Intel to Receive $8.5B in Grants to Build Chip Plants

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Mar 21, 2024, 9:03 PM UTC

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They missed the GPU market (AI/ML/Gaming) and the console market. Hence they lost all of that to Nvidia and AMD. Both of those companies now have a bigger market cap than Intel. How is this so difficult to understand? It is very simple, not obtuse, unless you are autistic. Nvidia market cap is $2.26 Trillion. AMD market cap is $290 Billion. Intel market cap is $178 Billion. AMD and Nvidia used to be a tiny fraction o…

"Autistic". You keep using that word, but I don't think it means what you think it means. Are we back in kindergarten, with name calling?

Post by smoldesu » Thu, Mar 21, 2024, 9:37 PM UTC

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Calling it slave labour is an insult to the people who had to live with actual slavery.

The people who flagged this comment must believe that someone working at McDonald's for low wages is the same as someone being held as property, their family members terrorized, raped, beaten, whipped, murdered, etc. at the whim of their legal owners.

Post by nwiswell » Thu, Mar 21, 2024, 10:28 PM UTC

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You're right, I mistook the year-to-date figure for the full-year projection. That said, > It's been widely reported [1] that the US debt reached $32T in June 2023, $33T in Sept 2023, $34T January 2024, achieving those milestones roughly every 100 days. The projections indicate an exponential increase, which doesn't help the case for sustainability. These figures aren't interesting because they include debt that the…

Nice smooth exponential curve, debt held by public as percentage of GDP through 2053.[1] During the GFC, the projections always flattened over the long term. There's no longer even a pretense of plans to normalize. We've lived for a long time in the "no serious consequences" regime; this set of projections seems different. [1] https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59711

Post by smoldesu » Fri, Mar 22, 2024, 12:14 AM UTC

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> Do you think that if Ukraine was not being courted by US that it would've been invaded like that ? Invaded? Probably not. Becoming a second Belarus? Yes. Overall it would have meant a Russia - NATO border closer to me. I prefer an Ukrainian - Russian NATO border far, far more.

If you give me a choice between Ukraine being a second Belarus and risking WWIII or a nuclear exchange, my answer will be easy to choose.

Post by Dalewyn » Fri, Mar 22, 2024, 1:59 AM UTC

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>Japan can change this on a whim with one meeting of the legislature. You think Japan can't change its own laws? Please have some clue about what you're talking about first: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Japan#Amendmen... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_96_of_the_Japanese_Con... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_9_of_the_Japanese_Cons... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Mutual…

All that shit is irrelevant. The prime Minister of Japan is actively talking about defending Taiwan if it's attacked. The people of Japan probably won't complain. The US won't complain. South Korea won't complain. And that's not even counting a casus belli that might make it justifiable (e.g. some Japanese citizen in Taiwan gets harmed, or chind sends missiles to US based in Okinawa) What exactly do you think is the…