A single stick of DDR5 RAM on Amazon in about $450 now. Three sticks would be $1350. Do most people drive old clankers with less than $1500 resale value?
You still need a few terabytes to enter the real cars territory.
I guess if we expand it worldwide that makes sense, though in a discussion about 96GB of RAM it feels like an apples to oranges comparison to bring in the entirety of the world. That is including a whole lot of people who probably couldn't afford the RAM or a car even if they saved most of their income for a decade.
Equivalents of fuel taxes for EVs have been announced recently - charging directly on a per mile basis.
> The rate of tax will be 3 pence per mile for fully electric cars; this is around half of the 6 pence per mile the average petrol or diesel driver pays in fuel duty.
In my state they decided to tax EVs punitively through our annual registration fee. I already pay an additional $200 for my EV registration, which is $50 more than the average ICE driver pays is gas taxes. I drive considerably less than the average TN driver. Next year it will be $274.
at 42,000 employees and their own (infinite) compute on hand, there has to be at least one plucky junior internally who is suggesting using the open source equivalents, internal / open models and saving a big pile of money.
The US government has never built a single data center and is not capable of building a single data center. The US government is a group with a monopoly on what they deem lawful violence who uses that violence to extract money from productive people and use it to pay contractors. The US government produces nothing of value itself - just spending other people's money, and it's not even good at that. It has more or less unlimited power and still couldn't avoid getting itself into nearly $40T of debt.
If you believe this is some sort of early superhuman thinking machine in the works, you might be able to believe that it's capable of removing a few heads of the hydra while still exploiting it for growth.
But who knows? Maybe it's incentivised to collect even more data on the US people, and become more of a Big Brother than the NSA ever was?
The FedGov has not constructed a single one of the buildings it uses. It pays contractors to build them using stolen money. Also, the $7T is clear evidence of incompetence. The FedGov collected $5.3T in theft revenue last year. This is why it's nearly $40T in debt. Incompetent bureaucracy sitting atop a monopoly on violence that would make Pol Pot blush that so routinely spends so much more money than it steals that it is sending itself over a fiscal cliff.
Good riddance. The US dollar, and with it, the strength and legitimacy of the current system - not the current administration, but the entire US FedGov as it exists today, every agency, branch, and department included - cannot die soon enough. Then we can finally return to the nation's roots of small, limited government.
By that logic, Google, Amazon, WalMart, and every other government on the planet have not constructed a single one of the buildings it uses either. Nor has any organization except a self sufficient prepper or hippie commune. And even then I bet they all had to hire some contractors.
Also by that logic all taxation is theft, which sure buddy, go live out your libertarian fantasies in Somalia.
Somalia has four governments, not zero. More government, more problems.
Also, while I have plenty of grievances with Google and Amazon, neither of them (nor Walmart) has ever forced customers to give them money under implied threat of sending a SWAT team to your house at 3 AM, throwing a flashback through your window, and having a team of men armed with assault rifles abduct you and throw you in a cage for not paying them money that you never voluntarily agreed to pay them.
Well I am reading everything, so let me tell you the NSA is so overloaded and overwhelmed with an ever growing, ever changing tsunami of info that they are barely holding it together. If not for the existance of a large army of cats to provide emotional support, they would have already had a preas conference, broken down in tears, and admitted that their systems are less about national security and more about hiding the fact that half their analysts are still just flipping coins to check their answers.
Most people drive cars worth less than this.
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