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Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough
  • I have a VPS that uses 1GB of RAM, it has 6-7 apps running in docker containers which isn't the most ram efficient method of running apps.

    A light OS really helps, plus the most used app that uses a lot of RAM actually reduce their consumption if needed, but use more when memory is free, the web browser. On one computer I have chrome running with some hundreds of MB used, instead of the usual GBs because RAM is running out.

    So it appears that memory is full,but you can actually have a bit more memory available that is "hidden"

  • Macron’s tactics against the far right failed
  • Tactics against the far right? What tactics? He has done absolutely nothing against the rise of the far right and helped it so many times.

    Hell he has become more extremist every year himself.

    What works against the far is known, we have already done it in the past : everything done by the CNR after the war. A social safety net. He has done nothing but destroying it, not only has he failed to fight the far right, he is actively enabling it.

  • Macron calls the rise of far-right parties an 'ill wind' for Europe
  • On a more general note than the answer you already got, he is extremely authoritarian, absolutely never listen to the people same for his government, refuses to change his mind on anything and isn't open to discussion on anything. Even with the state of emergency being declared on part of the territory, he didn't give anything away to make it stop.

    So he destroys the social net, and people's beliefs in democracy : that's the two things you have to do to raise far right anywhere.

  • TIL 40 states in the US charge you $20-$80 a day for being incarcerated in prison.
  • If the issue was cost, you would build schools. A better educated population get less sick, earns more and thus pays more taxes, commit way less crimes, get less social welfare, in short it is a net gain in tax dollars.

    Plus, someone who gets out of jail with a big debt will very likely cost way more to society than what could ever be recovered from them.

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    But how would they be able to live on that?
  • They can do what they already do and use their unrealized gains as collateral for a loan and use that to pay the tax of they don't want to realize the gains. This is already how they spend their money without realizing gains. I don't see the issue with them doing the same for taxes as they do for their yachts and private jets.

  • Are there any genuine benefits to AI?
  • Medical use is absolutely revolutionary. From GP's consultations to reading tests results, radios, AI is already better than humans and will be getting better and better.

    Computers are exceptionally good at storing large amount of data, and with ML they are great at taking a lot of input and inferring a result from that. This is essentially diagnosing in a nutshell.

  • UK state pension age will soon need to rise to 71, say experts
  • If what you said was true there wouldn't be any companies outside of like the caymans islands. Taxation is not the only thing a company look at when choosing where to go. Sure obviously you can't tax at 100%, but we are currently way lower than we used a few decades ago, so we totally can raise it (actually just go back to what it was even just 10 years ago).

    As for the retirement age of 60, you say it is impossible yet it was the retirement age in France until like 15 years ago. Since then we dramatically reduced the taxation on companies and capital gains, and slightly increased the age of retirement. That is to say it is absolutely possible and does not demand big systemic changes, only some adjustments on a few variables.

    Also the retirement age until 6 months ago was 62, and projections for the next decades showed the system would be making benefits for a few years, then deficit, then back to benefits later in the century, while keeping everything (tax level, retirement age) the same. The choice was to reduce taxes on companies and capital gains, and raise retirement age, which would end up costing more in like 30 years from now than if we kept the same age (not even talking about not reducing taxation on that point)

    We are, as a society, extremely rich. It is just not well distributed thus people think we don't have money for this or that.

  • UK state pension age will soon need to rise to 71, say experts
  • Taxing more means more revenue for the system, thus reaching equilibrium. It's recurring income so it doesn't move the problem into the futur.

    What the government did however, that is moving the issue down the line, as it does reduce cost now, but in the future it will cost more than if they didn't do anything. As usual, absolutely no foresight whatsoever, lies upon pile of lies.

    We produce more than enough for everyone to be above poverty, to retire at 60, to have free Healthcare. However choices were made so instead of that we have a few super billionaires, people living in the street, etc etc

  • UK state pension age will soon need to rise to 71, say experts
  • The idea would simply be to stop giving so many taxes cuts to companies.

    In tenace we recently raised the retirement age because according to the government there was not enough money, the usual bullshit.

    Why bullshit you ask? Because it is the very same government that removed three times as much as what they said was missing from pension funds in taxes on companies. They also reduced taxes on capital gains, to bring it to a lower level as what someone middle class would pay on their salary, part of which goes to finance pensions.

    We have the money, we always have, it is just a matter of choosing where to put it. Most government of the West decided to put it in the hands of the few richest.

  • noyb files GDPR complaint against Meta over “Pay or Okay”
  • I mean, worst case Facebook disappears or become a pay only service. I am 100% ok with that, it has been proven times and times again that society, children, young adults, older adults, democracies would be far better off without it.

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