Look up transatomic, thorium , and spent fuel. These will be built sooner, not later. When it does, all of the thorium above ground combined with our waste could power america for the next 100 years.

I would mod you up, but I have no points.

Oddly, the Germans learned how to do liquid rockets from Goddard, an american. And most of that was stolen.

Of course, no tech was passed on those. What happened is that NSA overheard airbus and other companies offering illegal kickbacks to win business, so that was reported. Big difference between economic espionage of giving tech to others, vs. reporting to legal authorized of criminal offenses.

Not just for economic gain. In general, China wants offensive weaponry as quickly as possible.

As one that has dealt with one Chinese spy , and potentially, another one, it is obvious that China is hard at work stealing as much tech as they can. Sadly, our clearance methods were compromised by privatizing them. We should give it back to FBI, along with ICE. There are far far too many chinese spies in the west.

I do not propose anything. Musk and SpaceX are the ones proposing and building.

They could use separate heatsinks or mill a recess into a bigger one for the memory.

Now, imagine if the whole APU could use HBM as the combined system RAM.

Which is why they will have 7000+ SATs at 500 miles. Ping time will blow doors off fiber.

Seriously, a 16 mj railgun would work for close proximity, which is what is wanted on lasers.

In 15 years, the biggest threat to cable and phone will not be fiber, but satellite. With the 2 systems going in, you will have GB connection, with better ping times than cable or Twp.

What little part did you grab onto without reading the whole post? That's right, the very first sentence.

Read the whole thing. It's about balancing speed of development with other factors, including performance of the code.

Nobody's talking about blazing fast, careless typing into an IDE. The biggest cost in software development tends to be the software developer. Making the software developer more productive saves money. Most of us don't have unlimited budgets.

People who code in Python, Perl, Scheme, JavaScript, or whatever rather than assembly aren't all "sloppy" developers. They're producing code that does a lot more work per source line than Assembly does. If they produce the same number of lines, then they're more productive.

Assembly can call C libraries on most systems. Then again, so can Perl, Python, and Scheme.