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by mempko 3y ago
In real terms.
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by mempko 3y ago
Yes, Just look how well the DeSantis announcement went. If the huge clusterfuck that was the Desantis announcement of Twitter spaces is any indication of the future for where this leads, then maybe the 'leaders' of our tech commun
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by mempko 3y ago
That is not how money works. Your income is other people going into debt. Your salary rise means more money in the system. Loan forgiveness means more income to you.
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by mempko 3y ago
And just think how big the oceans are! That's a lot of heat!
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by mempko 3y ago
Civilizations collapsed under less stress. Billionaires exist only if there is a highly organized society. Actually most tech exists only if there is a highly organized society.
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by mempko 3y ago
That article was about an expensive magnet school where by definition, the kids are privileged. Tuition is $30k per year, or with room/board $50k. https://www.goodschoolsguide.co.uk/schools/500658/thomas-jef..
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by mempko 3y ago
> nothing because universities are so obsessed with race ideology they'd happily award black females computing-related qualifications on the back of nothing Just look at the point you made! This is exactly what right wing media talk
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by mempko 3y ago
But that's not what the paper does. Asians have many skin colors from light to very dark (compare China, Korea, and Japan to Thailand, Vietnam, and India). I'm not sure what you are talking about here. I don't see how it eras
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by mempko 3y ago
The actual paper [0] that Gebru wrote referenced Strubell's climate impact paper [1]. None of them make the assumption that google compute runs from jet fuel. They compare training the models to flying, driving, etc. In the "Gende
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by mempko 3y ago
Exactly. Same problem with facial recognition which simply didn't work on anyone with dark skin. The bigger the models the less obvious the bias becomes but is still there. Gebru did good work quantifying that but google shut it down.
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by mempko 3y ago
Except Timnit Gebru did quantifiable research on AI bias and was punished for it.
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by mempko 3y ago
Yes, that's why the life expectancy of the US, the richest empire in history, is ranked 51 out of all countries, just below Cuba and above Albania.
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by mempko 3y ago
Which SOME employees benefit from. The poverty rate is too high, too many people in jail for such a rich country. What's the point of being rich when only a tiny percentage of the people benefit?
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by mempko 3y ago
I'm sorry but it seems that it's global warming that is causing insect declines as the primary driver, not farming practices (though farming practices do play a role of course). Protected lands of the Puerto Rican rain forest saw
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by mempko 3y ago
Let's not forget, the that behind Sam and OpenAI is Microsoft, a monopolist. Behind Bard is Google, another monopolist. In this context, for major corporations asking for regulation suggests to me they want a mote. What we need is demo
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by mempko 3y ago
I'm not aware of any political trials. Which trials are you referring to?
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by mempko 3y ago
I'm happy with Mastodon and want the fediverse to succeed. I don't want one single project controlling the fediverse. I have a feeling Bluesky is trying to Microsoft (embrace, extend, extinguish) the fediverse. Why? Because there
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by mempko 3y ago
It's peanuts compared to VC funded projects.
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by mempko 3y ago
Exactly, a lot of people expect VC funded output from Mastodon when Mastodon project only gets about $30k a month. Enough to pay for 1 developer, 1 designer, and not much else. Tech doesn't get funding because it's good, it gets g
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by mempko 3y ago
And yet the largest, most successful organizations in the world are centrally planned. The 'markets' don't explain China despite what many those in the west try to believe.
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by mempko 3y ago
I have a theory to explain this. Prior to Boomers, the public was very left wing. Unionization was high. Communist and Socialist parties had huge support. Until the 50s, a lot of towns had socialist mayors including Milwaukee. US had a top
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by mempko 3y ago
Ok, but without consequence? There were a thousands of arrests and people hurt/killed voicing their frustration. Even journalists were shot at with rubber bullets and arrested. Yes, that's right, journalists were shot at and arres
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by mempko 4y ago
I was in Japan in 2005 and saw these tiny laptops running Transmeta's processor in the wild. The university I was studying in had them in their library. They ran windows and everything worked well. I've never seen laptops that sma
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by mempko 4y ago
Somewhat related: The problem with Nate Silver and most others in this game is they don't treat the statistics they show as random variables. I want to see confidence intervals for all statistics. They just show 'Chance of winning
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by mempko 4y ago
Time and money. Powers at be decided to stop funding the project. If SpaceX goes bankrupt next year, they could fail too and it won't have anything to do with the technology.
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by mempko 4y ago
N1 got funding in 1964 and had it's first stacked test flight in 1969 (5 years). Starship was announced in 2017 (though the raptor engines in 2016) and had it's first stacked test flight today (5 years). So far development speed i
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by mempko 4y ago
SpaceX is just doing what the Soviets did. The Soviets preferred to launch and learn just like SpaceX does today. Soviets also ran on a much smaller budget than NASA and preferred simplicity over complexity and constant tweaking. The Soviet
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by mempko 4y ago
It's good to see U.S. aerospace finally adopting Soviet style rocket building.
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by mempko 4y ago
Starship at this point is mostly a shell. Internal human grade components aren't there yet. We have no idea what the final cost will be. But doesn't matter since NASA is the one paying.
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by mempko 4y ago
The Soviet N1 moon rocket, which SpaceX shares a bit of design (30+ engines for example) failed 4 times before being scrapped. The Soviets had the 'launch often, fail fast, learn faster' view that SpaceX employs today. However, no

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