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by rurp 2mo ago
The most surprising thing to me about the data center backlash is how surprised a lot of people in tech are about it. The public tradeoffs seem pretty terrible from the perspective of folks who aren't spending all day enamored with age
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by rurp 2mo ago
Nothing that uses as much power as a modern data center is anywhere close to the most clean eco friendly business imaginable. Even one on 100% renewables, which most very much are not, is hurting the environment far more than many industrie
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by rurp 2mo ago
Are you saying that Waymo spends a similar percentage of revenue on local salaries as a labor intensive business like Home Depot or Uber? That would be surprising to me. I've seen Walmart and similar companies criticized countless time
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by rurp 2mo ago
> it's not the tech companies' fault that it's perennially underfunded This is simply wrong in a lot of cases. Tech companies absolutely use their immense wealth and influence to alter public policy and spending. Regulatio
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by rurp 2mo ago
Somewhat related, after desert rains you can often see fairy shrimp (think sea monkeys you might have had as a kid) swimming around in the isolated pools that form. I looked this up after wondering how the heck these water creatures could s
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San Francisco mayor backs national robotaxi rules after Waymo meltdowns(politico.com)
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by rurp 2mo ago
How does a board objectively evaluate that a potential CEO is worth say $25M/year over a candidate who will take the job for $4M/year? Previous job performance isn't that reliable since countless CEOs have been great at one c
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by rurp 2mo ago
I'm confident that the companies that invented modern ad tech to create some of the greatest revenue streams in history will find a way monetize an equally promising industry of selling LLM influencing opportunities. It will take some
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by rurp 2mo ago
Things will get there for sure, with ads and other propaganda baked in at the training level with no reliable way to discern the manipulations as an end user. Modern tech companies will sacrifice anything UX related to generate more effecti
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by rurp 2mo ago
Software being open source has many strong positive externalities. It advances human knowledge and freedom. If you don't think that counts as a moral good then I'm baffled by what you think a moral good is.
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by rurp 2mo ago
It's all talking points on both sides. "Build more housing" being the one true solution has become a religious tenant in a lot of wonkish circles. I see it repeated uncritically every single time this topic comes up on HN and
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by rurp 2mo ago
What a weird misunderstanding. Shorting reduces fraud in the market, and making it harder to short increases it. There's a reason shady managers had shorts, it increases the chances their bad behavior will be uncovered and punished f
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by rurp 2mo ago
That's the public sales pitch, sure. In practice it's a way for the company to charge more for the same product and quality usually declines faster than non-SaaS software.
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by rurp 3mo ago
Sure, and that's great, but this is an extremely small niche case right? No one is denying that there are some cases where Starlink is amazing, but niche products don't usually command a $1T value.
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by rurp 3mo ago
I don't doubt your experience but I've had the exact opposite experience with a Subaru where there were so many false positives it was worse than useless and was instead an active distraction. Given the general state of auto manuf
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by rurp 3mo ago
I test drove a Subaru (in America) with this feature and absolutely hated it. The amount of false positives was ridiculous. Often I was literally staring straight ahead, driving on a straight road, and getting beeped at to pay attention. It
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by rurp 3mo ago
It seems weird to me that someone would even want to settle in a foreign country without a good understanding of the language and cultural basics. I've done some traveling in non-English speaking countries and it was a huge hurdle not
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by rurp 3mo ago
Scale matters. Just because I'm fine with one cop following one suspicious person around doesn't mean I'm fine with the government spying on all citizens at all times. Same thing for robotics companies. A single cleaner is up
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by rurp 3mo ago
Do you have any recommendations for casual listening of downloaded music files? I'm pretty done with Spotify and would rather spend money on Bandcamp. The main hurdle is that I'm not enough of a music person to want to spend much
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by rurp 3mo ago
Not at all. The risks and rewards of nuclear power were extremely well know back then, and any objective analysis showed that we should build more of it. AI is completely different. The risks are not well understood, but are plausibly catas
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by rurp 3mo ago
I don't buy it. Empires thrive when they are broadly expanding wealth, whether that's by plundering neighbors or making their economy more effective. There's always a tension between growing the pie or taking more of the pie
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by rurp 3mo ago
Fabulous win in what ways, and for who? I'm genuinely asking, as I haven't followed the country much. From what I have read the same corrupt repressive regime, the one that ran the country into the ground, is still in place while
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by rurp 3mo ago
Good lord, renting a property to someone who voluntarily signs a lease is equivalent to slavery ?! Give me a break. I will say you're doing an excellent job of backing up OPs post. There absolutely are people with an unhinged view of
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by rurp 3mo ago
Certainly both are happening, to one degree or another. Hostile influence campaigns are having some effect but I would give homegrown the most credit. Given the general bumbling of the Putin/Orban governments of the world I doubt they
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by rurp 3mo ago
I would personally love it if efficiency actually became a priority again, but I don't see it happening. Instead we'll get an even more K shaped economy where people with enough money absorb the extra cost without much care, but e
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by rurp 3mo ago
You could say that about any big tech product and yet we've all seen power and wealth become concentrated on an incredible scale since the 60s. The immense resources needed to train frontier models gives the few companies that can mana
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by rurp 3mo ago
No that's a more partisan one, and is exactly the sort of thing OP was arguing against. If you want broad based support for research funding you will necessarily need support from a lot of people you personally find distasteful. You ca
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by rurp 3mo ago
Seriously. I hope everyone understands that this literally happened at a massive scale. So many projects were killed simply because the project name had a word on the banned words list. The idiots at doge and elsewhere have simply ctrl+f se
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by rurp 3mo ago
The American Empire is gone and not coming back. It rose in a very different world and once these competitive advantages in science and elsewhere have been squandered they won't ever get back to the same level; there's too much co
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by rurp 3mo ago
Are there solid existing launchers that can be swapped in? Changing the launcher is one of the first things I do when I get a new Pixel phone and highly recommend it, but I don't really want to have to maintain a vibe coded one.

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