Well, yes. For many years, presidential candidates, both Democratic and Republican, referred to the United States as "the indispensible nation". And my reaction was always, "Doesn't that mean the US is a single point of failure for civilization?"

We are currently performing an experiment which addresses this question: can the US enjoy the benefits of soft power without the cost? That's the whole point of obeying *norms*. No individual force is going to punish you if you are treacherous, mercurial, foul-mouthed, disrespectful and generally unpredictable. Everyone will punish you.

I think an inevitable cost of this experiment will be that the world will decide that the US can't be a single point of failure for global democracy any longer. In many ways, that's something that will be good for us. But it's also going to cost us in painful ways. When the world decides to move away from the dollar as the international reserve currency, you will see both inflation and higher interest rates on everything from credit cards to mortgages, to business loans that will offset the export advantages. We will need *more* business investment to shift the economy to producing low value goods again, so the transition will be rocky.

Thats a aloe and you know it.

You are the one that said: “There are bigger points.” Why do you lie so much?

None of these points have anything to do with what he said. You are introducing strawman arguments.

How does jobs in China or Vietnam create jobs in the US again? You seem to missed the whole part that where I said: " Not much difference when it comes to US jobs assembling those phones."

Maybe not as painful Intel x86 on TSMC silicon which happened last year.

But poster's point is still valid. Making the chips here only to ship them overseas for the device to be assembled. The only difference is assembled in Vietnam or India instead of China. Not much difference when it comes to US jobs assembling those phones.

It's a trade off: you get abundant free energy to run the server, with extreme constraints on cooling because your server is running in the most perfect Thermos bottle ever.

Others are taking the opposite tack: undersea data centers for abundant free cooling at the expense of having to get the power down to your servers.

If had to bet on which one is more practial, I'd go with undersea servers. Build them off the coast of Chile, run cables out from batery-backed solar plants in the Atacama desert.

As someone who has a Windows laptop with touch, I don’t have much use for touch. Even though Windows started to incorporate more touch beginning with Windows 8, many things are still mouse and keyboard driven. For example, many sites I use still rely on mouse over features or have very small control elements that are not touch friendly. With more applications becoming cloud based, it is more likely I will not use touch

I think it may be evidence that Amazon has a shitty corporate culture that squeezes every penny it can out its employees.

Corruption can happen anywhere, but it's more likely to happen in totalitarian cultures where people feel like the system is rigged anyway. That's why countries like Russia and China have corruption problems. But I suspect the same feelings of me vs. the system occur in a capitalist enterprise like Amazon where employees are governed by dystopian, rigid, computerized metrics.

Bahahaha. Why don’t you ask Iran? You really are clueless aren’t you?

You wrote; "Show evidence." And I gave that to you. Now you are complaining I didn't give you all the evidence that you never asked for.

I wrote " It seems pretty clear they did not BUILD their own power plant." No one is complaining that these data centers did not plan to USE electricity. That is either dishonest or idiotic.

The Iran situation has nothing to do with MAD. A key component of MAD is "mutually assured" part. When MAD was the strategy between the USSR and the US, both sides collectively had tens of thousands of warheads. At best, Iran might have the ability to produce a few nukes if they had the uranium.

The part you missed or trying to deflect is the part where Iran DOES NOT have nukes at the moment as it is not clear if they have the required enriched uranium and capability.

"Here's a thought experiment: Will you go to any lengths to excuse Trump of things we know he did?" Still going to any lengths to defend Trump.

Bahahahahah. I wrote about no bid contracts. You tried to pivot to how every past President was also bad. Then you tried to speak abou WMDs. Still nothing about no bid contracts.

You: I DEMAND answers to everything while I am not going to address any of your points by trying to change the subject. Buddy, no one owes you anything..

You know we can scroll up, right? You wrote: "I find it absolutely hilarious when so many piss-poor plebeians like you say that others are morons." Leaving out that part where you took offense is dishonest nd you know it. Now, you are trying to lie about wrote you wrote.

How would you know? You don't do you? That is just your attempt to insult me for calling you out by insinuating English is not my native language. But to my point you have yet to actually address a single point of his.

And no one talked about WMDs either. How about you trying to continuously change the subject?

Not sure what you are talking about I would guess it has nothing do with the topic on hand. Every post of yours is just another example of you trying excuse everything Trump does that was predicted.

It doesn't take a genius to realize if Micron makes lots of HBM instead of DDR5 in the next year and the HBM demand suddenly disappears, Micron is stuck with lots of product that will not sell at the same time not having product like DDR5 that would have sold.

His insults were towards Micron, not you. But you took offense at that and instead of addressing any of his points, you started insulting him.