True for fission bombs. Less true for fusion bombs. The principal makeup and manufacturing of fusion device parts like tampers are still unknown to the public. Having a supply of HEU does not tell you how to assemble a functional triple stage device or how to utilize tritium, an isotope that measurably decreases in purity by the day.

You need a fission bomb to ignite a fusion bomb btw.

But the extension works, not "collapses down badly."

>running 5-year-old versions of stuff with tons of known security flaws

No one in this thread proposed that, or anything that could be reasonably assumed to have meant that.

There's an accelerating population crisis. Who would have motive to push birth rates lower than they even are, and how would they "push them"?

The world has enough people and can trivially import some from places with too many to places with too few.

That process has some social complexities, because as it turns out, human cultures are not all the same.

Countless medications have <16% efficacy rate.

Have you never worked in customer service?

It is often both.

not in my experience and it will be more expensive to company

How is any of that making humanity better? How is any of that making the world a better place for us and our children to live in?

This is a b2b product. Its not meant to make the world better.

But maybe a business that’s actually making the world better by making better, healthier stuff uses it, gets more customers, and makes the world better

Who cares, the goal is to make money...

our current problems summed up in a single sentence

Google has enough metadata to graph and deduce which are scams.

Seriously, when are people gonna stop giving these megacorporations the benefit of a doubt?

this

> From Google's perspective - someone bought a gift card in the US, and redeemed it somewhere else in the US

hmm really? is this coming from a google PR firm or what? if that's the google's "perspective", unfortunately that means google is really technically inept or morally corrupt enough to watch a lot of people, including Americans, go thru the torture and being incinerated.

if Google receives a lot of "I was scammed into this" from whoever bought the giftcard, doesn't google have the responsibility to ask the giftcard user where they got that redeem code from? At least warn them several times, and then cut those buyers too?

that's the worst justification of a big corp imaginable -- I mean, that alone justifies a congressional hearing, and could mount to a deluge of negative media press:

"how google has skin in the Cambodian scams"

> if Google receives a lot of "I was scammed into this" from whoever bought the giftcard

Google doesn't sell the cards directly - at least not the ones purchased at the supermarket and used for scamming. There's a scummy industry of middlemen that handles this - that's why every store can sell basically every gift card; they don't have their PoS interact with every single vendor's API, they delegate to a middleman. So Google gets very limited data at purchase time, and is not technically the merchant selling the goods in this case.

> doesn't google have the responsibility to ask the giftcard user where they got that redeem code from

What will that change in practice? They have 2 options: either accept any answer, and nothing changes, or decline some answers, meaning either legitimate usage gets disrupted or the sites laundering the cards will just tell you the "right" answers to say.

> At least warn them several times, and then cut those buyers too?

Most buyers are one-time users; it's a relatively niche market. Mostly teens/etc who don't have their own payment card or are willing to go through the whole hassle for a small discount. As per the above, cutting people off would likely hinder legitimate usage.

Ideally the whole "gift card" industry just goes away as there's no good reason to have it when we already have the ultimate form of "gift card" in the form of money... but until then, even if Google were to step out of the game someone else will step in (the company issuing the cards isn't directly involved, their gift card is just used as a negotiable instrument in lieu of cash during the scam transaction, so any company's will do).

> has skin in the Cambodian scams

Cambodia/etc is pig butchering/fake investment scams. Gift cards and redeeming is exclusively Indians targeting the US market (in the UK they have money mules to launder actual bank transfers, so no need for gift cards).

> Most buyers are one-time users

well, even if they are, if google got scam-report, then isn't google obliged to start some investigation? are you ok with "well that's too bad you're scammed"?

> Gift cards and redeeming is exclusively Indians targeting the US market (in the UK they have money mules to launder actual bank transfers, so no need for gift cards).

well nope it's a thing everywhere -- even in some east-asian country, there's a public advertisement targeting convenient-store workers: "don't give google redeem code even if the person claims to work for the cvs chain"

AND...

> Google doesn't sell the cards directly - at least not the ones purchased at the supermarket and used for scamming.

wow... ok so where does that "redeem card" come from? are you saying stores can generate those redeem codes? ...something doesn't seem right here...?

> Ideally the whole "gift card" industry just goes away as there's no good reason to have it when we already have the ultimate form of "gift card" in the form of money... but until then, even if Google were to step out of the game someone else will step in (the company issuing the cards isn't directly involved, their gift card is just used as a negotiable instrument in lieu of cash during the scam transaction, so any company's will do).

wtf is this... are we talking about some random mom&pop store-issued giftcards? is Google a mom&pop store? is the "google doing a giftcard biz" so valuable enough to license them turning blind-eye?

> Cambodia/etc is pig butchering/fake investment scams

cambodian operation is massive enough that it INCLUDES google-giftcard scheme.

idk, all this adds up to one thing: google needs to replace whatever PR firm it's using

The claim of Russian involvement was a link to HN comments on a link to a Reddit thread.