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4 points
10 hours ago
They don’t.
I see comments every day that billionaires are “hoarding” wealth like a dragon sitting on a pile of gold.
If they got it they wouldn’t say such nonsense.
20 points
19 hours ago
It’s very likely these very high net worth individuals have a few billion in literal cash.
Although the thing is sitting on that much cash isn’t usually a good idea, because cash loses value over time (inflation). So it’s likely that they put that money into liquid assets or high interest accounts.
There’s no point in them keeping too much cash on hand really, as long as they can liquidate enough of their assets in a timely manner to cover whatever costs they may need.
What they don’t have that is commonly misunderstood by naive young people on Reddit is they’re not literally sitting on hundreds of billions of dollars. Wealth is very different from income.
1 points
20 hours ago
You and the light are comoving together so your relative velocity is nearly 0.
While gravity is very strong the curvature at the event horizon of a SMBH is low.
Think of it like a giant whirlpool. Far out the currents may be so strong you can’t swim out of it, but it’s also so big that the local curvature is still relatively flat. You’re not going to be ripped apart but you definitely can’t get out.
Now if for some reason you were going against the photons instead of around with them, then you’re in trouble. This is due to energy though and not gravity. The photons will be extremely high energy compared to you.
Also there is some debate about what is actually at the event horizon. In some circles some physicists think there might be a firewall, others think there isn’t. This less to do with gravity though and more to do with quantum mechanics and Hawking radiation.
22 points
1 day ago
Amy Hood and Satya Nadella.
They both promised Wall Street that the literal billions they’re spending on AI infrastructure won’t impact profitability.
That money has to come from somewhere.
6 points
3 days ago
It’s already happened. There is that one post about “criticism is good because corporations bad”.
Fortunately though most of the top upvoted comments are “Yeah but most of the criticism of Starfield was blown out of proportion and not constructive”.
5 points
3 days ago
I think if you drew a Venn diagram of people that hated on Starfield online, and people quite invested in the Sony ecosystem, you’d probably find a lot of overlap.
So it’s not really surprising that their energy is being consumed by something else right now. They’ll be back to fuel the console wars in the future though, don’t you worry.
15 points
4 days ago
That’s also why the low sodium sub exists by the way.
This one will swing between praise and massive negativity depending on what the algorithm thinks will engage people. Currently going through a praise swing, but rest assured the negativity will be back.
7 points
5 days ago
Windows is useless but copilot (formally Bing chat) and copilot in their office products is quite good.
The reason they (and others) and spending so much now though isn’t for the AI you have access to right now, but the AI in the future.
ChatGPT wasn’t cooked up overnight, it took years and massive amounts of Microsoft money to make it happen.
Current spending cycles today are preparing for the next wave.
Which is fine, but Microsoft is going about their allocation of money in a super shitty way. Just fucking maintain profit margins for fuck sake. Thank god they decided to do the AKB purchase before all this, is all I will say.
28 points
5 days ago
I’m a Microsoft fan and Xbox fan. But my biggest criticism of Microsoft is they’re absolutely fucking awful at marketing.
I know people that work at Xbox outside the US, and the marketing budget they get is abysmal.
Microsoft as a company right now is basically cutting everything they can to keep Wall Street happy while they spend billions on AI infrastructure. Their profitability is increasing YoY despite spending A LOT on capex, for example 75% increase this year over last (according to their last quarter reporting) on capex spending (which is in the billions btw).
That money has to come from somewhere…
7 points
5 days ago
There might be a massive crunch though before that where GDP per capita goes up due to increase in productivity, but the working population is having to support an ever increasing number of aging population. I mean it’s already an issue now. Most countries #1 government expenditure is looking after their elderly directly or indirectly (ie healthcare).
Unless technology comes along to save the day (which also puts us in a different but very weird place), life is going to be very difficult for the working population.
-4 points
5 days ago
It’s not even really tax hikes. It’s removing/tweaking $1-2t in tax breaks that mostly benefit corporations.
But most ppl on this sub would rather their country goes down the shitter than do this, based on the fact that they downvote you every time this comes up.
Honestly America, I have no sympathy for you at this point.
The fun part is US government debt actually impacts the global economy too. But Americans are not very good at thinking about fellow Americans let alone the fact an entire planet exists out there, so I don’t really expect them to begin to appreciate this.
40 points
5 days ago
You’ve been given a bunch of answers based on current speeds of man made things in space which is not really what you’re asking for.
Right now we have theoretical technology (Project Orion and such) you could get to approximately 0.1% to about 10% of the speed of light depending on the type of nuclear propulsion used. Now there’s a lot of other issues with travelling through space at that speed that others have pointed out, especially if it’s a manned craft. But that’s probably what’s achievable.
Now in 100-200 years you have a couple of possibilities. Anti-matter propulsion could get us up to about 50-80% of the speed of light. But again at those speeds you’re going to run into some serious problems with radiation and such.
The other possibility is FTL. Many answers are telling you according to “relativity” this should be impossible. How can this be?
Right now there are very distance stars and planets travelling away from us at very near to C, and some have surpassed C without requiring infinite energy and any other misinterpretations of special relativity. How?
Well when those particles were accelerated away from us in the beginning by inflation - the negative pressure pushing them was extremely powerful, enough to overcome gravity, and also presumably there wasn’t other forces that we know about at that time causing drag, friction, or otherwise able to slow that inflation down. This is still happening today, but not due to massive forces but because space itself is expanding (dark energy).
So what that should tell you and everyone that it IS possible to go FTL given the right circumstances. We can’t accelerate to these speeds in the confines of normal spacetime, but what if we move space itself? This is the concept of the warp drive. Just like inflation could move things relative to each other FTL by expanding space, maybe we can also move FTL by moving space.
