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931.
by api 10mo ago
The US with its sunk cost and political power base in fossil fuels is losing the innovators dilemma at a large scale here.
932.
by api 10mo ago
It was started as an alternative to fiat casino capitalism. It became an absurdist parody of fiat casino capitalism.
933.
by api 10mo ago
Pretty good. Trads also sometimes means people who want to go back to feudal or ancient ways, old school Catholics, and various other things. It can mean different things depending on the context but it generally tends toward social conserv
934.
by api 10mo ago
I’m old enough to remember many memory price spikes.
935.
by api 10mo ago
Romanticizing the past is hot again right now, and kind of comes in two political flavors: trads and neo-monarchists on the right, and greens and anarcho-primitivists on the left (whom I consider to be left-trads). It’s always important to
936.
by api 10mo ago
This also underscores my explanation for the “worse is better” phenomenon: worse is free. Stuff that is better designed and implemented usually costs money and comes with more restrictive licenses. It’s written by serious professionals late
937.
by api 10mo ago
Like other things the market will bisect. Discerning people who are self aware and resist addiction and are put off by this stuff are already jumping ship from these platforms. They’ll be hypnosis machines for everyone else. There’s a compo
938.
by api 10mo ago
No.
939.
by api 10mo ago
That’s a little different. It’s people playing with AI, which is fine. It seems like a minor difference, but the undifferentiated unlabeled short form addiction feed is much worse. Reddit has been heading that way though. It hasn’t gone all
940.
by api 10mo ago
Don’t buy appliances with anything but a small screen. Any large screen on any appliance will be used to show ads. If not now then eventually. It’s also a gimmick, and gimmicks on things like appliances and cars are red flags for poor quali
941.
by api 10mo ago
Have you seen what people watch on these things? It won’t matter. In fact, the surreal incoherent schizo stuff can work well for engagement.
942.
by api 10mo ago
I’ve been saying for a while that the end game for addictive short form chum feeds like TikTok and YouTube Shorts is to drop human creators entirely. They’ll be AI generated slop feeds that people will scroll, and scroll, and scroll. Basica
943.
by api 10mo ago
That’s the rude awakening creators get on these platforms. If you’re a writer or an artist or a musician, you own your work by default. But if you upload it to these platforms, they own it more or less. It’s there in the terms of service.
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by api 10mo ago
I'd be in favor of significantly taxing advertising for the same reason that we levy "vice taxes" on booze, cigarettes, gambling, etc. It would at the very least reduce the amount of it and select for advertising of a higher
945.
by api 10mo ago
This is a bubble. It reminds me more of the dot.com bubble than any other. I was in college but also working in the field then and saw that one come and go. It’s like the dot.com bubble in that yes, there is a lot of “there” there, but ther
946.
by api 10mo ago
This is why I hate hype. "We just cured cancer! All cancer! With a simple pill!" "But you promised it would rejuvenate everyone to the metabolism of a 20 year old and make us biologically immortal!" New headline: "A
947.
by api 10mo ago
That’s what I thought. Yet look at the prices on e.g. Hetzner and how profitable US cloud is. They can easily afford to do closed loop. Whenever there’s a real environmental problem the answer is usually “there’s a right way to do it that l
948.
by api 10mo ago
Well sure but why does it need to be open cycle and actually consume water? That’s the problem part, not internal water cooling.
949.
by api 10mo ago
I’m a dummy: why do data centers have to consume water again? I have both computers and air conditioning and neither consume water. I’m assuming of course that evaporation cooling is cheaper and consumes less energy than closed cycle coolin
950.
by api 10mo ago
“Trust arrives on foot and leaves on horseback.” In my life there have been two huge destructions of public trust. The first was the Iraq war, which could only be the result of either bald faced lies or gross incompetence or both. We blunde
951.
by api 10mo ago
In the debate between self made and team effort my opinion is “both.” Nobody starts from zero. Everyone builds on the work of others with help from others. At the same time, individuals can make unique contributions and are not just interch
952.
by api 10mo ago
Not if you bury it in regolith. That’s an idea for a Lunar base too. The design is called “Hobbit holes.” Bury the occupied structures in piles of basically any local mass you can bury them in. It’s another huge problem for orbit though. Sh
953.
by api 10mo ago
Here it comes. This is what will be remembered as the pre enshittification age for AI, just like we had with social media and other web and app stuff. Local models for tech savvy people will get more compelling.
954.
by api 10mo ago
What about on the Moon? My understanding is that heat is the killer. There you could sink pipes into the surface and use that as a heat sink. There are “peaks of eternal light” near the poles where you could get 24/7 solar power. Laten
955.
by api 10mo ago
Also this is how the protomolecile from The Expanse feeds. It can absorb pretty much any radiation across the whole spectrum.
956.
by api 10mo ago
“Disk is the new tape” has been true for a while and will probably stay true. SSD also has longer term data loss issues when unpowered. Magnetic disk is still better in that respect too.
957.
by api 10mo ago
There’s a fun version of this in futurist space travel speculation. Let’s say you have the a fusion rocket and can hit 5% the speed of light. You want to migrate to the stars for some reason. So do you build a generational ship now, which i
958.
by api 10mo ago
They are more likely to seek help? Men are over represented in prisons and the homeless population. Maybe they don’t seek help.
959.
by api 10mo ago
It’s just not a good deal and it’s a bit weird. A Framework laptop or desktop, a DIY build, or any number of other brands are better and sometimes cheaper.
960.
by api 10mo ago
Humans might one day have settlements around the solar system and in free space (large stations, etc.), but I have doubts about whether we'll ever go to the stars. For machine intelligence, though, it would be easy. Just switch yoursel

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