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TSMC to market system to manage trade secrets, its lawyer says

thelettuce — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 18:25:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/tsmc-market-system-manage-trade-secrets-its-lawyer-says-2025-08-29/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45067688

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New comment by thelettuce in "Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels"

thelettuce — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 22:24:15 +0000

To those with a bit more age and life experience than myself, I ask if you have noticed a rise in "categorical thinking" over time. To clarify, I mean thought processes that are mostly surface level and focus on attributing qualities or conclusions to things based on observable characteristics. Sort of "they display x so they must be y which means z"

New comment by thelettuce in "What if we taxed advertising?"

thelettuce — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 08:40:38 +0000

The solution to ads may lie in stricter advertising rules. For instance, banning ads designed to manipulate rather than inform and setting standards for this criteria. Or even banning some advertising practices outright that are common methods for coercive or subtle influence. Imagine if a mouthwash commercial couldn't show an isolated women clearly stressed out about her breath to subtly ingrain an insecurity in their target audience.