with US as the subject. The rest of the world also has ambitions.

Russian hyper sonic missiles, which we lag by about 20 years anyone?

'nuff said..

Having lived in China nearly 4 years, your comment makes little sense.

Mail is delivered twice daily, mornings and afternoons.

As someone who lived there for 4+ years, govt has about 80% approval rating. Their values and ours are different. They want peace and stability whereas here in the USA we value FreeDumb, whatever that is..

So, no, they do things for them, that make sense for them and solve problems for them.

Applying external judgemental stuff to that does little to change the mindset.

Not sure why anyone would think they want or need or input..

Nice troll by the way.

Are you QUITE certain the Russians are not trying to corrupt my Precious Bodily Fluids?

Hmm? They are known for that. Watch those Chinese, too. They want to steal all the IP and "All Your Base Are Belong to Us"

I have the 905p Optane, 480 GB unit in my daily driver. Sure, there is a price premium. I got mine on a special from NewEgg for about $420 I think. Consumer line was canceled a year ago maybe? Micron bailed, too.

The Optane does have some faster specs on some things, but with a bunch of RAM cache it is hard to actually see it shine, ever..

High endurance and low latency makes it ideal for DB temp, system swap, but again, RAM should be maxed out first.

Flash killed SCSI 15k boot drives, and this is better, but fill the RAM sockets first. I do not miss the Cheetah Whine!

Will need to wait a bit and see what happens in the senate.

Solutions will need to be global.

pity about the public record and google and forever shamed, but still, good for her.

Can not get that expunged ever, eg Lewinski.

I was super looking forward to it.

Sigh.

I upgrade for each new generation of memory. I will soon upgrade to a DDR4 based system.

Wait for the new standard to hit price parity, then grab whatever CPU is at the best price/performance point. New faster PCI or whatever, sure. Give me the new fast RAM!

All computing comes down to bandwidth. Memory bandwidth is always the first roadblock. Then disk, and later network.

Yes, about every 4-5 years. Shrug, works for me!

SSD was my only upgrade in about 4 years!

They do not "Hate". They simple do not care. It does not cross their minds.

In the west do you grieve for the bugs splattered on your windshield? Probably not..

Peasants defer to the wealthy. Wealthy defer to the govt. You are expected to fit yourself into this hierarchy and KNOW YOUR PLACE. If you get hit, YOUR FAULT. Should not have been doing that..

Employees defer to the boss. Period. If you act western, as an equal etc. you cause he boss to lose face. You will not be employed for long!

Do not impose your views or social standards, or ideas of equality. They have their own way, and do not want to be preached to. It works for them, violence is low, things are very peaceful if you go with the flow.

Do not JUDGE!

The sidewalks are also overflowing with people driving motos during rush hour!

Traffic is jammed, OOH, there's a nice place I can drive..

Non-Rush hour, the sidewalks are used for parking the motos. Or for portable shops selling whatever, although the local Cong Anh (police without guns, vs the Army ones with guns..) are forcing out the vendors now in bigger cities. Many stories in the news about the 70 yr old illiterate peasant woman who can not sell coffee any more from her coal brasier/plastic chairs and a small table streetside shop.

They are having contract disputes with a Chinese company building an elevated light-rail system. It is a ring around the city, with a few spurs in/out. It should go online next year. The dispute is the Chinese company is selling them off their used rolling stock, the contract did not specify New, so corners were cut..
VN and CN people do not have a happy history, so many outraged stories on the news.

It will not fall short. Traffic is BAD. ie reach out and touch 8 others as you are driving on a moto.. I walk as it is frequently faster. Traffic lights are ignored unless a cop is standing there.

The new trains WILL be used.

I lived there a year, and left due to traffic, and traffic noise. Pollution is bad, not not much worse than most other asian cities. The biggest problem for me is the slash and burn agriculture which puts a haze over the entire region.

The bikes are almost exclusively 4 stroke, Honda Dream, Honda Wave, 100-110cc over 175 cc you get a special 200% tax, yes the big bikes then cost 3x as much! Some Suzikis and yamahas, but many parts are interchangable. There is the odd old Russian Minsk, and those are foul.. but those are mostly used in the mountains and by dumb-ass tourists.. Sometimes an old Honda Chaly mini-bike with a 50 cc but really, 99% 4 STROKE.

Post after post after post, THEY ARE 4 STROKE!

TLDR; YMMV!

I live in a country that has 2 lane highways. One lane to the city, the other going away from the city.. YOU INSENSITIVE CLOD!

Passing 2 lanes over might be in the next province of my rural province in the mighty Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

And, furthermore, GET OFF MY LAWN1 :)