This is less about nationality and citizenship as it is about billionaires skirting laws and exploiting the poor. In this case, it’s just foreign billionaires exploiting American poor.

Who could have seen this coming when they announced the award last month?

It’s just that all your shit and users are there, like issue tracking in this case.

The original blog post is rather frank and to the point. Wish the engineering leadership I worked with communicated this well.

I think when the economics of destroying a thing is better than reusing a thing, we should maybe have some sort of incentives toward reuse.

I get that the logistics of setting up what’s basically a secondary supply chain is difficult, but I’ve got to believe it would be for the better.

That’s really disheartening. Not because of my want for cheap RAM, but for the sheer waste of it all.

For example, OpenAI’s new “Stargate” project reportedly signed deals with Samsung and SK Hynix for up to 900,000 wafers of DRAM per month to feed its AI clusters, which is an amount close to 40% of total global DRAM output if it’s ever met. That’s an absurd amount of DRAM.

Will these even be useful on the second hand market, or are these chips gonna be on specialized PCBs for these machines?

Dumbfounding how classic it is. Even with a complete outsider this shit is happening again.

They sure are fun though. Sometimes the risk is worth it.

The Trump administration is also rolling back a Biden-era rule that banned bosses from paying subminimum wages to disabled employees.

This discriminatory practice has been on the wane due to state-level bans in 15 states. But in the absence of a federal ban, nearly 40,000 employees—most of whom have intellectual disabilities—still received less than the federal minimum wage as of 2024.

Never fails, they always do the shittiest thing they can.