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by alecco 11mo ago
How? Mama Merkel squandered a decade of budget surplus in millions of "refugees" who crossed multiple safe countries to get to Germany while neglecting all infra and agreed to close nuclear plants. So now Germany is on its way to
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by alecco 11mo ago
> Where is the fossile fuel being burnt? China 50%, India 11%. And that is based on their official numbers so probably a lot more. https://www.worldometers.info/coal/coal-consumption-by-count...
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Bloody Black Friday for Hardware [video](youtube.com)
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by alecco 11mo ago
> "[...] we've been talking to a number of computer hardware manufacturers, many of them who don't make RAM or GPUs and are just kind of caught in the crossfire [...]. And we asked them about their sales. In some cases we&
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by alecco 11mo ago
Nobody can compete against China today: almost zero regulation, massive subsidies, integrated supply chain (also subsidized), a lot of credit, and millions of cheap engineers (no unions!). And some companies can just pay suppliers with bond
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by alecco 11mo ago
The top 10% will not be left holding the bag. They will get a bailout by the taxpayer in some form or another, like quantitative easing (Fed purchasing) or some national security plan spending trillions. Note almost all members of US Congre
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by alecco 11mo ago
Indeed. If it is all a Ponzi/bubble there was no wealth to begin with. More important for the wider economy is how much liquidity it destroyed and the mayhem it will do in the bond markets. But, since the top 10% of American savers (in
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by alecco 11mo ago
I often dislike Varoufakis' weird champagne Marxist with libertarian and nationalism bent. But he is spot on this time: American Big Tech are a vampire squid on the Western economies. They have a good product but they are tyrants. It w
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by alecco 11mo ago
https://www.biometricupdate.com/202508/canada-adopts-nationa... https://www.todayville.com/canada-moves-forward-with-digital... https://www.ourcommons.ca/Content/Committee/441
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by alecco 11mo ago
> It's bloody obvious how damaging social media, especially on mobile devices, is to everyone's mental state. Agree. A simple solution would be to regulate social media by forcing a maximum time per user per day or banning it a
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by alecco 11mo ago
(repost) - Let's limit children's use of social media and screens. - Great! Let's do it. - We need to identify who is 18+, so here's your digital ID for everything. And, from now on, if you ever criticize the gov
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by alecco 11mo ago
- Let's limit children's use of social media and screens. - Great! Let's do it. - We need to identify who is 18+, so here's your digital ID for everything. And, from now on, if you ever criticize the government
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by alecco 11mo ago
H200 is the previous generation expansion card (PCIe). The current B200 is ~2x in many ways. Note there is no mention of GH200 (integrated GPU-CPU) and all those fancy NVIDIA servers. OTOH, DeepSeek squeezed well their impaired bandwidth H
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by alecco 11mo ago
Plot thickens... But this doesn't explain the lack of power and datacenters.
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Ask HN: Where Are Nvidia's GPUs?
3 points by alecco 11mo ago|8 comments
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by alecco 11mo ago
Pretty sure it was "free as in libre and not as in beer". Source: I was there.
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by alecco 11mo ago
Many years ago some people proposed to move open source to paid licensing to guarantee income for core open source developers. But the self-righteous community attacked them like it was the end of the world. In the current cancel culture ev
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by alecco 11mo ago
I mean they have the power grid to run TPUs at 10x the scale of USA. About students, have you seen the microelectronic labs in American universities lately? A huge chunk are Chinese already. Same with some of the top AI labs.
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by alecco 11mo ago
Yeah, and they have exactly the same problem.
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by alecco 11mo ago
I'm surprised the perspective of China making TPUs at scale in a couple of years is not bigger news. It could be a deadly blow for Google, NVIDIA, and the rest. Combine it with China's nuclear base and labor pool. And the cherry o
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by alecco 11mo ago
Decaf beans improved significantly in the past few years.
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by alecco 11mo ago
Prev https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46161125
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by alecco 11mo ago
IMHO Coffee is way too strong for most of us. Sipping green tea gives a smooth subtle high all day. And you can sleep at night. And not be an angry/anxious bastard.
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by alecco 11mo ago
Strategically, US+EU should buy them. Will they? Probably too stupid/clumsy to figure it out.
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by alecco 11mo ago
https://archive.ph/kwD1t > Banks are lending unprecedented sums to technology giants building artificial intelligence infrastructure while quietly using derivatives to shield themselves from potential losses. And who is
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Pat Gelsinger's EUV lithography gig gets $150M wink from Uncle Sam(theregister.com)
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by alecco 11mo ago
That's blogspam. Actual Tom's Hardware article from October 1st: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/openais-star...
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by alecco 11mo ago
Betraying a decades-long loyal customer base for a bunch of AI companies that might get wiped out in a couple of years.
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by alecco 11mo ago
> Consequently, the NYU researchers’ goal is to make chip design more accessible, so nonengineers, whatever their background can create their own custom-made chips. What?
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by alecco 11mo ago
Another Big Tech company getting hollowed out to maximize short term profits.

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