Since I started using Hetzner in 2020 they have increased prices 4 or 5 times and I am now paying 50% more than I started, but my grocery bill also went up 50% and my rent went up 50%, so that's just matching inflation (even though the government said inflation was 5%). Now they're doing a 300% increase (not for me) all at once.

The big increases here are for their cloud product, which is hourly billing with no setup. In that context it seems more reasonable. I guess we need to remember that hourly billing and flexible prices cut both ways, eh?

Egress pricing? That's one of their highest margin products! Compute is the one that's being squeezed!

It's almost 100% profit actually, because ISPs are willing to pay to be connected to Google network

I was also told this. Why isn't it happening? Can some capitalists explain why capitalism isn't happening the way it's supposed to? Is it because of government regulations, do we need to deregulate?

“Is it because of government regulations, do we need to deregulate?”

Insufficient law enforcement. The same memory manufacturers already broke antimonopoly laws in the past, pleaded guilty. Apparently the fines were too small for these companies to care, and the people responsible were promoted instead of being punished. More information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_price_fixing_scandal

Capitalism isn't a magical instant fix.

In this context, it takes spending enormous piles of money over the course of at least several years to spin up new semiconductor production.

We do need more capacity to keep up with AI datacenters' usage, yes.

But adding long-term capacity years down the road for a thing that some folks seem to confidently think is a bubble that can pop at any time is risky. And (because capitalism), we have to manage carefully balance our risks and rewards in order to maximize our odds of success.

If there is no bubble and demand stays high long-term, then the payoff for that risk is potentially enormous.

If there is a bubble and it bursts, then the cost of that risk is potentially devastating.

(Capitalism works most-predictably when cheating is possible, such as with Biff's use of the time machine in Back to the Future II. But without cheats, it's always a gamble.)

The last price increase was 5-10%. This one is a 150% increase. Goodbye Hetzner. The old version of you will be missed.

Where are you moving to?

Welcome to Wayland. Every frame is perfect, so if we can't make the frame perfect right now, we'll wait until we can. It constitutes a denial of reality.

The rules are made by a consortium of business owners, if they didn't want it that way then it wouldn't be that way.

sadly, delusions, incoherence, anti-humanism is rampant in tech/business "leadership"

It doesn't have to replace you. It just has to convince your boss that it replaces you.

long s and thorn would like to have a word with you, but they can't because they were removed from the keyboard

In Unicode, that's ſ and þ. Both historical English letters that are no longer used.

"Ye Olde Mill" or whatever archaic silliness you'll find at fairs and whatnot was the result of the printing press dropping þ (as in þe, þ is just th-) and was never supposed to be pronounced with a "y" sound.

"Ye Olde" ye was not the same word as "Hear ye, hear ye!", that ye is a plural 'you' basically the same word as "y'all" and never had a thorn.

This happened with more than one letter. For instance the Scots language had a letter yogh (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogh), which was written somewhat like a rounded "3" but lower on the line. Early printers had only the characters of the English language, and since this character looked like a hand-written z, that is what they used in its place. Hence the name "Menzies" is pronounced "Ming-is", since that isn't actually a z.

Welsh suffered more: it used to be full of "k"s. When the first Welsh Bible was printed, the English printer did not have enough "k"s, and substituted "c", and the language now does not use "k" at all. Apparently the printer's note on the matter still exists.

Just to expand on this:

"ye" in "ye Olde mill" is actually just "the" but originally "þe"/"þee". The first printing presses to England were imported from Germany, which never used þ, so printers used something that looked sorta similar, thus "y".

"Ye" was a different word, the 2nd person non-formal version of "you" (which was historically formal: see-Shakespeare and how he played with "ye" and "you"). Thorn was on its way out along with "ð" both of which were in Middle English. The sounds didn't leave English, but we merged it into one letter cluster "th" (think "that" and "the", which have different th sounds).

You can design a number. Just take all finite digit strings in order of length and numerical order: 0.123456789 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 ... 99 000 001 002 ... 999 0000 0001 ...

obviously it contains every finite digit string in base 10. I can't prove the digits are uniformly distributed in every base - you'd have to be more clever but you see the idea.

But pi is also "constructed", in the sense that you can write down a constructive definition for it, for example \sqrt{6 \times \sum_{k=1}^\infty \frac{1}{k^2}}.

So I suppose maybe OP meant we haven't proven any number to be normal (or not) that is not designed to be normal (or not) ?

That's what it means.