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by ac29 1y ago
> It's the only chip manufacturer "left" in the US Global Foundries, Micron, and Texas Instruments all come to mind
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by ac29 1y ago
> The fact that it cleared Nature’s editorial bar This was published in Nature Aging, not Nature. Nature (the company) has 100+ journals, I dont think any of them are as selective as Nature (the journal). That doesn't make this a b
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by ac29 1y ago
In the thread, they note a human had already come up with (and published) an even better solution.
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by ac29 1y ago
If the option is waiting in line for a cashier versus going to an open self checkout (this is almost always the case where I shop), then yes, self checkout is faster. Even aside from the line, the only thing clerks are sometimes faster at i
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by ac29 1y ago
Calling the whole bubble fraud is wrong, but Enron, Worldcom and Microstrategy all blew up due to fraud in the 2000-2001 time frame.
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by ac29 1y ago
They've never turned a profit though, so this only adds to their financial problems.
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by ac29 1y ago
> Egg prices are up 200% at my store and have not gone down. The point isn’t “can I buy a carton of eggs” it’s “has a carton of eggs become a luxury item I no longer buy”. The average price of a dozen eggs is $3.59: https://fr
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by ac29 1y ago
NextDNS is a company not a person. The have infrastructure in the UK and presumably have UK customers, so they should care about UK law.
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by ac29 1y ago
> Be careful when reading such blogs I followed a link to another blog post of theirs in which they go on a rant claiming there was a conspiracy to suppress chloroquine and ivermectin as COVID treatments. I dont think anyone should be ta
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by ac29 1y ago
I'd argue only four of those are purely tech companies (NVDA, MSFT, AAPL, AVGO). AMZN does tech stuff, but also retailing, grocery, logistics, media and more. META and GOOG are advertising businesses. BRK is a basically a holding compa
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by ac29 1y ago
Appears to not actually be available. Just as well, the pricing sucks and its hard to get excited about a new device shipping with ARM cores from 2017/2018
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by ac29 1y ago
Except plants. And fungi. And bacteria. In fact, by pretty much any measure, most life does not defecate (because they have no digestive tract).
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by ac29 1y ago
The original press release is here: https://pnecycle.com/the-u-s-battery-circular-economy-advanc...
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by ac29 1y ago
> they might not include staff time and incidental costs around cash transactions that aren't obvious because they're not linked to the individual transactions, such as reconciliation, time spent transporting the cash, costs o
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by ac29 1y ago
To clarify, e-ink is e-paper, but e-paper is not necessarily e-ink (there are other technologies).
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by ac29 1y ago
At a (very) quick look, 64GB of DDR5 is $150 and a 12GB 3060 is $300. These are prices for new hardware, you can do better on eBay
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by ac29 1y ago
> The primary reason for me to consider it healthier is just that the animals are fed (supposedly) on pesticide free feed. Pesticides are permissible to use in organic agriculture, though there are restrictions. See: https://w
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by ac29 1y ago
Maybe a better question is when will SOTA models be "good enough"? At the moment there appears to be ~no demand for older models, even models that people praised just a few months ago. I suspect until AGI/ASI is reached or pr
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by ac29 1y ago
> OP stated quite clearly their goal was to run models locally. Fair, but at the point you trust Amazon hosting your "local" LLM, its not a huge reach to just use Amazon Bedrock or something
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by ac29 1y ago
A lot of people? Intel, even in its current weakened state, did nearly double the revenue of AMD last quarter.
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by ac29 1y ago
People shopping at farmers markets are presumably less price sensitive than the general grocery buying public.
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by ac29 1y ago
Just to clarify, that is their net margin. Their gross margin was slightly above 30% last quarter.
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by ac29 1y ago
> a leap from a product simplification approach. According to the article, GPT-5 is actually three models and they can be run at 4 levels of thinking. Thats a dozen ways you can run any given input on "GPT-5", so its hardly a s
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by ac29 1y ago
love the design, though at the moment the AI summary of a train that is "17 minutes late" is "10-15 minutes late"
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by ac29 1y ago
> It says “usage-based pricing” is coming soon. I think that is the sweet spot for a service like this. Agreed, though there are already several providers of these new OpenAI models available, so I'm not sure what ollama's valu
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by ac29 1y ago
This is disingenuous since they are comparing the full cost of outsourced development to apparently zero cost for replit + in house labor.
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by ac29 1y ago
> 25% higher gas or food prices [due to tariffs] Not a great example since energy and food are overwhelming domestically produced in the US. That doesnt mean there is no effect of tariffs in those categories, but it is much more muted th
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by ac29 1y ago
SpaceX has a price advantage over their competitors, not a capability advantage. Putting things in orbit has been possible for ~70 years
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by ac29 1y ago
> I'm in my late 40s. I'm Gen X. I lived through the glory days of the dotcom boom, when investors got burned for tons of money. But from the ashes of those bullshit companies, we got Amazon, Google, etc., which made investors
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by ac29 1y ago
The ACH system is already a universal electronic payment system. Its run by the federal government and is close to free (the fed charges a fraction of a penny per transaction, most consumer bank accounts offer free ACH).

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