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like this ??

Seriously, all Jensans fault.

HE knew he had a big demand, that would cause him to use most of the supply thus stuffing up the whole world.
He should have either pre-pared SKhynix and said, tripple your ram output or, not bought all the ram off the supply.
So they could either increase DDR4 supply, or make lower specced more supply of DDR5.
Seriously how much ram do they need? A trillion peta bytes of ram? Improve your damn code first, instead of committing 50 billion in purchases,
a smart person would buy less more often, and improve code, rather than lazily buy 90% of the world supply just to be king.
I wonder when people will start ram raiding data centers for 3 million in GPUs and RAM in the pickup.

The name of the country is United States of America. It is not the People's Republic of America. Representatives of the States elect the President, because that's the Constitutional structure of the government, and those representatives are called the Electoral College.

Popular election of the President, as implied by a "people's republic", is an invitation to fraud.

How do you shut down an organization like the CIA? The mere hint of a serious attempt to tear it down would result in assassinations and the hiding of some data (critical of CIA personnel) and the backup of other data (in preparation for blackmail, etc.).

Perhaps a replacement agency could be set up, then the CIA slowly defunded with most current employees prohibited from future government employment.

Are ads the problem? My impression is that the danger of social media is the presence of people promoting violence, whether those people are loonies, nihilists, or agents of enemy governments.

Children need to be taught critical thinking, and also taught to recognize hucksters and hate-mongers.This should be a continuing part of education and does not need special funding.

Cars have become ludicrously expensive so that fewer and fewer kids actually have access to them.

Irrelevant. Most of grade school education occurs before students can legally drive.

In 1970, the bottom-of-the-line American Motors car was $2,000 (A VW Beetle $1,839.) Now, a Kia K4 LX is $23,535. In 1970, the median income was $8,900, now it's $84.000. Relatively speaking, a new car is now 25% more expensive than in 1970. That's a shame, but it's a better car and it's not "ludicrously expensive."

Troy, N.Y. is a city, not a town, both by the official standards of New York State and the common understanding of what population constitutes a city. What population is needed to qualify as a small town is fuzzy, but the upper limit might be 1,000 or 2,000.

I just checked a dictionary. Mathematically, most can either mean over half or more than anything else. (George got the most votes:2. The other ten candidates got 1 vote each.) Colloquially, most means "generally". In no sense does most require more than 90%.

It's difficult to separate the effects of COVID from the effects of BREXIT. Since 2019, it looks as if England has done slightly worse than the EU, but very slightly better than France. BREXIT has become less popular in England.

I suspect England's problems have more to do with poor quality British politicians than the other effects of BREXIT. I watched some videos of Parliament in session in 2022 and it was comical, one person speaking to mostly empty seats.

There's something off kilter here. These far-right people want to punish foreigners by keeping the foreigners far away where they can't be targeted?

For an incremental improvement, change conditions so that it's in a person's self interest to work a year or 2 longer. Raise the age for getting elderly benefits. Lower taxes for people over the normal retirement age (65?), as was recently done in the U.S.. People are living longer, and having a longer healthspan. It is neither unreasonable nor unfair to encourage them work a bit longer to make their lives better.

The United States workforce is 170 million out of a population of roughly 330 million, over 50%. As I illustrated above, the median household income of $84,000 is more than enough to meet your criterion for a good job. Thus more than 1 in 4, not 1 in 5, have good jobs.

It is not reasonable in this context to consider children, who are 26% of the population. The figures then become 170 million out of 244 million, or 70%, thus 35%, more than 1 in 3, have "good jobs." Then figure in retirees, who are also irrelevant to the job market...

10 million is sufficient to assure genetic diversity.

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As a point of comparison, assume everyone dies at age 80, starts working at 20, retires at 65. That's 43.75% of the population not working, or by your figuring 1.688 people working to support 3 people. Initially, that sounds like an excessive burden, but it requires a closer look.

Median household income in the U.S. is $84,000. FWIW, that includes single parent homes, and I don't know how to factor that into calculations.

In a non-nanny-state society, everybody is responsible for himself and the results of his actions. His responsibilities include supporting his children until they can support themselves. That need not be an overwhelming cost if it were not for the excessive costs of education. (For 2 children in the U.S., kindergarten + 12 years grade school + 2 years college at $20,000/year is $600,000. {Thanks, teacher's unions.} 20 years food for 2 children $100,000. Incremental rent for a larger apartment or the incremental cost for a larger house, $100,000. Other costs are usually small in comparison. That's $900,000, 2/3 of which is government-mandated education. In a free market a better education for 2 children could be provided for about $120,000, bringing the total to $320,000.)

From 65 to 80, a person should be living off what he accumulated during his working years, (In the U.S. 45 * $84,000 = $3,780,000 gross, minus expenses.) That is not living off someone else's production, that is living off the surplus created during a lifetime. A person is not being supported by someone else when he's sleeping or on holidays or weekends. All that changes in retirement is the timescale.

Taxes and support provided by government do not change the financial principles involved, that should be "money in" = "equivalent to money out." But government is inefficient, and that's a problem.

In summary: A lifetime income of $3,780,000 to support rearing 2 children for $320,000 to $900,000 leaves $2,880,000 to $3,460,000 for a couple to live from age 20 to 80. This should not be a problem or a reason not to have children. Arguing that it takes X people to keep Y people alive is pointless. Over the course of history, production becomes more efficient due to technology, meaning that it will take even fewer people to support 3 people at the same level of well-being, and that's a good thing.

is that two years of work, or 1.999 years in a queue and then its 10 minutes work, and approved?

Dont these ding bats know anything about business processes and KPI and just pure logic.
Just get AI to approve 95% of the easy ones, and staff to check last 5% quickly.
If they have 1000s of rules, then post them all on the website, and have an AI do preapproval checks and notifications of changes.

Isnt that enough to buy all of Vancouver ?

Enough to buy 4 Million tesla cars, to give away.