foxglacier (u/foxglacier)

foxglacier commented on Texas Instruments’ new plants where Apple will make iPhone chips cnbc.com/2025/08/22/apple... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico

mgraczyk · 12 hours ago

You are arguing my point. Canada may stop importing from us but will never stop exporting. There are no incentives for that and never will be.

We import tons of food and energy from them and have no alternative on time scales or 10 years

If we imported chips from Canada, that supply chain would be safe for at least 50 years, probably hundreds

foxglacier · 2 hours ago

At any time, Canada could decide to stop subsidizing its uncompetitive chip makers for the same reason so many people in this thread want the US to do, and the US would then become dependent on someone else who might be their enemy (eg. Chinese occupied Taiwan or China itself).

foxglacier commented on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel cnbc.com/2025/08/22/intel... · Posted by u/givemeethekeys

colmmacc · 18 hours ago

Organizations such as the NFL forbid it, only the Green Bay Packers are grandfathered in as an exception. Owners are encouraged to threaten moves. Collective action is needed to undo the race to the bottom.

foxglacier · 9 hours ago

No collective action is needed. They can just refuse to fund the stadium if they can't get a good deal for themselves on it. But maybe the people living there really want the stadium despite the risks, so in that case it's fine. They're getting what they want.

foxglacier commented on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel cnbc.com/2025/08/22/intel... · Posted by u/givemeethekeys

bcrosby95 · a day ago

> Bailouts aren't following some rules of fairness

And people wonder why populism came back. Huge transfers of wealth aren't about 'fairness', its about preventing greater economic problems that the people who received the bailout say will happen if they don't get bailed out.

At the end of the day, this line of thought is going to fuck over the country far more than any depression would.

foxglacier · 9 hours ago

It's the same line of thought that says countries should subsidize local agriculture. The alternative would be greater specialization in food production and greater risks if those specialized countries fail to provide for their dependants. No doubt there's some influence of farmers trying to get wealth transferred to themselves but that doesn't mean it doesn't also benefit the rest of the population.

foxglacier commented on Children of the Geissler Tube (2023) hopefulmons.com/p/childre... · Posted by u/paulkrush

cubefox · 10 hours ago

His actual name is in fact written "Geißler", not "Geissler".

foxglacier · 9 hours ago

Names have languages too, just like other words. Eszett isn't an English letter so we transliterate and it's still the way his actual name is written in English. We do this all the time, for example Wang or Wong instead of 王.

foxglacier commented on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel cnbc.com/2025/08/22/intel... · Posted by u/givemeethekeys

colmmacc · a day ago

It's not otherwise related to all this but a real bug bear of mine is that municipalities don't get part ownership - along with controlling rights for matters like sales or relocations - of sports teams when we subsidize their stadiums through taxes.

foxglacier · a day ago

The municipalities could negotiate for those rights when they agree to pay for the stadium. It's on them if they risk it.

foxglacier commented on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel cnbc.com/2025/08/22/intel... · Posted by u/givemeethekeys

sergiomattei · a day ago

What bothers me is the double standard.

When the public asks for fully publicly-owned railways, universal healthcare, or any basic social safety assurances—“socialism”.

When a megacorporation struggles, immediately to the rescue.

foxglacier · a day ago

Bailouts aren't following some rules of fairness, they're for specific reasons like preventing greater economic problems (2008) or national security (probably Intel). You might disagree that those are the best ways to address those risks but that's why we elect the government to make those decisions and act on them instead of letting the country collapse - which is arguably more important than social services which won't really matter if there's no money to fund them or the country has been taken over by some hostile enemy.

foxglacier commented on 4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/donpott

oblique · 2 days ago

Banning VPNs seems effectively impossible. Any ip address can act as a vpn. There are also zero identity providers like mullvad.

foxglacier · 2 days ago

Deep packet inspection can detect VPNs. The problem may be more that people have legitimate uses for VPNs, like at their work. Those could be whitelisted though.

foxglacier commented on 4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/donpott

firesteelrain · 2 days ago

We do still have limited entry and exit points to other Countries internets. You could end up with Great Firewalls across the globe if it got bad enough. It doesn’t deter VPNs though

foxglacier · 2 days ago

The actual great firewall deters VPNs. Western internet blocking tends to be weaker for some reason (cheaper?) but there's no reason they can't be just as effective if the political will was there.

foxglacier commented on Show HN: What country you would hit if you went straight where you're pointing apps.apple.com/us/app/lea... · Posted by u/brgross

robinhouston · 4 days ago

I think this error may be in the historical-basemaps data, because it is also present on https://historicborders.app/year/1800?lng=169.5234304&lat=-4...

foxglacier · 4 days ago

It's more than character encoding. If you click on it, the description of New Zealand is "a quintuple star system some 1,200 light-years from the Sun"

foxglacier commented on We’re Not So Special: A new book challenges human exceptionalism democracyjournal.org/maga... · Posted by u/nobet

foxglacier · 4 days ago

I only got half way through but it didn't get to our general purpose intelligence which trumps pretty much everything else. Most of the greater capabilities other species have, humans can do better using technology which we made for our own use so it's kind of an extension of ourselves.

Even in pre-historic times, humans were herding prey to kill using earthworks, for example. We can also live in cold climates by wearing clothes and building houses and fires, as well as hot climates by not doing those things. We can build defenses against predators. We've been using technology to enhance our abilities since forever. That's exceptional. No ape poking a stick into a hole comes anywhere close to that.

I don't care that eagles can see better than humans. A camera can see better than an eagle and a plane can fly better than an eagle but we don't say that cameras or planes are anywhere close to being comparable to human life. Those abilities are easy ones. Hell even a rock can live longer than a sea sponge, and humans are obviously exceptional compared to rocks.