Ambolia

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Datacenters Are the New Shale Oil(pracap.com)
5 points by Ambolia 11d ago|1 comments
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by Ambolia 18d ago
If energy availability is going down, we are in a negative-sum game, which is even worse, the pie gets smaller and everybody loses.
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by Ambolia 1mo ago
I think a lot of people are just trying to keep the religion of progress alive without any real material progress and it sort of breaks their mind. I'm not saying that there's no real technological progress, but it's not a ma
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The AI Bailout Could Be Baked into the AI Bubble(prospect.org)
38 points by Ambolia 1mo ago|4 comments
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by Ambolia 2mo ago
A setup like this but in phone size would be ideal. The free software mobile world has really been a dumpster fire from the beginning.
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Surprising Gender Biases in GPT(sciencedirect.com)
6 points by Ambolia 7mo ago|0 comments
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The Rise and Fall of Nuremberg Christianity(americanaffairsjournal.org)
1 points by Ambolia 7mo ago|0 comments
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AI Monotheism vs. AI Polytheism(beren.io)
2 points by Ambolia 7mo ago|0 comments
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by Ambolia 9mo ago
Steven Pinker on this article: > https://x.com/sapinker/status/1999297395478106310 >"Bombshell: Oliver Sacks (a humane man & a fine essayist) made up many of the details in his famous case studies, d
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by Ambolia 9mo ago
Energy usage per capita peaked in america in the 1970s[1]. After that, maybe there were efficiency gains, but by using more energy you get crazy progress in the early 20th century, like doing 100x or 1000x more work per person. With efficie
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by Ambolia 10mo ago
It costs a lot of money to move, you don't know if the alternative will be any better, and if it affects a lot of companies then it's nobody's fault. "Nobody ever got fired for buying Cloudflare/AWS" as they sa
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by Ambolia 1y ago
I will worry when I see Startups competing on products with companies 10x, 100x, or 1000x times their size. Like a small team producing a Photoshop replacement. So far I haven't seen anything like that. Big companies don't seem to
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by Ambolia 1y ago
It would be cool if you could somehow form chains of trust with this, maybe even with links to other social media, where you could "follow other people that this guy has vetted". I want my social media censored and curated, but I
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AI Economic Meltdown: The Coming Expert Squeeze(twitter.com)
1 points by Ambolia 1y ago|0 comments
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by Ambolia 2y ago
It's a publicity stunt to score points while solving nothing. Same issue in Spain with squatters, it allows the goverment to confront tenants with landlords while the goverment does nothing.
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by Ambolia 2y ago
What about binary blobs? I hate having to store them outside of the database and that you can't just do a dbdump/import to clone a project.
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by Ambolia 2y ago
I like the rule of thumb: "If the result of a social psychology experiment doesn't agree with your grandma, it's probably fake."
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by Ambolia 2y ago
For me what killed search was 2016, after that year if some search term is "hot news" it becomes impossible to learn anything about it that wasn't published in the last week and you just get the same headline repeated 20 time
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The Laughter of Wolves(ecosophia.net)
1 points by Ambolia 2y ago|0 comments
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Blackwater PMC founder Erik Prince on distributed open-source communication(twitter.com)
13 points by Ambolia 2y ago|5 comments
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by Ambolia 3y ago
It can't be accessed without a google account.
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Capitalism's Overlooked Contradiction: Wealth and Demographic Decline(americanaffairsjournal.org)
3 points by Ambolia 3y ago|1 comments
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Endless Coffee(twitter.com)
1 points by Ambolia 3y ago|0 comments
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The race to 5G is over – now it's time to pay the bill(theverge.com)
2 points by Ambolia 3y ago|0 comments
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People who stuck by UK Covid rules have worst mental health, says survey(theguardian.com)
9 points by Ambolia 3y ago|0 comments
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by Ambolia 3y ago
>"What this chart shows is that, since 2000, the fossil fuel industry has in its very best year managed to secure $84.69 for every $1 spent on lobbying. This is not a bad return on investment, and clearly the money that the fossil f
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Greening the Void: Climate Change and Political Legitimacy(americanaffairsjournal.org)
1 points by Ambolia 3y ago|1 comments
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by Ambolia 3y ago
Science is a tool. I'm sure most people would have a positive view of science if it was performed by people or institutions they trust, for goals that they hold.
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by Ambolia 3y ago
If you are only doing web as documents with links. As soon as you use any Forms and error back-and-forth you have to either patch over the web stardards, or annoy your users with sub-par functionality.
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Bracing for Impact(ecosophia.net)
1 points by Ambolia 3y ago|0 comments

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