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World runs on their web services.

Posted by Makis

on April 3, 2025, 3:02 pm, in reply to "What has America got that can't be sourced from elsewhere? "

AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure plus some other critical services. These are really hard to replace as in many cases it would mean rewriting entire software stacks in companies. This is a vendor-lock in almost as bad as doing everything with Windows.

And of course the AI revolution we are living in is almost entirely run from Silicon Valley.

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Chlorinated Chicken? Right wing Propaganda? WWE?

If the goal is to have 14 year olds and people of colour working overnight to build teslas for less than they'd get via benefits, let them have it. They voted for it.

I wish everyone had the balls to just say fuck you, we'll take our trade east

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analysis to, say the Chinese, might be close to the tipping point? Or is that a certain WW3 scenario?

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Can't imagine there could be much else

Re: World runs on their web services. - westy April 3, 2025, 3:39 pm
- We can either use them or lose. - Makis April 3, 2025, 6:39 pm
  - Another vast tranche of the workforce existentially redundant would be interesting - Johannes Borgen April 3, 2025, 6:45 pm
    - I've been wondering the same tbh. Can't really think of any solutions. - Makis April 3, 2025, 7:50 pm
      - I think they'll just kill us (or, more accurately, our descendants) - Johannes Borgen April 3, 2025, 8:00 pm
        
        nah we'll have a small universal basic income - Col April 4, 2025, 12:38 am
        
        You guys are making this too complicated. - Makis April 4, 2025, 6:51 am
        
        Soylent Green, it's the future, and it's organic! - Some sociapath tech billionare April 4, 2025, 10:20 am
        
        The conservative utopia of the bottom 99% dying just before they draw their pension nt - Ezy April 4, 2025, 9:29 am
        
        What pension? Those will disappear one way or another at some point. nt - Makis April 4, 2025, 9:36 am
        
        They make a handy ratchet for splattering living standards - Johannes Borgen April 4, 2025, 10:07 am
        
        Nah, no need for that. - Makis April 3, 2025, 9:05 pm
    - Re: Another vast tranche of the workforce existentially redundant would be interesting - Martin Cope April 3, 2025, 7:12 pm
      - No, I'm honestly terrified. - Johannes Borgen April 3, 2025, 7:17 pm

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