[–] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

As was pointed out recently in a few places, data centers are full of expensive (and easily sellable) material.
i think someone said something about the SFP dongles specifically being super valuable for their size.

They aren't yet fully protected by the robot killing machines.
So, purely hypothetically , now would be the easiest time to obtain some of those portable, easily sellable parts.

Do you remember when you had to have actual revenue planned when asking for business loan?

I do, but that's a difference in type, that's only ever been required for loans to the poors.
The "loans" involved here are just a way of avoiding tax on a systemic scale, something not available to the regular masses.
Also, in the case of the NVIDIA/GPU fuckery, to lock up the resources as a way of controlling the availability and therefore "value".

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Sure, but guardrails won't solve the core issue, just kick the can down the road..maybe

    Making it illegal to be homeless doesn't solve homelessness it just moves the problem elsewhere.

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago* (4 children)

    I've always thought of the value proposition of the framework as being it's capacity for upgrade.

    You should obviously start from a level of compute that meets your requirements, but the additional cost for the framework was always the price of the ability to change out parts later (at the very least the idea of it)

    It feels like an apples to oranges comparison but with the only success criteria being the things an apple is designed for (pun intended).

    If performance to price ratio was the only criteria they are interested in , the framework shouldn't even be in the race.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago
    • You can't reason somebody out of a position they didn't reason themselves in to.
    • If someone has internalised a position as a part of themselves then an attack on that position is now a personal attack and will be treated as such. ( this is one reason why you see such visceral responses to what would normally be minor disagreements )
    • Not everybody is looking for (or will even consider) a differing viewpoint, they will just ignore anything outside of their bubble because they don't care about factual accuracy as much as they care about validation.
    • Bad faith isn't always intentional trolling, some people are just natural arseholes ( like babies aren't trying to make your ears bleed with their crying, it's just one of the only means of communication available to them )
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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (9 children)

    Wasnt it so that it was easier for the woman to do up the man's buttons for them?

    Because, real men don't button their own clothes.

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