for a reason that you are listening songs from another country or reading books, that was not accepted by censorship
Man are you going to have a wild time reading the First Act of Supremacy of 1534 from the United Kingdom. Couple of follow up bangers from it like the Act of Supremacy in Ireland of 1560. All that happening distinctly before communism was even invented.
Because my country, Ukraine, was under communists and it was not good time with all genocides, holodomor, repressions, red terrors and other things
Yes, but none of that is unique to communism, that's just corrupt government. Anywhere that develops systemic inadequacies and a culture of impunity can instantly become such. That's just something that is independent of the underlying system of economics. Like many capitalist systems like to point out that bourgeoisie who are after their own interest act as some check on the government who is usually in a power struggle for control. And that power struggle is what ensures no one side wins out.
But there's nothing technically stopping the rich from becoming the actors of the government and when we as a society excuse profiteering in office, well then there's no barrier from the rich just becoming the government. Which that's just the French ancien régime that ultimately lead to the French Revolution.
So it's NOT specific to just communism. It's just that's the most recent and easiest one to point out because of how blatant/brazen that system had become with it's corruption. Even with all of the "nay-saying" that might happen with United States detractors with their usual hum of "Oh well they're all corrupt!" Even with how passive some are with it, the corruption is nowhere near the level of being out in the open that was with the USSR. Politicians still weasel their way around because they know that there's still some bottom level of ensuring checks on that corruption that exist. And we have those checks not because we are a capitalist society.
I think the idea that some economic system promotes some civic purity or prevents some form of government corruption is a bad linking of things that ought not be linked, because a pure capitalist society doesn't magically inherit some barrier of corruption. That barrier has to be formed independent of the underlying economic system.
I'm not trying to detract from what happened under the USSR but that has way more to do with how power got consolidated post World War I and everything that lead to the toppling of the Russian Monarchy. The system of communism played a role in that consolidation of power, yes, but literally any tool could have been used if you have someone with the mindset of Vladimir Lenin who wanted to rapidly consolidate power during the Bolshevik revolution. I mean look at the current Myanmar Civil War and some of the ideas of General Min Aung Hlaing, no need for implementation of communist ideology there, he just wants to be in power, doesn't believe that the current transfer of power is legitimate, and is willing to get a lot of people killed in proving that point.
I think given the current situation in the United States, the belief that you NEED communism to have totalitarianism is a dangerous linking of things that can actually happen independent of each other. You just need someone to wear down government legitimacy enough to start a civil war, that's all you need. Everything else is just tools at your disposal to get that goal done.
So you have to understand the nuance here I'm trying level. I'm not saying it WASN'T COMMUNISM, what I'm saying is that it can be communism, but ultimately you just need someone who wants to consolidate power rapidly and exists in a society that will forgive abuses of power enough, sometimes that's done by de-legitimizing the current system enough. That's it, that's all that's required. Communism can play a role in that somewhere, but it doesn't have to.
Thermal is a wall to contend with as well. At the moment SSDs get the density from 3D stacking the planes of substrate that make up the memory cells. Each layer contributes some heat and at some point the layer in the middle gets too hot from the layers below and not being close enough to the top to dissipate the heat upwards fast enough.
One way to address this was the multi-level cell (MLC) where instead of on/off, the voltage within the cell could represent multiple bits. So 0-1.5v = 00, 1.6-3v = 01, 3.1-4.5v = 10, 4.6-5v = 11. But that requires sense amplifiers that can handle that, which aren't difficult outright to etch, they just add complexity to ensure that the amplifier read the correct value. We've since moved to eight-level cells, where each cell holds an entire byte, and the error correction circuits are wild for the sense amplifiers. But all NAND FGMOS leak, so if you pack eight levels into a single cell, even small leaks can be the difference between sensing one level from another level. So at some point packing more levels into the cell will just lead to a cell that leaks too quickly for the word "storage" to be applied to the device. It's not really storage any longer if powering the device off for half a year puts all the data at risk.
