Aaaah, why did I read Twitter replies?

Please, link to some other news source from now on.

I believe he is the real world inspiration for Andrew Ryan in the BioShock games even though they claim it was Ayn Rand and Howard Hughes.

Yes, that is my point. Also the final paragraph in the article:

Meanwhile, Audi, Mercedes-Benz and Suzuki have facilities in Hungary, Ford and Renault are in Romania, and Ford is in Serbia. All are attracted by low wages, and a tradition of industry and educated workers.

That means “cheap labor” does not explain why Slovakia specifically is the “number one carmaker”. Why not Hungary or Romania or Serbia?

It is not a bug, it’s a service?

Well, DNS issues is something the US struggle with themselves.

Yes, it is not just that because cheap labor can be found elsewhere too.

Being close to Germany is also important, for example, and distinguishes it from Asian and African countries.

Maybe we should do a Chaos Monkey approach: Shut down a random US company in a random region for day. Repeat every few days. Just resilience testing.

One problem is that WhatsApp users need to opt-in to communicate with BirdyChat: https://i.imgur.com/0gKY76z.png

A plan? Mostly, people are looking for someone else to do the first step and spend the money.

Sounds great. In the other hand, this is not even a fully fledged proposal so far.

I assume it was not short-sightness for many:

We knew the story of the international rules-based order was partially false that the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient, that trade rules were enforced asymmetrically. And we knew that international law applied with varying rigour depending on the identity of the accused or the victim. –Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada

Better than German style:

If you shutdown MSOffice, Android, and iOS, that would probably halt most of the big European companies like WannaCry but worse.

On top, all credit card transactions are US-based: Visa, Mastercard, and then PayPal.

The instrument could initially be used to target US goods rather than services, reducing the likelihood of a severe American response.

In other words „don’t target Big Tech“ even if we fire the Bazooka.

Well, if these committees were in the USA, the government (i.e. Trump) could and would decide who gets the Nobel Prizes.

Android/iOS users: What is “closing“? What is a „program“?