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niceice··on TSMC expected to announce $100B investment in U.S.
Another question is whether it is defendable at this point. It's not clear that China doesn't have military superiority over that area.
niceice··on 'Everybody is looking at their phones,' says man freed after 30 years in prison
I heard someone say this last week and they never went to prison.
niceice··on I think Yann Lecun was right about LLMs (but perhaps only by accident)
We all do. Humanity is better off thanks to the industrial revolution.

You wouldn't choose to back to the prior time and same will be true with this revolution.

niceice··on Tesla recalls 380k vehicles in US over power steering assist issue
This is only because they still haven't bothered to update to the internet enabled world.
niceice··on Ancient switch to soft food gave us overbite–the ability to pronounce 'f's,'v'
Rich vs poor. The rich can literally chop off food and throw it in the trash.
niceice··on Tesla recalls 380k vehicles in US over power steering assist issue
Does that mean the people defending the misuse of the word "recall" are regulation cultists?
niceice··on Andrej Karpathy: "I was given early access to Grok 3 earlier today"
Karpathy, Carmack, Andreesen, Jensen, Dawkins and others who know him IRL say the same. It's endlessly curious how people who don't know him are confident they know better.
niceice··on Andrej Karpathy: "I was given early access to Grok 3 earlier today"
To be fair, it was never everyone. Twitter was always small compared to Facebook and other networks.

It punches above its weight because it's where the cultural elite communicate.

niceice··on Plane crashes, overturns during landing at Toronto airport
Anyone know the math on how many crashes it would take until this would equalize?
niceice··on Andrej Karpathy: "I was given early access to Grok 3 earlier today"
He's trustworthy.

If he had that level of neuroticism he would just not say anything or only offer surface level praise.

niceice··on Grok3 Launch [video]
They just started, the velocity of xAI is novel.

NVIDIA's CEO Jensen Huang: “Building a massive [supercomputer] factory in the short time that was done, that is superhuman. There's only one person in the world who could do that. What Elon and the xAI team did is singular. Never been done before.”

niceice··on Grok3 Launch [video]
Richard Dawkins: "I have a very favorable impression of Elon Musk and his concern for the welfare of the world.

I have sat with [Elon] on a transatlantic plane and had a very, very long conversation with him. He's undoubtedly highly intelligent and knowledgeable.

I've had lunch with him on two or three occasions, and so I know him a little bit.

I have formed a very favorable impression of his intelligence, his knowledge and his concern for the welfare of the world."

The Poetry of Reality, November 17, 2024

niceice··on Grok3 Launch [video]
Sorry, but that is mental gymnastics. You've already made your conclusion and are torturing reality to make it fit.
niceice··on United States Power Outage Map
It's actually amazing looking at this map on a percentage basis.

States with 10 million plus customers that only have a few thousand without power.

Incredible achievement if you think about it.

niceice··on LinkedIn is the worst social media I've ever seen
They don't censor people. You can say anything as long as its legal.
niceice··on Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website
Move fast and break things is what built Silicon Valley and the modern world. It works, demonstrably.

The way the government has been run the past decades doesn't work, demonstrably. Every important metric has worsened.

niceice··on Zuckerberg's rightward policy shift puts Meta staffers on edge, targets Apple
I'm legitimately curious about this as someone observing from the outside.

Were they on edge when Zuckerberg had a leftward shift in prior years?

And where is the center?

niceice··on Search PPP Loans by Zip Code
Why was it forgiven?
niceice··on Microplastics in the human brain
What percentage is that?
niceice··on Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed
To be even more precise, here's the message from the source;

> This community has been banned

> This subreddit has been temporarily banned due to a prevalence of violent content. Inciting and glorifying violence or doxing are against Reddit’s platform-wide Rules. It will reopen in 72 hours, during which Reddit will support moderators and provide resources to keep Reddit a healthy place for discussion and debate.

niceice··on Eggs US – Price – Chart
Thanks for confirming that claim is false.
niceice··on Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed
I checked reddit recently for the first time in a while, and I was shocked by how radicalized its become. An echo chamber of hateful people and perhaps GPTs that are agitating the big subreddits. The contrast is stark with all the "no place for hate" in the rules and endless banning of microaggressions.

I saw dozens of death threats. Even an explicit death threat thread with over 40,000 upvotes before reddit stepped in and shut the whole subreddit down.

It reminded me of Ghostbusters 2 with all the aggressively angry people and the ooze pouring out of the sewers, all building upon itself.

niceice··on Eggs US – Price – Chart
Just fyi fake eggs and fake meat and fake butter are highly processed and include bad ingredients like other highly processed food.
niceice··on Eggs US – Price – Chart
Source for the claim they are removing the word "women" from every public-facing piece of scientific content?
niceice··on Eggs US – Price – Chart
Did you find some that aren't filled with terrible oils and other bad-for-you ingredients? I haven't in my area yet.
niceice··on Vanguard's average fee is now 0.07% after biggest-ever cut
What happens at 100 shares?
niceice··on Why the WHO has recommended switching to a healthier salt alternative
How much?
niceice··on The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE
Right. Why are people suddenly confused about this?
niceice··on The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE
Perhaps you don't realize how badly run the government is and how much of a problem that is in real terms.

Education, physical and mental health, cost of living, healthcare, wealth inequality. They've all gotten worse the past few decades, would you agree?

The NYT just reported that the federal government lost $236 billion to apparent fraud ("improper payments") in 2023 alone.

The US GAO says "2018-2022 Data Show Federal Government Loses an Estimated $233 Billion to $521 Billion Annually to Fraud"

USAID literally set up fake AIDS prevention workshops to topple foreign governments https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/08/0...

This is a small sample of the extreme waste, fraud and abuse, while we have very serious issues here on the ground that are systematically ignored. For DECADES. Unaddressed.

Fixing this is what the majority of voters voted for and are rightfully thrilled to see these brilliant young tech nerds untangle the beurocratic leviathon. There will be, and have been, mistakes, things deleted that shouldn't have been. Anything important and that the people actually want, will be added back in. DOGE was upfront about this process.

niceice··on The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE
That's an understatement. Death threats aimed at these young DOGE tech nerds flooded Reddit and Bluesky. Reddit even shut down a popular subreddit to stem the tide.
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