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by atwrk 1y ago
It's all over the place, depending on the industry. I mean Hollywood's rise was also due to IP theft, things only became the way they are now in the 1950s. https://penntoday.upenn.edu/2012-05-10/research/
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by atwrk 1y ago
Tax systems create wealthy people in two ways: a) by disproportionally tax the poor vs. the rich. In the United States, "42 states tax the top 1 percent at a lower rate than the bottom 20 percent, while 46 states tax the top 1 percent
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by atwrk 1y ago
They are decidedly a result of the taxation system of a country. The country decided they wanted to have this class of people to exist. (The degree of) Wealth inequality is always a product of society.
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Tesla took leased cars back to use them as robotaxis, instead sold them(reuters.com)
5 points by atwrk 1y ago|2 comments
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by atwrk 1y ago
Because it is outrageously expensive compared to renewables, you can't turn it off at night, it takes literally decades to build, and nobody wants it near where they live.
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by atwrk 1y ago
Why would that be? I can see why Americans wouldn't want to do that, but Europeans? In the current political climate, where the US openly claims their desire to annex European territory and so on? I'd rather see them prefer a loca
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by atwrk 1y ago
Actually it's an import tax - the importer pays it, not the foreign worker.
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by atwrk 1y ago
Thanks to the chicken tax we already know how this will develop: The US floodlight company will sell those US-made lights these lights for ~400k (so at the margin of market price plus tariffs), and no one outside the US will want to buy the
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by atwrk 1y ago
There's a bunch of sources if you search for "grid-forming", "islanding events", "auto-synchronization" and similar terms in combination with PV inverters.
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by atwrk 1y ago
Not my area of expertise, but I think this is wrong? Modern PV inverters used in rooftop solar could easily start frequency synchronization autonomously, but are regulated to not do that autonomously in (at least) parts of the EU. More impo
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by atwrk 2y ago
Here, US manufacturing output is up 50% since 2010: https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/USA/uni... That it's relative share in GDP is down during that time means that other sectors wer
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by atwrk 2y ago
Isn't the potential revenue of spacex way lower? That market is quite a bit smaller than cars, and will be for the foreseeable future.
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Tesla's February market share in Europe drops despite EV pickup(reuters.com)
9 points by atwrk 2y ago|0 comments
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by atwrk 2y ago
> How do I fire an employee? That's right, I don't. It's easy to fire employees in Germany (especially in small shops), e.g. when they steal, are always late, are badmouthing colleagues, are talking about company interna
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by atwrk 2y ago
This is a false dichotomy: Noone is forbidding Apple doing intergration of their products. The DMA simply forbids barring competitors from the same access. Just compare how Apple cripples third party smartwatches on ios.
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by atwrk 2y ago
I doubt it. So far, they have dropped every anti-competitive tactic that the EU has objected to. After all, in which other market are they expected to grow? China already shifts to domestic brands, and other regions lack the purchasing powe
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by atwrk 2y ago
With humans, it has been shown that reasoning processes for different aspects of human behavior are completely distinct from verbalization, they work fully autonomous, and the (inner) verbalization comes afterwards. For LLMs, the tokens (
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by atwrk 2y ago
I bet you had an Intel CPU. Intel is almost always the worse option since the first Ryzens were released in 2017 or so. (Intel has to have some sketchy deals with manufacturers, otherwise why design a product like the Thinkpad X1 Carbon lin
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by atwrk 2y ago
Voter suppression: https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/
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by atwrk 2y ago
As someone with an educational background I actually often ask myself the opposite: Why don't AI techniques almost never seem to use the knowledge we have about human learning to train better AI?
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by atwrk 2y ago
It's also very probable that the verbalization the majority does internally is just that - a verbalization of the actual underlying thought process. That is what much of current cognitive linguistics points to as far as I have understo
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by atwrk 2y ago
If I'm not mistaken, each token produced roughly equals the whole model in memory transfers (the exception being MoE models). That's why memory bandwidth is so important in the first place, or not?
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by atwrk 2y ago
But 80Gbit/s is way slower than even regular dual channel RAM, or am I missing something here? That would mean the LLM would be excruciatingly slow. You could get an old EPYC for a fraction of that price and have more performance.
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by atwrk 2y ago
Contrary to serious economists Austrians try very hard to avoid specific forecasts, but we all can nonetheless look at their writings and compare what actually happened during every crisis in the last 50 years - and nothing Austrians are po
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by atwrk 2y ago
To add to this point: We can look to China to see that the financialization of the economy, like it happened in the US, is not a natural law but can instead be restricted. China has explicitly said that they see the development of financia
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by atwrk 2y ago
As someone who was CEO at a German company with more than 10 people: this absolutely overblown. Some people just want to larp US-style at-will firing power fantasies. It's actually surprisingly easy to still fire people, you just have
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by atwrk 2y ago
Worth pointing out that you "only" get <= 270GB/s of memory bandwith with those Macs, unless you choose the max/ultra models. If that is enough for your use case, it may make sense to wait 2 months and get a Ryzen AI
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by atwrk 2y ago
OTOH: "One in four 2020 Tesla Model 3 failed the Danish periodic inspection in 2024" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42838855
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by atwrk 2y ago
The EU company I work for is pretty security conscious and already implements this almost completely (the exception being a few industry specific niche apps). What do you think would be missing?
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by atwrk 2y ago
As a US company, Cloudflare already has to follow CLOUD Act etc. right now, so yes.

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