That made me laugh.

They recently purged the designer of their stealth aircraft after realizing the stealth part doesn't work. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.visiontimes.com%2F20...

Maybe they want to ensure those weapons designers don't leave before their deception is realized.

In China communism started with education programs for poor people. Once they got some power, they got rid of the landlords who were actually very abusive. So for many people, communism was a step forward. It was better than monarchy (or a system of warlords, which was the alternative at the time).

Communism: a step up from monarchy, a step down from democracy.

Ironically, China is both of those.

It would be impressive if AI rewrote MongoDB but with good coding standards.

THAT is the story I want to see about MongoDB.

You post was advocating for isolationism.

Noise, higher electricity and power bills.

This doesn't seem like a lie, a NIC is in a pretty good position to knock something off the network if it feels like it and the 'bluefield' devices have enough punch onboard to run some rules regarding whether or not to do that; but it seems like a wild exaggeration of how helpful it actually is.

If you actually have a set of rules that detect your bot being wicked it will presumably save you some CPU time to run them on the NIC rather than having the host CPU watching the traffic; but the hard part is the set of rules that detect your bot being wicked.

This is basically the equivalent of adding a firewall and claiming that you've solved network security. Yeah, the firewall is pretty well placed to block malicious traffic; defining 'malicious traffic' is left as an exercise for the reader.

Isolationism isn't an option.

The Iranians have their revolutionary project, and are trying to export the revolution with some success. It's basically communism with theocracy as the base instead of an economic system.

Personally, I prefer to not live in an Islamic theocracy. I'm having trouble thinking in history of a time when a theocracy turned out well.

Technically, Stalin left office before he was voted out.

Really? Here's a 90s documentary about the power of the press a hundred years ago. This shit's been going on since the Roman days, and they had to use slaves to hand-copy the news.

Iranians were, in fact, sponsoring terrorists and war around the globe.

At the speed these cars typically travel, roll cages and seat belts aren't a big deal.

It's hard to take you seriously when your comment is a polemic. Your goal is to win an argument, not to come to an understanding of the data.