They can get "hacked" and wooops.

It's $650 in a world in which you don't have tariffs with China.

In a world in which you do, you pay more for the machines, the materials, the components you can't make in the US (a phone is thousands of component, phone makers don't make most of them), etc.

It's probably $650 to design it, build half the parts, ordering most other parts and assemble them.

Now what's interesting with the tariffs is that it's not just it will make the parts you can order more expensive, it will make the supply of such parts available to you restricted since you are now competing with buyers that don't have tariffs and can outbid you easily.

Or course, all this include rare earth supply which China already restricted for US export, so even the part you can make are going to be super expensive. The premium is going to be way more than the tariff ones.

Finally, since you are not going to be able to sell to the Chinese market of 1.5M of people, you will sell fewer phones, meaning your volume effect will be lower.

Meanwhile, competitors from Asia and Europe will be able to sell to the rest of the world, unrestricted by such problems, so much more price competitive and with a more robust cash flow. So you will lose markets in other areas too, hitting your volume effect even more, possibly sending you spiraling.

So, it's definitely pop corn time.

Steam does fine financially and without having to answer investors, which is why it's been able to stay mostly good to its user base for so long.

This is not an "xor" statement.

So is Basecamp. Profitability is not a dirty word.

So the alternative is to let uninformed civilians clean it with their hose and bare hands?

Presumably some of the alternatives include informing them of what to do and devising less toxic means of fire suppression.

To fine a business for fake reviews, the state must prove there are a lot of unaddressed fake reviews, which is very hard to demonstrate.

With AI, it will be almost impossible to do unless you enforce some kind of generalized ID check.

If one need to get on Beam, is it better to start on Elixir or Gleam?

Elixir's ecosystem is much farther ahead than Gleam, so if you want to actually achieve stuff without pauses to fill the gaps yourself, then Elixir is the way to go.

And don't get me wrong, I love the idea of Gleam, a lot (Rust syntax, strong static typing, what's not to love?). But my PL early adopter days are over.

I think it's just a convenient and popular language to experiment with.

For production systems, people just use Python + Rust when needing a balance between dynamism and strictness. The tooling to mix them is very mature and the communities are overlapping.

With uv becoming the defacto packaging solution for python, I expect the border to blur even more in the future.

Can't we have TURN over something like bittorrent or ifps so that it's decentralized ?

Doesn't bittorrent have the tracker that is acting as the glue to connect to peers?

And rich and uneducated.

Western societies have higher social trust which enabled them to outcompete the rest of the world. Business moves at the speed of trust. Now that western society has increasing contact with the low trust world it is regressing to the mean.

Did you account for crypto scammers in your theory ?

Aren't most crypto scammers from developed countries ?

It can be argued that POTUS himself is a crypto scammer.

The regression is not due to “contact with the low trust world.” Globalism isn’t new. The call is coming from inside the house.

It definitly could be a set of different libs, apps, config sets and command. I've seen no feature you can't provide that way.

The fork is a bad take here as it will be super costly to maintain for no gain.

Now, if you were to change a deep layer like the ORM, that would justify it. But I don't see it here.

But let's not be negative here, someone wants to spend time, energy and resources to explore innovation for a great legacy foss project.

This is good news.