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by consensus1 5d ago
No, Australis ai a perfect example. Australia has an average electricity cost of close to 0.3 USD / kwh. That's not cheap. It's not clean either at 525g co2/kwh. The US is 0.19 USD / kwh and 384g co2/kwh.
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by consensus1 5d ago
1.4 vs 2.0 is a massive miss because that diff isn't starting from 20 years ago, but rather a pre-industrial baseline. So the actual diffs are something more like +0.2 (actual) vs +0.8 (predicted) over that 20 ish year interval, and t
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by consensus1 5d ago
78 GW of coal is pretty damn near 78 GW. 315 GW of solar / wind capacity is nowhere near that level of utilization.
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by consensus1 5d ago
You can't bring back something that was never there
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by consensus1 5d ago
I will believe it when I see it. The only countries with both cheap and clean electricity are those that built out extensive nuclear or got lucky enough to have access to other forms of cheap base load like hydro / geothermal.
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by consensus1 7d ago
What makes jet engines less printable than rocket engines?
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by consensus1 8d ago
Many people stepping in their domains of expertise with surface level knowledge
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by consensus1 8d ago
It's not just the divorce lawyers. We have 3x as many lawyers per capita in the US as in the 1970s. The system is designed by lawyers for lawyers. They will create more bureaucracy and more procedure to consume any surplus.
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by consensus1 8d ago
There are 3x as many lawyers per capita in the US as we had in the 1970s. Credit agreements that used to be 50 pages are now 500. This increase in volume has not lead to any increase in actual value. The legal profession is a metastatic
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by consensus1 10d ago
Very poorly compared to the tools we have built. Similar to the LLM.
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by consensus1 10d ago
This isn't how intelligence works. The LLM may not be able to play chess directly through inference, but it can write a program to do it and execute that program. Same as how human intelligence works. We can't fly, but we can bu
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by consensus1 11d ago
Controlling the high ground has been a critical element of warfare ever since the primary weapons were spears. If you want to claim that isn't the case then the burden of proof is on you.
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by consensus1 11d ago
You actually think they don't already?
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by consensus1 11d ago
Because if 1 is an option then I can write software to automate 1 for the normies, which is exactly how the internet we know came into being. 2/3 have to be legally enforced.
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by consensus1 11d ago
4 is 1 because the walled gardens are also running on hardware they own (or rent)
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by consensus1 12d ago
Yes, you have a point. I must give the government more power because the only other alternative is to go live on a desert island by myself. Hard to argue with that brilliant logic.
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by consensus1 12d ago
Neither of those address the problem of children accessing adult content. If there is no ID check how do you know there are no children on them?
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by consensus1 12d ago
There's only 3 options for the internet: 1. free for all 2. locked down with ID checked age gates 3. sanitized with no adult content at all If we put responsibility for keeping kids safe on companies we will get 2 or 3. The only good
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by consensus1 12d ago
Got it. The way it was phrased it made it sound like Assetnote was the party actually sending the exploits (which made me assume it was intentional testing going to the wrong target), not that they were coming in from unknown senders in th
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by consensus1 13d ago
Is this basically a free pen test, or am I misunderstanding the setup?
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by consensus1 16d ago
Is that important context? I would say it's not. What if those companies already made massive profits and said "I think people are willing to pay more for this, so I'm going to raise the price." And there's absol
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by consensus1 16d ago
I assume you got that > 50% number from actual CPI data and not just vibes, right?
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by consensus1 23d ago
And I hope nobody is claiming that mainstream journalism has any accountability
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by consensus1 23d ago
I think that's a hilarious statement given how they drink in the UK
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by consensus1 26d ago
Why would you ever expect that you would have a choice of what products you use at work? You are being paid to work there. And yes, if you feel that strongly, you absolutely do have the option to vote with your feet at any time.
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by consensus1 26d ago
Isn't part of " Europeans are ought to be able to decide how they want to live their lives" that they have the choice of using products of US tech companies?
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by consensus1 27d ago
The people imposing the rent control are the same people responsible for the shortage, so I just can't get behind that.
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by consensus1 27d ago
Yeah, I hear you. The "stock market is rigged, insurance is a scam" vibe is strong here. HN has really turned into a sounding board for bitter people who think the whole world is out to get them.
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by consensus1 28d ago
They don't care if you have to follow the rules either. Why don't you get mad about the fact that you are forced to obey all these idiotic rules instead of somebody else finding a way around them.
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by consensus1 28d ago
It will be a test of what they think about the relative cost / performance of a model is, and not a single thing more than that.

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