They always look beyond the next quarter. Thata kind of their whole thing actually, finding the leaks risky things to insure so they never have to pay out.

Insurance can look at long term statistics and say if you don’t get the vaccine, your premiums will double.

All spaceframes have a limited service life due to the extreme thermal and structural load cycling they experience in earth orbit. The ISS was only meant to last 15 years and its only by happenstance, new modules, and good engineering protocols that its been stretched to 2030.
The alloys of aluminum that make up most of their structure always have a limited load cycle service life. It is never a question of if it will crack, it is when. Reusing ANY part of it for a space station meant to be serviced past 2030 is just a ticking time bomb. Russia is gonna kill their cosmonauts for sure.

Pretty easy, just resize in gimp to something ridiculous like 40000x40000 and save as png.

👏TRUMP👏NEVER👏PAYS👏HIS👏BILLS👏

(Unless it’s the hush money bill, or the raping little girls bill, he’s always got cash for those)

AMD has, as far as I understand, been outcompeting Nvidia on value for a good while.

And yet their market share doesn’t increase. Because Nvidia holds a stranglehold on both the software (CUDA, RTX support, frame gen, etc) AND sheer brand recognition- gamers always complain about Nvidia and want better AMD cards, but continue to line up in droves to buy Nvidia cards no matter what.

Nvidia knows they can do whatever the fuck they want right now.

AMD is a puppydog that follows Nvidia around on the open market with 10% or less market share. If Nvidia constricts supply and causes a massive price jump and shortages, AMD will just follow the pricing curve and we will still get no GPU’s.

AMD is also 100% reliant on TSMC and VRAM suppliers, the same exact supply pressures causing Nvidia to turn off the consumer tap will come for AMD too.

Option two is not correct, option one is correct. This announcement is specifically for consumer gaming GPU’s only, it does not affect institutional datacenter customers.

This is Nvidia saying “thanks small fry, you were useful, but we’re leaving you behind now. Fight for the scraps.” Complete cartel behavior.

Also some of us are stuck with necessary stupid software that has no Linux releases and doesn’t run in proton/wine yet.

Also at this stage they know they will just fix the vote if things aren’t swinging their way. They don’t give a rats ass about the law anymore.

Sign language interpreters can’t keep up with the verbal vomit and turn it into anything comprehensible

Vast majority of this funding will get vacuumed up by corporate farms and continue to leave most small family/independents out to dry

The worst people seem fuelled by hate alone and survive longer than they have any right to. See: Dick Cheney.

I hate to say it, but prebuilts are the absolute best bang for your buck that you can get now. At least for another month or two until the shortages start impacting OEM inventories.

Right now you can get decent high end ish machines like this: https://www.costco.com/p/-/ibuypower-element-gaming-pc-desktop-amd-ryzen-7-9800x3d-nvidia-geforce-rtx-5070-12gb-windows-11-home-32gb-ram-2tb-ssd/4000384603?langId=-1 and like 35% of the total machine cost washes out to JUST the memory right now. You’ll need to replace the PSU and likely the water cooler for the long term, but the bones are relatively good.

Shoulda stuck to stupid consumer products, Vince. Now I won’t buy anything I see your dumb face near.

Lawsuit against California should now be immediately thrown out.

Genocide doesn’t even enter their vocabulary. They see dollar signs, and Istael has a lot of dollar signs, therefore every other possible action is completely irrelevant.

what they will actually get: a massive surge in STD’s and a public health crisis

also isn’t their (now unreported) youth unemployment rate some shit like 25%?

They don’t really have to collaborate though. They’re proving right now that they can price out consumers by just buying all the hardware capacity up and letting the market take care of the little guys. Hardware manufacturers like Micron are obliging.

What I’m becoming worried about now is all these corporations now realizing that they can simply supply price the average consumer out of owning electronics or any kind of compute. And locking them into renting or leasing access to data center compute and keeping the power of information further consolidated in corporate interests.