I don't think 45TB of SSD storage is really expensive when you're training with billions of dollars worth of H100 GPUs? That does not really make any sense.
Demand is what’s costly. It enables Greed to charge what they want.
Now stop pretending that only those with a billion dollars or more of GPUs, are the only customers affected by that. Duh.
unless you can support them for their whole life, cradle to grave. Automation is already threatening a LOT of jobs. Think how much worse it will be in 20 years.
That’s not really a valid excuse, since automation will have an effect on both those still working and those retired. And you can’t exactly wait until retirement to start a family. It doesn’t work that way physically.
We don’t have children today and assume we’re going to support them “cradle to grave” financially. A child finding employment some 16 years after birth, shouldn’t really be a basis to not give birth.
Besides, we don’t have 20 years. It’s only going to take a 20 - 25% unemployment rate in any first world country to inflict mass chaos instead of peace and order. We’ll be dealing with a lot larger issues than fertility. Not to mention the fertility problem tends to fix itself when people don’t have anything else to do but fuck. See every maternity ward 9 months after a major city blackout for evidence.
This is a false metric. The number of children being born does not reflect on fertility, it reflects on procreation. More people are choosing not to procreate or delay having children because of economic factors.
You know what those Booming Babies and GenZ have in common? Not testosterone levels.
Sperm counts dropped by almost 60% between 1973 and 2011. If you think it’s not a matter of fertility, think again.
They offer discounts if you need a "wolf pack". I'm not joking, that's what they're advertising bulk discounts as.
They went that far, and didn’t create a BeoWolf Pack? C’mon. Nerd marketing gold.
If the claim is true, I would imagine law enforcement may be quite busy solving a lot of cold cases as a result. Crime filmed in BlurryHD has ironically become the video surveillance standard regardless of camera tech.
which effectively forced the Senate to consider the measures together
What a stupid way to legislate. Every bill ought to gave a single, specified purpose.
True, but right now those “stupid” people in charge of making “stupid” legislative decisions, are laughing all the way to the bank. ALL of them. On both “sides” pitted against each other. For profit.
And then we have the people voting to sustain that, re-electing over and over again.
Excellent. Thank you for the detail! I do appreciate it.
Calling it abandonware seems like a strange choice of phrase: it has been open source (GPL2) since the early 2000s, and SDL Sopwith (linked in the post) is based on that source. So it very much still is in active development.
If you think calling it abandonware is strange, imagine what kind of definition you’re going to have to come up with for “active” in relation to “development”.
To be clear, I’m not attacking the game or those who created it. I’m more asking for the current definition of “active” after a claim of 40 years when the game itself appears to have not changed. Having a DOS game run in a current browser doesn’t exactly count as unique in my mind. We have hundreds of old games that can do that.
Wanna know what active development actually looks like? Look at Return to Castle Wolfenstein. The game itself, actually changed across the years. A few times. Again, not attacking those who gave us Sopwith in any way. It’s part of my own memories. Just questioning the 40-year development claim. Seems quite extraordinary. Like clickbait-grade.
(A) How much you think it will actually cost. (B) How long you think it will actually take to build. (B) Whether you think it is a good idea, given (A) and (B)
No. it’s not a good idea to subsidize gambling addicts too drunk/high to drive or fly, with Federal tax dollars. The fuck do you need a survey for. Common sense.
(America) America is building their first high-speed rail!
(Average Citizen) Oh, cool. Sounds like something we could use.
(America) it’s specifically for gambling addicts too drunk/high to drive or fly.
(Average Citizen) Why the fuck do I even bother anymore.
Sure as hell hope casinos are paying for that.
Sopwith is abandonware, and can be played legally online, without any install or registration requirements https://www.retrogames.cz/play...
The game is one of the oldest PC games still in active development today.
OK, I guess I’ll be the one to question how the hell we’re here celebrating 40 years of ‘active’ development, while using the term abadonware accurately.
I really miss the days when we didn’t have to question EVERY claim.
It doesn't have to be legally enforceable it just has to be a threat to someone who's in a weak position.
And that should be considered a different type of crime unrelated to employment. A threat is a threat. And we DO have crimes against that. Threatening employment is about the most direct form of harm short of physical violence.
The game is one of the oldest PC games still in active development today.
Then I clicked on the browser-embedded game to see what 40 years of ‘active’ development looked like.
It looked a lot like clickbait.
Sorry, but I was expecting something quite different given the claim. Can someone elaborate?
... and simply mount an automatic rifle on the top. That after all is where this ultimately is all leading but no one dare say it.
The announcement was focused on price. Do you REALLY want to know what taxpayers pay for THAT model, at government pricing?
I don’t.
So you are promoting a plan of more of the same. No. Paying any extortion or blackmail should be the end of the Corporation as a legal entity.
Oh no. I was more promoting a more likely reality that could be far fucking worse. Government mandated cyber insurance taken from your paycheck at the Federal level, while they manufacture a CyberThreatCon annual loss cost to be adjusted quarterly and taxed for next year, pre-paid? Just imagine how many “foreign” APTs you would find working at three-letter agencies on behalf of the Donor Class funding them. Imagine how quickly cyber-taxes would rise. As I said, Federal law mandating illegality has a steep price. One we should consider before literally asking for it.
Sure it would be tough even after such a law could ever be passed, until the first corporation is no more, then it will simply be the law not to negotiate.
Sure. Put the executives in jail even if egregious enough. Of course every company would suddenly find a problem hiring executives after that. Or board members. Not without paying them 10x what we pay them today, thanks to that malpractice-grade Federal executive cyber-insurance policy CE, oh I mean you will ultimately pay for, taxployer.
Today's teachings are all about tolerance, but when it comes to burdens to society there should be NO tolerance. That is why we are currently where we are when it comes to crime.
We are in agreement more than you may assume on this. The answer to cyberattacks is proper fucking DR planning. That’s not a legal matter. It’s more of a we don’t punish executives when they fuck up matter. I don’t want more laws, because I’ve seen what they often do now. Citizens need to be careful what they ask for. My scenarios can easily happen.
God doesn't play dice. -- Albert Einstein
