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Panic buying like this only leads to more price increases. I just buy the minimum, like usual.

Exactly. He already has his hand up the government's ass and had been sucking off billions of dollars in subsidies and other benefits. This will only get worse, but apparently boosting musk is bipartisan, the two parties just differ in how much they want to give to him.

I have no confidence in Intel's long-term prospects.

Break free from the solution they resorted to in the pursuit of profits? Too bad that backfired, but it's okay since Intel can keep making subpar products as long as the government has their back.

I'm more concerned with the threats from the people in charge of the system, but whatever gets them to the conclusion that it's a bad idea is fine with me.

I dunno, apparently someone can support a genocide and still be considered a good guy these days.

Wait until you hear about the NSA. Hell, with all this talk about security threats, there is one stark example of israel planting bombs in pagers, but no one in the west is talking about banning technology coming out of israel.

Now do israel.

Both. It's kind of like asking if monarchy is the problem or if the problem is just evil kings. Theoretically even a dictatorship can work out well for the people given a benevolent dictator. The issue is with the vulnerabilities inherent in the system. For capitalism, it's that those with more money have more influence and thus it creates a feedback loop where those with more money have more power to get themselves more money and therefore more power and so on.

Wow, I completely misread that post. Now I'm wondering if I replied to the wrong message or if my brain just completely crapped out.

I know you're being reflexively downvoted by who hate everything AI, but this is the sort of thing AI should be most useful for, which is finding patterns within large problem spaces with many variables.

Right, over the long term prices go down, but it still greatly annoys me that they jacked up prices in the short term. Thankfully I have no need to purchase any storage and won't for years.