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Considering helium is a finite resource on earth, it should be made illegal to put it in a party balloon.
It’s not illegal to put gas in your car. That is a finite resource too.
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What country would be the stereotypical example you are thinking of? I fail to find any
From the US point of view only: Historically, most of Latin America. Very recently: why was Venezuela attacked by the US?
Also, why are they trying to do a genocide in Cuba?
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Hypothetically what would happen if China took over Tawain and TSMC?
All modern technology becomes unobtainable.
Wow, I wasn't aware Samsung, Intel, SMSC were unable to produce "modern technology." Not everything needs to be on a 3nm TSMC process, believe it or not.
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This one might last longer. The AI race is on, and the US tries its best to make it as expensive for China as possible to participate in it. Every dollar China spends on GPUs they get at markup is one not spent on building navy ships. If there is an escalation over Taiwan, then that will cause the loss of most of the world's high grade chip manufacturing capacity. TSMC is busy doing technology transfers into the US,…
Hypothetically what would happen if China took over Tawain and TSMC?
I’m not a military expert, but I’ll bet my left nut that if push comes to shove Taiwan will go scorched earth and just blow up the chip factories
Which will put the whole world back for a decade while we rebuild the factories from scratch.
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#496The Raspberry Pi 4B 2GB is $55 on CanaKit, PiShop, Seeed Studio, and MicroCenter. The Raspberry Pi 3B 1GB is $35 on CanaKit, Adafruit. The 3B+ is on PiShop for $40. The Raspberry Pi 3A+ 512MB is $25 on CanaKit, Adafruit, PiShop, SparkFun. The Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W is $16.35 on CanaKit, $17.25 on PiShop. We are unavoidably headed at financial collapse, authoritarianism, and potentially the collapse of Western civiliza…
Maybe it will even trigger that we software developers get more time to optimize our RAM usage while developing instead of implementing that new user tracking feature that is being pushed by the business...
I picture a scene with Richard Crenna knocking on our old fogey's cabin door to ask us to come out of retirement and help hand-optimize software in this new environment
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#497I'm happy I picked up my Pi 500+ last week. Lovely little computer for $250, not so much $400
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#498am I crazy for thinking that the 16GB Pi 5 is just there to absorb money from people who purchase the most expensive version of things? Like really nobody needs that much RAM on a Pi?
I bought a Pi 500+ (basically a 16gb Pi 5 in a keyboard with a built in NVME hat) to use as a family computer, otherwise I agree. Unless you're planning on using it as an actual desktop there's no real reason for that much ram
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#500am I crazy for thinking that the 16GB Pi 5 is just there to absorb money from people who purchase the most expensive version of things? Like really nobody needs that much RAM on a Pi?
It’s an incredibly lopsided machine. The Pi 5 is decently powerful, but you really really should not be attempting to use one as a desktop replacement. While theoretically possible you are so much better off with a $50 used SFF PC.
I bought the pi 500+, it fit my requirement of being built into the keyboard