thegrim33

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by thegrim33 3mo ago
They chose to add the word "guzzle". They could have just written "Irish datacenters now use 23% of the country's electricity". But they made the editorial decision to add in "guzzle". What's the word
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by thegrim33 3mo ago
"This new tool allows for writing all this code ..... but every person and company, in unison, in a grand conspiracy, all decided to only write private software with it that they aren't releasing to the public in any way" See
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by thegrim33 3mo ago
This article is pretty much a textbook example for me of what took me a long time to realize - even objectively intelligent people are still very easily brainwashed. Especially with regards to political/social issues. Maybe increased i
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by thegrim33 3mo ago
Capitalism, in particular NASA's commercial space development program, have already provided and demonstrated initial asteroid redirect capability via the DART mission launched by SpaceX, which impacted an asteroid and measured the cha
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by thegrim33 3mo ago
They gave a ~2 year timeframe for their predictions in this one (tied to the next presidential election), so in 2 years when none of this has happened will they then switch over to a new AI 2044 Plan? Where's the accountability? Where&
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by thegrim33 3mo ago
It's so interesting. We all now that in X months from now the propaganda campaigns will switch to the new hot topic and we'll never hear about data centers or their "water usage" ever again. In X months from now everyone
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by thegrim33 3mo ago
Well yeah, that's the point. They want to enshitify cars and make driving as expensive and as annoying as possible to force people out of cars. They know they can't just ban cars outright, so they enshitify this little thing this
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by thegrim33 3mo ago
From their profile, this person makes a living selling AI programming products, by the way. Who could have guessed. There's a pattern to be noticed, even.
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by thegrim33 3mo ago
It makes sense, but it's probably pretty far down on the list of "what could we put money towards in order to increase birthrate". Could probably get a lot more result for the money by funding efforts to pair people together,
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by thegrim33 3mo ago
Looking at the long list of the things you had to do to get this working .. and you couldn't "find" the energy to write some text for the landing page yourself? For a project you want people to buy from you? You supposedly pu
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by thegrim33 3mo ago
Half the traffic on this site are real, intelligent humans (among whom opinion is split different ways on the AI topic), a quarter of the traffic is propagandists trying to destroy western tech/infrastructure/society (notice how C
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by thegrim33 3mo ago
Do you really think these companies are spending billions of dollars on such systems without doing any research as to whether a market for it exists? "Starlink is SpaceX's primary revenue driver, generating $11.39 billion in 2025
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by thegrim33 3mo ago
SPCX opened at $160.95. It's now at $158.63. S&P 500 one month ago was at $7,600. It's now at $7,500. DJIA one month ago was at $51,078. It's now at $52,334. These numbers are what this economy doomer porn article is base
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by thegrim33 3mo ago
>> The point is not the consumers of the Internet A) They're not just "consumers"; people produce a huge percentage of the content, via facebook, instagram, tiktok, etc B) The people of a society define its culture. Whe
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by thegrim33 3mo ago
>> Facebook was ruining everything, and those were five to ten years before 2012 Facebook didn't even exist 10 years before 2012 ..
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by thegrim33 3mo ago
The topic always feels like a typical propaganda push to me; the constant sensationalist articles, people constantly bemoaning it when in reality having to change your clocks by an hour twice a year is the most trivial, irrelevant thing to
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by thegrim33 3mo ago
0.275% and 0.275 are two different things.
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by thegrim33 3mo ago
Except everything in orbit is also moving at those same speeds, so the relative speed difference between any two objects is orders of magnitude smaller than that. (Of course, yes, there's outlier cases where that's not as true, bu
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by thegrim33 3mo ago
Devil's advocate - what's the nth-order effect of the current internet / social media setup that we currently have? How much damage is it causing? Who did the analysis on that and decided what ended up with today is the best
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by thegrim33 3mo ago
The first example given is someone who is "living out of their car and running out of money for gas". Let's take a deep dive through that person's comment history and try to see where they might be going wrong. This is w
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by thegrim33 3mo ago
>> And everyone agrees that social welfare services have been stretched to the limit—where they still exist at all. US yearly spending on welfare systems: $1.80 Trillion The entire GDP of England: $2.16 Trillion The entire GDP of Fran
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by thegrim33 3mo ago
When I was a kid the whole thing was "save the rainforests". Constant campaigns to stop chopping down trees, stop using wood, or else the amazon rainforest was going to no longer exist in X years. Constant fear mongering that we o
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by thegrim33 3mo ago
NASA intentionally completely gave up on trying to answer the Mars life question for multiple decades and only very recently has come back around to the idea of doing life finding missions.
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>> MD doctors poll at extraordinarily high levels of trust "1966–2012: Historical Harris Polls show a steady long-term erosion, with "great confidence" in the leaders of medicine dropping from 73% to 34% over these deca
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by thegrim33 4mo ago
People have been buying $1000+ iPhones for a decade now.
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by thegrim33 4mo ago
It's so interesting to me that as a PC gamer, they chose to just .. not let me buy the game. It's not even an option, for any price. I'd have to wait multiple years for them to decide to go for another cash grab and do a PC r
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by thegrim33 4mo ago
Because as we all know, every start up is funded entirely by pre-existing personal savings, no other sources of funding for businesses exist.
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by thegrim33 4mo ago
For a hobby OS .. nobody is stopping you. I have my own hobby OS where everything is custom, I don't even have a standard C library, I made my own, I don't copy posix conventions, everything is just implemented as to what makes se
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by thegrim33 4mo ago
I mean, it still seems like a lot for an absolutely barebones vehicle. Going by an inflation calculator, $25K in 2026 translates to $~13K in the year 2000, and in the year 2000 the average completely barebones/entry car sold for $~8K-9
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by thegrim33 4mo ago
"200 to 400 pedestrians a year would not have died" Or, put another way, 0.000058% to 0.0001159% of the population.

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