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by pjc50 3mo ago
The bonuses SK Hynix staff are getting might vindicate that point of view. Of course, that's from AI investment , not revenue itself. They are the extremely successful shovel manufacturers, who for once have managed to leverage their
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by pjc50 3mo ago
I own a Toshiba Libretto 30. This has a 486 DX4 100 MHz processor. Back at the dawn of MP3s, it could play them .. but only if you used the optimized Fraunhofer decoder, WinAmp would struggle and break up. It didn't quite have the MIPS
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by pjc50 3mo ago
The ability to film people on their phone is not the same as the ad display technology. I think the argument upthread about "conflation" has a point, but .. it's social media itself that forces the conflation. You can't
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by pjc50 3mo ago
> Australia has over 10x the rollout of solar than china (per capita of course) This is a remarkable stat that's the opposite of what I expected, but I suppose China is (a) starting from a lower base and (b) much, much larger in abs
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by pjc50 3mo ago
Does anywhere in the world let you have multiple electricity plans on the same meter at the same time?
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by pjc50 3mo ago
Never mind that, the cost of an urban parking space is considerable. Here's a £50k London parking space: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/136662200#/?channel=R... While that's an extreme, I would e
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by pjc50 3mo ago
I'm reminded of the way that universally carried high resolution cameras made UFOs and crop circles disappear, but police suddenly became a lot less trustworthy. The abuse question .. well, "social justice" is a term that sta
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by pjc50 3mo ago
The tools in gmail in some sense "read" all your mail in order to classify spam and do things like calendar integration. The extent to which they do other things with the information is .. unclear.
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by pjc50 3mo ago
Probably a statistical paradox where most developers aren't doing mass surveillance, but most app installs are, because the number of users for apps follows a power law distribution.
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by pjc50 3mo ago
You yourself used "important" in the same paragraph. "Load bearing" is a metaphor, while the other single words are more direct expressions. Unless the thing that Claude is referring to is a wall or other structure, whic
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by pjc50 3mo ago
I would add https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel... ("It consists in gumming together long strips of words which have already been set in order by someone else, and making the results prese
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by pjc50 3mo ago
Not quite. Optimism about where you are going doesn't conflict with being able to accurately assess where you currently are. It does require you to think carefully about what constitutes validation or invalidation of your ideas, though
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by pjc50 3mo ago
Specific example would be Reddit.
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by pjc50 3mo ago
> "Political content is pushing users toward the exit" The culture war is exhausting. The idealist dream of some sort of Athenian public deliberation has been overwritten by ragebait. It's both very effective at meeting so
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by pjc50 3mo ago
Do you know what a negative externality is?
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by pjc50 3mo ago
Yeah, that number doesn't align with the eBay listings I'm seeing. Perhaps the mere publication of this article has caused them all to sell out.
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by pjc50 3mo ago
https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-re... for example. (Yes I know about Brexit, but this is basically identical to when the UK was in the EU and subject to the Directive)
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by pjc50 3mo ago
> an issue as politically salient as immigration This is more likely to lead to making them ubiquitous; people will demand a camera network linked to a database of valid faces of US nationals.
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by pjc50 3mo ago
Web developer classic: use Javascript to replace the native, working, internationally supported standard inputs with a different input mechanism that doesn't work. (saving you a click: AZERTY has digits on the shift key, and for some r
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by pjc50 3mo ago
> a government supplied app, that’s guaranteed to protect my privacy This is a bit of a 64,000 euro question, though. Look very closely at what the government exemptions for GDPR are.
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by pjc50 3mo ago
> How many ads are you seeing when you babble all day long with a chatbot? You wouldn't see any of them, because you'd not be aware of the invisible bidding war over which products the bot recommends.
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by pjc50 3mo ago
Wouldn't the idea be to leverage inattention : people delegating their purchasing decisions to the chatbot without realizing that it's on the take?
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by pjc50 3mo ago
This is basically the Californian Prop 65 compromise: put up a sign saying the building contains carcinogens, but not actually do anything about them.
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by pjc50 3mo ago
We complain (rightly) about the Apple monopoly, but have forgotten that the carriers were a much more annoying monopoly, with even worse policies for trying to charge for things that they'd specifically prevented you from doing. I th
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by pjc50 3mo ago
UK appliances cap out at 13A, or 3.1kW. Electric cookers may be on higher current wiring, but seem to be rated at 3kW max anyway. I think the only way most people could get to 8kW continuous without an EV would be to turn on their electric
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by pjc50 3mo ago
Affordability is always relative. Australia can't afford that much battery storage, it has to spend $368bn on nuclear submarines. /s (did you mean 20kwh per user, or 20GW overall?)
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by pjc50 3mo ago
Oddly, the Conservative government was overseeing the renewables boom, although they did kneecap onshore wind unnecessarily.
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by pjc50 3mo ago
There are some highly specific issues, which need fixing, but doing so requires having all the deliberately uninformed idiots removed from the debate and silenced. Top of the list is probably the problem that most of the renewables are gene
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by pjc50 3mo ago
The NY Post as well, which is "B52 FOUND ON MOON" level of delusional.
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by pjc50 3mo ago
The inability to do broadcast TV political adverts (outside of the PPB framework) really cuts down on the money involved in UK politics. But one effect of that (and purchasing power parity) is that UK MPs are really cheap to bribe.

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