The lack of these design elements in a solo project does not define crappy code. More often, it's due to a codebase being modified by multiple contributors, each wanting to get their work done quickly without paying attention to the overall context or considering others' work.
Looks neat and convincing. But I think the goal (and effort) to make it into the C++ standard would hinder the momentum of adoption. I suspect it would have to go through a lot of politics and bikesheding before making any real-world impact.
Imagine that if Typescript had insisted to get accepted into the Emca standard before widespread adoption and promotion by Microsoft; it would probably still stay in the 'experimental' stage.
It's wasn't just the semi-conductor manufacturers either.
The PRC had the supply chain from the bottom up (to some extent funded by the western consumers and corporations), whereas the US is trying to get reindustrializd from the top down, without first building a solid fundamental. To make the tough jobs easy, you must have the easy jobs done well first.
Exactly. That's why this has everything to go wrong. You cannot create the talent and the supply chain needed for this with $8B. The US needs to solve much more fundamental things like their schools and the local supply chain to even have a shot of creating a successful chip business again.
Recall, it takes years to build these fabs. Fortunately, people will be more likely to spend years in grad school training for these jobs, if they know that when they graduate there will be fabs to hire them.
Rebuilding is a chicken and egg problem, but it’s not as hard as defeating the axis powers in WWII. If this country has the Will to do something, it’s gunna get done.
This is harder than defeating an enemy militarily. Defeating someone militarily is relatively simple to do; and every country figures it out from necessity. It is an expensive process, but ultimately mainly about deciding that the high price is worth it (and if the country can afford it/has the industrial base to sustain the effort, but neither of those things can be changed in a conflict).
Building a profitable industrial chain is significantly harder to do and much rarer to achieve. The US certainly has the people to do it, but it isn't clear that the political trade-offs will be acceptable.
Also remember that the US was at the top of its industrial power during second WW. This time has passed long since. Nowadays it would have a hard time outproducing China and Russia, so I don't think that even a world war would be a solution (not considering the fact that a new WW could be the end of the world itself).
It has been common sense in real estate investing that the increase in density drives the land price higher (thus the housing price per squire foot). But there is a difference between the density increase of housing units and the density increase of the population. The land price increases only to the point that the added housing capacity is 'fully employed.' And that can be measured by the vacancy rate. When the vacancy rate is low, more density will lead to higher property prices.
One thing I find interesting about being multilingual is you can 'unlock' your different personalities and disrupt mental inertia a bit when speaking another language. It's like having one part of the brain take a break while activating other parts. But I also feel awkward speaking a different language in front of close friends when you are so used to speaking the 'default' language with them. It feels like you are exposing your other personality.
That is very true. It does seem to me there's a subtle "personality shift" among some people when they speak a separate language.
Sometimes you see people become warmer and more affectionate because either they know how to be that way in their native language or it's more common in their culture (e.g. seeing a native Spanish speaker speak Spanish after knowing them only speak English).
There was also an interesting study about asking people solve trolley problems in their second language vs their first. Whe. Solving in their second language, the solution tended to be more utilitarian and logical.
It's not like France would have excessive 'base load' nuclear generation in the first place. The base load power plants are not designed to respond to demands or serve as reserved capacity.
I wasn't implying that they used force to confiscate the land, but that the very act of buying land to only lease it for a limited time would be deeply unpopular, and quickly voted out in a true democracy.
My own country had an authoritarian government that owned all land and property, and everyone was living as renters paying their rent to the government. In most cities, these properties were themselves actually built by the government, often on previously unused land (as they greatly expanded many cities). Once the revolution came and we had a (quasi-)democratic government, one of the very first acts was to give everyone ownership of the property they were leasing from government - and this was hugely popular.
The effect of income taxes is not simply to disincentivize work like one would imagine. Top talents who are able to afford the cost choose their tax residence due to income tax. Even in the US, it would influence people's career decisions about where to live/work. Businesses also take the taxes into account when choosing countries/states to invest or build facilities.
You don't really need it.
The semiconductor industry relies on equipment and materials from the global supply chain, in particular, the suppliers from Europe, Japan and the US. It's a team game.
If the democratic world stopped doing business with TSMC (i.e., a sanction), it would have barely any chance to survive, let alone maintaining the position as an industry leader.
