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by danans 2y ago
> At least Google employees will sign petitions and do things that follow a moral code. It hardly matters what employees think anymore when the executives are weather-vanes who point in the direction of wealth and power over all else (ju
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> You mean easily exploited illegal alien labor? Does that mean you support laws to protect those workers from exploitation by enforcing workplace safety standards and giving them legal guest worker permits? Great, let's hold the e
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> They are too deep, what do we do? Wait until they die? Yeah, you tried. Any more is probably energy wasted. > What about the generations they’re radicalizing after them? Explain to them how oligarchs are burning the younger generat
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by danans 2y ago
If you think any of them (or any of the administration's assembly of billionaires) don't hate each other, you might be misunderstanding how the wealthy and powerful think. Every interaction is transactional and artificial, based
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by danans 2y ago
There is an electric water metro service in Cochin, Kerala, India. It was built in partnership with the German government. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kochi_Water_Metro
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So it seems like this was actually 7 M2 Ultras, not 2, so .0028 kWh?
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Check out the power draw metrics. Following the CPU+GPU power consumption, it seems like it averaged 22W for about a minute. Unless I'm missing something, the inference for this example consumed at most .0004 kWh. That's almost
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> But as the former might well be impossible (at least without ruining performance or requiring a hardware swap), and the latter might take a while, According to the site they informed Apple in May 2024. Should that not have been enoug
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> websites can avoid by setting the appropriate HTTP headers/HTML attributes. Individual sites plugging browser + CPU security holes seems like a violation of separation of concerns. Yes, I hope every bank out there puts this work
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Nobody expects otherwise from a model served under the laws of the authoritarian and anti-democratic CCP. Just ask those questions to a different model (or, you know pick up a history book). The novelty of DeepSeek is that an open source
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by danans 2y ago
> Safari definitely does use site isolation (if you check "Activity Monitor", you'll find Safari processes named after the sites they're displaying) in almost all cases. From the FAQ: "For leaking secrets, both S
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> except as a tool to mitigate the carbon consumption of existing appliances. Does it matter if you reduce CO2 it at the household point of combustion if the fuel is ultimately C02 emissions heavy? Accounting for the inefficiencies of c
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> Currently it is just luxury for the wealthiest, if we look the global level. Today, in the developing world, traditional and highly polluting 2-stroke engine powered tuk tuks, driven by quite poor people, are being replaced by electric
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> We already have a gas network for methane, it wouldn't be hard to mix in 20% hydrogen and then filter it back out at the other end (there's an energy cost, but it's not huge, and in any case most existing uses would not
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> The vehicle handled similar to an electric vehicle except with about 5 minute "recharging". This is because from the perspective of just the drivetrain, it is an electric vehicle, battery and all (albeit a smaller one).
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It seems that from the large variation in the way different languages treat zero, there's no significant rationale behind whether it's plural or not, apart from following some existing (and ultimately also ad-hoc) pattern. It&#x27
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> American English is moronic and full of barstadised phrases. Can you point out a human language that isn't full of bastardized phrases? I'm pretty sure that's universal, including British English.
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> and was given away for free just as America Online did decades ago, it very likely would be untouchable under the first amendment. Even if they could distribute it under 1st amendment l, what is stopping authorities from IP blocking Ti
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> Risks and losses cannot be extinguished, they can only be transferred to others. At least for risks like wildfires, we can reduce future risk by rebuilding homes using wildfire resistant techniques and materials. The problem in LA (exa
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> I'm starting to think that like 80% of product diversity is really just pricing discrimination in disguise. I think the term used for this practice is "market-segmentation".
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> All the while Beijing did everything in its power to enrich the Chinese worker, no matter the cost to outsiders. The results speak for themselves. In fairness, during this period, the US did everything it could to suppress the wages an
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> If he makes $20,000 that would mean that he gets paid only $0.01 per kW of power. And even if my assumption above about the size of each As others have mentioned the off peak daytime wholesale rate for electricity is often just a few c
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> Electricity just doesn't cost all that much to generate ... from renewable resources. Fossil energy can cost quite a bit to generate, but of course it comes with storage built in.
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The structural labor shortages (and implied rising leverage for workers) are also a reason that corporations are racing towards AI and robotics. By the time robots have replaced large swathes of labor, we will need to consider taxes on auto
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Yeah. The idea that corporations are going to raise wages on their own even for the general well being of society has been debunked many times over. These things work according to power and leverage, and nothing less.
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> They can afford to pay labor more. Only if they decide to pay shareholders less. And shareholders are not going to accept getting paid less in order to pay labor more. That's a quick way for CEOs get fired.
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> Right, so the answer is not to make that bad government bigger, the answer is to replace it with a good government. Bad government (where by bad I mean serving the interests of the wealthy few over the masses) is bad regardless of it&#
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> There has been some increase in capital's share of income, but economic analyses show that the cause is rising rent and not any of the other usual suspects (e.g. tax cuts, IP law, technological disruption, regulatory barriers to c
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> As the amount of production increases relative to the human population, per capita GDP and income increase as well. US Real GDP per capita is $70k, and has grown 2.4x since 1975: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/
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> The vast majority, for instance, do not want rogue AI to take over or destroy humanity, because they are part of humanity. A rogue AI destroying humanity (whatever that means) is not a likely outcome. That's just movie stuff. Wha

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