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by XorNot 8mo ago
That research was oriented towards making sure it wasn't possible though. You're saying "of course it isn't" - but how do you know that? At the time the Soviets had the same sort of projects. So until you're su
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by XorNot 8mo ago
But not by the same trailers, not stored in the same tanks as gasoline, nor transferred by the same pumps. This like saying obviously we can distribute grain using gasoline infrastructure: after all, also both transported by trucks.
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by XorNot 8mo ago
Batteries do not create a lot of toxic waste and are essentially fully recyclable. The lead in automotive lead acid batteries today is almost entirely recovered and remanufactured into new batteries.
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by XorNot 8mo ago
At that point you're just building a weird battery storage system again though.
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by XorNot 8mo ago
This is like saying that balancing while walking expends resources. Yes it's technically true, but it is also how walking functions regardless of circumstance.
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by XorNot 8mo ago
It's 9pm in Australia right now mate, and I have no idea what we're supposed to be doing? Not liking this? Why?
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by XorNot 8mo ago
How is that unhinged? Sounds like pretty normal spy craft? Like unhinged was everything to do with MKULTRA which eventually became just randomly drugging people's coffee with LSD.
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by XorNot 8mo ago
Because you said "that's obviously intentional" as though that's a thing that could be done. My point was that tarriffs or other trade sanctions on Europe are hardly going to change the calculus or consumption of service
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by XorNot 8mo ago
How would tarrifs be applied on digital services? Tarriffs are a tax on imports to the US applied by the US government. You can't tarriff selling a service overseas, in fact since AWS in other countries is a locally incorporated enti
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by XorNot 8mo ago
That's an entirely different product build path compared to the electronics production line though. If a pick and place machine can drop it on and reflow it, that's what you want.
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by XorNot 8mo ago
What sort of soft power do you imagine Netflix represents? It exists but it's not leverage.
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by XorNot 8mo ago
Tarrifs cost US consumers not EU consumers. If the US wants to ban AWS from operating in the EU that's just going to accelerate the shift away, for example.
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by XorNot 8mo ago
Scale matters and even with people it's a problem: fixated persons are a problem because most people don't understand just how much nuisance one irrationally obsessed person can create. Now instead add in AI agents writing plausib
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by XorNot 8mo ago
The immune system does not expend resources on vaccines. You do not somehow go into deficit by getting a vaccine.
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by XorNot 8mo ago
Which is an incredibly specious conclusion because when would the gut fauna ever be wiped out? For the evolutionary history of mankind, antibiotics did not exist, and people without an appendix (such as myself) have no medical need for any
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by XorNot 8mo ago
Not even good enough: "population reproduced faster then it died". That's it: and it's separate from good enough because that can include things like "happened to live on the part of the island which didn't get
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by XorNot 8mo ago
We can also live just fine without an appendix. Literally the only thing the organ can do is suddenly develop a severe infection and kill you without surgery which has only become reliably available in the past 100 years or so. (Blah blah b
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by XorNot 8mo ago
No the point is that if the IRS was at maximum efficiency, more funding wouldn't increase revenues because tax law is tax law: you can't market it or expand the customer base. But if every new dollar currently produces much more t
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by XorNot 8mo ago
I don't know why this is held up as some insurmountable challenge: every US state has different laws, if you sell any software to solve business problems you'll be dealing with 50 different legal codes and regulations you have to
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by XorNot 8mo ago
Both those places are heavily government controlled. In fact international waters if you're not flagged and registered to a specific country, then it's open season for anyone to board and seize you.
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by XorNot 8mo ago
All of those professions you've listed require about half a decade of dedicated training to be legally allowed to practice. For example an electrician takes like 7 years to become qualified, that's a full time apprenticeship, and
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by XorNot 8mo ago
And AI is currently killing a bunch of markets intentionally: the RAM deal for OpenAI wouldn't have gone through the way it did if it wasn't done in secret with anti-competitive restrictions. There's a world of difference bet
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by XorNot 8mo ago
It's the classic issue of any metric: there are assumptions behind it's usefulness.
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by XorNot 8mo ago
Feels like the old CRT days might've had some interesting things you could do.
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by XorNot 8mo ago
It won't last. If the demand is sustained then new factories will open up and drive the price down. More likely a couple of big financing wobbles lead to a fire sale. It isn't practical for HDD supply to be wedged because in 5 yea
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by XorNot 8mo ago
Somewhat ironically the AI boom means Nvidia would've easily made their money back on that investment though and probably even more thoroughly owned the GPGPU space. But as it is it's not like they made any bad decisions either.
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by XorNot 8mo ago
You're missing "better then what they had". It was as I understand it, a big innovation to just bring some post-2010s webdev to the UI experience. A relevant comparison would be that SpaceX didn't build fancy rockets and
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by XorNot 8mo ago
It's the dehumidifier for me. Which kills two birds with one stone.
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by XorNot 8mo ago
It's literally just "better then what people had" + they're willing to work through government and military contracting processes so it can actually be deployed in those environments. They have a lot of "forward dep
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by XorNot 8mo ago
It's not like you wouldn't have this problem anyway though? Like customers have a % of crazy people regardless. I mean the "ididnthaveeggs" subreddit exists purely to make light of people who post reviews on recipe sites

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