You underestimate the size of the ignorance reservoir and also its generating capacity.

I would have been great in ski jumping.

You can turn on the heaters for free, but to turn it off you have to pay.

It's not just Walmart you apply these "omg they're making money" arguments to is it? 162 million Americans (62%) own shares, so I'm not sure how that's "concentrating wealth".

What about retirees whose investments are dependent on Walmart being efficient?

274 a day is easily achievable. They would be able to afford that if they get Starship working at the same cadence as Falcon 9. The reason it's currently unaffordable with Falcon 9 is Falcon 9 expends the upper stage, which costs about $10 million per launch. Starship will be able to launch at least 200 tons into orbit. Presumably each data center satellite would weigh about 720 kg (weight of a Starlink v2 Mini), they could launch the 275 satellites daily on a Starship. In theory they could reuse the same Starship every day .. but I assume they'll have about 10 of them so each one would only get reused once per week.

You guys remember the Beavis & Butthead episode where they were tasked with selling school fundraiser cookies? They bought all of each other's cookies by exchanging one dollar back & forth with each other. So basically they sold all the cookies, but only raised $1 for the school.

When I was in college someone told me you could flip a traffic light green by flashing your headlights on and off. I found out instead it was a great way to get pulled over, especially if there was a police car nearby.

No you luddites are the ones with the "Everything new is scary" BS.

I've been pro new tech:
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Someone told me what it was like to be on the "Apple supplier" side especially in the 2010s. Believe me it's not pleasant. Tim Cook's dick back then was a lot bigger than you can believe. Why do you think he's gay, no woman could survive that.

People will get bigger TVs .. also AI upscaling from 4K to 8K can make it look good.

Hey was this you back in 2014? https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhardware.slashdot.org%2F...
Or this? https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhardware.slashdot.org%2F...

How is Europe going to launch satellites without a reusable rockets?

For an immersive cinematic experience, TV has to take up 50 degrees field of view (a fist held out length-wise at arm's distance is 10 degrees). You would make out the pixels in a 4K TV at that distance if your vision is 20/20. For normal TV .. 40 degrees is fine. In my case, even with a 4K TV taking up 30 to 40 degrees of my field of view I can easily make out the pixels .. BUT my vision is better than 20/10.

Remember for a while people were saying we didn't need 4K, and that HD was good enough. And before that they said 480i (NTSC) was good enough. After 8K is mainstream I guarantee nobody would go back to 4K.

It's the customer that drives that. Back in the 90s, a friend of mine worked at a textile factory in North Carolina. They were producing high quality fabric at $20 a pound. The Asians were offering slightly lower quality "good enough" fabric at $4 a pound. What did the consumer choose? Take a guess. Don't bitch at the manufacturer, bitch at the consumer preference. You see two products on the shelf one is cheaper and you know it sacrifices quality. You don't care.