grecy

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by grecy 2y ago
The best example is: I give you $10,000 to eat a pile of shit. You give me $10,000 to eat a pile of shit. What's the result? Two shit-eating grins and $20,000 added to the GDP.
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by grecy 2y ago
Make no mistake, the US is a fantastic business. It makes a lot of money, and some people get fantastically rich while others toil for life and hover at the poverty line. With a vastly higher percentage of its citizens in jail than any othe
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by grecy 2y ago
> There is so little incentive to move away from x86 right now Massively lower power consumption and way less waste heat to dispose of. Literally the two biggest concerns of every data centre on earth.
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by grecy 2y ago
Let me guess, you’re American, right?
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by grecy 2y ago
They’ve done it before and will again
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by grecy 2y ago
The people who placed that bet are something like 500x their money, so I’m sure they’re happy!
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by grecy 2y ago
If required, The upgrades will come when FSD is at a point they know what is required. It’s hard to determine if upgrades are needed before they have FSD working.
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by grecy 2y ago
And FSD is improving everyday. The only question is when will it be good enough to run a system similar to Waymo where a remote operate an help if it gets stuck, and then when will it be good enough to not need that and be full autonomous.
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by grecy 2y ago
This is exactly what Waymo are doing right now with their fleet in SF, without an of the issues you raise. Your concerns are pure FUD.
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by grecy 2y ago
Those cars will get free upgrades, if required.
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by grecy 2y ago
My Mum died slowly from lung cancer over almost three years. It spread to basically every organ in her body, she was taking so much chemo they eventually said they had to stop or the chemo would kill her before the cancer would. The intense
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by grecy 2y ago
> Ping-pong with comments like "add empty line" is a waste of time for everyone. And any manager that lets it happen without severe reprimands to the time-waster isn't worth working for. We've all got way more imp
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by grecy 2y ago
> as some of the Canadian experience has demonstrated I live in Canada, and I keep hearing this kind of stuff brought up by Americans. What, exactly, is "the Canadian experience"? It would be best if your sources are not Amer
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by grecy 2y ago
> Every single Australian's ID will have to be verified Keep in mind all Australians got those IDs from the government in the first place...
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by grecy 2y ago
> My personal hunch is legacy media is largely driving this, due to them seeing the writing on the wall and knowing 'social media' is their biggest threat For anyone that thinks this is tin foil hat stuff, remember the Austra
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by grecy 2y ago
I agree with your overall statement, but > If you can find an LLM+TTS generated podcast with even a FRACTION of the infectious energy as something like Good Job Brain, Radio Lab, or Ask Me Another, then I'll eat my hat. Come on, w
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by grecy 2y ago
As per another comment, $11 billion was never repaid - pure bailout.
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by grecy 2y ago
> It is absolutely crazy that us Americans accept this broken system. Want to talk about broken systems? The US government bailed out GM for $51 billion dollars. That's billions that could have been spent on schools, or healthcare
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by grecy 2y ago
They don’t do it well. 100 people will be killed TODAY on roads in the US. (And everyday)
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by grecy 2y ago
> I am sure it's doable if all the space providers work together and there aren't any showstoppers. Are you living in a different world that me? NO company or Government on Earth outside SpaceX has the capability to launch mo
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by grecy 2y ago
> Cars from Japan, 2000 or current that are clean aren't street legal here because they don't meet the safety standards I've seen this repeated for 25 years now, and to be honest I think it's simply not true. Can yo
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by grecy 2y ago
> I think his point is that most Starlink satellites do not have this technology Ah, thanks, I missed that. Wait another month, there will be at least another ~500 in orbit.
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by grecy 2y ago
> US auto makers have been on the ropes since the 1980s. Without a doubt. In about 2000 the US automakers sued the EPA because their proposed clean air regulations for about 2009 were "impossible". They were actually more lax
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by grecy 2y ago
Globestar have 48 Satellites in orbit [1] Starlink has 6,426 [2] (Though that number is likely out of date by the time you read this) [1] https://www.groundcontrol.com/knowledge/calculators-and-maps... [2] https:&#x2F
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by grecy 2y ago
> the biometric data collected when you got your ID When I got my license, which I can use to board a flight in my country I did not give fingerprints or an eye scan. They have my photo, DOB, name - not more.
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by grecy 2y ago
Americans have been convinced to vote against their own best interests by decades of lobbying and propaganda. As just one example, they deeply believe Socialism is evil, never mind the very vast majority of their daily services are depend
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by grecy 2y ago
> I am starting to wonder if the management wants to ensure people in general do not make that connection ( and just want to have, ideally, serfs barely making ends meet) Why do you think healthcare is tied to employment in the US? Why
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by grecy 2y ago
Because rich people got richer, which is always ok
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by grecy 2y ago
Another thing I've always wondered - what would have happen if everyone in the room freaked out and just ran away, leaving the two reflector halves completed closed? Would it have actually gone bang like a bomb, or more like just get i
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by grecy 2y ago
I'm amazed Apple don't have a rack mount version of their M series chips yet. Even for their own internal use in their data centers they'd have to save an absolute boat load on power and cooling given their performance per wa

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