If you take everything from all the billionaires and divide if up equally between the world's population, what's everyone going to gain? A few hundred to a few thousand dollars? (Probably at the lower end, as it wouldn't be possible to liquidate all those assets all at once)

Then what happens if you give everybody in an impoverished African villiage $1000, $10,000, or even $100,000 in cash, when there's little available to buy? It'll probably mostly disappear to inflation.

And then you have to add up the cost of what was destroyed in the 'great redistribution'. You might as well drop nukes on the 'first world' countries, as without their economies and technology and energy, most people are going to die.

Might make more sense for the semiconductors or complete circuit boards to be mass produced on Earth and sent up there.

But even then, there's incredible challenges to making the rest of the parts for anything we'd consider to be a useful robot from raw materials found on an asteroid or another planet.

Even manufacturing something 'simple' such as a small modern electric motor is a huge task when you start to break it down. You probably need rare-earth magnets, you may need adhesives to hold the magnets, you need insulated wire, you may need bearings, and so on.

We could even attach weights to people in day to day life to enforce equality... (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron)

A less powerful machine may also take more time to get the same job done. A machine that takes twice as long to, say, encode a video is likely to use more power than a fast machine would for the same job (especially if the monitor and hard drive are powered up for the duration) Same may go for for limits on vacuum cleaner wattage in the EU.

Or ship it without a keyboard+mouse and call it a games console

It's easier to create fun if you have a lot of brute-force power to make use of, and aren't spending all your time on optimisation as the game developers of the past had to.

The real waste is ever-increasing screen resolutions (while sub-par framerates are still common...). High-DPI is nice for text, but there was just no need for the rush to 4K gaming (8 million pixels vs the 2 million pixels of 1080p!)

For a while, it was an exclusive invite-only club that looked appealing from the outside - it seemed that interesting people were having interesting conversations on there.

Now it's just a free-for-all for everyone, the appeal has mostly vanished. Especially when the reality of it is a barely readable mess of emojis and some questionable UI design.

The mobile game advertising market is the craziest, trying to earn money from a game by aggressively advertising competing games....

If all browsers have the same plug-in system, they can crack down on ad-blocking (without losing users to a browser with better ad-blockers)

We need Elon to make asteroid mining a reality

VR was almost becoming a thing until Facebook pretty much killed it. PC VR was a very cool experience (for those who could handle the 'VR sickness'). But then Facebook discontinued the Rift, tied things to FB accounts, and focused on mobile VR.

The Quest 2 is a pretty impressive device, and mobile may have been the future of VR, but mobile GPUs really aren't up it yet. You need a beast of a GPU to render a high-end game scene at a high resolution and FOV twice per frame (stereoscopic) at 90fps.

Bike theft is an epidemc, and it isn't taken seriously, nowhere near as seriously as car theft. If we want to replace cars with bikes (especially expensive ebikes), that's got to change.

Car theft is taken seriously. Bike theft isn't, and there's an epidemic of it.

Until that changes, or until vastly more secure bike storage is available, a bike (especially a pricey e-bike) isn't a reliable replacement for a car.

> The "understanding" finally came when I realized that a microservice is just a service. Often they are not even micro.

Ah, just like 'microtransactions'

Twitch has really gone downhill. They seem to allow/encourage stuff that's pretty much soft porn on a game streaming service that's likely to be used by kids/young teens (cameras very intentionally pointed at excessive cleavage, then hot tub/bikini streamers)

Yet just a few days ago they banned the Revision demo party stream with no warning/explanation. People were speculating that the automated banhammer may have detected a pixelated nipple in a piece of artwork...