Giving people money to spend is a Demand Side Stimulus .

A demand-side stimulus makes sense when:
1. Unemployment is high
2. Inflation is low
3. The trade balance is in surplus

None of these conditions are currently true.

A demand-side stimulus in today's economy would fuel inflation and would mostly be spent on imports.

Can you define what you mean by "hoarding"?

Rich people have most of their money in equity. That's investing, not "hoarding".

That's only true until supply catches up with demand.

Plenty of new fabs are being built.

I predict that 3 years from now, the current DRAM shortage will turn into a glut.

Disclaimer: My predictions are usually wrong.

Requiring students to appear on-campus or requiring them to fill out a sworn affidavit in front of a notary public who will check their ID will deter money mules.

Exceptions for students unable to access a notary public (think people living in very rural areas) would need to be handled on a case-by-case basis.

"the world's limited supply of DRAM"

The world's constrained supply of DRAM should ease in 2-5 years, at which point his argument, such as it is, will be much weaker.

That said, from an economy-of-scale and efficient-use-of-resources perspective, centralization makes sense. But form a privacy, autonomy, actual-ownership, and personal freedom perspective, it's a disaster waiting to happen.

doesn't have a Wikipedia article either.

Indeed. Roddenberry seemed to think he should be like an older Kirk, a bit more dynamic and physically large on screen.

I'm glad they went with a more thoughtful and philosophical Picard. I only wish he had been given more opportunities to flex it, because when he did it tended to be brilliant.

I used to contribute regularly to Wikipedia and spent many hours editing articles each week.

The deletionists ended that.

Too much of my work was being deleted for stupid, arbitrary reasons.

If someone is willing to spend hours writing an article about Trudaeu's son, then it's reasonable to assume others are interested in reading it. Even if no one reads it, it does no harm by existing.

The deletions need to stop.

Remember when people here were hyping up Apple's Vision Pro as being the next big thing for professionals and on-the-go working? Unlimited massive monitors all around you on the plane, instructions overlaid over the thing you are working on, AI vision built in.

Who needs a 92 inch TV when you can put on a Vision Pro and watch a movie on the crapper?

These won't be any different. At least they don't need a front camera to relay the image to the screens just so you can see what is in front of you, but there simply aren't any good AR apps. Certainly nothing worth the cost of the glasses, the weight, and needing to charge it regularly.

Thanks, Fastmail looks decent. Non-US company as well.

Kurtzman gave us Picard. Although it had some severe problems, it did also give us some great moments with Patrick and Picard.

It's a shame it never reached the highs of Strange New Worlds or Prodigy in terms of the writing, but I'm glad we got it.

He brought credibility to a genera that had previously been lacking in it. Instead of cheesy dialogue and hammy plots, he showed that it could be a solid drama with great performances from the actors. Then he did it again for superhero movies.

His final movie, Avengers Doomsday, is going to be bitter sweet.

Thanks. Based in Germany is good. It's a shame they only do a few services. Part of the problem is that to completely de-Google you need to replace things like Google Maps and Android as well. YouTube is another big one. Nothing else offers anything like as much for sharing video, and of course everyone you want to watch is on there and isn't going to switch to a PeerTube instance for the the 3 people who use it.

If only it was as simple as "don't use it". Used to be that communities formed around mailing lists and webrings. Now if you aren't on Discord, Twitter, and YouTube, you are going to be isolated from them.

I am involved in the Japanese electronics and retro computing scene. When many people left Twitter due to Musk turning it into a Nazi bar, the drama seemed to mostly pass the Japanese users by. English speaking communities fragmented onto BlueSky, the Fediverse, and Twitch. So I lost contact with both some of the English speaking ones, and almost all of the Japanese ones. Man, I just want to read about unusual Japanese street lights, or the new project someone made for the FM Towns Marty, but it's all happening on Twitter. At least the Japanese still use blogs I guess.

They have already put far too much emphasis on AI with their phones. When Pixel phones started they had A+ cameras, the absolute best you could get on a phone, at least for still photos. Video was always a bit weak, but for photos there was nothing else close.

A few years ago they stopped really pushing the camera technology and went all in on AI instead. Their CPUs have mediocre performance, but always tout big AI chops, which rarely amount to anything. The supposedly exclusive features that they unlock always get back-ported to older devices within days of release.

Their cameras are maybe B+ now. Some considerable distance behind the leaders, especially Xiaomi and Honor with their huge sensors and optics. It's so sad.