phoinex711 t1_iufmh3m wrote on October 30, 2022 at 11:19 PM

Reply to ELI5 how can a hacker crack a password but avoid the "login attempt lockout" timers? by otherother_Barry

That’s called a brute force method of hacking and it is rarely used. If you do want to use that method switch your logic. Same password, but try a different account name. Eventually you find an account using that password

phoinex711 t1_iuflkvx wrote on October 30, 2022 at 11:13 PM

Reply to ELI5 why chip manufacturing is concentrated in Taiwan by superbombino

Everyone has brought up some great points, but I will also add in one other aspect that makes it harder to move industries and that is all the supporting business. There have been many cases where businesses try to move their production to new locations to only discover dependencies that make it nearly impossible. For example, when apple tried to move one of their production lines to the US they discovered that no one locally could manufacture some screws for them in their specific size. Companies were willing to start creating the screws, but it would take a few years to reconfigure their production lines.