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Comment US state colleges used to be free or virtually fre (Score 1) 76

California colleges and many others were free before Reagan started charging in-state tuition.

Conservatives have waged a war on higher education that eliminated free college.

There are a few US states where tuition is free for some. The fees are often covered by lottery revenue. A much better use of the money than dumping it into the general budget or buying sports stadiums for billionaires.

I paid 100 dollars per credit for college capped at the cost of 12 credits.

Comment Re: US election (Score 1, Informative) 123

The US has had mail-in voting since the 1860s. Some states only do mail-in voting.

Stop the manufactured voting crisis that people are using to disenfranchise millions of Americans. American conservatives want to

1. Kill 150 years mail-in voting
2. Kill early voting,
3. Close polling places in minority districts
4. Make it illegal to help people get to polling places or hand out water while the poorer voters wait hours in line to vote.
5. Allow the state to throw out all the votes in the largest minority districts. Yeah, we're looking at you Texas.

Comment Not shocking given higher cost and functionalility (Score 3, Interesting) 36

They need a killer app or significantly better functionality to convert people to a subscription model. Just can't see it yet.

Their data center costs will possibly be significantly higher.
  All AI will have to be advertisement or subscription-supported.

Comment How big a diff with same architecture and fab? (Score 1) 147

Both products will be running the same instruction sets. Seems like Microsoft should be able to have a similar speed

The M2 and M3 CPU speed gains were mostly due to geometry reductions. That will run out of gas given the current fab limitations.

Apple put the graphics on-die. This has advantages and disadvantages. It will be interesting to see how far MS goes with integrated graphics. and what that means for AMD and NVIDIA (outside the AI space).

Comment In the 90s, at the start of the Internet... (Score 1) 121

We thought social media, open access to information, and unfettered communication would shine light in every dark spot and democratize information and access.

We didn't realize it would provide an unlimited platform to the hate-mongers, misogynists, and bigots as well. It turns out people have no problem using this wide access to attack their neighbors and build stronger suppression tools.

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