When we have the money we spend it and it can do work.
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.
IMHO: It's the hoarding that's the problem
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.
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.
Efficiency of an electrical inverter: 90%
Efficiency of a gasoline generator: 20%
A gasoline generator might work as an emergency backup, but would not be economical for daily load leveling.
TFS says the inverter's extra hardware costs $650.
A 10kw gasoline generator would cost at least as much.
I've always been appalled that an irreplaceable resource could be sold as filler for party balloons.
Why? Is filling the Super Bowl blimp more important?
If nothing changed in 20 years, perhaps the looming helium crisis is overblown.
Quite strange how the company remained profitable with years of people working from home.
Nope. Warner Bros. was losing money before the merger and had accumulated $40B in net debt.
The headcount reduction was sorely needed, and the merger makes it even more necessary.
This sounds like he's unwilling to do a little extra work to determine if the student actually understands their submitted work.
That's what the in-class exams and quizzes are for.
If that's true now, it was true 40 years ago, when the student could have turned in paperwork that some other student actually did.
The in-class exams and quizzes solved that problem too.
if both Anthropic + OpenAI close shop tomorrow
That is extremely unlikely, but if it happens, people will switch to other AI engines.
I use Cursor for coding, which SpaceX now owns.
SpaceX (which may merge with Tesla soon) has deep pockets and an in-house need for AI, so it is even less likely to "close shop".
Even if Anthropic and OpenAI get in deep financial doo-doo, they won't close entirely. They might stop updating their models, but the existing models in static mode would be fine for coding. More likely, they would be acquired in a consolidation.
There are currently dozens of AI companies. I predict there will be fewer than five in a few years.
An upstart company would make a "dumb TV"
There are dumb TVs still being made.
That you don't even know that shows you are not a serious customer for such a product.
I also won't buy any audio or video gear that requires a network connection
You can just click "Skip" when it asks you to connect to the Internet.
You can stop it, but most people can't or won't.
They don't need to block 100% of debloating.
99.9% is good enough.
The only ads I see are for video content like new movies or TV shows, and I don't mind those.
PG&E in California incentivizes me to reduce my power consumption from 2 to 7 pm, and gives me cheap off-peak electricity from 2 to 4 am, when I charge my EV.
I've been on this program for 11 years. It works well for me.
TFS also lists the Guardian as a source.
This kind of project belongs in the public sector,
Like Chernobyl?
And I'm sure we can find better uses for the power than more fscking data centres.
You are posting this on Slashdot, which is hosted in a data center.
"The Amiga is the only personal computer where you can run a multitasking operating system and get realtime performance, out of the box." -- Peter da Silva
