Good news, everyone! They're finally doing something to fix NY Subway!

The reason the dollar is going to lose the reserve currency status is not going to be national debt. Yes printing dollars is free money for the US, and while the world is not necessarily thrilled about being taxed like that, it's not a problem big enough to outweigh the benefits of having a reserve currency in the first place. But the team R fearmongering about debt is just talking point wank. Yes money printing in the US takes the form of issuing debt, so what. I will not care to digress too much into that here, because it's offtopic to my main point. But rest assured, all of the interest payments are paid simply by printing more money without consequence, and the US is nowehere near to where any problems may arise. Like, at least two orders of magnitude nowhere near.

In any case. The dollar got to be the reserve currency because the US was a major trade partner of pretty much everyone, and especially Europe, who built itself up after the war on US dollar loans, buying US industrial production. Of no less importance was the fact that in the US there was rule of law, so the environment there was reliable and predictable, and deposits there were safe. This made for a situation where it made sense for everyone to bank with the US, because you wanted to buy a lot from them, and since everyone else did, too, you could be certain that everyone else would always be happy to take your dollars, too.

Contrast this to now. The US only has a few sectors of significant trade left, and China is the major trade partner of everyone. The deposits in the US are no longer considered safe since they confiscated the holdings of Afghanistan and Russia - think whatever you want of those two, taking someones money is about as big a hole that you can shoot in your foot if you want everyone to bank with you. There is no going back from this, every country now has to take into account that if the US decides they don't like you, you can lose your money. The last straw now is of course the orange man, who has taken any premise of predictability and reliability out of the equation. The dollar system is a dead man walking, with no foundations left. Inertia is great of course, and change will take time, but the wheels are turning, and they're not turning back.

This just in: H-1B visa program expansion in talks.

The obvious next step would be to put some electronics in them, teach them to cook and clean...

Interesting. While I have long considered btrfs raid5/6 vaporware, I thought they had at least raid1 sorted out...

I would not spend any effort on a sex doll, not my thing. But I do understand a fair amount of people do spend some, and then some cash on top of it.

Feeding, excercise, and health, I would expect most if not all of these problems can be solved via some electrodes and IV inputs. This effort will obviously be solved on manufacturer side. What sounds like more effort would be hygiene, so the docking station would be quite something all right.

Next level yuck for sure. Probably will also happen for sure.

Who cares about the medical industry, think about the sex doll industry...

Sequential reads an line speeds at q1t1, I did not know that. But sustained write at that speed, I would not call it that. The T705 can write 18 seconds at 12.1GB/s, after which it drops to 4GB/s. After another 4 minutes, et even drops to 1.1GB/s. https://www.tomshardware.com/p... https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn....

In comparision the 9100 pro can do about 40 seconds at 12.9GB/s, after which it falls to a steady rate of 1.1GB/s.

18 seconds at 12GB/s is still going to give you 200G of writes. At pcie4 speeds, that 200G will stretch out to 25 seconds, which is maybe not the end of the world. Or for samsung, 500G in 40 or 65 seconds. So if you have a workload that copies what the drive can do in it's first burst on a regular basis, but not often enough that the drive cannot recover from from the burst, you can actually max out your pcie4 link in a way where theres maybe a meaningful impact. Whether that ten or twenty seconds of impact is actually meaningful tho...

The only way that I can think of to actually max out the link on a sustained basis is to copy out from the ssd over 100G ethernet to some network storage that can sustain that speed indefinetely. I can imagine some video production, science, or AI workloads making use of that, but realistically, when we talk about a setup with 100G ethernet, none of that work is going to happen on a local drive anyway...

So whether any of this is a real world bottleneck, I'm not too sure about that.

Yes, but what are you possibly doing to max all that out at the same time? Even if you manage to read from an ssd at link speed, which rarely happens in the real world because you need to go parallel for that, the link being bidirectional means any other cabable ssd will sink it as fast. Until it's buffer runs out, that is.

Network interfaces and sata are peanuts compared to that, really. For usb, you could max out about half of them at the same time, but it's not like the sinks have a magic ability to go line speed forever, either. So again you end up device limited.

Unless you have a computer with a sole function to copy data from every input to every output all day, this concern is about as practical as a flying car. And even if you do have such a need, you will still need to do a lot of work to overcome the limitations of copy software, and hardware of storage devices.

Every administration as far back as I remember has given billions to ISPs. ISPs have always taken that money and done nothing to improve the broadband situation.I'm sure most of everyone in the US is painfully aware of the shitty situation thereof.

Yes the whole Musk thing is a clown show, but TFA is not about that. It's about a rep of the status quo being pissy that this time, the money is going not to those who have become used to it, but to someone else. His kickback situation is going to take a hit, and hes mouting ISP disappointment for a last contribution to his retirement fund.

While there is probably no doubt the US education is going downhill, this does not stand for the wider brush of TFA stating that brain skills are going down in high-income countries, of which there is more than one. The thing is, education only gets you so far. Doing math, or using whatever other measuring stick of a skill, is a muscle - you either use it or lose it. With the highly specialized jobs in high-income countries, not many people need math, or even functional reading ability.

The success of fordism in every walk of society means that for every human endeavour, there will be about one job of actual brain activity for a hundred of none, or whatever. The dumber we can make any job, the better, because we can lower that salary. And if all jobs are dumb, there is no need for smart people.

When Sherlock Holmes said he doesn't know the Earth revolves around the Sun, because he has no use for the fact, we thought it was edgy and provocative. Now that a cashier has no use for math, should we expect them to keep it up as a hobby? There are many people around the world who reject knowledge about the Earth being round, and I kinda get it. Knowing whether the Earth is round or flat has no meaningful impact in their lives. There is zero decisions in 99,999% of peoples lives where that comes into play. Why do we epect them to waste effort on that? They rebel against that like you would rebel against a two pound extra weight on your back.

We can put genes into bacteria to make them build for us pretty much any biological chemistry. But unless we somehow connect them building it into their survival, they select these genes out of the population in a few generations, as if you never had touched them in the first place. They will not waste their energy and resources to do something that is of no use to them. Sounds smart to me. But in that case a flat earther ends up smart, too...

This doesn't mean that I find it preferable that people are getting dumber. To the contrary. But people getting dumber stems from the way we are organizing our society, and the things we, in practice, value in it. An own goal, I guess.

They never cared about you... For obvious examples, check out how they killed Avro via the auto-pact in particular, or the Canadian industrial base via NAFTA in general.

Everything is a zero sum game for them. The orange guy is just waking people up to the fact, since he does not care to put up a nice face.

Here's a good take from the ever good Asianometry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

but but government bad!!!1