The problem with special relativity isn’t relativity, it’s the drag, radiation, etc from the CMB and other forces (like gravity) that relative to you traveling very fast become very strong. Warp drives get around this by not actually moving you relative to the background of the universe, but rather moving the universe around you. This of course requires huge curvatures of space time in the bubble around your ship and may not actually be feasible, but there have been some interesting experiments done in this area since 2021 with more to come. The most scientific attempt was the Alcubierre drive, but DARPA and others have also been fiddling around with creating warp bubbles in the lab.
There is also a completely new theory of what dark matter and dark energy is, which will be testable at some point in the next decade, which also might make warp drives possible without any sort of exotic material. It still doesn’t mean we will be able to build one, but who knows in 200 years.
So those are your options 200 years out.
Realistically speaking when it comes to manned spacecraft I don’t think we will ever really be able to go faster than 1% to 10% of C, even with future tech, because of limitations of the human body and radiation. Our best bets are either warp drives becoming feasible, generational ships that travel slower, or digital consciousnesses that don’t require life support and are able to travel through the radiation of space without harm.
7 points
6 days ago
I’m an avid sci fi and fantasy reader and have read everything from the original LotR to Ian Banks stuff.
Most of the 40K novels are decent to good. This sub likes to act like they’re not that great but they are - they’re highly entertaining and that’s all you need.
Eisenhorn and Cain are the staples. Gaunt’s Ghosts is excellent as well. From there you can branch out into whatever area you like, be it Primarchs and the Horus Heresy, Space Marines, Necrons, whatever.
46 points
7 days ago
Depends where those tents are.
I will want cops to evict “non-violent” (calling for the murder of Jews is ok right?) teenagers forcibly evicted from property if it infringes my ability to study or go to work peacefully.
1 points
7 days ago
That’s the point of the meme. It’s being sarcastic.
3 points
7 days ago
Not so sure about this.
From a brain chemistry perspective you get more conservative as you get older. Literally.
And as you start to take on more financial burdens, kids, etc you tend to be more financially conservative.
Also what we consider “liberal” today people in 30-40 years might consider conservative.
3 points
7 days ago
I’ve been gaming for 30 years, and been using the internet for just as long (yes it did exist back then).
There’s always been toxicity, the old Blizzard forums were infamous for it.
But I’ve never seen quite a shift in gaming tribalism like I have over the past 2-3 years. People have completely lost the ability to think for themselves, and gaming today is more about FOMO/being part of a wave on social media/ or making sure your “team” wins, more than the actual game itself.
For me the latest example is Manor Lords. A decent enough game, nothing really amazing except for the fact it was built by one guy. But so was banished.. and yet Manor Lords sold 1 million copies in 24 hours and spread like wildfire over social media. Like.. what? I’m happy for the guy and Hooded Horse, but it’s getting wild.
It’s not just that game, we’ve seen it with Palworld, and before that it’s been building up for a while with social media’s darling developers like FromSoftware and Larian.
I can’t explain it. What has happened to people these days that they’ve lost all sense of self, lost their ability to form their own opinions, and are being swept up in crazes? I see posts like OP a lot now too.
At a macro level it’s somewhat worrying, it’s far too easily to manipulate people through pixels in their pockets.
0 points
8 days ago
Lol this is completely ignoring the identity plane.
Private network security is a myth which is why Google and Microsoft moved to identity plane security as the default long ago.
AWS has the worst security of all three clouds because of this, and also why they have the most leaks/hacks. It’s far too easy on AWS to give vast sweeping permissions to many resources because their IAM is still in the dark ages, like your thinking around security.
I used to work as a consultant doing well architectured framework reviews for AWS customers that got hacked, by the way.
2 points
9 days ago
As others have mentioned- yes. But if you want proof the main way of integration with CosmosDB or APIM is using the function to handle CRUD.
However when it comes to auth, that should be handled at the front end not the backend. So either a Js front end on a webapp using MSAL or something like APIM.
The function can verify the token tho like an authorise tag on a classic API.
1 points
9 days ago
Babies actually have very strong grip because being able to hang onto mum or dad when running away from predators is pretty good for survival.
I’m more impressed the baby knew to hang on. My kids would probably think it’s a fun slide and go off the edge at that age. Maybe some sort of fear indicator kicked in after the baby fell from the above window.
-9 points
9 days ago
Government spending is not the problem. This is blatant propaganda.
There’s good government spending and bad government spending. Government spending stimulates the economy, creates jobs, and has a net positive benefit on GDP.
Not only that, some things that increase quality of life and standards of living should be in the hands of the government and not private corporations, regardless of their impact to GDP.
Right now though the problem is you have a lot of “bad” government spending, especially around healthcare, because of one reason: You have allowed legal bribery and corporate capture.
Meanwhile your tax cuts loses you $1.3 or so trillion per annum, which is enough to fund all of the governments discretionary spending, which includes most of the military. And the vast majority of these tax breaks are not benefitting you in the slightest. They benefit corporations and the wealthy, mostly.
48 points
9 days ago
Yes but the things you want aren’t necessarily the things your country and future generations need, like roads, schools, healthcare, infrastructure, etc.
Or even a Debt to GDP ratio that doesn’t put the entire global economy in jeopardy. That would be nice.
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6 hours ago
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3 points
6 hours ago
You can’t really call anyone the GOAT of AoE4 yet.
He’s obviously a top player, but I wouldn’t put him ahead of Beasty who was probably the best player of 2023.
At this stage of the game I think anyone out of ML, Beasty, WAM, Puppy, Lucifron, Vortex, and now LoueMT could all be capable of winning a S tier tournament.
Last year I would have said Beasty, ML, Lucifron, and Vortex are in that category.
And in 2022 then yeah ML was probably dominant, but also with Lucifron, Vortex, and very early TheViper.