Data centre capacity, they seem to be making an emphasis on access to independent power sources.

AMD (at older CPUs) do have pretty high idle power usage.

I have a battery system for my desktop (I live in Ukraine, russian our electricity system) and my 5800X desktop doesn’t go below 140 W or so (with monitor being off and active background services on the HDDs).

Sorry, my mistake, I meant fusion, not cold fusion.

I was pointing out that the hype around SMRs doesn’t seem to match reality. Lot’s of VC-style investments and press releases. Very little "SMR were responsible for x GW power output and y total GWh in a given year.

member of a group of wealthy individuals wielding sovereign power

This doesn’t seem right. Russian oligarchs do not wield sovereign power, yet they are still oligarchs.

They wield power, but the term sovereign doesn’t seem appropriate.

“So we’ve been working back from silicon advancements and architectural improvements, and I think we have a pretty good idea of what the next version of Steam Deck is going to be, but right now there’s no offerings in that landscape, in the SoC [System on a Chip] landscape, that we think would truly be a next-gen performance Steam Deck,” Griffais continued

It sounds like what they are aiming for might not be in their alleged sub $1,000 price target.

I understand the economic logic behind the SMR concept (production economies of scale from modularity), but the whole SMR concept is starting to remind me of cold fusion.

Concept seems to have been invented in 2007 as per Wikipedia, but as of 2024 the only known example is in China (why aren’t they scaling it?). The floating nuclear power planet example from russia seems to be a different thing, but I am no expert in these matters, so happy to be corrected.

Additionally many project seem to have either unrealistically close target dates or sometime long term dates (that are subject to change by definition).

Believe it or not, but there are externalities to the polemics you are describing.

The ostentatious posturing (I am a tiny minority that is virtuous, everyone else just wants to punish people and doesn’t want the law to apply to everyone equally) is pretty ignorant. I’ve lived in multiple countries across North America, Europe and Asia, it’s clear that you haven’t thought about this.

It’s comically easy to find well known (locally) examples where even the non polemical version of your arguement doesn’t hold.

EDIT: I would appreciate a counter argument from people who don’t agree. I am genuinely curious, because to me this seems like common sense. And I can provide multiple example from different cultures about why this rhetoric does not sound convincing.

I don’t think the reference to “ostentatious posturing” is uncharitable. Just look at the text. This copytext is pretty standard and clearly aimed at self-aggrandization.

Sure, but he is not an oligarch.

Literally promoting phrenology.

That’s why I said this article was subpar. And I even commented on this in pretty harsh terms:

the regime members are really busy doing their best to make a new metaphorical rope

I don’t agree with a lot of what they say, but I don’t believe they are malicious, at least to the extent that many American news sources are.

The Economist is generally a pretty good news source, but I thought this article was subpar.

Irrespective of whether this facial evaluation algorithm works or not, as things stand today, it is pointless to discuss its use in the context of meritocracy. A regime founded upon the rejection of personal responsibility, corruption and criminality makes such discussions irrelevant (algorithm or no algorithm).

At the risk of sounding like an accelerationist, I can’t get rid of the feeling that the regime members are really busy doing their best to make a new metaphorical rope.

Xi is not an oligarch, to my knowledge, he has always worked in the CCP.

I’ve never actually tried gaming on Linux for ARM, but there do seem to be some games:

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_Linux_ARM_games

But this list doesn’t seem to be complete as it doesn’t include Doom3.

You’re not going to beat the Americans at their own game. It’s a society that does not respect the rule of law, does not believe in true market competition and does not believe in democracy.

If you think I am acting out, consider the following point: recently Meta was found to have directly (in a premeditated manner) promoted scams/frauds that netted them $16B in commission in a single year. We all know that nothing will be done about this even under a hypothetical centre-right US government.

How do we know that? Well was anything done about Microsoft’s anti-competitive behaviour in the 90s?

But for me, the real irony is the polemics about competition and “free market”. In a real free market, MS, Meta, Google would not have hundreds of billions of dollar to burn because competition would drive profit margins to a state of approaching zero. Zuck would not be able to burn $45 B on his weird and disgusting Metaverse Mii autosexuality fetish.

Not a fan of the leadership of China, but I genuinely do believe that one area that we can learn from them is how to deal with oligarchs.

Counter arguement: you need to do your own research/planning/applications and so on. There won’t always be an easy “all inclusive” path. But opportunities are there for those who are looking for them.

That being said, it would massively help to speak at least one other language fluently.

You’re also correct that it’s not easy from a resource perspective. But if people from much poorer countries can make it work, than so can people in the US.

Touche! Nice one!

Not sure what you are refering to.

According to The Mercury News, Jinfeng Luo, who started at Intel in 2014, received a termination notice last July 7th, ending his service with the company at the same month.

There can be reverse situations (e.g. opportunistic individual delivering hard earned data from an honest company to American criminal groups) so its not black and white.

That being said “reap what you sow” can be a fair and just characterisation.

Someone downloading full datasets that would rarely happen in the regular course of work (unless there was special projec tor some sort).

Cuba may not have an extradition treaty with the US, but I somehow doubt you can just arrive there, as a relatively well known person of interest and stay there without giving the local thugs a cut.

I would speculate he is working with the CCP.

This is for fabless companies only. So this wouldn’t include Samsung since they both fabricate NAND and sell consumer SSDs.

That’s why Crucial is not on the list; they are owned by Micron which fabs NAND.

I will admit, this is not really clear at all. I am assuming “own brand” refers to this.