Load goes up with the number of users. So spikes in usage are effectively a distributed denial of service attack. Be sure to support your instance.

So to match the fraudulent government, the USA is going to have an entirely fraudulent market and soon after an entirely fraudulent currency.

Or we could avoid the mask costs entirely

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34907885

All valid points but what I suggested was the strategy used by China to bootstrap their own industry. If it worked for them, why not for Europe as well?

You are quite correct; but trying to start on the latest process seems like trying to bite off too much at once. Even old process nodes are sufficient to show a viable option going forward. And the design can be improved and moved to more advanced processes nodes.

Thank you for clarifying.

There is a design, fab, test cycle involved with working out all bugs in a design in relation to a specific lithography manufacturing process.

Well the design work done via the GPLv3 can be started pretty easily. The $5K per wafer spin however is a pain and it takes a while to get it back.

Sounds like a rather cheap and easy way to get bad cops out of the police force