Thank you for sharing this meme, which is completely unsuitable for this case.

In a Free to Play game, customer isn't a product. In-game purchases are the product. To get the customer to the product, customer must first install and play the game.

Valorant is free to play.

Level of reading comprehension: Baizuo.

This sounds great and all, because it makes people think there's some magical RAM capacity that can just be brought online, and it's just Evil Overlords (TM) that are hoarding it all like Scrooge McDuck.

Reality is much less rosy. It takes at a minimum, while rushing at a breakneck pace, about 3 years from decision to start of a RAM fab. Shortages started in 2025. If we were to do all of your recommended actions, it would still mean that RAM market would remain heavily constrained well into 2029.

Just as Micron is predicting. Because there are in fact new upcoming fabs, and new entrants. CXMT for example. But even with PRC's rules, where competition is enforced by communists who are on the record condemning CEOs to involuntary organ donation by relatives when results don't please the communist leadership, they're not able to meet demand. Even with Chinese financing model, which is to basically shove a funnel down a "strategic interest" industry's mouth and pour massive amounts of capital into it to get a rapid capacity build out and cut throat competition. They've done it with everything from EVs to solar panels. They're doing it to memory.

And even they seem to agree with Micron on how fast new RAM capacity can be started.

This isn't about navigating "basic websites", it's about navigating surface level of American bureaucracy.

We're yet to see if AI is as bad at this herculean task as humans are.

Who's at fault in those crashes?

Hint: a lot of crashes with fully self driven vehicles is because they actually obey traffic laws in places where locals are used to not doing so.

Smells come from antisocials. Normal people wash and wear mild deodorant (if not east asian, in which case they just wash).

Usage of public transit is fundamentally limited by antisocial people.

No one wants to be on the same bus as a black guy going "I'm going to kill this white girl" and then stab you in the neck. No one wants his wife, daughter, mother, etc to be Iryna. No one wants them to be that girl that got burned alive either. Or any other of the countless public transit statistics.

That is the problem with public transit, and that's why it's usage is now suffering in Europe as well.

So that is a whole different problem, completely unrelated to the problem of self driving. Self driving primarily replaces one's own driving. It's not for the people so poor, that they can't escape the antisocials.

But you can't, because Waymos drive drunks and octogenerians. That means you have to factor them in in a world where both are banned from driving, but drive anyway because "human factor".

Just like you have to factor in the "AI factor" with Waymos, such as AI just having a momentary aberration at a critical moment. It's just that there's a whole lot more of A than B.

I suspect this is because Waymo uses a narrow very high definition model of its driving environment. I.e. they are really, REALLY good at areas they know, but it's a lot of effort to expand the area where they are good.

It's the opposite approach of "wide lower resolution" model that Tesla uses. This is why Tesla's FSD works in most places in Western nations, but it will probably have more problems.

Tesla FSD basically offers you a mode to break the law, because in many areas, breaking traffic laws is a norm and it's actually less safe to be the only one following the speed limit, not overtaking agressively and so on.

The idea is that most drivers are aware of local driving culture, and can adjust as needed. You can be in Mad Max mode in Miami, and strictly law abiding in a German village.

The punishment is that since its FSD supervised, any punishments from selecting wrong kind of mode and letting it stay on as you observe it driving against local driving culture is that you are responsible for fines. Just as you would have been if you drove like that yourself. Just like any manager supervising things that do wrong things under your supervision.

They are in cities. Waymos don't drive highways all that much to my understanding.

And yes, humans are very good on average. But difference between (for example, number for illustration purposes only) 99.9% good and 99.99% good when it comes to millions of crashes every year is a meaningful number.

Good point. It's something that really should be addressed. But the Constitution was designed as a limit solely on the government's powers, and it's up to the government as described in the Constitution to write laws that restrict what private entities can do, within the bounds of their enforcement powers as provided by the Constitution.

This isn't a new problem. After Snowden, the US realized they could pretty much just outsource the NSA's spying. And they have.

And the other thing is: none of this is really relevant. There's nothing unconstitutional about sitting in a public space and recording the license plate of every car that passes. There's nothing unconstitutional about building a network of people doing that and storing it in a giant database. It was just infeasible to have a bunch of people doing that. Now it can be automated.

There's nothing unconstitutional about compiling data about people that people agree to hand over as part of the license agreement for using a thing. Once that information is owned by a private entity, there's nothing unconstitutional about the government buying it from that private entity. It's just the government receiving data that was either generated in a public setting or that was willing given in a private setting. (At least, legally. I doubt most people realize how much data on their lives companies collect, and I doubt most people realize they agreed to hand it over.)

Maybe handing over data collected in this fashion should be against the law. Maybe there should be privacy laws preventing it from being gathered in the first place. But there aren't, and neither party is interested in changing that. Which leaves us with the reality that nothing Flock was doing is illegal, and that the replacement systems localities are using aren't illegal either.

I really wish more people understood this. The Constitution only protects you from the government. It does nothing to protect you from private companies collecting your information, and do they ever. As electronics get more advanced, the amount of information private companies are collecting is ever increasing. TVs listen in on every conversation. VR headsets map out your house. And cameras installed on street lights record every vehicle they see.

Which brings me to the second very important point about Flock cameras people forget: pretty much every town that is canceling contracts with Flock isn't getting rid of license plate scanning cameras. They're just replacing them with cameras from other companies that do the same thing. Companies that people haven't heard of and that therefore haven't raised the same complaints.

This is actor worship, the new cult that appeared in the 1950s originated intentionally from Hollywood.

Normal human societies correctly identify that people who lie about everything, including everything about themselves for money are practicing a type of prostitution, and treat and have treated actors accordingly throughout human history.