frama-C). You can also liberally define critical sections by disabling interrupts

Is there parallel or concurrent execution?

Cutting tiny screws, forming bits of sheet metal, and populating surface mount components is hard work and doesn't pay well enough domestically, so pretty much all of our manufacturing sector moved to Asia. We kept enough to make satellites and fighter jets, but that only works when your bolt costs $200. We can build it back up, but that will take decades, and will slowly produce expensive, inferior parts along the way

What you're probably tired of is the byproducts of runaway consumerism. Dramatic price hikes across all products might curb that, but won't "fix" it so much as it will destabilize supply chains and cause unrest

No, China is much better at manufacturing things at scale. What you'll get is something twice as good that's not quite what you need for 10x the price. That's okay for simple things, but not good for things that need to be the right size. Apple famously ran into serious problems getting the right screws for assembly in Texas

"Embrace": Institutional investment, reserve currency status

"Extend": CBDC? Stablecoins?

"Extinguish"

Publishers, music labels, and Hollywood have pushed copyright too far. Their greed has become a tax on culture.

But Springer, Elsevier, Wiley, et al ... these are the real villains, locking away truths they didn't even discover

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This was developed by Fred Lanoue at Georgia Tech, and the basic techniques used to be a required class (before my time)

Reading isn't infringement: let AI read. Speaking isn't infringement: let AI speak.

Can AI produce a likeness of Indiana Jones? Sure, but so can people who have seen it. Current IP protections are far too strong, but we still need some boundaries for people to work on their ideas

No one cared because there was no scale. Everyone spoke a different language, and if you were going to lift someone's ideas you had to put in so much effort you might as well mix in your own ideas at the same time.

If this conversation is really about IP laws being used against AI then my take is a little different because I don't think AI is a derivative work any more than a human who has read a book is a derivative work. If someone prompts the AI to produce something obviously infringing, that's on the prompter. Corporations don't want this because it's too difficult to enforce, but their protections have grown too strong over time and are past due for a correction

Copyleft is IP. GPL is strong IP. Authorship is IP. Only anonymous public domain survives without some form of IP

I don't know what that even means. To not have any ownership of your work is literally communism. I guess you could say that China is no longer truly communist, and so their opinion is no longer representative of the concept. Who am I even supposed to be "scaring"

Welp, defending IP wasn't on my 2025 bingo card.

Without any IP there are no books. No songs. No games. No apps. Everything is counterfeit because counterfeit no longer has meaning. Everything is slop because minimum effort is all that makes sense in communism. Even China doesn't agree with this

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Underrated

It works as long as there is a patron with the same voice as the artist. Also, the artist would say that enjoying their works without any compensation isn't consensual. I'm not an artist, but the argument seems to have merit. I think the question is for how long: a year? Five years? Certainly the current life + 70 is absurd