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This argument has been made before. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Illusion Unfortunately, it didn't work out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I

What market is Intel a monopoly in? They don't even have all of the x86 market. https://www.extremetech.com/computing/335650-amd-achieves-al...

And there's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Fab "The X-FAB Silicon Foundries is a German group of semiconductor foundries, with headquarters in Erfurt (X-FAB Semiconductor Fo…

They stopped doing that in Q1 of 2021 for obvious reasons. Notice all the zeroes https://www.intc.com/stock-info/dividends-and-buybacks Also, "Upcoming Dividends: There are no futu…

Assembly services are all over the place. Here's a large one in Escondido, CA which is commonly used. https://www.qptechnologies.com/about-us/company-info-bios/

Manufacturing anything large is an international affair these days. https://www.asml.com/en/news/stories/2020/inside-high-tech-m... "ASML has five manufacturing locations worldwide…

This is the first sentence of that article, “MacBook rarely shows overheating issues.” I can say that’s definitely not the case of the Intel laptop I’m currently using.

Because lots of power makes a system hot. And a hot system is a slow system, even if the battery is full. https://www.novatech.co.uk/blog/cpu-and-thermal-throttling/

I agree that the world basically runs on excel, but given that, the world cares about excel’s performance. Especially as spreadsheets are only getting bigger. And then there’s this…

I wondered why someone would publish such a list, and happily there is a FAQ which answers that. https://sive.rs/bfaq Your comment was also addressed. “Why don’t I see __(some book…

> Any true difficult problems I’ve faced professionally have been predominately organizational. If I was the interviewer I would love to hear that story. Much like in political deb…

> There are rice paddies surrounding the capital city of Sacramento. Believe it or not but the area where they grow rice in Sacramento is actually a flood plain. [1] Given your han…

If the +2 is kids than you left off an important $48K/yr expense. https://patch.com/california/san-francisco/how-much-it-costs...

Agriculture and municipal uses much more water than industry in AZ. Shockingly even with the population growth total state water use hasn’t increased due to conservation efforts. h…

I think you make a fair point but on the other hand I don’t see many “top 20 alternatives to http in 2022” articles (which implies there are more than 20 alternatives) like we have…

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> no ship-on-ship Do submarines count? If so, then yes. An important detail of the battle of midway was the Japanese didn’t think the American carriers were present. If they knew f…