hooli42

What will the US do if TSMC does not blink? Not buy TSMC made chips?

Yes.

Obviously that is impossible

I assume you're willing to short Intel at this point?

I would counter that nuclear does not scale in that it can't get small

Nuclear can't get small because of social and political reasons, not technical or economics reasons.

If you could put a small nuclear reactor in your backyard and it was assured to be safe, would you?

This is exactly the situation for desktop games right now, something Epic is profiting immensely from. It's an extremely annoying situation for users, having a dozen launcher/store apps around contributing to bloat.

Sure, in the same way SIMD instructions get a linear speedup in theory.

If you Google the words "CRC32 is slow", you can see hundreds of people complaining about this.

It's legal the same way Airbnb and Uber are legal.

Sitting - worrisome.

Being used without too much writing -- just fine.

If it does't have to be offline for long durations, software raid + adding a new drive every once in a while, and discarding failing drives is pretty foolproof.

AFAIK large data centers automate something like this.

Hah, neat.

The 'weird' instructions can often be 3-4 orders of magnitude slower than arithmetic instructions, though I doubt that matters here.

Hash functions can be as simple as a single modulo.