Broadcom's share price has only tripled after closing the VMWare acquisition in Nov '23 -- from $100 to $300

Think of it this way: what does Broadcom do? Make chips! What increases the demand for chips?
- Less virtualisation
- Poorer quality virtualisation
- Forced infrastructure changes

Even Nutanix uses Broadcom chips. As a Hyperconverged Infrastructure provider, Nutanix relies on hardware partners such as Dell, HPE, and Cisco. Their products incorporate various hardware components (NICs, routing silicon) from Broadcom. So if Nutanix gains 30K customers due to Broadcom squeezing the life out of VMWare, some coins roll down Broadcom's way. Yes, Nutanix wins more bigly, but a Broadcom bean-counter is probably carefully tracking all these effects in a financial model.

And this model almost certainly does not track environment degradation due to infrastructure changes forced by Broadcom's behaviour with VMWare.

I had to Google to confirm that. I dont want to be impaled by one when it falls

Let the courts figure it out. If licensed car skins were an issue, Ubisoft could choose to all the skins with Lada's, and release the server protocol.

If it's a clone it can't be brainless, unless you lobotomize it. That's evil in itself. Even then it will still have to have a functional brain if you need the body to stay alive.

Torpedo this idea. Don't condone murder. Did this guy gets his idea from 'The Island'?

You are correct. Meta (parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp) has an annual R&D spend exceeding US$40 billion. Five times more than the $7 billion (in today's money) quoted as the Bell Labs R&D budget.

Question: "Open the Kill Switch Pod Bay doors Hal !"

How dare they? Waaah!

This makes them our enemies. If you play with them, we won't play with you.

In the Biblical garden of Eden, the trees and vegetation was watered by mist that arose from the ground at night. Maybe the roads of the future will incorporate misters

Lots of chips?

Yes, me too. I had a '386 (with a '387, but I don't think that was used much) and lots of memory, timing, and other chips

:) Haha... For a second I thought you may be objecting to belittling a brave ex-soldier as a bureaucrat.

Hegseth seems smart enough to , but this entirely emotive, quick to anger, way of working is very strange.

Thanks - it's interesting there is no talk about courts at all.

As an outcome, I think DoD/DoW/the Feds may build their own, sovereign AI

Was the Department of War blind that they didn't read the terms of service before signing the Anthropic contract?

If they did read the ToS and now Anthropic is reneging on the terms, then the same courts you speak of can be used to compel Anthropic to deliver what the contract agreed to.

This entire thing looks like bureaucrats like Hegseth are having a hissy fit that someone had the gall to say "no" to NEW demands. Where are his war powers now? Will he go draft Dario?

This isn't China.

Hey, we are an aspirational race!

Ah, don't underestimate those pesky humans who live among us. Most tombs in the Valley of the Kings were looted within 100 years of their sealing.

As long as the energy demands are not excessive, this alone makes it worth it...

History indicates no human construct can reliably safeguard nuke waste for 100K years. But 300 years? That's do-able!