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by piokoch 2y ago
This is interesting, from the article it seems that authorities broken the law multiple times "[...] people regularly spend months behind bars without charges filed against them, much longer than state law allows." In such a litig
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by piokoch 2y ago
There is no such a thing like "plastic". The article is about PET - polyethylene terephthalate, there are hundreds other "plastics", which different chemical propensities. The problem is not actual act of recycling, but
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by piokoch 2y ago
People forget that a company known as IBM went bankrupt, was sold and reborn as a consulting enterprise like Accenture or McKinsey. The only thing that remained from the olden days are servers, in particularly z-series, which are modern day
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by piokoch 2y ago
"The foundation model companies are screwed." Not really, they can either make API access expensive or resign from exposing APIs and offer their custom products. Open Source models are great, but you need powerful hardware to run
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by piokoch 2y ago
Yup, this is how collective security system works. It is far from perfect, but it managed to keep the World in more or less peace for pretty long time. We had wars, sometimes bloody, but still local once. The corner stone of this system is
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by piokoch 2y ago
Well, visit British Museum, you will learn what is professional looting (a.k.a. robbery), not some amateurish second hand purchases done by those hobbyists.
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by piokoch 2y ago
Cash still exists since there could be war, massive catastrophe, your bank might have offline hours, there could be internet failure, electricity failure. Cash always works. Getting rid of it is plane stupid and asking for troubles.
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by piokoch 2y ago
This is missing the point. Everything they offer is storage, VPS, Load balancer, one managed key-value store and two managed databases. For the price a little higher than, say, Digital Ocean. But where is managed cache, message broker, e-ma
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by piokoch 2y ago
Trump is pursuing the only negotiations Putin could agreed for. Ukraine is losing on the battlefield, Putin does not see any reason to talk with Zelensky, as in his view, he needs to continue the war for another year and Ukraine will run ou
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by piokoch 2y ago
What is "record time"? Trump does not have anything to do with diminished USA hegemony. The problem started when USA let China to join WTO, which result in offshoring production to China and rapid China growth (also military, whic
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by piokoch 2y ago
"I don't understand why there's no startups making open source modular electronics." There is, maybe it is not a startup per se. In Shenzhen there is 500 companies that will produce whatever you need in whatever amounts
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by piokoch 2y ago
This is one of those application that I love. Does it job well, nobody is trying to make interface "modern", that is use sweet colors, big squares everywhere with weirdo icons that you need to guess what they are supposed to mean.
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It is pretty surprising that Greenpeace, an organization that was for years actively fighting nuclear energy, what led to the crappy climate warming situation we have now, is accusing someone of "climate destroying".
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by piokoch 2y ago
Nah, it is not gonna be that simple. Office is not just editing software, that would be fairly easy to replace, Office is a collaboration suite, provides documents storage, provides authorization and authentication that can be integrated wi
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by piokoch 2y ago
Data sovereignty is a piece of cake, you can survive here easily, unless with some inconvenience like lack of access to Netflix fake documentaries. European Union decided to sing EU–Mercosur Association Agreement, which will make European a
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by piokoch 2y ago
Copyright the content and sue those who use it for AI training. I believe there is a lot of low hanging fruit for lawyers here. I would be surprised if they weren't preparing to hit Open AI and alikes. Very badly. Google get away with
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by piokoch 2y ago
TLDR: the author applied for a hard, physical job and he didn't like it, so he decided he does not want to do hard, physical job in future. Terribly fascinating. Instead, the author decided to go into graphomania and made sure nobody p
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by piokoch 2y ago
Its not a market that in not elastic. It is physics, you can't just close the pipe and electricity stops flowing. Deal with this. There are ways to handle the problem, like pumped storage power plants, but they require very particular
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by piokoch 2y ago
Well, those are paradoxes of renewables. When the sun shines bright and the wind is blowing strong grid operators has to pay producers to stop producing, unless they can find someone who will take this energy for less money that they would
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by piokoch 2y ago
Hardly a surprise, the market is growing rapidly, so nothing strange that the first player is no longer the only player. Nevertheless it was Tesla that proved viability of EVs and has courage to create totally new market segment. We'v
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by piokoch 2y ago
There are certain historical inadequacies in the article. "That is, the Apollo Program brought the country together in the turbulent 1960s and helped make everyone feel good about the country" This certainly was not 100% true, as
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by piokoch 2y ago
Not having API-s for models would suck terribly. It would kill tools like Aider or Cline, where I can switch models as I prefer, paying only for tokens I have used. The only option would be to purchase overpriced application from a model pr
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by piokoch 2y ago
Yup, in the USA you can still have VPN server that is not storing logs, something that is simply illegal in European Union countries. In the USA you can purchase prepaid SIM card in Wallmart with cash, put it in your phone and you have anon
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In general municipal garbage is a small fraction of all wastes. In Poland municipal garbage is just 10% of all (the rest is industry), and out of this 10% only 15% could be recycled. So, this effort to sort garbage has negligible effect, ye
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by piokoch 2y ago
That's a nice shot, that probably is not going to change much. This is a neat alternative for Notion if you are small company, but with strong IT team that will maintain installation (all the boring stuff from updates to backups). If y
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by piokoch 2y ago
"Simple collaborative editing without the formatting complexity of markdown" It is incredible that nowadays Markdown is considered "complex".
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Frankly speaking, I read about Musk going bankrupt every month since Tesla's were introduced, than SpaceX was supposed to sank Musk (until it turned out that it and Virgin "disrupted" space industry), than Twitter purchase, n
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by piokoch 2y ago
What's a surprise, a guy who has stolen startup from Winklevoss brothers and had to settle the case in the court has a "brutal image". Who would've expected that!
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Amazing that anyone is willing to make an effort and subscribe to some random media portal with 80% content generated by chat GPT and alikes, just to read an article about replacing photo of the man, whose girlfriend has the same age since
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by piokoch 2y ago
"I can imagine a future where some future model is better at proving theorems than any human mathematician" Please do not overestimate the power of the algorithm that is predicting next "token" (e.g. word) in a sequence

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