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baiwl commented on RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung pcworld.com/article/29989... · Posted by u/sethops1

JKCalhoun · 2 months ago

Regardless of whether it is Crypto/AI/etc., this would seem to be wake-up call #2. We're finding the strangle-points in our "economy"—will we do anything about it? A single fab in Phoenix would seem inadequate?

baiwl · 2 months ago

What will we do with that fab in two years when nobody needs that excess RAM?

baiwl commented on 'If you aren't lying, you aren't flying.' Pilots hide mental health struggles reuters.com/investigation... · Posted by u/amichail

Gud · 2 months ago

Why are you driving around without your glasses?

baiwl · 2 months ago

My prescription is very low and I can drive fine without glasses but I can’t recognise people at a long distance.

baiwl commented on 'If you aren't lying, you aren't flying.' Pilots hide mental health struggles reuters.com/investigation... · Posted by u/amichail

vunderba · 2 months ago

Reminds me of an excerpt from Tom Wolfe’s book The Right Stuff in which fighter pilots perceived doctors as the enemy, and heaven forfend you saw a psychiatrist!

  A man could go for a routine physical one fine day, feeling like a million dollars, and be grounded for fallen arches. It happened!—just like that! (And try raising them.) Or for breaking his wrist and losing only part of its mobility. Or for a minor deterioration of eyesight, or for any of hundreds of reasons that would make no difference to a man in an ordinary occupation. As a result all fighter jocks began looking upon doctors as their natural enemies. Going to see a flight surgeon was a no-gain proposition.

baiwl · 2 months ago

This reminds me of when a friend became a cop. One day I saw him or I thought I saw him from far away but I couldn’t tell him that I wasn’t sure it was him because I couldn’t recognise him because of my myopia and, since I sometimes drive without my glasses on - what if one day he caught me?

baiwl commented on China will eventually open its borders to mass immigration twitter.com/samoburja/sta... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

mytailorisrich · 2 months ago

Very doubtful and unlikely. China, like the other East Asia countries, is very serious about preserving its culture and they see the cautionary tale that Europe has become. Not sure how much the author knows about China and the Chinese.

Even just starting by making a comparison to the UK to extrapolate how many immigrants China could absorb strikes me as odd: The Chinese are actually horrified by the result of mass immigration in Europe and the UK. Mass immigration as obviously good and inevitable is a purely Western "dogma" and in fact the Chinese even have an expression for this left-of-centre ideology in the West: 白左, which means "white left" [1]. The Wikipedia page has a strangely orientated description but it is true that it is quite widespread among Chinese who live or have travelled extensively overseas.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baizuo

baiwl · 2 months ago

You just have to see how they’ve handled Xinjiang to know how they feel about this matter.