There are recent parallels in both the firearms and 3D printing industries. California 3D printers now get to have restrictions on them because of recent legislation. When technology bridges the “moat” to some Unreachable Fortress it’s inevitable for lobbying to appear since you can’t move the Fortress. Chinese open source models and weights are that bridge, and here we are.

I’m sure there’s market research, focus groups, and unfilmed talks where people air the ideas out to gauge if they can get national traction, but it’s hard to tell with techbros if we’re seeing the vetted idea put to film or if he really thinks the idea that there’s just one computer on earth (that he owns) that everybody can buy time on. I trend towards the latter given the market for software you actually own instead of license, and unlocked hardware.

There are already rumblings about RISC-V.

There are three seconds between those pictures.

No. They have already told off a 27 year old to ensure that the backdoor(s) they put there on purpose are still there when he gets done. It’s been worse than you thought for years.

• https://www.tomshardware.com/news/cisco-backdoor-hardcoded-accounts-software,37480.html

Someone with no understanding of what quality software looks like who also doesn’t have to deal with the consequences of every Cisco switch and router on the planet either being old and unsupported, or new and absolutely full of security holes.

They can buy it on the used market and destroy it.

<proper noun> absolutely hates the idea of [other] people <gerund> their own <noun> at home, argues they shouldn’t <verb> <noun>.

I happen to like verbing my own noun.

I keep writing and deleting this same post a lot, because there’re so many facets to it, but I swear it’s not really that complicated once you understand how much of it is about tax efficiency. It turns out that answering the question you asked is the best place to start: “tips on starting.”

Tips:

• Pick a brokerage that isn’t Robinhood. Fidelity, Charles Schwab, and Vanguard are big names with zero trading fees; Schwab probably has the best user interface since they got ThinkOrSwim when they bought TD Ameritrade.
• Get comfortable with the idea that you’ll want to do direct bank ACH transfers to your accounts with the brokerage. You should at least have a normal brokerage account that doesn’t have tax advantages or rules, and a Roth IRA.
• Learn about Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). You can buy shares of $VOO (if I use a dollar sign it means it’s a stock “ticker symbol”) and get a slice of the entire S&P 500. A share of $VT buys a slice of (one of Vanguard’s interpretations of) the entire world market. You can be diversified with just one fund.
• Find good websites to research. Bogleheads is a good one that I like. $RDDT had several subreddits that looked at the topic from all different aspects, but now that’s just another thing they’ve stolen from the world.¹
• Ask questions if you have them and find good websites to research. Most of the buy-it-and-hold crowd’s advice won’t have changed at all across decades (that strategy is where you buy the stock, and then hold it), but search engines tend to push newer websites, and it’s kind of pointless to set up a new website that just always says to buy and hold.

Some links:

• https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Roth_IRA
• https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/ETFs_for_Bogleheads
• https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=443260
• https://www.etfrc.com/funds/overlap.php
• https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Emergency_fund
• https://www.thepennyhoarder.com/investing/dead-investors/

[1] Since we know they do marketing campaigns that will push certain topics/movies/whatever if they’re paid to, AND we know they have carte blanche with shadow bans/hiding posts/etc, has anyone done any analysis to see if they’re being paid to push certain stocks in whatever tattered remains are left over from their investing forums? I guess you’d have to pay them for access to scan their comments now with any kind of speed, and I’ll also guess you wouldn’t be able to buy a product from them that would prove they’re doing it.

We could put a lot of nicer groceries up front and hope nobody looks deeper!

But then what happens if someone notices we’re selling a lot of fridges? They could buy insurance on the price of our fridges (options), and that wouldn’t be good because we know the price is going down, that’s why we’re selling them (duh). So we’ll have to sneak all these things out the door and hope nobody looks or notices until we’ve got them all sold.

I guess that’s kind of a rough metaphor, but that stuff all still goes on. The math that tells you when to sell the fridge is where all the real value is.

Like the article says, their internal risk management models are telling them to get the risk off their books.

Taking on the debt in the first place is like agreeing to store a gallon of milk in a fridge for an undetermined amount of time. The milk is going to go bad, and when it does the jug (or bag) might explode forcing a cleanout of the fridge, throwing out other things in the fridge, and maybe replacing the fridge altogether if the milk leaked down into a lot of crevices. Everyone knows the milk will go bad, but the big banks will know how old the fridge is, what coolant it uses, how old the compressor is, how many times a day the fridge has been opened, the average time it stays open, the dairy the cow who produced the milk, and the name of the cow if they can get it. The milk is going bad quicker than expected, and they’re finding out they don’t want to be the ones to guess when the jug will explode, and they’re also finding out that nobody else wants to buy the jug.

Oracle pulling a “god did it” was probably a part of this, but nobody involved is going to give a real answer.

I stand corrected.

I wasn’t aware of any for consumer level chips. All I really want is a basic motherboard+processor with ECC RAM and solid electronics with good capacitors and power filters like the manufacturers seem to be doing for the high end gaming rigs, but without a lot of bells and whistles that need to be turned off as part of the “new computer” process.

they had the technology the whole time to make upgraded modular chips and sell them for pre-existing computer architecture

I’ve heard that it’s also possible to make consumer motherboards with ECC RAM and no built-in wifi as well, but surely someone would’ve tried that by now if is was technologically possible.

Maybe the RISC-V RVA23 push will be able to figure it out.