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by pjc50 3mo ago
I wonder what fraction of homes don't load anything from AWS on a daily basis. I suspect it's way below 50%. (Of course, they don't know they're using it, they're using a service on it)
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> Clearing LLMs out of our business infrastructure is going to be a massive undertaking. The asbestos of the future.
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> The supply of food is absolutely critical to a human population, even if truckloads of fish are left to rot in the sun outside schools? Well, yes, you can't solve this problem by cutting off the supply of food and then declaring t
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by pjc50 3mo ago
I don't think the Trump administration would have been any less keen to bomb Libya.
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I don't know why this is downvoted, this is the entire basis of China being politically stable despite being unfree. The problem is trying to untangle which are the economic indicators that matter and what the causality is. Despite eve
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by pjc50 3mo ago
The supply of capital is absolutely critical to an industrial economy, even if there's a lot of corruption along the way.
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by pjc50 3mo ago
Does raise the question of whether this also comes with free immunity from prosecution, or whether the NYAG should just pre-emptively say that anyone signing up for this and trading on the results will be prosecuted under NY state law. (Cri
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by pjc50 3mo ago
"Flynn effect" claimed that intelligence has been increasing over time. At least we can sort of measure things in the modern era, while objectively assessing the intelligence of the long-dead is turning into skull-measuring territ
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by pjc50 3mo ago
Formal verification is always more valuable than mere testing, but it's hitherto more expensive. The thing that ultimately matters is closing the loop: how well do the tests match the requirements, both as written and as unwritten in
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by pjc50 3mo ago
> Vaccines aren't something you need urgently in a crisis .. what were you doing in 2020? > you are unlikely to need to make a novel vaccine over the course of a war The lab leak people are probably wrong, but in the present era
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by pjc50 3mo ago
Everyone in this discussion seems to be forgetting Trident as well. There's a lot of assumption the next war will be helpfully similar to WW2, and some sort of reverse sweet spot where we are subject to naval interdiction but will n
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by pjc50 3mo ago
None? That's not really its job?
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by pjc50 3mo ago
This is true, but .. for all retirement planning, you kind of have to assume no-collapse. It's also incoherent to say "the government pays too much attention to retirees" and "I expect to be defrauded by the government w
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by pjc50 3mo ago
https://www.centreforcities.org/reader/town-and-gown/univers... "Universities brought in an estimated £24 billion to the UK economy from abroad in 2022. They provide services (education) to international stud
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by pjc50 3mo ago
> Have you seen the population size of China ? Have you seen the geographic size of China ? British thinking seems to be that because we won the Opium War we should just expect a country with 20 times our population and a vast land area
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by pjc50 3mo ago
I don't know whether this is a joke or not, because she's still there.
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The triple lock actually benefits everyone not currently retired, just .. not until they actually retire.
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by pjc50 3mo ago
The point is that manufacturing is a relatively small part of both the economy and the job market; AND the popular view of manufacturing (large plant staffed by a large number of men being the dominant employer of a nearby town or city) doe
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UK Primary Steelmaking Review 2025 [pdf](assets.publishing.service.gov.uk)
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Now check where the inputs to steel production come from. The UK built a lot of refining to use local iron ore and coal deposits. It used those deposits. They are now substantially used up. Subsurface mining is uneconomic, and open mining i
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by pjc50 3mo ago
This has been a problem for a while. It's Akerloff "market for lemons" applied to technology. Sometimes however you gamble and win, discovering that the Chinese device actually is really good for the price. Occasionally even
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by pjc50 3mo ago
> I don't think governments can supply this amount of money for AI in the current political and economic climate. I'm a believer in Keynes' "anything we can do we can afford". It could be afforded .. if there was
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by pjc50 3mo ago
> due to the differences between film and music Music being generally 3-10 minutes long while film is 1h30-3h makes a big difference here. A film is a bit more of a commitment than a playlist entry; you can just put music on the virtual
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by pjc50 3mo ago
I've had an essay brewing in my head with the title "special internet for cool people", about the greatness of this era and why it's so difficult to bring back. TLDR that the gatekeeping was actually essential; piracy st
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by pjc50 3mo ago
We forget that the labels also consider that piracy. For a while there were attempts to make CDs un-rippable. Streaming (which pays labels and artists much less) only exists because it's the compromise that solves the "service pro
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by pjc50 3mo ago
What went wrong with Wsocial? I don't mind the quasi-central nature of bsky, it's more of a problem that it's so heavily dominated by US politics.
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by pjc50 3mo ago
> Another pillar of basic trust that's being eroded on an industrial scale. Remember, trust is like a rainforest: takes a long time to grow, provides a valuable ecosystem essential to human life, but can also be burned down for a qu
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by pjc50 3mo ago
"we know this is dangerous, but we're not going to do anything about it"
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by pjc50 3mo ago
The UK will eventually demand the return of freedom of movement of people and goods, for exactly the same reasons as it entered the EU in the first place. Might take another 20 years though.
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We should just overturn the Treaty of Utrecht, that will go well. Why not return the Netherlands to Spain while we're at it?

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