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New comment by Covzire in "Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026"

Covzire — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 15:53:40 +0000

Everyone I know who signed up for EVGA cards for the 30 series got one eventually, even if it took a couple months of waiting. I don't know anyone with a 5090 FE at MSRP.

New comment by Covzire in "Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026"

Covzire — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 15:17:47 +0000

>> Because it would immediately go to scalpers anyway.

No they wouldn't, tens of thousands of unique users would be in line with dozens or hundreds of scalpers, if they're all allowed to buy one every 180 days per payment method, the end users actually get a fighting chance. Today they have no chance.

New comment by Covzire in "Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026"

Covzire — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 14:45:29 +0000

I absolutely loathe Nvidia at this point. They've completely abandoned the core consumer that built Jensen's empire. Why not offer pre-orders of 5090s and MSRP? Why has every single drop at Best Buy gone primarily to botters and scalpers? Why not give end users half a fighting chance like EVGA used to by letting end users get in line before Nvidia crushed them?

When the AI bubble bursts, Nvidia is going to be Enron.

New comment by Covzire in "Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026"

Covzire — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 14:42:26 +0000

Don't take the reddit bait

New comment by Covzire in "Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees"

Covzire — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:06:50 +0000

About 10 years here, and I agree. At first I found myself missing the day to day interaction with co-workers, but after about 6 months I completely acclimated and can't imagine ever willingly going back to an office with bad privacy, commutes, coffee, smells and noise unless the need is extreme.

New comment by Covzire in "ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125M to Find Voter Fraud"

Covzire — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:31:39 +0000

Really? How do you audit or control for who shows up to vote? Do you check some kind of government ID or can anyone simply vote by claiming they are who they say they are?

New comment by Covzire in "ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125M to Find Voter Fraud"

Covzire — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:32:42 +0000

Because California has systematically made it impossible to audit elections there.

You have to be disinformed to think elections there are secure, you can't possibly know they are.

New comment by Covzire in "U.S. science is in chaos"

Covzire — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:19:44 +0000

The article buried the lede. DEI was the bridge too far that lit a massive tinderbox among the electorate who wanted the vast majority of what happened with DOGE, to happen. DEI was the appetizer, and once the teeth starting biting it found a lot more than anticipated (USAID). The lesson is that real scientists should have stood up en masse to the political commandeering of their institutions by fringe activists peddling pseudoscience and this would have been avoided.

New comment by Covzire in "Why are so many young people getting cancer?"

Covzire — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:17:33 +0000

My actual view is that A) I don't know what's causing it, but B) neither does anyone else, yet certain hypothesis are going to be [flagged] no matter what, because they trip over certain biases inherit in our political climate.

This just isn't going to be a scientifically important forum anymore where competing ideas can be thoughtfully debated if this keeps happening, that's all my original view was expressing. I'm not even defending any particular post here, this is a more general trend, if the site were to stop brigading and instantly [flagging] wrong-think I strongly believe we'd see a resurgence of thoughtful debate even among hot-button issues, like it used to be back during the Snowden-era for instance.

PS I don't envy your task of moderating a site like this, but those are my 2c...

New comment by Covzire in "Anthropic Cofounder Chris Olah's Remarks on Pope Leo XIV's "Magnifica Humanitas""

Covzire — Mon, 25 May 2026 20:16:08 +0000

For sure, there's a line in Ecclesiastes : "he who breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake". We have no idea what snakes await us beyond the next few years, but like nuclear power, the internet, and even social media (which IMO is toxic to large swathes of the population today) we'll eventually arrive at a place where we can harness the blessings while controlling the risks. The first nation to align their laws to a sane governance model will reap the most rewards.

New comment by Covzire in "Anthropic Cofounder Chris Olah's Remarks on Pope Leo XIV's "Magnifica Humanitas""

Covzire — Mon, 25 May 2026 20:04:42 +0000

I have a completely different expectation, based on what has happened with every major discovery or invention from electricity to refridgeration to transistors: Everyone has gotten wealthier relative to those who came before. The average "peasant" in every nation without a corrupt or totalitarian parasitic government live in more opulence and have a higher quality of life than every king of the past.

That doesn't always translate to happiness but I fully expect AI will reduce costs for all kinds of things, and those things that are now either rare or non-existent will become common. Today not everyone has a robot vacuum, I think in 20 years or so everyone who wants one will have a robot vacuum, and those who can afford the luxury of a robot vac today will be able to afford real robots who can do much more complex things. I'm quite excited about the next few decades, as long as we can keep despots from monopolizing the technology.

New comment by Covzire in "America Is Now a Rogue Superpower"

Covzire — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:24:07 +0000

It doesn't add up at all, the cost of oil is just one metric and so far the prices are still lower than the last administration's self-inflicted high oil prices that we had just a few short years ago. Obviously the price of oil isn't the whole story.

Also Iran had been supplying Russia with a lot of parts for drones. Now they can't, making Ukraine's victory more likely than before.

New comment by Covzire in "Supreme Court Sides with Cox in Copyright Fight over Pirated Music"

Covzire — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:01:24 +0000

I would be happy if congress passed a law saying a social media has no liability for anything their users post as long as the algorithm is completely open source. If we had social media like that, they'd even have APIs that let users design their own algorithm and we'd see a golden age of social media emerge from it. Twitter seems to moving in this direction but they enjoy no legal protections from being open at the moment. Blusky is already this way I believe, but without a neutral and trusted centralized control it's a bit different of an animal.

New comment by Covzire in "Supreme Court Sides with Cox in Copyright Fight over Pirated Music"

Covzire — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:44:59 +0000

IANAL but it seems to have major implications beyond music piracy, like into the realm of ISPs and free speech in general, it seems the court (rightly) sees ISPs as a common carrier (like water pipes) and we may see more opinions of the kind that reach into the space of monopolies or duopolies in social media next.

New comment by Covzire in "President Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems"

Covzire — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:45:46 +0000

Agreed, but the details released so far are pretty sparse on what exactly was being asked. If they're resisting general AI to help missiles find their target better, then I think it's pretty foolish of Anthropic to resist because that's happening come hell or high water. If it's about resisting mass surveileance without a warrant of American citizens, then I'd cheer Anthropic on for pulling out, but we just don't know apparently.

New comment by Covzire in "President Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems"

Covzire — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:30:28 +0000

But.. we already have automatic weapons targeting systems and the PATRIOT act, which enjoys bi-partisan support already providing basically limitless domestic surveillance.

New comment by Covzire in "President Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems"

Covzire — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:20:53 +0000

Does anyone know (more precisely) what the military wanted to use Claude for and what Anthropic was resisting?

New comment by Covzire in "Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony"

Covzire — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 20:46:05 +0000

By March 2020, the early John's Hopkins data showed a clear trend of those demographics who were actually vulnerable of serious harm, namely the elderly and those with already compromised immune systems. We knew even back then, that children and healthy adults were NOT at risk from COVID-19, even the early strains which were much more virulent than the later ones. It was censored, over and over, by Twitter, Facebook and even HN.

New comment by Covzire in "Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony"

Covzire — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 14:45:36 +0000

The amount of regret that exists doesn't fit either, don't forget Biden's warning that those who don't take it will die, the exact opposite of all the fear mongering happened and it's despicable people keep telling all the same lies.

New comment by Covzire in "Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines"

Covzire — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:18:31 +0000

Besides attempting to get him murdered by a crazy person seeing a chance to be famous, what possible reason does someone have to constantly broadcast the location of his transportation? What difference does knowing where it or he is make in the daily lives of anyone? What long term planning does the information give to people?