Both the US and China have newer more advanced capabilities than a 50 year old system...
> [SOSUS] was the primary cuing system that antisubmarine forces used to localize and potentially destroy targets for over forty years, but secrecy largely kept that fact from the fleet. The lack of strong fleet support was a factor when budget cuts after the Cold War fell heavily on the surveillance program.
Driving cars down every street in every advanced country to take photos seems ridiculous, but Google did it (StreetView) and the US DoD has more money than Google...
Nuclear weapons are a deterrent against somebody invading the US (or another NATO country) but that doesn't make conventional forces not a deterrent against other kinds of aggression. Many attacks have been made against the US and not resulted in nuclear retaliation, like 9-11.
India and Pakistan have nukes and have fought each other recently so your assertion that "has_nukes() == no_game_start()" is *false*. Nukes, however probably will deter India from doing the full-Putin into Pakistan.
The statistics can be found in the public earnings of AWS vs the companies that would get paid for on-prem workloads (Equinix, Dell/HP/IBM, Intel etc).
* AWS segment sales increased 19% year-over-year to $27.5 billion.
That means AWS brought in $4.3 BILLION more dollars in Q3 2024 vs 2023.
That's a huge amount of incremental revenue growth. If the net movement of workloads were out of the cloud, then it would have to show up in the results of Intel / TSMC / Equinix et. al.
I just took a look, and Equinix quarterly revenue is $2.1B.
Yes, indeed HN is glorified marketing and networking for YC :)
But I think a16z has spent a lot more time and money on their marketing efforts, especially as it relates to crypto. I for one am sick of hearing news stories, only to find that they're thinly veiled a16z marketing pitches for crypto scams.
I don't want to justify much, if any, of the behaviour of the incel/redpill crowd but...
For me several years passed between thinking 'I would like to lose my virginity' and said event happening. Should anybody feel sorry for me? No. But I can empathize with some of the feelings that lead people down that path.
Somebody didn't believe me that I thought (based on LinkedIn) that there were over 50k AWS employees in 2020. According to this article, there are over 100k AWS employeees now!
They just... don't retire them? The most expensive thing in a DC is the chips, so it's worth it to just build more datacenter space and keep the old ones around.
In 2019, before I left the EC2 Networking / VPC team, we were using M3 instances for our internal services... those machines were probably installed in 2013 or 2014, making them over 5 years old.
With the slowdown in Moore's law and chip speeds, I'd wager that team is still using those M3s now.
Eventually the machines actually start failing, so they need to be retired, but a large portion of machines likely make it to 10 years.
> For what its worth, banks don't just co-mingle customer funds, they invest those funds on their own behalf and reap the profits for themselves.
And that is why banks are regulated, must register, follow certain rules etc.
> Kraken has been operating under the money transmitter licensing scheme for a decade
Yeah, but that doesn't give them a license to operate a securities exchange, or a bank. How many other money transmitters (that are not registered securities exchanges or banks) have 'tokens for sale' like Kraken?
They're acronyms and they are financial engineering.
Maybe this time it will be different?