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Comment Fair market Synolgoy $299 Exos $265 or 10% (Score 2) 29

That is about 10% price premium (Oct, 2025) if you look at a supplier (B&H in the US) that has both in stock at the same time - you can call it a revenue grab or value added warranty control, all depends on your point of view. But check out the prices to get a balance view

Synology HAT5310 8TB has 2.5 MTTF compared to 2.0 for Seagate Exos 8TB. If you don't want to spend for enterprise grade, you can buy the Synology 8TB HAT3320 Plus Series for $199. So if you actually look at the prices, it is not exorbitant when purchased from an honest dealer

Comment Opera browser sold for $600m in Feb 2025 (Score 5, Informative) 74

In case you haven't heard, the browser was sold: The original owner probably wouldn't have done this.

'Opera Sells Browser Business to a Chinese Tech Group for $600 Million In a move that has sent shockwaves through the tech industry, Opera Software, the Norwegian company best known for its web browser, announced the sale of its browser business to a Chinese tech conglomerate for an astounding $600 million.'

Comment Re:Here’s what happens (Score 5, Informative) 165

You are right of course and I don't know why you got down voted. The taxpayers are already paying through AI integration into the WAR department and Homeland ICE. Taxpayers are already directly paying for 20% and higher electricity cost in many parts of the country and the environment and peoples are paying for the many costs of higher fossil fuel use.

Comment Paywall link contradicts 13% decline for young wor (Score 1) 66

workers. 'AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers, Stanford study reveals' published late August, 2025.

The study revealed that workers between the ages of 22 and 25 have experienced a 13% relative decline in employment since 2022, in occupations most exposed to AI. Some examples of these highly exposed jobs include customer service representatives, accountants and software developers. According to the study, the findings help explain why national employment growth for young workers has been stagnant, while overall employment remains robust..

Comment Re:Video seriously lacking perspective (Score 1) 55

It says so right in the second paragraph: 'The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge soars about 2,050 feet above a river and gorge in the southern Chinese province of Guizhou. It is more than twice as high as the Royal Gorge Bridge, which is suspended 956 feet above the Arkansas River in Colorado and is the highest in the United States.'

Comment US $0.18 per kWh vs China $0.08 (Score 1) 60

It is not just electricity prices that CN doesn't ask its citizens to subsidize AI, there is an order of differences in efficiency differences btw US and CN.

By contrast, China' s DeepSeek has proven that it can use far less computing power than the global average. Its LLM uses 10 to 40 times less energy than U.S. AI technology, which demonstrates significantly greater efficiency. Analysts have stated that, if DeepSeek' s claims are true, some AI queries may not require a data center at all and can even be pushed out to phones. It doesnâ(TM)t end there. This would also have knock-on effects for data center cooling requirements. Data centers have required large amounts of additional energy for cooling hardware that may otherwise become overheated under large computing tasks. Using lower levels of computing power, as in China, means cooling requirements will decline. Providing an even greater advantage for China over the United States is the fact that electricity costs in the U.S. are more than double those in China. Household electricity prices in the U.S. were $0.18 per kilowatt-hour in March 2024, while those in China were $0.08 per kilowatt hour for the same month. One reason for this is that Chinese electricity prices are regulated to maintain affordability, and both fossil fuel and renewable energy suppliers receive government subsidies. The United States provides subsidies to fossil fuel suppliers at one-third the level of China and to green energy suppliers at less than one-third the level of China.

Comment Just in time after DT closed suit against RHood (Score 1) 21

Over the early first three weeks of DT 2nd term, the SEC closed or paused a series of investigations into crypto firms, starting with a request for a legal pause in its suit against Binance, the worlds largest cryptocurrency exchange.

In a court filing, the regulatory agency said a new crypto task force, launched by acting Chair Mark Uyeda, may impact and facilitate the potential resolution of the Binance case, which originally accused the exchange of engaging in a web of deception.

And over the first week of March 2025 alone, the agency closed separate investigations or lawsuits against the crypto arm of Robinhood, decentralized finance firm UniSwap Labs and blockchain software group Consensus

Comment Organ rejection rate diminish with age over 60 (Score 3, Informative) 36

That is probably the only advantage of aging in that transplanted organs have a lower rejection rate among those over 60. "Interestingly, and in support of âoeimmunological matchingâ between donor and recipients, rejection rates of older organs are lower when transplanted into older recipients than younger ones (29)."

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/a... However, older transplant recipients succumb to more infections and are more susceptible to post-transplant malignancies

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