forthefuture

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by forthefuture 3mo ago
News is what people who do things use to maintain an accurate mental model of the world. If everything that you know about the world fits in a 2km radius around your house, you aren't doing anything.
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by forthefuture 3mo ago
Large groups of people all contributing small amounts towards a goal none of them could accomplish on their own is the only way any of those things ever get done.
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by forthefuture 4mo ago
You can get an H200 (141GB) here for $2,700/mo: https://deploybase.ai/articles/h200-price I could be wrong but my understanding is that 24/7 dedicated servers are wildly economically unviable. The reason clou
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by forthefuture 4mo ago
Is it possible to be cheaper than the DGX Spark? Because that's $4,700. I would think Spark + Laptop would be necessarily more expensive.
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by forthefuture 5mo ago
Except that's the point. It is the same store. It is two different cashiers. The second one doesn't know you got the ID from the first one, that's why it works. The point is that if a store like that existed, it would be stup
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by forthefuture 10mo ago
Unfortunately not, each version of RAM uses a different physical slot.
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by forthefuture 4y ago
Uber lost all of the money all of the original investors gave them, and sold that bag of dog shit to the public. Everyone who bought the IPO lost money.
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by forthefuture 4y ago
Amazon was founded in 1994 and turned their first profit in 2001. A better example would be Uber, which ran negative until they had less than one year of runway remaining and then were somehow allowed to scam pedestrians into keeping their
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by forthefuture 4y ago
Here's the other five threads: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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by forthefuture 4y ago
It’s already priced in. You’re just paying more for the features you aren’t using.
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by forthefuture 4y ago
The way it’s supposed to work is that the government sells bonds and the money goes away. Much like your original premise, it doesn’t much make sense that people think modern monetary policy only thought up quantitative easing and not quant
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by forthefuture 6y ago
They mean that the corporation is paying for the people downloading 70 terabytes from them.
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by forthefuture 6y ago
It's an aggregate of the months you're selecting (2019/04 - 2020/03). If you select just March you can see what they're seeing: https://netmarketshare.com/?options=%7B%22filter%22%3A%7B%22...
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by forthefuture 7y ago
This is something I love about watching business / finance news channels. Everyone is trying as hard as they can not to lie because it's illegal in their context.
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by forthefuture 8y ago
I’d go even further: I hope it keeps falling until a better crypto currency is worth more. Bitcoin even existing proves the market is more speculative than functional.
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by forthefuture 8y ago
Well no, every system requires people with power to be generally good. No system survives with only bad actors. You’re incorrectly assuming a generous billionaire isn’t a feature of capitalism / democracy.
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by forthefuture 8y ago
But they all used to, which means functionally the only difference is now there isn't a link so I have to make an additional request, in a new tab, directly to Wikipedia for more information (Demographics, Economics, Government, etc).
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by forthefuture 8y ago
Much of the time I don't see a link to Wikipedia. If I Google "Malta" there is a paragraph on the right and no link to Wikipedia. This also happens in Google Maps, when you click on a city and they have the blurb, much of the
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by forthefuture 8y ago
Many people listen to audiobooks in situations where they can't watch or play things, like driving or working out.
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by forthefuture 8y ago
Australia = 24 million in 296,790 square miles of habitable land. California = 39 million in 163,696 square miles of total land. California has twice as many people in an area half the size (not including inhabitable parts of California sin
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by forthefuture 8y ago
It's the opposite. A false sense of security is feeling safe when it isn't safe. In this case, it is safe, but people mistakenly feel unsafe. The police are providing a real sense of security that both represents the actual securi
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by forthefuture 8y ago
If a stock dropped 60% you wouldn’t consider “it was very recently 10 times lower” a positive.
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by forthefuture 9y ago
How can this keep getting reposted?
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by forthefuture 9y ago
No one releases money in accounts numbers. Kraken was doing $711M in daily volume before the maintenance. [1] Only the top 8 exchanges have cracked a billion in daily volume. [2] [1] https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/
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by forthefuture 9y ago
1% of people have the mutation[1]. 25 million people are registered to donate bone marrow internationally[2]. That statistically represents 250,000 total cures available worldwide for the 36.7 million HIV sufferers[3]. Not taking into accou
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by forthefuture 9y ago
You can just pass it through mixers to anonymize it. Input 1,000 different peoples coins, output any one of their coins one at a time. There's no way to know whose coins are coming out the other side. https://en.wikipedia.or
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by forthefuture 9y ago
Its easier to get businesses to use Discord than to get gamers to use Slack.
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by forthefuture 9y ago
Previous Discussion (11hrs ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15667753
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by forthefuture 9y ago
Here's the other thread that is still on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15661314
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by forthefuture 9y ago
It's a little off topic, but I was thinking about this while playing a space-fighter simulator; how ridiculous it was that far enough into the future that there'd be combat in space, I'd still be manually controlling the targ

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