Frankly, good riddance to web development.

Would make sense. Back when my karma was Excellent, I suddenly stopped receiving any mod points, so I have not been able to mod. About a year later, I dropped to Terrible. Rarely, it goes up to Bad for 2 days, then back to Terrible, even when I make no comments.

So yeah, someone is definitely manipulating the system. I suspect most people not on the far left is not getting mod points anymore, and there's probably a script that runs often to mod down the sane people. I wouldn't bet on a hack, just a malicious actor.

That's just how cells worked for 3 billion years.

Then those MAGtards came along, made them stop and called it "cancer!"

Or at this rate, burkas or those big fur hats the communists wear.

This is a country of somewhere between 700M-1.4B people. How do you think they can keep such detailed track of crime rates per unit population if they have no clue how many Chinese people there are?

Statistics in China is they're completely fabricated at every level. The CCP sets quotas for the regional governments, the regional governments set them for local governments, and they all pretend to have met or beaten them every year.

Surely building, launching, and maintaining more satellites cost money.

And why should we subsidize bandwidth over reach? Shouldn't Starlink and satellite have the same access to subsidies than Google Fiber, considering they enable people to have internet that otherwise couldn't at all?

I wanna know where you lived because no dialup connection for me ever stayed connected for long.

This is exactly how I'm seeing it, the lack of suppliers seems to be the whole problem.

Thanks for your reply! You prompted me to look into CXMT and I saw Anastasi in Tech's video.

It seems CXMT is expanding mostly into DRAM, not HBM, and expects to be producing 500K chips per month by 2028, up from 250K per year now. That seems pretty rapid. It seem like if there were more suppliers instead of just CXMT and the big three (who are focusing on HBM), more of them might be expanding into DRAM.

It's especially important that someone else does, because CXMT is set to turn the consumer memory market into yet another Chinese monopoly. It does seem to be a problem of lack of competition, in fact.

Is the shortage due to there being so few memory makers, or due to a lack of component supplies? I know memory became such a commodity in the past that most manufacturers went out of business.

I'm wondering, if it's the former, could production be scaled up within a few years by enterprising manufacturers, or is it a deeper shortage?

It also creates an extremely unstable business environment if any business can be sued out of existence in any hostile jurisdiction based on such absurd premises. Such lawsuits are dangerous and foolish.

You're fucking with us, right?

Which kills more in the E.U. each year?

Yeah, we've all heard the theory.