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Re:Trump admin backs off Nvidia's 'H20' chip crackdown after... by photochemsyn on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @10:19PM (#43640022)
I think this is how Boris Yeltsin ran the Russian government in the 1990s... so many interesting similarities.
Re:Trump admin backs off Nvidia's 'H20' chip crackdown after... by TheAlchemist on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @10:40PM (#43640124)
Oh, I was actually wrong. It's not coming next week, it's coming this week:

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-trump-tariffs-...

I would say it's even more brazen than Russia in the 90s. It's all done in the open, in the face of the institutions that were supposed to limit his power.

Re:Trump admin backs off Nvidia's 'H20' chip crackdown after... by stevenwoo on Thursday April 10, 2025 @03:46PM (#43647412)
I’m reading The Narrow Corridor and it also reminds me of parts about not only Russia but the nation of Georgia under Shevardnadze. One of the authors already commented two months ago in this paywalled article https://www.ft.com/content/4e3f1731-3d63-4b31-88ce-c3f5157d8...