DRAM is a global commodity. Kind of like how Iran selling oil to China affects the price of WTI crude.

i think. I’m not a fuckin economist I just like to sound smart

He’s stupid, but in this instance I think he’s just bullshitting for spacex’s sake. Even he is capable of putting together the fact that the costs required to build (not to mention service) an orbital data center far outweigh the costs of swapping out the genset for the same exact solar panels you would have otherwise put on the rocket. Maybe you need more panels to make up for atmospheric transmission and the day/night cycle but he (or let’s be real, grok) has ready access to the cost of a single starship launch and a calculator.

If and only if someone is insane enough to develop off-planet manufacturing with the bulk of the raw materials originating from somewhere in deep space, e.g. asteroid mining, putting data centers in space might be useful for problems that demand intensive compute and can work with extreme latency.

Then again that’s like saying inventing the airplane would have been a good strategy for Neanderthals to find better firewood.

downdooting you for dooting dootdoot

Yeah, but you said you tip 5% for below average service. Are you aware of the state of the kitchen, the state of the dish pit, or the state of the running side work at all times? Because if you’re not, you have, at some point, stiffed a competent somebody doing their level best to keep the establishment from burning to the ground.

Depends on the pay structure. Tip outs at some places get high, maybe even 10% of total sales. Which would mean 2/3 of your generous 15% tip goes to the kitchen, or the busboy, or whoever, regardless of how much your server had to harangue them into doing their jobs or how much verbal abuse everyone had to endure in the process. Which, as a former server, yes, is part of the job.

If you tip 5% at a place that tips out higher than 5%, guess where the difference comes from. If you guessed the server’s own share of the tip pool, you get a cookie. Sometimes, nothing is in fact better than something.

So why don’t they just get another job? It’s fuckin hard out there, man, maybe they’re trying. You don’t know. It took yours truly 2 years to escape the industry, and I still have a foot planted there because i took a pay cut to do it. I can almost guarantee I make less money than you if you can afford to eat out more than, like, once a month.

And don’t even get me started on the servers who do make beaucoup bucks. They don’t get there on their own, they do it by shirking their side duties, taking a bigger slice of the pie, and “delegating” to their peers, which management loves because it’s “team service.” Granted, the restaurant I worked at was a shitty place to work, but that’s not exactly rare.

So what does this all point to? Tipping sucks, but trying to fight it by tipping less really only hurts the face you see.

a while ago, I wanna say 2010ish, the new CEO of JCPenney had a bold new vision for the brand. Instead of things being marked up and then perpetually “on sale,” what if they just… marked things as the price they are? Sales collapsed by 25% and the company lost a billion dollars in a single year.

There is a reason things are the way they are, no matter how stupid they look. Consumer psychology is a trip.

Edit: and the thing is this probably works on the reader of this comment as well. Consumers, when asked, will say they prefer transparent pricing structures. But their real world behavior is the exact opposite.

brain dead take

It works well, until it doesn’t. That first part lulls people into complacency. I rented a Kia last year that had automatic cruise control and lane keep assist and it kept me on the road far past when I should have pulled over and taken a nap from being sleep deprived after a redeye flight. Dangerous? Yes. Skill issue? Maybe. What I took away from the experience is that it is frighteningly easy to get used to a thing “just working” and forget about its limitations when it is convenient. I also learned that I do not want lane keep assist or automatic cruise control in my personal car.

They turn into a soup-like homogenate. As is natural in the life cycle of a lab mouse.

And if they weren’t euthanized they would almost certainly die of horrible horrible cancerous tumors. Not because of anything the labs do, but because it’s a crime against nature for a mouse to live past maybe 2 years.

I know its a distraction but I abhor the way the man speaks.

“I was informed this morning by the joint chiefs of staff that at so and so time in such and such operating theater we lost communication with blahblah asset. All US service members were recovered sagely woth no loss of life. We are committed to peace, but this provocation cannot go unanswered. I am urgently seeking communications with the leadership of the IRGC and am directing our forces in the region to move to a state of enhanced readiness.”

• serious
• sounds like something a Sorkin character would say
• leaves diplomatic buffer in case it turns out something other than an Iranian missile caused the loss of equipment

“Army told me a fancy helicopter got shot down, amazing pilots safe but now im mad. I’m gonna bomb them back >:( >:( >:(”

• unserious
• less room for backtracking
• sounds fucking stupid

Lemmy Commenter Eviscerates CNBC Over Editorial Practices

fantastic, now they can tell which specific parts of the jeep ad get my blood pumping

HSPA+ is not 4G. It has a max theoretical throughput of 168Mbit. It was sold as 4G. Same with Wimax and earlier LTE implementations.

mistakes like selling the evolutionary upgrade of the previous generation as the revolutionary next generation? That kind of mistake?

Never forget that the original 4G spec promised gigabit.

But that requires R&D, and that means hiring and paying more engineers! And maintaining multiple production lines! And paying people to work on those! Can’t we just make a law that all Americans have to buy an F-150 by the time they turn 30???

1. Lobby to become the default mode of transportation in the postwar period
2. Get dragged kicking and screaming towards efficiency
3. Successfully lobby to gut regulations and manufacture demand for SUVs and crew cab pickups
4. Stop building cars altogether
5. Help get a fascist elected who kicks off another oil crisis
6. Cry about China eating your lunch

I wonder why that might be.

…isn’t UpCloud Finnish?

E: looks like they didnt go through with it: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-24/finland-shelves-plan-to-move-election-platform-to-amazon-servers

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I don’t know Dutch but I choose to believe this says “hey cunt youre not logged in”