There was a change in management and the former management wanted to build fabs and the current management wants to cut back.

Federal government paid Intel to build fabs. As they're not doing that, taking the money back is reasonable.

Intel is complaining about the money being taken in stock. Alternatively it could have been taken in cash which intel would have had to put as debt on its books. I think the stock is easier for them. US is also trying to build a sovereign wealth fund. 11 billion of intel stock is a reasonable addition to that.

You're still here after all these years?

Notably though if we actually run out of work to do we have a post-scarcity utopia, and that happens when people are so rich that there's basically not a single person who, given even more money, would even be able to think of something to spend it on. That's not going to happen any time soon, so we're basically dealing with a distribution problem, which requires distribution (e.g. minimum wage, set it to 1/3 national hourly GDP, the reason for this takes a while to explain) and redistribution (negative income tax, do it as a universal dividend) policies along with monetary policy to properly increase the money supply to not fall behind productivity growth.

Just hack into everything he makes, that's going to be the MO here. "Oh this guy's LinkedIn says he worked at [insurance company]" boom, an army of 14 year olds now is millionaires from stealing millions of credit cards and selling them on the dark web.

There's basically no straightforward solution without specifying punctual conditions as the spacetime reference frames differ in so many ways. General relativity is a bitch.

I just wanted to point out that sensitivities differ among cultures while adding some spice which is probably wasted on most.

Imagine that showing your hair in public were an offense.

Oh sorry, shouldn't have used the irrealis 'were' where it's a real offense in some places.

Try the following: at a very quiet time, "think back hard" for a minute the same tone(s) you are hearing as if you would sing/whistle without actually doing so. 9kHz is high, so you may need to stepwise think one or more octaves (frequency doublings) up to get at the correct frequency. If it works the tinnitus will gradually fade while "thinking" and slowly come back to a lower level after. Repeat as required until all tones are completely gone.

If your tinnitus is noise instead of / in addition to tone(s) this becomes much more difficult as you would need to think a matching noise spectrum. Luckily noise is less of a burden than tones.

I found this method by seripendity during a sudden hearing loss episode.

Tried to explain it to friends and family, but most seem to prefer self pity over a bit of effort and experimentation.

YMMV.

Call back when you're 64.

and insert characters under mask. //DD ...

1. Cool, so you concede the land issue is not a relevant justification.

2. The area around the canals is really just as hot as it goes right through the same desert. So you get no advantage there either.

3. Yep, concrete caps on the canals is easy... when we built these things in the 1920s and 1930s we did that sometime. Apparently you think we've lost this technology some how.

4. It is for no reason as 1~3 have demonstrated. Further, you're only making maintenance harder by doing it suspended over the canal. You also have to worry about contaminating the water. I forgot that one. The panels by themselves are not otherwise over something we really care about. So you can spray paint them etc as you like. But you... being the clever guy you are... decided to put the structures we want to chemically treat sometimes over a drinking water.

Truly inspiring. You are a towering intellect. I am in awe.

5. No, it is the same because you have to maintain them. And now you have this miles and miles and miles and miles long snake of stuff instead of a grid pattern of densely packed infrastructure. Consider two damaged parts of the system at opposing ends of the canal. Then imagine that same damage but the panels are grided together. It is easier for one maintenance man to get from one to the other when they're grided than when it is a long snake. This is obvious.

6. Well then why stop here? Why not be even dumber? Let us put all the panels in the middle of a hurricane patch of the sea where they'll all get trashed by the weather. Then whenever anyone presumes to try and save everyone the trouble of doing stupid things you can chime in about how "we have to do this to save the planet"... making no sense as usual.

We don't lack for land. We have vast desert or just put it on people's roofs. So the space is there.

As to covering the canals, sure... do that. Make some simple concrete caps and we have low maintenance.

Don't combine them.

If you combine them then we have maintenance issues with flooding, corrosion, and its just harder to work on the panels when they're over water for no reason.

Further you have a strip of panels... literally easier to manage this in the typical grid pattern.

The state has an infinity of growing financial liabilities and problems and... you think this is a good use of our dwindling resources? This is going back to mud huts if you people don't stop.

Yeah, its goofy. BRICS has no future.

India, Brazil, and South Africa wanted in because they want loans the IMF won't give them for really pretty reasonable reasons.

Russia and China have imperial ambitions... neither of whom are willing to give out the money on the scale and on the terms these other countries want it at.

Its a laughably incompetent and hopeless gathering of conflicted interests.

India is per capita richer... any search for growth on that shows that feature.

As to india being poor, they have a huge population which is the same thing that gets companies interested in selling to china.

Further, if we ignore the third world growth sectors and just focus on the rich first world... china is having problems with that. Its going to be the third world that will be most persuaded by low prices.

As to China selling to the rest of the world, same logic applies to the rest of the world that applies to india. You have huge populations but low concentrations of wealth. IF that logic holds, then my point about india also holds.

Vietnam is growing rapidly right now and gdp per capita is similar to india.

As to what is news to me... We'll see, pal. You're simping for fascistic regime that literally uses slave labor and mostly steals IP.

If that's your vision of the future, I'm very happy to disappoint you.

India has already blacklisted China... US and EU are going to limit imports to a minimum. Agreement in this is broad.

US and EU production is flooding out of China to anywhere else. Factories are idling throughout the chinese economy as their struggle with DEFLATION.

The people that think this is going back to business as usual have not been paying attention.