Posts by Claude Yeller

France, UAE to drop €50B on AI mega-datacenter. Still nowhere near America’s $500B bet

Re: Be careful of the money guys

"You guys need your own OS first. Something independent from the US, and more secure."

Who has their own cloud OS? Everyone is running Linux nowadays.

And since when is Linux a US operating system?

Trump’s tariffs, cuts may well put tech in a chokehold, say analysts

Re: I'm Not a Fan of Tariffs, But

"Business suffers without government oversight and regulation? Really?"

No, industry suffers from reduced government spending. Basic macro economics tells us that contracted spending causes the economy to contract.

As taxes for the not-wealthy will not be reduced by an equal amount, consumers will not increase their spending enough to compensate the reduction in government spending.

So, tariffs raise prices and budget cuts reduce consumption and demand. There is no internal production to increase to compete with the imported goods, and new production capacity cannot be build fast.

In economic terms, Chavez II.

ASML makes hay while suns shines, but Trump could rain on its parade

When exactly has Russia or China tried to invade the Netherlands?

"Inside Russia’s shocking proposals to obliterate the Netherlands"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/alert-in-europe-as-russia-considers-nuclear-strike-on-the-netherlands/ss-BB1nJIxn

China has their own navy to reach the Netherlands if no one defends them.

"If he punishes the Netherlands for this then it could get to the point where they and other countries decide it's easier and safer to deal even more with China to make up the losses and costs of dealing with a US that expects to get its own way all the time and lashes out like a spoilt kid when it doesn't."

It is a little bit like TMSC in Taiwan. The USA needs TMSC to deliver their chips. Taiwan need the USA to defend itself against the Mainland.

The USA needs ASML to produce the machines to make its chips (or let TMSC produce its chips). The Netherlands need the USA to defend themselves against Russia (and China and ...).

At the moment, the USA is threatening to block Dutch exports to the USA and to prevent imports to the Netherlands of the requisite components for its machines to get ASML to toe the line. But this strategy has its limits as ASML failing will hurt everyone else too.

China and friends claim success in push to stamp out tech support cyber-scam slave camps

Re: Strange numbers

Thinking about this, I do not see this as very devious.

When busting such a "labor camp", the local authorities have to consider everyone complicit in crimes. Only those that are physically freed from imprisonment can definitely be said to be freed. Sorting that out is a nuisance, especially given the connections to local politics and law enforcement.

When I look at the reports, the foreign "suspects" are simply extradited to their home countries where they will be dealt with by their local authorities. This way, eg, China, gets its people back, guilty or not, and the country of the camp can ignore the case as they see fit.

From what I know about these parts of Asia, there seems to be limited concern for the fate and well being of (poor) foreigners.