You are straining the credo of this community. Gauging general trust in engineers based on where the most popular PC operating system comes from is simply too simplistic.
Very few people use Microsoft products because they actually like them. They are just the market leader in desktop OSs and do their darnedest to keep people trapped in Office. Their market dominance is no reflection on trust.
None of this applies to all places necessarily:
Large distances in rural areas.
Stranger danger.
Everything is car focused in the US. The famous sentence "It's 5 minutes on foot, let's walk there." has never been uttered.
Public transport may be shit or not suitably safe/reliable to get kids to school.
Big yellow buses have become a default, a cultural cornerstone, and many people rely on it and expect it.
Long traffic jams at schools are the sign of a more affluent population in the district.
I started getting uncontrolled erections whenever my sat nav told me where to go. Now I know that Knight Rider was to blame.
I offered an argument
That's debatable. Thank you for rage baiting with us today.
Great use of the royal "we."
Stickers can be forged. Checking your papers against a database is a lot more certain. The sticker is just there (or out of date) to justify pulling you over.
I think they want to continue to make hand over first kind of money. If the gold veneer house came out with straight up accusations that Huang was dumb because he was spied on, I'm sure there is a whole rat's tail of procedures that need to be followed. And some of those would surely impede Nvidia's ability to rake it in like that and it may lead to a change in company leadership as well. And Huang is a buddy. Whatever the NYT writes is just "fake news" so they can ignore that like they do all the other proven lies.
I'm also thinking somebody in the clown car is aware of how bubbly this so-called AI economy is and that the two time peace prize runner up should try and not poke a needle needlessly before the midterms.
After I wrote my earlier reply, I was also thinking the motivation could be so much simpler. The orange, one of his kids he likes, or somebody else he knows is heavily invested in Nvidia. This could just be grift and greed as well.
EU countries try really hard to register all births with the proper documents that then lead you to get an ID or passport later on in life. Everybody is used to needing an ID, being able to show it upon request, and using it to vote as well. Most people are just fine with all of that.
The US doesn't follow this logic. For example, a person born earlier the last century in the deep south may not have received a birth certificate. The birth could have just been written into the household bible. So when you require a voter ID and to get that you need a birth certificate, you have eliminated a possible voter. And what if I added this bible practice was done predominantly in African-American communities. There will be other loopholes where people will be required to produce paperwork they can only acquire after a Kafkaesque tour through various administrations. Funny enough a lot of them affecting minority communities first and foremost.
If you want to do a proper voter ID, you need to first convince the people this isn't government overreach (good luck). And then make sure everybody has an equal chance to get this ID, e.g. by issuing missing birth certificates. The laws that generally want to introduce this do not care about equal chances. They tend to target voters who vote for the other side.
Your post is in danger of being deleted because there isn't an open-ended question in there.
You maybe had better address this question to developers or in communities dealing with building out the fediverse in particular.
I have no idea if this was Huang on Huang spying, export ban evasion, or a Chinese Trojan horse. And I'm happy about all the negative headlines about so-called AI or the incumbent president.
Still, and at the risk of having to take a long shower after this, I think I have to defend the mad orange. Let's say there was a big Lockheed Martin deal in the making with Japan or the UK, billions of dollars for weapons and what not. Let's say their CEO was cozying up to a person allegedly affiliated with an adversary's intelligence service. And revealing this would endanger the whole deal. I think any president, no matter what party, would try to keep this under wraps. Do something like cancel that special briefing for the CEO so you didn't do nothing alright. And then hope for the best. If they break this story, the deal is over and LM and all the jobs there are in real trouble. If the NYT breaks this with anonymous sources, there is wiggle room. I think that's just executive realpolitik and not another character flaw in 47. He has enough of those already.
Anyways, eff me, I'm off to the shower.
To be fair, the courts didn't order a transition. Nor could you say the poor man had much of a choice in the matter. Nor was he a Hannibal Lector type violent criminal, as far as I know.
What happened to Turing was reprehensible and wrong. His case is a good example to point at when decisions like this are forced upon unwilling people. OP doesn't want to force this on anyone.
... and then you have to go back and do it again. Mildly infuriating a-hole design on the LINE messaging app (popular in Japan).
To the berry, Kates!
Space is very cold. It's -270something C. The temperature on Earth is much higher. The rays that make it through to our atmosphere bounce off the ground, warming it up from the bottom up. That's why you need a jacket when you climb up a mountain because it's getting colder the higher you go. Imagine a mountain higher than anything we have. Eventually, you'll get to -50 C.