But "95% of international traffic" is not the same as "95% of traffic". You are slicing the wrong pie, Happy Thanksgiving!

That's the problem: they are not a web. The original idea of the internet was to have a web of connections so that a few cables or nodes going bad wouldn't stop data movement, it would route around the bad spots via going through adjacent parts of the web. Seems we have to return to the original vision.

Technically they usually route around damaged sea cables via a larger scale redundancy, such as through another continent, but the webbiness needs to be per sea based on the rate of damage so far.

"Epstein diddit"

Are you saying it's comparable to Kodak sitting on their digital camera patents from the 70's to avoid knocking film profits even if other camera firms are dabbling in digital?

Half of the human population doesn't think either, they just echo their favorite chamber.

Why doesn't Nvidia make more specific chips to compete with Google on such server farms? They have the cash.

They are sometimes wrong, conspiracy nuts are usually wrong.

Why is the word "all" there? If "both" is already in the sentence, it's superfluous.

Brain-damaged people vote for rich blowhards, magnifying the cycle.

into the 70's

Jony Eye

Hey um, you mean like a furry HAL 9000?: "Pet my pod bay doors, Dave, it feels really nice, Dave!"

I'll bet 1k

Yellowstone needs to be drained of heat, otherwise it will burst the ugliest of bursts.

by playing video games all day

You'll be a hemorrhoid fixer, playing Assteroids.

This is why techniques with an UNDO button are preferred. Adding mist-generators to cargo ships thus may be a preferred way to add shade (via clouds).

Anyone know how long the dust in TFA lingers?