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Apple's bad blood with Nvidia continues, after decades of fighting
I wonder if it’s not really “bad blood” but an inability to find common ground in negotiation.Nvidia wants to charge a premium for their GPUs, Apple doesn’t want to pay a premium. Nvidia has other customers willing to pay their price, apple finds other suppliers willing to charge Apple’s price.In the long run, though, I predict nvidia gets squeezed. I don’t mean that they will go out of business only tha their profit rate and stock price are going to come down a fair bit.
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US may ban the most popular home router over Chinese security fears
If you think it only counts as a war if Americans are dying then I guess ww2 didn’t start until Pearl Harbortht said:
It's not hotter than USA troops fighting a war. It's not hotter than being under constant nuclear bombing alert. The USA isn't even in a cold war posture, and really isn't doing much. If we were, we would be racing 24x7 to develop the next generation of war technologies like during the actual Cold War.blastdoor said:
The thing about a world war is that it involves multiple countries. China is in an axis with Russia, North Korea, and Iran. Russia’s war against Ukraine is very hot indeed.tht said:
I bolded. No, there isn’t even a cold war with China let alone it being hotter than the actual Cold War.blastdoor said:
Uh, yes. What’s your point?tht said:
Uh, were you alive during the cold war? 1950s to 1980s?blastdoor said:We are either in the early stages of World War 3 (or WW4, if one calls the Cold War WW3), or in the late stages of the pre-war stage. It's akin to the time between Germany's annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938 and the invasion of Poland in 1939. That was a much shorter period of time, but I think it's analogous, in the sense that the writing was clearly on the wall then and it's clearly on the wall now.
The modern analog to the invasion of Poland might be when China takes Taiwan. That analogy will break down, though, when the US (acting in the analog role to the UK) decides to just let Taiwan go rather than go to war over it. But that won't mean the war is averted, only that it will take longer.
The main question is just how hot or cold will the war be. So far it's hotter than the Cold War but colder than WW2.
In any event -- yeah, we need to be very careful about Chinese equipment. The CCP is an enemy.There is perhaps an economic war, but the USA isn’t participating, so I don’t even you could call USA-China an economic war.
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US may ban the most popular home router over Chinese security fears
The thing about a world war is that it involves multiple countries. China is in an axis with Russia, North Korea, and Iran. Russia’s war against Ukraine is very hot indeed.tht said:
I bolded. No, there isn’t even a cold war with China let alone it being hotter than the actual Cold War.blastdoor said:
Uh, yes. What’s your point?tht said:
Uh, were you alive during the cold war? 1950s to 1980s?blastdoor said:We are either in the early stages of World War 3 (or WW4, if one calls the Cold War WW3), or in the late stages of the pre-war stage. It's akin to the time between Germany's annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938 and the invasion of Poland in 1939. That was a much shorter period of time, but I think it's analogous, in the sense that the writing was clearly on the wall then and it's clearly on the wall now.
The modern analog to the invasion of Poland might be when China takes Taiwan. That analogy will break down, though, when the US (acting in the analog role to the UK) decides to just let Taiwan go rather than go to war over it. But that won't mean the war is averted, only that it will take longer.
The main question is just how hot or cold will the war be. So far it's hotter than the Cold War but colder than WW2.
In any event -- yeah, we need to be very careful about Chinese equipment. The CCP is an enemy.There is perhaps an economic war, but the USA isn’t participating, so I don’t even you could call USA-China an economic war.
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US may ban the most popular home router over Chinese security fears
Uh, yes. What’s your point?tht said:
Uh, were you alive during the cold war? 1950s to 1980s?blastdoor said:We are either in the early stages of World War 3 (or WW4, if one calls the Cold War WW3), or in the late stages of the pre-war stage. It's akin to the time between Germany's annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938 and the invasion of Poland in 1939. That was a much shorter period of time, but I think it's analogous, in the sense that the writing was clearly on the wall then and it's clearly on the wall now.
The modern analog to the invasion of Poland might be when China takes Taiwan. That analogy will break down, though, when the US (acting in the analog role to the UK) decides to just let Taiwan go rather than go to war over it. But that won't mean the war is averted, only that it will take longer.
The main question is just how hot or cold will the war be. So far it's hotter than the Cold War but colder than WW2.
In any event -- yeah, we need to be very careful about Chinese equipment. The CCP is an enemy. -
US may ban the most popular home router over Chinese security fears
We are either in the early stages of World War 3 (or WW4, if one calls the Cold War WW3), or in the late stages of the pre-war stage. It's akin to the time between Germany's annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938 and the invasion of Poland in 1939. That was a much shorter period of time, but I think it's analogous, in the sense that the writing was clearly on the wall then and it's clearly on the wall now.
The modern analog to the invasion of Poland might be when China takes Taiwan. That analogy will break down, though, when the US (acting in the analog role to the UK) decides to just let Taiwan go rather than go to war over it. But that won't mean the war is averted, only that it will take longer.
The main question is just how hot or cold will the war be. So far it's hotter than the Cold War but colder than WW2.
In any event -- yeah, we need to be very careful about Chinese equipment. The CCP is an enemy.
