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Interesting that the total removal flights have not really gone up by much compared with the rhetoric coming out of the Trump administration.

If this happened in the US or Europe it would be an interesting story. In South Africa, this is just par for the course and the quality of the work may not have been any better had…

this ^^^^ not to mention modern fertilizers

Got to love that golden age.

So much for that golden age.

So the only golden age is the gaudy gold he added to the white house and the profits for all of his oligarch friends/defense contractors etc. while everybody else suffers. Let them…

For that base display, it is essentially the same as the previous monitor with the addition of Thunderbolt 5.

The the smaller xdr has better brightness and thunderbolt 5, so it depends on what you are looking for.

If you create an economic incentive to go into math an science you will have no trouble attracting good people. But, for years, it has been a race to the bottom where the US over-p…

If only that was to translate to cheaper hotel room prices in the US. Currently they are sky high.

Only a golden age for the uber wealthy.

Repairability would help as well. Many times the only viable option to fix something is to swap a board, or replace the entire item, instead of replacing the one failed component t…

repairability would help quite a bit. How many times do you have to replace an entire board in something when replacing just a component would actually fix things?

You have a tree that is full of monkeys that you want to get out of the tree. So you shake the hell out of the tree to get rid of them. How many are left when you are done? Same nu…

and yet their revenues are not even 1 billion.

The political dance of NVIDIA: 1. Offshore jobs, maximize profits and take advantage of incentives to offshore. 2. Political winds shift. 3. Talk a good game about needing to onsho…

It would be interesting to see if the job prospects of American students and perception of the value of the degrees were to change if they were to eliminate the 15% discount that e…

Assuming that one is in favor of the use of these cameras, the security issues seem like they are a big problem. The leaking of police officer personal data and locations was prett…

Most places went off grid because of how unreliable the national grid is. The cost of that electricity is also significantly higher than it would have been with well run central gr…

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Back before digital became really high res I was into small, medium and large format silver halide cameras balancing cost with high quality optics. You could get Exackta's, Speed G…

Actually, electricity production has gone down, while the price continues to outstrip inflation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_South_Africa Because of this many companies…

Manufacturing and the economy are in trouble and have been for a number of years. https://currencynews.co.za/manufacturing-meltdown-south-afri... It sounds like you prefer communis…

The country is in decline. I have spent a lot of time there, have family who live there and can easily counter this: - Many communities still rely on water trucks instead of water …

What almost nobody in SV wants to talk about it the gutting of STEM in the early 90's when real wages for STEM began it's decline in the US via labor arbitrage. Of course Blank and…