WarmWash

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by WarmWash 2mo ago
Google owns 15% of Anthropic, Claude trains and runs on TPUs, and Google cloud is backlogged with demand from both OAI and Anthropic. Google is selling shovels, leasing mines, buy stakes in "competitors" and doing it's own ex
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
Google is so internally fractured, and the factions individually are so powerful, that it's really only the chrome people who care about chrome. If anything FF gets left out because usage is so low.
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>People don't simply go to the cheapest grocery store. You should look into how dollar stores eviscerated rural markets. Or even what walmart did. People absolutely go to the cheapest stores. Whole Foods selling to a wealthier min
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
>Pay me to give a shit you exist or go hungry and die Socialism has the same problem, except it's "go to work and give a shit for less money or all of society dies"
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
In the US there is no teacher, and any student can sue the governmental body and win, because they own their stake, not the governmental body.
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
If you think about it though, there are billions of shoddily made lithium batteries sitting in drawers everywhere for years now, and yet there are only about 10 fire incidents a day. So like many other boogeymen, driving to work is still
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
Even worse is that Gemini's knowledge cutoff is still Jan '25.
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I'm not a huge fan of Zohran, but man, I will admit that it is so refreshing to have a leader that isn't senile and is actually in touch.
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
Open weight model hosts don't have the compute to meet enterprise demand. A large part of why these models are so cheap is because overall demand for them is incredibly low. Back in May, Gemini alone was doing about a month's wort
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
The nice thing about stuff like this is that you can check the stock price to see if it's actually meaningful. You're not gonna surprise a bunch of wallstreet analysts with a finding that profits are actually 4x, and if you do, th
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
China has "classroom game capitalism", where companies can play the game, but the teacher still has uncontested, absolute, unilateral control in everything and anything. All the parameters of the game are managed by the teacher, a
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
The problem is that ad-blocking makes youtube the best value proposition for users. You get almost all the content of nebula, plus tons more, for free, no ads. Don't get me wrong, Nebula is great (although yt actually has a better prof
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
I'd look into starlink or 5G services if I were you.
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They are owned by the state, so the economics are a bit different.
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Google probably serves more tokens then OAI and Anthropic combined, even if many of those tokens aren't from explicit gemini requests, but from AI overviews and other service integrations. xAI is already selling spare compute, and basi
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
I don't see a situation where subscription payers move outside American LLMs (chatgpt, claude, gemini) And I don't see a situation where serious API payers are OK with handing the Chinese state all their data. Like manufactures of
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
This only makes sense if you never looked at comparative water usage rates and available water.
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That's if any datacenters are allowed to be built with them. There is probably a ~50% chance that the next Dem candidate for presidency runs on a national datacenter moratorium or something equally as crippling.
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
It's more like "People will do anything for money"
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Lack of competition, governments get money (almost) regardless of how shit they are. It really kills incentive when the money shows up no matter what. When a project falls through in the private sector, it can be existential for the workers
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
Too late.
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They live in a country where you are not allowed to change jobs.
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
Well in agriculture the water "consumed" is returned with a whole bunch of chemical runoff. In datacenters the water "consumed" is returned with a whole bunch of...water.
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
About 8% of Americans don't have health insurance, and of those 2% willingly. So 6% want it but cannot afford it. The poor in the US get total coverage for free.
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
>and everyone knows the quality of the result. Yeah, a bespoke program that does exactly what I need it to do, at a speed that I had forgotten was possible on computers, with customization that is an exact fit to me, at a cost that is sm
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
>General view of EU politicians is that working class should be working for big corporations The politicians are protecting the working class from corporations destroying society for profit. Lets not kid ourselves that the EU isn't
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The interstate highway system that is economically critical for most states, and gets repaired/maintained with federal dollars. Anytime there is a spat, the federal government dangles those highway dollars to get their way.
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As a hardware guy it totally kills me, to get a fun or needed small time product off the ground and legally onto the market can require ~$250k of lab certifications. Imagine making a mod for a video game, and to legally cover your ass, go t
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A pound of fresh ground pork is ~$1.25 and it's 1100 calories. Throw in all the other stuff to make the swedish meatballs and you are coming out way ahead. The "poor tax" in processed food is that they are paying double to tr
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Processed foods are not cheaper than healthier options. People constantly repeat this, but it's flat out wrong. The best way to apologize for people who, is to say that they don't have enough time to cook between all the jobs they

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