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Comment Re:Buzzword (Score 2) 12

Fintech is a real thing, but briefly it's basically a Silicon Valley startup trying to do financial services.

Note that the Silicon Valley strategy of "move fast and break things" has serious drawbacks when dealing with people's money and health, and that's why we ended up with Theranos, Synapse, Wirecard, and FTX, and that's ignoring the actual scam companies, and not even touching on the code bugs which are plentiful in fintech (not just security bugs, also payment bugs).

Comment Re:Trump (Score 1) 153

"That article is about Taiwan," -- War is war. "I don't think the US could "conquer" China." -- No because China has nukes. "If they could pull it off swiftly enough, I think it'd be successful." -- No because China is weaker than Russia, and Taiwan is much stronger than Ukraine. Taiwan is a porcupine on an island.

Particularly if they call the US bluff, and we don't react (which I'd guess the odds are better than 50/50 that we don't)

This is interesting to me, why do you think the US won't react? Public opinion seems to favor it helping Taiwan, and Trump seems to have supported Taiwan from the beginning.

Comment Re:Time for laser guns (Score 1) 153

There are laser weapons being used on battlefields or in armies around the world:

1) https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...
2) https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...
3) https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.navytimes.com%2Fnews...

They have limitations and aren't as great as other weapons, but they are actually cheap to fire.

Comment Re:Trump (Score 1) 153

Go, yes. Continue without risking the collapse of their regime? Questionable.

Your point is that it would be foolish for China to go to war (assuming they don't win). This article lists a lot of reasons why it would be a bad idea, and I agree. It would be a huge risk for China to attack Taiwan, and not a prudent course of action.

Will they be prudent?

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