it seems that only our instutions, or big chunks of the whole global trade system, want this war; but this this point, a lot of those systems are automated by rules and regulations and a overly complicated network that become inentelligible to the people 'running' it.

nobody that is alive and sentient (in the traditional sense) wants a war... and yet, we all see it looming.

Sounds a lot like how the assassination of the heir appearant of the Austro-Hungarian Empire led to the UK declaring war on Germany for marching through Belgium.

No one wanted the war, many knew it would be horrible, and yet it led to the most nightmarish collective human experience in human history.

no it doesn't.

that would be equivalent to shooting themselves in the ocean.

for now, they are still under the thumb of the american navy. how else would they ship out all the consumer goods? and to whom? USA is their biggest buyer.

OK: PRC blockades Taiwan leads to american navy blockading PRC

Nobody wants that.

If the US only put a partial blockade for Chinese bound ships in the Strait of Malacca, that would be enough. China is starved for oil too. They're trying to mitigate the Strait issue with the oil pipelines through Xinjiang and into the Caspian, but those are years away still.

this is applicable to most countries...

wriggling around the law needs only an emergency.

I thought it was a one word combination of "strategy" + "tech"

uff, this is a complicated topic.

> I’d like to see better in the public debate.

I'm having a complicated thought... the same points he talks about information asymetry in relation to the preservation of value are at play in the political (i.e. public) games.

I didn't even know there were santa clara principles, in a rough sense, this is maintining some sort of value from the people who have read those to them who don't even know about such principles.

I seem to be thinking that information assymetry is statecraft, a "super-set" of the notion of abuse prevention (IA and security through obscurity) as trade craft (because the state contains the market/trade)

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YES.

You are now stumbling into the dirty secret of how a large part of the world works, and the #1 priority for remediation if you have even a modicum of intention to make inroads at all into substantially changing things.

Info Asymmetry is the basis of power/entrenchment.

Why doesn't reader mode work in that webpage?

Whatever happened to the (failing) promises of HTML + CSS ? where I was gonna be able to swap out this CSS for whatever I wanted?

wouldn't it be better to learn about where you are and how to find the north by looking at the sun?

then again, this thing could greatly teach how to do this, as long as you stopped wearing it eventually

I'm more worried about the status of freedom in software, open source feels like a mirage to divert the attention away from the original issues from the FSF.