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by AtlasBarfed 2mo ago
You are mere hundreds of miles from cheap Chinese panel manufacturing. The Chinese are going to pump manufacturing oversupply for likely a decade more. 10 years roi is mass scale corruption
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by AtlasBarfed 2mo ago
Strange anticapitalist stance for hackernews
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by AtlasBarfed 2mo ago
If we really have intelligent LLMs, then I would guess they are going to inflate their token rates, which when someone sees "token costs" they should think "invisibly variable consulting rates". I just did a complex (for
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by AtlasBarfed 2mo ago
Get a battery
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by AtlasBarfed 2mo ago
Why shouldn't that be true practically every consumer home in the world? Yes, grid scale deployments are cheaper, but I'm generally guessing a lot of the grid scale solar deployments do not price in the grid infrastructure adaptat
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by AtlasBarfed 2mo ago
On a related note, why isn't a shotgun now standard armament for infantrymen? Is there a better/cheaper anti-drone infantry weapon? I saw this ridiculous Russian training video of some soldier doing a tuck and roll with an ak-47 a
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by AtlasBarfed 2mo ago
So the hawking radiation is so strong that it impedes matter falling into the hole? And can you charge the hole with enough of a charge to use electromagnetism to move and contain it?
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by AtlasBarfed 3mo ago
Because they are dumping/subsidizing it token processing to try and get companies to fire as many people as possible. So they'll be dependent upon the companies when they have to Jack the rates
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by AtlasBarfed 3mo ago
Hatari has existed as an emulator for like a decade.... I get this may be transpiled to the web, but...
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by AtlasBarfed 3mo ago
The end state vector of capitalism has been like this for decades now. What can change this: - large scale geopolitical demographic collapse of China and/or world trade requiring massive industrial production investment, which would be
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by AtlasBarfed 3mo ago
The US basically refused to do a Marine expeditionary landing. Our infantry doesn't have anti-drone defenses. They probably haven't been trained or equipped with shotguns to attack flying drones, much less have flotillas of H-K dr
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by AtlasBarfed 3mo ago
"Substantial" seems like a damning word. So one of my pet theories I haven't seen in general discourse is that AI came from the massive vector processing jump available commercially in GPUs when it left CPU bound processing b
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by AtlasBarfed 3mo ago
An Amazon phone with Amazon Video, playing Amazon Music, making phone calls throug the Amazon messenger, with an Amazon Browser that overlays ads to Amazon products, and has Amazon Voice Recognition ... blah blah blah I imagine when you are
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by AtlasBarfed 3mo ago
You missed the biggest one Us military has had active demonstrations of the importance of advanced drone munitions FOR TEN YEARS NOW and completely dropped the ball. It is clear that an organizational level the US military does not have inf
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by AtlasBarfed 3mo ago
The answer is yes. The world is deglobalizing, and while drones may not exert Blue water power projection, they now dominate littoral power projection. Marine invasions may be impossible in drone combat without drone superiority, and right
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by AtlasBarfed 3mo ago
" The housing problem hasn't been solved" This assumes it is a problem that is being addressed. When housing values soar, there are people getting rich off of that. The "solution" is devaluation of people's ass
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by AtlasBarfed 3mo ago
Yeah, someone is pulling up the ladder here.
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by AtlasBarfed 3mo ago
But if cacebook has aws class data centers for their IT, and anthropic level AI for their programmers.... .... Why keep that only in house and why not make competitive public companies?
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by AtlasBarfed 3mo ago
Are the LFTR / MSR salts better or worse than hot sodium on vessel containment? But with MSRs of a scalable size you could just pipe the fuel to a replacement reactor when the current vessel reached its operational life.
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by AtlasBarfed 3mo ago
And even on that timeline, that spots another 6 years for perovskite solar cell development, wind farm build out, and sodium ion and other ultra cheap storage chemistries to develop. The oppressive economics of alternative energy right now
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by AtlasBarfed 3mo ago
What's depressing about this? Is it involves freeway driving. Which should theoretically be the simplest thing to train AI for, and the thing you should be able to get the best change and construction reporting to a centralize system a
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by AtlasBarfed 3mo ago
Build a solar plant in the Sahara desert and ship the energy long range, Nuclear's probably still more expensive than that. I'm not saying we give up on nuclear entirely. It should be at the well-funded research and prototyping ph
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by AtlasBarfed 3mo ago
Your right should go into a queue and get compacted later on? That's what Cassandra does iirc
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by AtlasBarfed 3mo ago
Social engagement circuitry in your brain is in other parts than dedicated internal conversation logic thought streams. By talking to someone else, you're simply mobilizing a different set of circuitry and thinking approaches. It'
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by AtlasBarfed 3mo ago
...You guys have mountains everywhere, which means dirt cheap hydro energy storage for solar and wind? I'm a lftr enthusiast, but everyone needs to keep in mind that fission is just fundamentally economically non-competitive compared t
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by AtlasBarfed 3mo ago
They are a distant third at best, at least in trading companies. If you look at Chinese and other likely national actors, they are probably further down. The thing with dotComs is that they didn't have THIS level of unsustainable finan
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by AtlasBarfed 3mo ago
Butterfly is the "three point shot" of swimming. If you can do a pool length of butterfly you are a "real" swimmer, kind of like a non-prayer three point shot implies you actually played basketball.
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by AtlasBarfed 3mo ago
AI's appetite for computation scales with the willingness of their funders to provide heavily discounted tokens to the general public. The basic play here is to get companies to fire people and adapt internal processes to the current h
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by AtlasBarfed 3mo ago
Here are the positive points, relatively speaking: - solar/wind/batteries have a fundamental economic advantage already, and there is further runway for gains in efficiency, yield, and cost reductions. All its competitors are, gen
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by AtlasBarfed 3mo ago
We get it, corporations are immortal, formless entities that cannot be compelled to follow law. ... except they need to make that transient, formless concept known as money, and governments CAN use that.

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