Orcas rarely venture into the Mediterranean much beyond Gibraltar.

1. A favorable business climate.
2. Skilled workforce, specifically in semiconductors
3. Low humidity
4. Stable geology. No earthquakes. No hurricanes. No blizzards.
5. Stable utilities. No power blackouts.
6. Located close to labor in Mexico for packaging. Direct flights to Asia.
7. Decent universities
8. An attractive location for new employees to relocate to. Arizona is a nice place to live with affordable housing.

Using water for cooling doesn't "use it up". The warm water is still available for other uses, such as irrigation. Evaporative losses are not significant.

Compared to agricultural irrigation, these other water uses are minimal and create far more jobs.

A bigger environmental impact will be the residential water used by the employees drawn to the area, mostly for watering their lawns. Xeriscaping can help here.

TSMC is already having trouble recruiting skilled tech workers in Arizona. Softbank will have the same problem.

I rarely use semicolons.

When I do, my grammar checker always complains.

Grammar checkers may be the reason for the decline in semicolons.

They are returning the money to victims, but there is no reasonable way to trace particular recovered bitcoins to specific victims. Arguably, putting it into a general fund for restitution is more "fair" anyway.

I presume that the DOJ will reimburse American victims, but most pig butchering victims are Chinese citizens.

China even intervened in Myanmar's civil war to shut down scammer call centers along the border. Some of the trafficking victims had been abducted in China. Others were from ethnicities who live in both Myanmar and Yunnan.

They are not line officers, so they would not command combat units.

I met a medical officer who'd been directly commissioned as a full-bird O-6. He'd run a civilian hospital, but had no military experience.

These tech guys are being commissioned as O-5's so that everyone knows how much authority they have just by looking at their collars. It keeps things simple.

Because twisting the facts to fit that narrative generates clicks.

Yet, here you are, posting on the Internet using technology created by Big Tech.

One solution is to go to grad school and hope the job market is better in two years when you get your MS.

No, not illegal. Just stupid and counterproductive.

Regulating AI just means that AGI will happen elsewhere, most likely in authoritarian China.

Python has built-in support for arbitrary precision integers by default, with no 3rd party libraries needed.

In Python, you can precisely calculate 100 factorial with a default installation. You can't do that with C++, Java, or Rust.

With proper instruction, you can learn touch typing in a week.

There are free apps and websites that work well.

No one supports Android phones the way Apple supports iPhones.

There is no "Genius Bar".

You're on your own. Got a problem with malware? Factory reset, or buy a new phone.

Because once their iPhones are infested with sideloaded malware, customers call Apple tech support and bring it to the "Genius Bar" at the Apple Store, and blame Apple for the problems.

Apple incurs costs and a hit to its image.

Apple can't just say, "You were stupid and now you've voided your warranty," because EU law doesn't let them say that.

Indeed. Intel's founders included many of the Traitorous Eight.

But they're not "starting over". They're using RISC-V, which is a mature instruction set with existing toolchains.