Only in Joe Biden speeches.

Funny, the zealots on both sides say that.

Actually,, their embrace of the radical left is precisely that. Hint: The radical left is not the "bleeding heart liberals" .Its not the nanny state with generous benefits. It is a movement that seeks political revolution with the overthrow of the US government as its endgame. Part of a move to full on socialism and communism.

Nope, it's both political parties are untrustworthy. The problem is that so many people seem to believe if one side is lying the other must be telling the truth. No, they will both lie. And they will both occasionally tell the truth if the truth happens to align with the politics. But both will always political, which is why neither can be implicitly trusted. That is just an objective fact. Whether something comes from your party or the other, you still have to apply some skepticism and do your homework. People used to due that. I was a common belief that even your party will try to BS you at times.

It true on the Apple side too. For example the iPhone SE models use older chips. Another possible opportunity for Intel.

It's not about the delivery, it's about the politically motivated mandates. For example the mandatory vaxxing of the young and healthy.

Read the small print. Deaths in general were more about socioeconomics, not state politics, not blue or red.

Actually deaths were notoriously misreported. There were financial incentives to report a death as COVID, there were better reimbursements. So anyone who tested positive were sometimes attributed as COVID regardless of whether COVID was a major factor or not. The stats are contaminated by such financial games.

Democratic politics made it difficult to question or criticize China. To suggest anything negative was considered racist. While Trump was closing travel to China and being labeled a racist by Dems as a result, Dems were inviting people to come to Chinatown in SF and NYC for holiday festivities. Lunar New Year or something? Parts of town with quite a few folks recently returned from China and infected.

And none of that change the fact that forcing vaccinations on the young and healthy was a political overreaction. Old, fat, sure go get a shot. I did for those reasons. :-) Now 20 year old college days me. That would have been, and should have been, an entirely different risk/reward calculation.

And god forbid any Doctor make an argument along those lines. Social media must deplatform them at the governments insistence.

Me too.

Eradication is not the goal, it's kinda of a pseudo-science goal. Eradication was never a thing. Everyone was going to get infected sooner or later. The goal was to reduce the impact. Delay. Delay to spread out serious cases to not overwhelm the medical infrastructure. Delay to allow the virus to mutate to less dangerous forms, which is the typical pattern, and is what happened, and is what saved lives to a large degree. In addition to vaccinations that lessened the impact of an infection.

That is basically pseudo science. There is only slowing down the infection rate, letting less dangerous mutations develop, and of course vaccines that less the impact of an infection.

You misunderstand my point. Being behind on a process is fixable. X86-64 vs ARM is not fixable. Being behind on a process is not a problem if you are making 2nd tier chips, like those going into an iPhone SE.

This is a weird mixed signal type thing. Are you saying they cant compete or that they can?

I'm saying that assuming Intel is incapable of making technical progress, of overcoming a technical gap, if not a safe bet. IBM/Motorola/Apple once guessed badly. It's not about CPU architecture. It's about the gap between PowerPC and Intel never materializing, that Intel made technical progress that was a friggin miracle. It costs a ton of engineering time and money, but they pulled it off. Underestimate their ability to improve at your peril.

No, Apple has lagging tech too. Consider the iPhone SE product line that users older CPU based on older processes. That is a short term opportunity for Intel.

Doctors, scientists, also consider what people will realistically do. What they can be realistically expected to comply with. Asking for too much will not yield positive results.

Very hit and miss on that. And no blue politician cared.

Absolutely false. The business and school closers, mandatory vexing for the young and healthy.

Read the small print on your studies, its was more about socioeconomic factors than politics.

Total BS. They got hit harder due to the mismanagement of Gov Cuomo who through his policies put the most vulnerable, the senior population, at far greater risk.

You just proved yourself wrong. Not I referred to you and healthy, and you refer to someone who is overweight. A know factor for enhanced risk.

LOL, sorry CA resident here. Our governor was one of the more abusive ones.

There is no such thing as eradication. There is only spreading out the curve so as to not overwhelm healthcare.

You falsely conflate cases with problems. In the long run we are all going to get exposed. It's just a matter of time. What matters is the severity of the cases, not the instances.

Go read the small print on your citation. Odds are you will find that the differences are more about socioeconomic factors not politics.

To me the initial reaction is to follow the science, not the politics. As many European nations did and had better outcomes with far less drama and disruption. Here in the US we followed the politics, both in red and blue states. It just turned out that reality matched the red state's less panicky approach.

I'd say the reason they are in trouble is the migration to ARM. Which is a battle they can't win. Unlike being a second source for manufacturing, that's a battle they could plausibly compete in. IBM/Motorola/Apple once underestimated Intel with the PowerPC CPUs. The PowerPC consortium had a reasonable plan, they delivered, where they failed is they never imaged Intel could come from behind and get the creaky x86 successfully competing against a brand new RISC design. Intel pulled off friggin miracles keep close to PowerPC year after year. PowerPC was about 20% faster overall at the same block but Intel offered higher clocks.

Intel demonstrated that the ability to throw tons of engineers and tons of money at a problem can yield results. Even when starting with inferior tech.

Assuming TSMC will maintain its lead is no more valid than the assumptions IBM/Motorola/Apple had made.

And when Intel has a fab that can produce two year old Apple Silicon chips for the iPhone SE line, why would Apple build a new fab for TSMC? Rather than shift chips that don''t need the current start of the art process to a second source. There is a path for Intel, even with its current gap. One that could plausibly be temporary in the long run.

Not at all. The PowerPC consortium promised twice the performance for half the price. That was a realistic goal given a brand new RISC design vs the crusty more difficult to work on CISC design that was x86. The consortium failed, not because they failed to deliver performance in PowerPC. They failed because they underestimate Intel's ability to improve x86. Yes x86 would be harder to improve than PowerPC. But Intel made up for that by throwing tons more engineers and tons more money at the project. They pull offed a friggin miracle keeping close to PowerPC year after year. The PowerPC was pretty much about 20% faster than x86 for the same clock rate. However Intel offered high clock rates. No one imagined Intel could pull this off.

The notion that TSMC will always have a lead is no more valid that the notion PowerPC will soon outperform Intel at a lower price. Tons of engineers and money can overcome.

Yeah, I switched to eneloop a few years ago. I'm trying Amazon bulk Energizer in AA smoke detectors that require the Alkaline voltage decline.

The eneloops are also nice for replacing the extensive disposable lithium batteries for cars and camping/hiking, where temperatures can be an issue.

Lawn darts are a weapon of war.

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If they instead listened to the government sources then even more would have died line in New York.

For all the stupidity on both sides, ie Gov Newsome in California literally said the science indicated you should pull up you mask while chewing and only lower it to put food in your mouth. When he order CA beaches closed, the Orange County Sheriff posted photos of only small numbers of people at the beach, clustered in small groups of family and friends, each group fifty or more feet apart, in the open air and sunlight. Newsome surged the. CA Highway Patrol to block the beach exits on the Freeway. When he talks about Surging CA police into neighborhoods to combat crime, that is what he is referring to. The Crime of Orange County saying your mandate makes no sense locally, we are going to ignore it. Let's add in politicized closures. Want to do a left wing protest march, no covid restrictions for you.

For all the stupidity on both sides, Red did better than Blue with Covid. Blue overreacted. Unnecessary vaxxing of the young and healthy, closures and restrictions for tool long, politicized closures/non-closures. The zealots on both sides turned masks and shots into articles of faith for their respective dogmas. Yes it turned Blue overreacted, and did some counterproductive things, and Red coincidentally did better.