thelastgallon

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by thelastgallon 1mo ago
> Meta, which is behind the $800m, 960-acre artificial intelligence (AI) datacenter campus, said independent testing by its contractor found no evidence of the bacterium and questioned the validity of the city’s own tests. Deny, deflect,
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by thelastgallon 1mo ago
Terrorists were able to get hold of a plane and do some damage. There are countless examples of terrorism using whatever is available. More than AI becoming sentient, whats to stop terrorists from using AI? If its geo-restricted, they can b
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by thelastgallon 1mo ago
Your comment reminds me of The Hustle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U
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by thelastgallon 1mo ago
Celebrities and influencers will be selling their own brand of mud, with their own special flavor!
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Prompting Is Dead in 6 Months. Andrew Ng, Stanford [video](youtube.com)
20 points by thelastgallon 1mo ago|24 comments
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Why Did Trump Order Up 660M Pounds of Mystery Meat?(nytimes.com)
7 points by thelastgallon 1mo ago|2 comments
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by thelastgallon 1mo ago
Australia's free electricity: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3NTlKEd5IIY This is how the modern grid shifts demand.
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by thelastgallon 1mo ago
When a human gets in a car, they gain an exoskeleton and are a danger to pedestrians. Cars have made walking and biking unsafe. But its not a car, but a human driving a car.
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Bill Gates Foundation – Mosquito Nets in Africa [video](youtube.com)
2 points by thelastgallon 1mo ago|2 comments
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by thelastgallon 1mo ago
Another source: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/25/world/africa/mosquito-net...
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by thelastgallon 1mo ago
I think you are trying to say something, but I'm not sure what it is. It is not clear what you are advocating for. More nuclear? Resiliency requires redundancy and that means excess production capacity. It is now mostly peaker gas plan
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by thelastgallon 1mo ago
A sane article. Looks like Ben Evans has real corporate experience and understands how things work in big corporations. Giving people AI is just like giving people Google Wave ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Wave
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by thelastgallon 1mo ago
We won't have glaciers, wolves and many many things our ancestors took for granted. But, fear not, AI will create the most awesome, unimaginable digital creations, and you can buy a vision pro and experience a world that not only exist
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by thelastgallon 1mo ago
We need gmail, docs and sheets replacements. With AI, maybe people can develop solid alternatives very quickly. And Linux phones. Trillion dollar companies try to extract more and more from us, the only response is for us to develop alterna
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by thelastgallon 1mo ago
> By the way, you can never switch completely to just renewables, it doesn't scale that well. China is scaling, so is Australia, quite possibly other countries. We'll know when they hit the limits and stop deploying more solar.
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by thelastgallon 1mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49573455 Why are European countries moving their gold out of North America?
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by thelastgallon 1mo ago
Any country that keeps gold in US or dollar reserves may end up looking very foolish. Sanctions and asset (financial and real) forfeitures coming soon to a country near you. The simplest and easiest geopolitical strategy that is available t
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by thelastgallon 1mo ago
Corporate profits are an exact mirror image of the US deficit and household debt: https://www.hussmanfunds.com/wp-content/uploads/comment/mc25... https://www.hussmanfunds.com/comment/mc25
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by thelastgallon 1mo ago
> VA's EHR contract ballooned from $10 billion to $27 billion — despite Oracle's promise to Congress that it would absorb any costs beyond the original cap.
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by thelastgallon 1mo ago
Thats exactly how you build for resiliency. You probably aren't familiar with running workloads on the cloud. There are multiple levels of redundancy, Availability Zones, multiple regions, etc. At least 4X redundancy if you are running
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by thelastgallon 1mo ago
China has a solution for high diesel prices. China Just Built a Diesel Killer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoJgvhydFag China’s oil consumption fell 9% year over year, Electric trucks produced the fastest change. From h
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by thelastgallon 1mo ago
With this range, a lot of flights in countries/regions with a lot of islands can be electrified: Philippines, Indonesia, Hawaii, Carribean, Scandinavian countries. Also, most countries are not that large. If we ignore the top 10 larges
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by thelastgallon 1mo ago
I wonder if Aluminium–air battery can be used for flying. They are not rechargeable, but with zero cost of energy during daytime, a supply chain can be built. The design battery energy density is 1300 Wh/kg (present) or 2000 Wh/kg
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by thelastgallon 1mo ago
> only way we are able to eat affordable food is because some diesel truck is transporting it. False, if poor people can't afford food, there are already food stamps and various programs in other countries. This 'affordable&#x2
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Burnt out on a three-day week(jennywanger.com)
65 points by thelastgallon 1mo ago|59 comments
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by thelastgallon 1mo ago
Businesses will have an incentive to transport goods efficiently, if the costs are not subsidized by consumers.
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by thelastgallon 1mo ago
Diesel should cost a lot more, almost all of the road damage is by heavy trucks. Trucking is being subsidized by all of us.
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by thelastgallon 1mo ago
I'd like to connect. My email is on my profile.
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The Hottest New Trade Is Your Own Electricity [video](youtube.com)
1 points by thelastgallon 1mo ago|0 comments
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by thelastgallon 1mo ago
Correct link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/headway/india-delhi-metro...

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