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It could be both. I think people reasonably state it's data centers driving up prices more than other things because we've power as a mostly fixed supply in many places in the US for a while, and the recent increase in lower income/rural areas had correlated all with data center expansion as opposed to other things like EV adoption, etc...

It seems like it would only work out for shade loving crops in areas where net metering is an option.

Have the panels mostly cover the crops in the day time (improve yields) and export to the grid (reduce or eliminate electricity costs), then turn on LEDs for some portion of the night (improve yields) and import enough to offset your exports (use any excess you have from the day time).

In those situations, the additional cost could be zero or even a net benefit with some increase in crop yield.

I think the question is, are these panels less expensive than taking normal panels, maybe with LEDs to help growth at night, and adding solar tracking to optimize solar generation, plant shading, and plant growth?

That sounds economically rational to me.

I think a comparable situation would be if everyone bid up to or higher than the actual price to generally support it.

They would be acting economically irrational in that situation to increase price overall, like corporate land lords refusing to lower prices even if it means they have higher than normal vacancy rates.

You should probably compare revenue instead of profit because Tesla and Toyota are at very different places in their development.

But Toyota still makes 3x Teslas revenue.

I'm guessing some of the 9x difference is speculative and some is because Tesla is all in on EVs/etc, which are doing well, and Toyota is still very much in ICEs, which aren't doing as well.

Yup. I think I also bought an 8gb Pi 4 for $50+ or similar a while back.

The price of a pico is what the zero used to be, and the 4gb/8gb 5 is $110 to $185 depending on ram when the 4 used to be I think $55 to $75 at the same ram.

I shouldn't be surprised because it's similar to/worse than the transition from DDR3 to DDR4, but I still was caught off guard to some degree.

I miss them selling for $3.14 on Pi day.

These days we'd be lucky to see certain models discounted to $314.

It can be, if everyone also acts to keep prices high by behaving in ways that aren't typical.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_collusion

Yeah. That's why I referenced Michael Levin's stuff. I think it's more applicable because he describes intelligence as an innate aspect of different creatures/systems/etc.

It seems far more pedestrian than that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50347685

It might be analogous to animals learning by observation versus learning by in instruction, although it sounds closer to bacteria trading dna.

My impression is that it's somewhat analogous to someone with a lot of experience teaching someone who is much younger and has much less experience.

More generally, I think some of Michael Levin's ideas about intelligence are more broadly applicable than we would like to admit.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Or_3tlEOLj4

I think they're referring to more fundamental things like math, language, etc...

A recipe book can have copyright because it's for the specific combination of recipes, layout, etc... Not for a recipe or more generally a recipe book.

I think that's consistent with his the supreme court ruled in Google v Oracle.

I agree. And you don't have to yell it.

And... Them stomping on you during an illegal search doesn't make it a legal one and doesn't shield them from liability.

Even in a legal search, I'm guessing they can't decide to curb stomp you just because without the risk of legal/other liability.

Huh, I though they did. But maybe I was wrong or they changed that.

There are, although you still have to find a lawyer to litigate them. Maybe less so than in other years, but in other cases, maybe more so.

If they have a warrant, they can search for stuff in that warrant.

If they don't, they can still do that, but anything they find will likely not be usable in court and you'll have a straightforward civil rights case.

And that they'll let you register even when connected to tor.

Your own property/server has 4th amendment protections, especially if it's in your house. Your use of someone else's machine doesn't, especially when they voluntarily give up your info.

You can also use proxys and/or tor to create external accounts/upload stuff.

I just asked my SO and she confirmed that "all y'all" means everyone within earshot and "y'all" usually means a specific group of people. She also said "y'all" is similar to "on" in French and "youse guys" in the NE.

I'm guessing it's regional and/or group specific.

The quarterly data is more recent.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/release/tables?rid=53&eid=17636

The CPI has gone up far faster than real wages.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIAUCSL

People are earning about 12% more and working about 5% less since 1980, but everything costs roughly 3x what it did in 1980 relative to wages, and that's where most people are pinched.

Generally yes, but I think it's a lot more nuanced and varied than that.

My guess is that there are a large set of genetic, environmental, and idiopathic contributors that converge to a loosely similar phenotype, but couldn't be treated effectively in the same way because they have different sets of causes.

I think we'll eventually get to a point where we can treat many kinds of dementia in the same way we treat infections/etc... But it'll take a while.

They may be able to be prosecuted in foreign countries even with a pardon in the US. The US would need an extradition treaty with the country where they committed the crimes in some way and an administration willing to extradite them.

Or fund it fully through taxes, like roads, schools, etc...

It's a problem with the law too, but corporations still effectively shield individuals from criminal prosecution for things individuals would be prosecuted for by breaking up accountability among many different people/groups of people.

There seems to be a reduction in psychological dependence in people treated with benzos and barbiturates for seizure disorders compared to people who don't have seizure disorders.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6494026/

I think other disorders in gaba/glutamate functioning (or in an adjacent disorder that affects these systems) could be similar.

My guess is that low doses of benzos used to treat neurological disorders have a lower risk because GABA/Glutamate/related systems in that population are pathologically dysfunctional and benefit more directly from these medications.

I asked Goog's for enterprise value of the sector as a percentage of total market in all 4 situations, so it's not exact because enterprise value isn't available back to the 1800s, but it should be ballpark assuming the overall picture is accurate.

In terms of infra spending as a percent of GDP, 1880s railroads were at 5-6% at peak while AI is estimated to reach 3+% in a year or two.

It depends what they're being taken for. There are certain conditions where low doses of benzos are fine for years or decades.

Not according to Goog's. The railroad bubble of the 1880s was supposedly 60+% of the market. It may not be accurate though.

"During the 1880s, private railroad enterprises represented over 60% of the total capitalization of the entire U.S. stock market, peaking at 63% in 1881 and 1885."