Too bad the quantization of the CD is only 16 bits, if it had been only 20 bits, CD sound could have been above all critics. Still I don't really understand people that still buys vinyl, such an obsolete technology

I think it is a matter of months, before crypto mining is banned in Europe and the US. Just because cryptomining is a bottomless well : The more crypto miners earn money, the more they invest on graphic cards and the more they consume electricity. Inevitably, there will be supply problems

So true. YAGNI is the cure for overengineering

Just buy the Core i7-12700 non K version : It is cheaper, have lower thermals, and is almost as fast in most usages

Non K SKUs don't boost forever

Wow, being an AMD fan, I’ve been waiting for this for a long time. Impatient to try that with my RX 5700

Sure. I happen to live in Hong Kong, where there is very little space. Shall we then just throw the excess population in the sea?

For me, what emerges from this story is the lack of anticipation on the part of the French government. For years, nuclear power was discredited because it was not environmentally friendly, so we shut down power plants, and now we have to refabricate them? All this makes no sense. Moreover, the production of a nuclear power plant is very long, how are we going to do it in the meantime?

Wasn't many of the reactors shut down in Europe in need of being decommissioned anyway? You shouldn't run a nuclear reactor forever and ever, and most of the reactors in Europe are quite old.

I know there are cases of decommissioning too early, or even a reactor that was fully built but not even started operation (I think Tom Scott had a video on that?), but I don't think that's the common case.

They were in "need" of decommissioning because necessary repairs had been intentionally stalled to the point of making them politically untenable.

many nuclear reactors in a lot of countries also have very low yields compared to modern reactors. (for instance, most nuclear reactors in the netherlands have been disbanded because they provided little power)

Nuclear has been in a holding pattern for years in France while they waited to see if the EPR unit being built at Flamanville 3 would work out.

There was also a scandal a few years ago when the state-owned nuclear construction company Areva acquired Le Creusot Forge. It turned out that there had been a decades long coverup of weaknesses in the steel forged there for nuclears plants, and falsification of documents.

I completely fail to understand why some think France didn't try to build new reactors for decades. This is not true! We tried , however it is a running disaster.

The problem here isn't "political will".

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamanville_Nuclear_Power_Plan...

If quantitative easing did not benefit the rich, it would not be adopted so long, it is as simple as that

True though that may be, it does not answer the question - why?

Why would you "stop working", when you have a wonderful job ? Rich people almost always have interesting jobs, so no reason to stop