So once going upwards and packing hits a wall, the next direction is moving out. But the more you move outward, the further one is placing the physical memory cells from the controller. It's a non-zero amount of distance and the speed of light is only so fast. One light-nanosecond is about 300 millimetres, so a device operating at 1GHz frequency clock has that distance to cover in a single tick of the clock in an ideal situation, which heat, quantum effects, and so on all conspire to make it less than ideal. So you can only go so far out before you begin to require cache in the in-between steps and scheduling of block access that make the entire thing more complex and potentially slow it down.
And there are ways to get around that as well, but all of them begin to really increase the cost, like having multi-port chips that are accessed on multi-channel buses, basically creating a small network inside your SSD of chips. Sort of how like a lot of CPUs are starting to swap over to chiplet designs. We can absolutely keep going, but there's going to be cost associated with that "keep going" that's going to be hard to bring down. So there will be a point where that "cost to utility" equation for end-users will start playing a much larger role long before we hit some physical wall.
That said, the 200 domain of layers was thought to be the wall for stacking due to heat, there was some creative work done and the number of layers got past 300, but the chips do indeed generate a lot more heat these days. And maybe heat sinks and fans for your SSD aren't too far off in the future, I know passive cooling with a heat sink is already becoming vogue with SSDs. The article indicated that Samsung and SK hynix predict being able to hit 1000+ layers, which that's crazy to think about, because even with the tricks being employed today to help get heat out of the middle layers faster, I don't see how we use those same tricks to hit past 500+ layers without a major change in production of the cells, which usually there's a lot of R&D that goes behind such a thing. So maybe they've been working on something nobody else knows about, or maybe they're going to have active cooling for SSDs? Who knows, but 1000+ layers is wild to think about, but I'm pretty sure that such chips are not going to come down in prices as quickly as some consumers might hope. As it gets more complex, that length of time before prices start to go down starts to increase. And that slows overall demand for more density as only the ones who see the higher cost being worth their specific need gets more limited to very niche applications.
“We can change the weather”
Also
“Climate change isn’t real”
Pick a fucking lane lady.
Wow. I think the six people on the planet Earth who didn’t see this coming after the buyout last year will be shocked.
I mean we’ve even got a bingo card so to say of what to expect.
Not the article title, but way more clever.
How dare women have an opinion on our laws that we created that reduce their body autonomy?
— Sen. Rick Scott while sucking Trump's cock at Mar-A-Lago (during the día de la cocaína party on April 21st, 2023)
Man they fucking did her dirty in the courtroom sketch. I mean look at SBF's picture. I MEAN JUST LOOK AT IT!!
Right-wingers are still lying
That's about all that needed to be said.
That's not untrue though. The number of times the average consumer has over corrected to only put themselves into a position where they over correct yet again is sobering.
I'm not dissing AI or the average consumer, I'm just saying they often paint their asses into a corner over and over again only to complain when they paint themselves into a corner.
Number of times I've heard people complain about having to pay the monthly price for iCloud is a non-zero number. But then you suggest getting a phone with an SD slot and they're aghast that you'd suggest them giving up their blue bubbles. They hate ads on their Smart TV but how would they watch their Disney+ without a Smart TV? I've got a CVS receipt sized list of things consumers complain about that consumers wanted but now find themselves in the awkward position of "not like this."
C'est la vie. But there's not going to be any kind of discourse that's going to prevent folks shooting themselves in the foot. All we can do is just present some other options for when they inevitably have a bloody stump where their foot used to be. They're going to use AI no matter what and eventually they'll be wondering how their back is against the wall with all this paint surrounding them. Yet again.
I don't think there's any point any trying to persuade them of anything really. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. So yeah, the average consumer is completely going to snag these shit PCs up in droves, they also are going to eventually regret that, but that's a future them problem apparently.
You and the person you replied to are correct.
No, you have a point and I wrote that oddly. I'm not saying we can only have one or the other. But yeah, my comment makes it sound like we can't do helping small businesses without first taking care of large corporations. We can have both things happening.
That's on me, I wasn't entirely clear in that comment. We can have the small business help and that would provide benefit to small businesses. But small businesses won't thrive until we ease up the grip that particular companies have on select industries.
Does everyone just forget the aspect where it absolute enriches the guy but just “maybe, likely” benefit anyone else?