[–] 2 points 1 day ago

Absolutely, it's not their problem or their business.

But the 2025 tax cuts saved just Facebook ~$11bn in 2025 alone. Meaning across all US mega-corporations there are trillions of dollars not being allocated in whichever way voters want, but going to pet projects and yachts because they have more money than they can reinvest in their business or know what to do with.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    Just Facebook spent $80bn over ~10 years while paying less of their income in taxes than anyone reading this.

    The WHO estimates $7-8 billion a year to end world hunger.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago*

    RAM has not come from China, and China isn't exporting much of it yet. Unless Canada and the EU and Japan and everyone else is also handing out tariffs on Taiwan, Korea, etc like the US is, their point was the price of RAM doesn't have anything to do with tariffs.

    The price of RAM is high globally because the AI companies have bought future-RAM with money the RAM producing companies gave them to build data centers that don't exist yet.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    If we can reduce the shockwave from sonic booms that could directly lead to more efficient plane engines. The main current impediment they have is the tips of the turbine blades can only get so close to the speed of sound before they explode from the forces they're experiencing.

    Which could have knock-on effects for anything involving an airfoil moving through a fluid. Helicopters, boats, wind turbines, hydro-power, etc.

    Better understanding and control of the physics / materials science at the sound barrier would be very good news.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    They're publicly traded companies. Their investor meetings point out that HBM is not more profitable.

    It is in theory more guaranteed profit because it's a smaller number of bigger contracts. But that's the gamble they're making.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    I get a lot done with physical buttons and time / condition automations but sometimes it's nice to just do a one off action from the couch.

    I've built some md5stack little speaker things and they work okay. Weird audio artifacts sometimes though.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    They're trying to say that the guess of the "prediction market" will give early warning to evacuate.

    It's been one of their "We're not gambling" defenses but applying it to wildfires really highlights how bonkers it is.

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