The height vs width form factor kills the whole idea as a general solution.

Right now, you're basically asking people to trust Human Rights Watch because you trust them. But if people don't trust you, why would they trust your word on what sources are legitimized?

It’s a simulation.

The USA lost it because of political reasons, not because it couldn’t continue to fighting.

Deciding rightfully that a war of conquest over a minor territory isn’t with the people’s anger at home is a political decision.

It doesn’t mean the technology used failed to achieve its ends.

The only reason we say the war was lost was because self chosen objectives weren’t competed.

By that measure, if the US goal in WW2 were to fully conquer Germany, it would have “lost” that war too since half of Germany ended up controlled by the Soviets.

If you go to guerrilla warfare immediately, you’re basically now forced to face the enemy on the field on even ground even when you are on the defense.

All they have to do is burn your lands, destroy your fields, kill your civilians and you have lost.

They’ll do all that and safely retreat back home leaving you defanged.

That’s what medieval warfare was all about. Not absolute surrender and conquest, just temporary suppression and maybe forcing your enemy to pay your tribute.

A moat isn’t a perfect defense. It’s a delay tactic that keeps the enemy from coming right up to your wall and climbing it or breaking it down. While you defend your moat, you whittle down the attackers so even when they do cross it they can be more easily defeated.

Moats and high walls became obsolete when canon fire became common.

Claude isn’t just a faster way to cross the moat, it’s gunpowder, and with it the rules have fundamentally changed.

Firmware security is useless if your product can be bought tested and reverse engineered through multiple trials. So long as you have something that can be understood and used by humans, you have something that can be reverse engineered.

Having the code accessible makes it easier, but just having both input and output is sufficient.

I maybe lucky, but outside of headphones bluetooth has never failed to work for me.

Now with a 3rd party password manager, I can install it on any device and all my passwords work there too. However, with Apple, it stores it on keychain so if you have an internet connection, your passwords are backed up.

If you don't have an internet connection, you're not the average person.

Even if your other device is a mainframe computer thousands of miles away, so long as you can photograph the QR code, you can decode it and send the data string for the passkey device needs to it.

The issue that many have with passkeys is that someone will tie a passkey to an ecosystem that they don't personally control like Apple's and then they can't get into their services without an apple device that's onboarded into Apple's ecosystem.

You can still be right that Tesla vision only system are more dangerous, but your experimental challenge proves nothing because the cars are already live driving in the real world under poor conditions.

As an essential part of the colony, you can't really count them out. That's similar to how in feudal structures, and military regimes, I'd count the military and civil service as one entity.

It doesn't mean that all price points are fictional, it just means that in edge cases such as this one, the reasoning breaks down.

The only reason that billions are being spent today is that in 2022, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), granted $80 billion mandatory spending boost for the next 10 years in order to modernize tech for the first time in 60 years.

The goal was that if they could identify people who were underpaying on taxes, they'd be able to recoup that benefit, and at the same time reduce inflation. This is a strategy that China has taken, and is currently using to great effect by identifying off-shore tax shelters and shadow companies that benefit the ultra-rich then taxing them as they always should have been.

As for the US, all seemed to be going well until Doge stepped in and began to claw back funding, so the IRS was forced to change its initiatives to fit the current administrations theme.

I doubt we'll be seeing any tax shelters unveiled soon.

Are they not also Victorian Elites, or did they lose that status by not being in Britain?