> The people who hold these views are overwhelmingly not members of the working class. They're retirees or Gen-Xers coming off their peak earning years.

That implies young working class people think their lives would be worse if America does not remain a global hegemon.

I'd love to see your sources for that claim. That is not my impression. I have seen little if any support for American hegemony among the young.

That may well be true of the working class, who receive nothing from the foreign income multinational corporations earn but face more competition to buy housing from the people who do receive a share, and more competition for jobs from foreigners (both immigration and globalization).

Defense doesn't have to be part of code gen. Any automated attacker (like LLMs) could be used for defense simply by finding exploits, then fixing them by whatever means. People choose not to invest in that.

If that's right, then 10000 would cost $350 million. That's a lot of money to spend to not sink a carrier.

Even with the lockdowns, Covid nearly overwhelmed the healthcare system in America. It led to a massive nursing shortage as nurses quit. The system could not have handled more cases appearing faster.

I believe that the people in charge don't want to improve working conditions, but in fact want to increase hours, lower pay, and deregulate. So they complain about shortages (without mentioning "of people willing to accept those conditions") and push to lower standards.

And unfortunately they are able to get major media outlets to publish that message without questioning it.

(Also, there was a genuine nursing shortage for a while after Covid, because conditions were so bad a lot of people left the profession. People may still talk about that even though it has resolved now.)

> Each individual iteration: ~4x slower (register spilling)

> Cache pressure: ~2-3x additional penalty (instructions don't fit in L1/L2 cache)

> Combined over a billion iterations: 158,000x total slowdown

I think that "2-3x additional penalty" refers to this:

> The 2.78x code bloat means more instruction cache misses, which compounds the register spilling penalty.

Also, the analysis refers elsewhere to other factors that weren't included in this part.

Which sounds good at first, but...

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread." ― Anatole France

While also increasing carbon-emissions. China is investing in creating more energy from every source.

In a similar way, Western Europe benefited from a lot of investment after WW2, while Eastern Europe didn't receive the same investment then.

So the recent investment OP mentioned is just balancing the scales.

Unfortunately the sanctions mostly affected the common people, so I think direct attacks on government leaders are preferable.

True, but we have institutions dedicated to dealing with people like that.

A school isn't that kind of institution and will fail in its mission (to protect and educate) if it tries to fill the role of controlling violent people.

"A little naughty"??

Iran sponsored the killing of thousands of Israelis (and attempts to kill many more), even if they never had the courage to carry out the attacks themselves.

The recent hostilities are just one small part of it. Everyone shares some of the blame. And Iran has sponsored many attacks on Israel.