I'm an actual Starlink user at my farm. It's head-and-shoulders better than any competing service.

I previously has used a cellular uplink... and even with a yagi mounted 30' up on a mast, I barely had 1-2Mb/s of bandwidth. It was truly miserable.

Starlink is a game-changer... give 'em the freakin' money. They've done something truly miraculous for rural internet users, who had previously only terrible/expensive options. As a taxpayer, I'm actually glad to see the money I contribute going to something useful.

Agreed. The last 20 years have not been kind to this place.

Intel's not lagging behind much; it just looks that way because Samsung and TSMC define their feature sizes differently.

Their 10nm process is comparable to Intel's 14nm process, etc.

Both will run out of steam at about the same point -- Intel's 5nm, and Samsung/TSMC's 3nm, will likely be the last process shrink.

There are libraries, and then there are libraries. Some libraries, like BLAS, are written by very good programmers who are expert in their domain, avoid common pitfalls (or evolved to avoid them after several development cycles) and have optimized the hell out of the implementation. Other libraries, like almost every javascript framework in existence, are poorly written, horribly slow, and full of bugs (but may provide hard-to-get capabilities). Code re-use is kind of like email implementation -- it seems like it should be straightforward, but it totally isn't. Doing it right requires care and experience.

Hollywood has long been a wretched hive of scum of villainy. Toads like Weinstein should have been burned down long ago.

But throwing Kavanaugh in with Weinstein? C'mon.

Hallelujah, brother... preach it.

Well, again that seems simplistic to me. Keynes said you could just bury money in the ground and let people dig it up, and it'd have a stimulative effect, and I'm sure that's true. But I do think it makes a difference what you spend money on. The government should spend money on things like infrastructure that improve private sector productivity when the economy turns around.

That is pretty much Keynes' point. Digging up money in jars (an analogy to mining gold for money - a similarly pointless exercise) would be better than nothing because it would create a stimulatory result, but a much smarter use of that same labour would be to do something useful like, say, building houses.

What's bizzare is watching all these economists try to come up with theories about why wages aren't going up during full employment. A few are finally saying "Unions are dead so workers have no bargaining power" but _very_ few.

Well, if there really was full employment, the lack of unions wouldn't be particularly important.

The real reason is because the economy isn't anywhere close to full employment.

LOL.

Boring propaganda is boring.

âoeInvestmentsâ come out of revenue before it is taxed. You donâ(TM)t get taxed âoeinvestingâ in your business.

The problem is, most every country other than the US recognizes that receiving tax revenue is a good thing, and having people invest in factories, fabs, etc is good for your country. As Barak Obama said "if you want people to do less of something, tax it". The US taxes investment. They have high taxes on factories, fabs, development centers - companies - because apparently they want people to do less building of companies in the US. Other countries aren't so stupid. They WANT companies like Dell, Google, and Apple to put their operations in their countries, so they don't tax the hell of that like the US does.

Aren't taxes on profits ?

I too remember the Old Days (TM). Slashdotting was an actual thing. We fearlessly rode the waves of the ether, and many a site trembled at the sound of our clicks.

I rarely post any more... but the passing of Rob is sobering reminder than none of us are getting any younger... RIP Roblimo :(

There's a massive oversupply of labour and not enough jobs.

So employers use degrees (or lack thereof) as a quick way to cull the applicant list for the few jobs they do advertise.

Nobody disagrees the Earth will make it through this.

It's modern human society we're less confident of.

Wage transparency is bad for everyone.

Wage transparency is good for employees and bad for employers (because it means they are dealing with employees more as a group than individuals).

Your definition of "left" and "right" seem diametrically opposed to reality. Are you a Libertarian ?