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by bilbo0s 1y ago
Oh my. Please no one take this the wrong way, but I hope AMD is not the model of "success" we're going for here.
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by bilbo0s 1y ago
More an alternative way of controlling capital. If you wanted to tax capital via equity stakes, you'd simply have demanded a much larger stake. What we're doing is starting down the road of "capitalism with Chinese charac
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by bilbo0s 1y ago
??? Genuine question here, not trying to anger anyone. But we have Heaven only knows how many whites-only groups online. (In fact we have Heaven only knows how many Asian, Black, Native, and Latin groups online as well.) If you don't
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by bilbo0s 1y ago
I'm familiar with all those nations. (In fact the ECOWAS nations are the ones I'm most familiar with.) Every one of them, I've heard people calling black people "black". I've also been all over Western Europe,
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by bilbo0s 1y ago
I haven't heard anyone here around me calling anyone "black" Wait. What? Where are you that you've never heard anyone call a black person, well, "black"?
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by bilbo0s 1y ago
Yeah, this is gonna cause more and more segregation in online spaces. Sucks, but I guess this is why we can't have nice things.
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by bilbo0s 1y ago
meh.. We do racial segregation offline all the time. Why wouldn't we do it online?
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by bilbo0s 1y ago
That's because Blacksky and Threads address wildly different markets. Blacksky's market is literally orders of magnitude smaller. That's quite a growth curve when adjusted for market size.
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by bilbo0s 1y ago
This. And then when more of their towers collapse these same politicians will look around with surprised Pikachu faces.
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by bilbo0s 1y ago
The only halfway competent rail in the US is that northeast corridor in New England. Everything else is crap. And even that northeast corridor is only halfway competent. That people are raving about any of the rail in the US only betrays
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by bilbo0s 1y ago
the AI companies are mis-pricing their tools Sounds like the AI companies are not so much mispricing, as the companies using the tools are simply paying wayyy too much for the privilege. As long as the companies keep paying, the AI compan
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by bilbo0s 1y ago
I don't know? For some reason, I'm thinking most of the money went to either inferencing costs or NVidia.
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by bilbo0s 1y ago
What gets me is that people keep voting in favor of this stuff? It's clear that the HN crowd is a bit of an echo chamber. Somehow, these messages of warning are not getting to people who need to hear them in order to stop voting agains
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by bilbo0s 1y ago
In fairness, you are already tracked. And it will already be used against you. It's just that right now, though everyone is tracked, only a few people get watched. So even today, the algorithm is already picking out the people who shou
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by bilbo0s 1y ago
Are there no workhouses? Are there no prisons? /s Hat tip to Dickens. Something about our economic system needs to change. I hope it's not prisons and workhouses in the future, but the declining quality of people being voted into
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by bilbo0s 1y ago
Oh absolutely. Every tax cut is a spending program in disguise. I'm just saying that things like the Park Service are the least of the worries. To the extent that it makes people feel good, please, go ahead and make cuts to the Park Se
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by bilbo0s 1y ago
Sometimes you can tell which politicians are serious about bringing order to budgets by seeing which ones are talking about what hard cuts they would make. Are they talking about cuts to entitlements and military? Or are they talking about
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by bilbo0s 1y ago
Which is great. Until there's new management. You can't run a business by seesaw. Best to just count on that rule being enforced and place the necessary battery backups and wind or solar in place to backstop the diesel. Then make
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by bilbo0s 1y ago
I think the implication of question 2 is who, exactly, are we going to tax to get the money to pay for all the highly skilled professionals needed? Everyone can't be working for a military contractor. Someone has to pay the costs o
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by bilbo0s 1y ago
That's not quite how facism works. There are the purges. But it's normally not the corporate or moneyed puppetmasters getting purged, rather it's the political allies of the fascists that get purged. Military and law enforc
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by bilbo0s 1y ago
Just Devil's Advocate, but this being the US, the opposition doesn't necessarily support pure democratic ideals either. It's just that the conservatives are so much further along the authoritarianism scale that the liberals
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by bilbo0s 1y ago
This. I mean billionaires don't even go to prison for engaging in pedophilia. Which is just about the worst crime you can commit. If anyone thinks liberals or conservatives will put them in prison for bribery, they're being a litt
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by bilbo0s 1y ago
I've been saying since Clinton when it started to become clear, that liberals and conservatives will eventually kill the ideals of this Republic. (And not only the ideals expressed in the First.) They've been chipping away for lon
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by bilbo0s 1y ago
I did study CS as well. That you are comparing designing and writing a compiler with designing and manufacturing a neural processor is only testimony to the futility of my attempt to impress on everyone the difference. So I'll take my
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by bilbo0s 1y ago
which can be relatively easily implemented by competitors Oh my. Please people, try to think back to your engineering classes. Remember the project where you worked with a group to design a processor? I do. Worst semester of my life. (S
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by bilbo0s 1y ago
I think you may be misapprehending what some people think may be happening here. The issue is not people exploiting one another to rise above each other. The issue is a few people exploiting AI's they own to keep themselves above eve
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by bilbo0s 1y ago
I don't know what others think, but Munich seemed reliable to me. YMMV
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by bilbo0s 1y ago
I think you're misinterpreting here.. First, this product only funds one thing, an account at coinbase. You then have to transfer money to people from whom you would like to buy. No protection from fraud. No nothing. Second, even if it
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by bilbo0s 1y ago
They claim it was Japan. More specifically, Rapidus.

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