See this video for a cogent explanation of SVB's situation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbc1ooJWG3I

Long-story-short: SVB had large cash deposits from startups, invested in bonds that got quickly devalued by the Fed's recent actions, which raised the risk of insolvency; VC's told their portfolio companies to pull their funds en masse.

Shouldn't have an impact on VC investments; might cause some startups to be unable to touch funds for some period of time (speculation on my part).

Agreed, the article should have spelled out what said "brick wall" was all about.

Remarkably, while I could find many stories that mention a limitation with SO-DIMMs, none could actually say what the nature of the limitation is.

Finally found this - it appears that the limitation is just Dell's opinion, man...
https://www.storagereview.com/...

These are economic sanctions, nothing less. Whether you agree or disagree, we should at least use the right terminology.

Economic sanctions are, depending upon your viewpoint, either a type of warfare, or something that often precedes warfare.

No matter what, it's a very aggressive move. Not sure if it's the right one or not. But hey, it's one way to (try to) maintain hegemony.

"I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."

"If we let one [piece of data] slip through, we lose the trust of our customers."

The biggest failure of the CDC's response was in not encouraging people to purchase KN95 or N95 masks the very second they became available in adequate quantities

Oh, there were much bigger failures. If masks were so damned important, why not just provide qualified PPE to the populace? Why the need to purchase at gouging prices, and likely counterfeit? How about the USA's inability to actually ensure that there was adequate PPE in the first place, due to horrendous industrial and health policy? Or Fauci's attempt to carry water and initially say that masks were not a good idea (because of said industrial and health policy failures?)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

If there are mass poisonings in your town, the likely suspect is the resident poison factory.

It came from the lab. Ask the guy who headed up the Lancet investigation:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10980715/Covid-leaked-AMERICAN-lab-claims-professor-Jeffrey-Sachs.html

I have to imagine that the someone in the US government realizes that we're getting to a use-it-or-lose-it stage - where our supremacy is going to be extinguished across the board.

Thus, I'd expect that the US is more likely to do a Pearl Harbor style surprise attack, not China, if war actually breaks out.

The US just backed down from a confrontation over Ukraine; it'll be interesting to see if that happens with Taiwan or not.

Do you watch the news?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news...

It actually appears that such research, in Wuhan, was funded by the USA.

Never going to happen. The USA is a declining empire, and declining empires are characterized by trying to regain lost glory through military adventurism.

Also consider who is about to take all branches of government - the Democrats are going to get clobbered in the next two election cycles.

Expect war, soon.

There's also another factor to this - China is ramping up its military expansion, and will surpass the USA (and possibly along with USA allies) in the near future.

The USA power-that-be have been banging the war drums because they're considering firing the first shot, as they're in a use-it-or-lose it situation. It's either that, or admit to lesser status as a world power (and the USA will never willingly do that).

Disagree. Xi is 68; he wants to solve the Taiwan problem before he dies.

The 75th anniversary of the PRC is 2024; the 80th in 2029. The CCP has put in restrictions and bans on video games, feminine celebrities, and is weaning off of American business.Also, it took ~20-25 years to beat HK into shape, and they want things squared away for the 100th anniversary.

Combine all that, plus the sudden acceleration of nuke building, with Xi's age, and the conclusion is pretty clear:

Expect increasing escalation and outright conflict in the near future.

TBL once told me that he had terrible regrets regarding not patenting the URL, given their proliferation in everything by '96 or '97. He would have been ok with a few cents per use.

This was after several sake bombs at a Naperville Benihana's.

See commentary on this by Fareed Zakaria...

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Consider two contrasting exercises of power. The United States F-35 fighter jet program, bedeviled by cost overruns and technical problems, will ultimately cost taxpayers $1.7 trillion. China will spend a comparable amount of money on its Belt and Road Initiative, an ambitious set of loans, aid and financing for infrastructure throughout the world, aimed at creating greater interdependence with dozens of countries that are important to Beijing. Which is money better spent?