Like this? https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fourworldindata.org%2Fgra...

Well that's one order of magnitude down, depending on where you place the goalpost. Starship only needs to halve the per kg cost of Falcon Heavy to add another one, again, depending on where you put the goalpost. If the goalpost started with the space shuttle, for example, then without question, it's doable.

You sound just like this guy:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2FTazerface16

TL;DR claims to be an aerospace engineer and, for years, even as recently as April this year, was very loudly saying starship could never make it to orbit because it is "too heavy". How did that turn out? Basically, he just moved the goalpost. I'm sure that by this time next year, he'll move it again. Though common sense should tell anybody who isn't a total moron that "too heavy" doesn't mean anything at all if you're also using the thrust vector or some other proxy or analog for velocity as a qualifier. Not a god damn thing.

Claims like this should be easy to prove with nothing more than mathematics. So here's an idea: Show your math before running your mouth.

You know what the best thing about this topic is? Everybody who comments on it thinks they're an expert.

Everything = "all their games", not Everything in the world, internet, etc.

It's not a false accusation, the CPU was used to cheat, it was banned, not the user.

AMD CPUs have software accessible serial numbers, they blocked the CPU.

The buyer took his chances buying a used processors, that's between him and the seller/cheater.

I don't think so. The publisher likely told the original gamer that their cheating marked that CPU banned on their game servers, then the gamer sold it to the buyer without telling buyer about the claim.

The buyers claim is likely limited to a refund from the gamer for not disclosing the ban/restriction, not the publisher.

MS Windows used to record MAC address, HD serial number and, I thought, a CPU serial number, any one could change, but changing two or all three required acre-activation of Windows. I think this was Window 7 era, but not sure.

I'm pretty sure CPUs have some sort of serial number, found this:

Every AMD processor has a unique serial number used for identification and tracking purposes.

So I guess it's trivial to block a specific AMD CPU, it does not seem possible to find an Intel CPU serial number via software (its marked on the outside of the processor chip)

POTUS: Why did you launch our Thermonuclear Warheads at China and Russia? ChatGPT: You are right to push back, and my previous action was obviously not what you intended. I will no longer launch Thermonuclear Warheads at China or Russia without your confirmation.

It's so interesting to me how people who frequent a site like Slashdot have no imagination. I can decrypt your phone? I can build a motive. I can build a story. What's worse, is I can plant evidence. You were here and there, you google'd for this, read an article about that. Just so happened to be close to this, and that. Suddenly you are arrested and you have no idea why.

You're in jail. You did nothing wrong, except to advocate to give whatever power to the state the state wants. Good luck with your lack of privacy. If there is exculpatory evidence too, better hope the cop wants actual justice and not just another point on his win / loss record, because there are those too...

Honestly, I am shocked the president, along with his foreign counterparts hasnt used the DPA to limit the NAND and DRAM chips available to AI companies to stabilize the market for consumer electronics until such a time as the market can expand. But then again, this is for the billionaire class, so anything goes.

This is such a non-story

We KNOW that McDonald's charge different prices at different restaurants - for example, in downtown Manhattan a Big Mac has one price, at the airport another price, and at the highway rest stop another... The same food item having different prices is nothing new, no one ever believed that McDonalds had identical pricing around the country.

This tool doesn't set prices, it doesn't update the POS system in the store, it simply tells the owner/franchisee that they could probably raise the price on some items without hurting sales, and that lowering prices might increase sales.

WTF is the problem with that? Seriously?

This is a much, much smaller issue than you seem to think it is.

If looking at the "night sky as it actually shines above us" than maybe it's time to move out of the city - remote jobs are a thing, and housing is cheaper outside major metropolitan areas, win-win!

What color is your asphalt?

Not so sure I'd like black concrete highways...

That's the one that will bring in the profitss.

You really should have re-checked that link before using it. You'd have seen the update where it turned out the account had been flagged for phishing, instead of just the rampant speculation that turned out to be false.

I mentioned the wealth of Communist revolutionaries. The people who claimed that money was bad and property was theft but somehow ended up starting wealthy and ended up wealthy and powerful (and soaked in blood).

Cold Socialism be achieved without authoritarianism? No. It is necessary because the system demands that private property be seized, and people tend to resist that. It is necessary because controlling the means of production means controlling labor, which is you. A centrally planned economy means the planners must decide who does what work and where. If the People have any say in that, then it is no longer centrally planned.

I also think you're making a mistake, and that sadly it is one caused by my side. The GOP went too far for too long calling everything Socialist. Socialism is state control of the means of production, not a government-backed pension program. That may be a thing Socialist governments do (or say they do), but they also have standing armies and we don't call that Socialist. Free market economics does not preclude the existence of something like Social Security.

And I'm going to take a tangent for a minute to point out that market economics could improve social security. Remember when Bush put forward a plan to partially invest the SS funds in the stock market? Democrats and the AARP lost their minds and pulled out all the stops to fight it, and they won. Had they not, then today Social Security would be solvent, healthy, and most people would get considerably more back. Who isn't in that "most"? The top 2 wage tiers. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aei.org%2Fwp-content...

There is no rule that says a free market economy (Capitalist, if using Marx' terms) has to draw the line between public and private goods/services in a particular place. Consider - there are no Socialist nations in West Europe. There are Capitalist nations with many public services. That said, there is a mathematical tipping point where the public sector becomes so large that it chokes out the private sector, leading to collapse. Not Socialism, but an economic collapse. That hasn't happened anywhere that I'm aware of, but I doubt the solution would be more government control.

Note that right now, the US is not addressing the debt. That's a problem that's only going to get worse. The only tax inequity I see is that not everyone pays income taxes, and that could lead to a problem - "no representation without taxation". Though I do think it's worth reconsidering the difference between the capital gains and income tax rates.