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"capable of hosting hundreds of researchers and facilitating international conferences and workshops" and I thought alot of international conferences, etc is moving out of the US cos of the problems of visiting US.

https://www.scidev.net/global/...

So, good luck with getting international events held within the US.

It could be the cost of the various CPUs, DSPs etc (basically anything made from a chip fab) is going up as well, and not just ram.

But then again, I understand most chips in cars tend to use older nodes, so maybe they are not affected too much. Unless it's packaging related.

Am not in the car industry, so am just speculating.

Your car has a top speed of 180km/h but you usually travel at 120 km/h, so you dont really notice the top speed.

But on the rare occasions when you need to travel faster (and the law allows), it's always good to have the extra speed.

Same for me, I got 1gbps up/down, most of the time my household is barely using 100mbps. But on occasions I want to download something large / do a bunch of data transfer, the 1gbps is always nice to have.

Other social media companies may want to limit the addictive functionalities (like the "infinite scroll") if they see Meta get hit very hard.

Maybe even hard enough to bankrupt it.

First one to get there and setup a settlement can take the best spot.

Best resources? Best location for power generation? Best place to communicate with earth easily? Best something else?

Thats assuming anyone knows what is the absolute best spot by the time the settlement is made.

Not so much "sentient" but a form of malware / system which decides humans are not needed to carry out instructions given by whoever / whatever. And if humans are seen as a hindrance to carry out the instructions .......

Will it be fine if Paramount churns out a bunch of cheap films with no name actors / director etc?

Not saying those films can't do well (some indie films have done well), but is that sufficient to meet the 30 films a year commitment? Or does the commitment contains a minimum budget for each of the 30 films (not to mention hollywood accounting tricks to make the budget of a film basically any number you want it to be).

Problem with deterrence through the US alliance is, you never know what Trump thinks of the Islamic Republic of Japan when Japan really needs the help.

As someone currently in South East Asia, and having visited S Korea, Japan, etc before, I have no issues with Japan, N Korea and Taiwan getting nukes.

We know what happens if you have no nukes and a larger country wants what you have (Ukraine and Russia). And we know the UN is toothless when a belligerent nation is a perm member of the UN Sec Council (or a close friend of a perm member).

I can even understand Iran wanting a nuke now after the attack by US and Israel. Prior to this attack, I was leaning towards Iran not having a nuke. Now I can understand Iran wanting it at the least to make a belligerent nation think twice in the future. Did you know that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of Iran (the guy who got killed by the US) declared the production and use of nuclear weapons haram (forbidden). The new guy (who happens to be the son) is probably wanting nukes cos of what happened to his dad.

In conclusion, I can understand many more nations wanting nukes cos of the state of the current world. Sort of Atomics owned by the Great Houses in Dune. Deterrence against the others.

It's supposed to leave the solar system.

And hopefully get to another star or something in the far future.

Thats why there is the disc with the details about us in them.

Bringing them back, regardless we can technically do it (sending a ship, match their speed, drop to zero speed, reverse, etc will probably be very difficult with current tech, even if it's feasible) or not is not what they are designed for.

Not to mention even within Intel's products, it was limited to specific motherboard chipsets (at least for the general PCs).

They reduce the chance for widespread acceptance by limiting it too much.

After that the rest is history .....

I do wonder if Trump will make more market moving statements on purpose so that it seems paying the 100k a month is worth it.

Even if he doesnt take action on everything he says, it may be enough to move the market in a certain way. And that is enough for a trading algo to make a few bucks.

"Am discussing using nukes in iran".

"Am thinking of sending troops to greenland to invade it".

"We should be ordering more weapons to prepare for a bigger war with Iran".

Out of the above 3 statements, only the last one may be acted on, but the other 2 are probably enough to move the markets in some ways. And even if the last statement is not acted on as well, it can get the MIC stocks to move up a couple of bucks for a while, enough to make a few bucks in a few secs.

If I was walking around anywhere in an urban area and needed to use google map, I just use it for rough direction and figure out the rest.

Don't follow whatever the map says blindly.

Maybe end users of power will find that the prices have dropped due to a glut of power supply.

As people get exposed to more and more AI output, eventually even those works which are written fully by a human is going to be influenced by AI works.

Wonder what will happen once this becomes a cycle.

AI writing influences human writing which in return influences AI writing .....

More and more business software is web based.

That means it can be OS neutral.