thegrim33

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by thegrim33 13d ago
>> Industry sockpuppets often like to push statistics about closed-loop data centers >> So I'm going make my own slew of claims, yet provide absolutely zero sources for said claims, I'll just present my opinions as if
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by thegrim33 14d ago
Ah yes, the good 'ol "link to an article as proof of my claims, the article then contains multiple links to proof of the article's claims, and the multiple links, when followed, all end up leading to 404 pages with no content
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by thegrim33 15d ago
S&P 500 - All time high DJIA - All time high Unemployment rate - Near all time low (for last 20 years) Number of US small businesses - All time high US GDP - All time high [Sources] https://www.bls.gov/charts/employ
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by thegrim33 16d ago
Ah, another post from this journalist, claiming that a company investing billions of dollars in this, literally designing their own chips for it, that already has experience designing and operating tens of thousands of bespoke satellites, j
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by thegrim33 17d ago
On Lex Fridman recently DHH was enthusiastically bragging about how he was letting AI generate C++ that he intentionally wasn't even looking at, he was treating it as a pure black box and just submitting the output.
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by thegrim33 18d ago
The root cause underlying all of that is the simple fact that the average person just isn't intelligent enough. They fall for the grift, they fall for the advertising, for the manipulation, the propaganda, the echo chambers, the emotio
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by thegrim33 19d ago
In reality I see the anti-app sentiment as mostly a scheme to get more data into the cloud, more traffic that can be collected and spied on, less power and control for the user, and demonizing local computing and users having control over t
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by thegrim33 22d ago
"I almost sold a car today, but if I did, sure it would have been some income, but who knows when the next time I would sell another car would be? Why bother? It's rinse and repeat"
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by thegrim33 22d ago
The doomerism has two primary sources: 1) Political - The ideology/party spreading the doomerism promotes that they're the ones that can "fix it", if only you vote for them. 2) Adversarial countries, primarily China - Us
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by thegrim33 22d ago
It's so interesting to me that the whole "futurism" concept got co-opted into some sort of political propaganda machine. All the articles are negative hit pieces, they're all reductive, they're almost all political
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by thegrim33 24d ago
The population of Idaho continuously increases by ~1.5% - 2.0% every year. Clearly many people exist with a very different world outlook than your own, and value different things than you do. Compared to say, states like CA or NY, which see
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by thegrim33 29d ago
If even on Hacker News a topic like this can't be objectively discussed, what hope do we really have? What is the solution? Even in a place like this, the comments are full of extremist ideology, bickering, people arguing from feelings
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by thegrim33 1mo ago
One of the great lakes alone (Ontario) contains enough fresh water that it could supply the lifetime water requirements of 28 billion people.
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by thegrim33 1mo ago
>> In other words, he and most of his contemporaries were convinced that science was pretty much done. This was of course before Einstein’s theories of relativity, quantum mechanics and today’s fruitless search for dark matter. >&
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by thegrim33 1mo ago
For all the young people - you can find near exact clone copies of this comment every day, every month, from the last 20 years. Different poster each time, different company name each time, always the same great doom and gloom predictions.
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by thegrim33 1mo ago
Kind of reminds me of the neutered newspeak where people now choose to use words like "unalive" instead of "kill"
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by thegrim33 1mo ago
And how much fuel did the hybrid engine use during that same trip? Why give the figure for the electric side but not the gas side? What percentage of the trip's thrust came from electric rather than from gas? 99%? 0.01%?
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by thegrim33 1mo ago
"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. " Story about politic
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by thegrim33 1mo ago
Well, if a study decides to use a made up partisan propaganda term like "undocumented immigrant", which is a phrase which holds zero legal weight, has historically never existed until recent years, and which was created by and for
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by thegrim33 1mo ago
On the one hand, you've got people with engineering degrees, writing detailed research papers describing exactly how to accomplish the task, designing hardware for companies that accomplishes the task, companies that are pouring billio
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by thegrim33 1mo ago
Just vote with your wallet and don't buy phones without a headphone jack. That's what I do, and I've always had a phone with one.
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by thegrim33 1mo ago
I doubt "the data" is anything more than a survey of said people's feelings on the manner, which is basically of zero value. But we live in an age where if enough people say something is true that "makes" it true, o
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by thegrim33 1mo ago
>> Now, you could raise prices to the point where you destroy demand Isn't that topic .. the first chapter of any economics 101 course? Supply and demand and how they influence each other? You think after hundreds of years of eco
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by thegrim33 1mo ago
The difference is that one of those things actually happened, and the other one is your hypothetical extremist/exaggerated/worst possible case of what might happen this time.
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by thegrim33 1mo ago
Look through the poster's submission history. 100% of submissions are political propaganda. It's not a real person / authentic account.
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by thegrim33 1mo ago
Couldn't be bothered to write your own description of your own business and used AI to write/edit it for you. Surely I'd trust you with direct access to my brokerage account.
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by thegrim33 1mo ago
China must be laughing themselves breathless. "We actually convinced those idiots to self-sabotage their own tech infrastructure, they're literally #resisting and refusing to allow their tech industry to advance". Destroying
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by thegrim33 1mo ago
I hope the data releases are a bit better than what I've seen from recent telescopes. The common pattern seems to be that the majority of data is locked away behind multi-year embargo periods, or never released to the public at all wit
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by thegrim33 1mo ago
Your theory is that some people don't find it financially worthwhile to work in NYC, so therefore they decide to just give up and not work and not move anywhere else and just do absolutely nothing instead?
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by thegrim33 1mo ago
Wait until you find out where they get the money from to replace them

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