And this is the way it is

Google Redirects! But Will The Chinese Government Block?!

# The Chinese, in their amazing capacity to endure, conscious of the very real progress the Chinese government has thus far delivered to them in so many other areas, decide this still isn’t big enough for them to rise up and rebel.
# They adapt, switch to other services, and continue with life, making the best of things.
# They may even begin to resent Google and “the West” for abandoning them, for not respecting their circumstances enough to work with them and instead end up being seen as working against them in the guise of working “for” them.

The Virtuous Poor

basti: Some people at work were talking about collecting art.
It was very much like in ‘Wall Street’
I guess if I weren't so poor, then I might go back to coveting wealth.

Predicting the Future

CPUs and GPUs in the next ten years

"Today’s CPUs have already reached higher heat density than a nuclear reactor, and maintaining Moore’s Law will be a considerable challenge once five nanometer gates are achieved.

The Itanium architecture was conceived two decades ago as insurance against that inevitable day...

Unfortunately, the compiler technology to pull this off did not even exist when Intel and HP began the project"