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Comment Re: Time for a new Stephen King novel... (Score 1) 139

What was predicted decades ago was that the baby boomers would eventually get old and present a demographic timebomb, since the pension model relies on an ever-growing number of workers that is no longer feasible. The UK tried to plug the gaps with immigration but the tax receipts are still nowhere near the sums required

Comment Re: No RAM, dwindling customers for AI (Score 1) 133

The second hand market is limited. Suggesting secondhand as a mainstream solution will result in exactly what happened in the car market - prices went through the roof, even cars at the very lowest end got pricier and meant poorer folks couldn't buy them. Perhaps RAM will suffer from the same predatory pricing as new cars - simply pay off the sticks of memory over 5 years and spread the cost!

Comment Weasel words (Score 1) 148

"common industry claim that AI is primarily a way to help workers become more productive rather than kill their jobs". It's incredible that leaders can say this with a straight face but then I guess it's not their problem, it's society's problem. First they came for the junior developers etc etc!

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