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The birth rate is dropping because rent is too expensive.

The rent started spiking as smartphones came into use (2010s~).

Is this better than the bytedance cloudwego/eino Go library?

A single party controls the depreciation schedule, so that seems dicey.

China is laughing because US pensioners will have paid trillions to train all these AI models whose weights can be distilled and open sourced trivially.

Giving Silicon Valley political power is going to cost the United States enormously, starting with the pensions who will be left holding the bag after the AI bubble bursts.

it is a case of socialize the losses, privatize the gains.

regarding tax payers, the biggest sins of new data centers seem to be: * driving power bills parabolic due to no mandated investment in power generation or delivery grid * consuming water from the city system far beyond normal usage; water bills go up for normal people * pollution; xAI in memphis illegally uses gas turbines with no pollution controls; air is very dirty around their data center; data centers apparently are noisy in places

legislation is needed to force costs currently being borne by normal people back on to the data centers reaping all of the profit.

I don't think we got a full picture of Israel's leverage over US politicians and business people. How many people like Epstein are out there acting as "access agents" to Mossad? How many US gov employees and politicians like Shapiro of Pennsylvannia have served in the IDF? How can Shapiro with IDF experience ever be considered for VP of the US?

Why are American politicians so comfortable supporting an ethno-state even though the US is not supposed to support apartheid regimes? Why is the US administration now so willing to throw US allies (Japan, South Korea, NATO members) under the bus with a 1970s style energy crisis to save 1 country of 9 million from a war they single unilaterally started?

Finally, to answer the OP's question: * Israel is facing an existential threat; the US ending the war means de facto end to their state; * US - not allies as that requires mutual consent to wage war; see above text for actual real power relationship between Israel and the US

I have an irrational hatred of someone who believes in "reality distortion fields". Over the last 10 years, I also have come away with an intense impression that Silicon Valley is full of the self-delusional type, as evidenced by Sara's book, Palantir's weird advertising and CEO, and the insane Nimbyism.

I believe it is in the best interest of the United States if the center of power shifts back from West Coast "tech bros" to the East coast. I and many others had enough of Silicon Valley.

Side note: I find it illuminating that one of the most popular social apps that birth social trends did not come from Silicon Valley, but China. I don't think Silicon Valley can drive social trends at all (anti-humanity types are too prevalent).

Some politician in Japan pushed zoning away from cities up to the prefecture and national level. So locals do not get veto rights over new construction.

My post was about laptop RAM. I counted server-side RAM as a separate thing.

I do work off of a Chromebook with 8GB of RAM total, but I do keep an eye on how many tabs I have open.

20 years ago there were a lot of peer to peer applications. For example, Skype used to bounce calls across peers. Now, all calls gets routed through big-brother Microsoft.

NAT and American assymmetric bandwidth ISPs both killed this business model and now we are stuck with tech monopolies like Cloudflare. I see this ipv4-only strategy as another monopoly tactic to kill competition.

And in Asia, it is getting more difficult not to get stuffed behind a double NAT (CGNAT), which means you can't even play games without using big-brother rent-seeker services (no port-forwarding/upnp). But at least here you get ipv6 for free and everything just works.

I want to echo this comment. I am on Map-e in Asia and it is very difficult to get an exclusive ipv4 address without paying extra money.

And I want to connect to my machines without some stupid vpn or crappy cloud reverse tunneling service. Not everyone in the world wants to subscribe to some stupid SaaS service just to get functionality that comes by default with ipv6.

I think Silicon Valley is in a thought bubble and for people there ipv4 is plentiful and cheap. So good for them. However, the more these SaaS services delay ipv6 support, the more I pray to any deity out there I can move off these services permanently.

btw, is it me or is there any justification for anyone including a developer to run more than 8GB of RAM for a laptop? I don't see functionality as having changed in the last 15 years.

For me, only Rust compilation necessitates more RAM. But, I assume devs just do RAM heavy dev work on a server over ssh.

How does Mark Zuckerberg triggering a genocide in Myanmar, among election interference, rank up with your disdain for EU digital policy?

Are politicians not supposed to do anything about Zuckerberg after watching Sarah Wynn Williams testify about Mark Zuckerberg selling out Americans for his fetish for kissing up to the CCP? Or hearing the current administration threaten the EU over impinging on Zuckerberg to engage in election interference in EU countries?