There is likely a lot of US tech in that chip. TSMC is just a fab, they don't have a lot of their own technology, they buy thousands of pieces of tech from all over the world to make their chips. A lot of that comes from the US.
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A smart businessman would make sure to tell them they need to leave anything pointy on the ground.
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I am curious how you decide to make the leap from pianos to automobiles, though..
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I know :-(. Let the enshittification proceed.
I'd much rather have upgradeable RAM and SSD thanks.
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Well done, you are a better internet sleuth than me!
It's more the news media they are referring to, I think.
If they are using GPL code, shouldn't they also release their source code?
But according to the joke it still does represent two types: Binary and nonbinary. Which itself is a binary set of choices, albeit a different one.
I've worked in pretty much every CEE country and usually many cities in each of them the last 24 years and really can't say I ever felt unwelcome, even in places you'd think might be less welcoming like smaller cities in Russia. There are certainly places that are easier to get around but I really can't say I've ever felt truly unsafe or unwelcome even when making questionable decisions. Of course shitty individuals exist anywhere, but I can't say I've run into more here than I have in the states.
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I'm sure TSMC would become untenable if either the US stopped buying or selling to them, though I tend to disagree and think that not licensing US tech would kill them faster. I'm pretty sure that many of that tech is not available from anywhere else and would just cause a full stop of their business, at least for some time. It's easier to survive on lower revenue than it is on a fully shuttered assembly line.