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silverFork··on ADHD Is Not a Superpower
There are others that would contest that claim. ADHD is now a medical industry buzz word that can map a person to a psych disease based on some self reporting methodology via some check boxes.. What it really is a monthly payment for some pills that are meant to solve some moving target of problems that some or many humans experience. Sleeping disorder is a new addition I suspect.

According to these people it is a super power.. who knows for sure https://bloomclinical.co.uk/adhd-a-superpower-in-disguise/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G14Q_izwflg

silverFork··on ADHD Is Not a Superpower
It is a superpower for those that claim that they can diagnose it and pharmas just like pain medication was... makes a lot of money for the adhd ecosystem.
silverFork··on A Mathematician's Square Wheel Bike
Three wheel triangles do something like that with carts that climb over the staircase.

Avoid the sales pitch though.. I am just posting it for reference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vievOxbPB3c

silverFork··on Amazon launches $250 Ring Drone Cam
You will be charged a monthly payment to spy on yourself. Amazon already would surely know how much you are worth if it uses various consumer analytic companies. And now the hacks can directly monitor the home owner inside the house .. LOL.. If they can make it talk, it can make suggestions too... LOL.. Hilarious
silverFork··on Aussie newsagent worker linked to company at centre of Nvidia spy scandal
"father told ABC News his son worked at his store in a small rural town in Northern Victoria."

LOL.. the top executive works in a corner store .. So much like under cover TV shows

silverFork··on Instagram Can Predict How Lonely You Are
Instagram can go and you know f--- itself. Social media is a major cause for goodness sake.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/well-read/202408/is-...

silverFork··on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair
No they named the chinese too..

I believe that the Chinese started building the stuff after 2022 when they banned h100s.. then they banned h800s in 2023 and now the Chinese have something equivalent to h100s that they are producing now.. or h800s .. not sure. H100s and H800s were not that different if I recall correctly. In any case, this news is very strange because they took the NVDA guy to China after they already knew of the affair apparently. Maybe she is a double agent!! Weird as hell.

It my mind they were monitoring the Chinese by feeding them the stuff.. using a double agent. It is way harder to know what Chinese are doing versus Americans I think.

silverFork··on Castration extends life span, but in a surprising way, mouse study suggests
"UGA research finds sterilized dogs live longer"

9.4 yrs > 7.9 yrs .. 40k dogs tested

both sexes. females 26% longer. Males 13%

https://news.uga.edu/uga-research-finds-sterilized-dogs-live... https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/04/study-spa...

silverFork··on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair
There is no way he would have known that the woman was a spy. Also we can't know if the allegations are true or not either until proven somehow. The woman was from Singapore. Singapore has denied it. but lets assume that she was a spy so why hasn't she been charged yet? Where is she? The chips apparently went to Malaysia .. is there a proof that they were moved to China? There are claims that their clouds were used by the Chinese. Something doesn't add up here.

Malaysia doesnt even show up in the graph of owners but obviously has imported some chips.. were they illegal ones.. who knows. How much relative power does this malaysia have? If it did, wouldnt show up in the graph?

https://epoch.ai/data/ai-chip-owners?view=graph&tab=count&co...

silverFork··on My parents chose to die together and I was left to grieve alone
Alzheimer's has few stages and once it hits a certain stage it is defined ax terminal; they are no cures and no slowing it down after certain stage. There are few other dementia types that are vascular and they are also terminal.
silverFork··on My parents chose to die together and I was left to grieve alone
Of course it is not in a vacuum. We are all product of some cultural views or apposition to it. You make assumptions about wishes of others. You can't make people live what you believe in. The choice has to be yours for your wishes and theirs for their wishes. Most people who practice this are terminal. Dementia is terminal.
silverFork··on My parents chose to die together and I was left to grieve alone
Typically bible pushing religious people but not always so one can not be sure. I think the jest of that one is that one of the partners was in better health and wanted to follow the other one into after life. But you know 100s of years ago people would just walk into the river...
silverFork··on My parents chose to die together and I was left to grieve alone
Nobody forcing anyone. Your wishes are your command.

But many people preemptively seek out a clean ending but many don't have the access when the time comes. Where I am from, many people who are terminal nowadays have big a family reunion or neighborhood party with dancing and all that jazz the day before the ending. Not that I have been to one but I heard about this stuff when visiting someone in hospital.

For many people dying in hospice is not what they look forward too. Dying as mother Theresa would like is not everyone.

silverFork··on My parents chose to die together and I was left to grieve alone
You have consider that everybody is terminal and that they had a choice and that they didn't suffer. The best is to remember them for the good times now. Sorry for their loss.
silverFork··on Ask HN: How do you keep track of the articles, papers and videos you save?
Exactly like you do but sometimes capturing some screen shot or save the text with a good title hoping to use it again and never do in reality because I either remember things or things change so fast that all the notes become useless before needing it again. If it is recipe of something that I would forget while I am doing it, I write it down. I typically end up looking up things unless it was a needle in a hay stack.
silverFork··on His Job Is to Turn Walmart's Customer Data into Profit
The solution I guess is to use prepaid credit cards. They can't know the identity of the shopper. There is a virtual credit card too apparently that hides the identity of the owner.

As soon as they figure who the user is, they know your net worth; it is not a recent phenomenon but now with Ai they can act on it with precision

silverFork··on As the Japanese countryside empties out, wildlife is disappearing
Wow the Spain is even more strange. It was over farmed and plowed so much that soil is degraded to become like concrete and barren because the water doesn't soak in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUzZk_uqSWc&t=107s

For that type of devastation, I recall reading years ago that growing rye and then rolling it instead of plowing it and replanting rye again for multiple seasons can create moisture retaining top soil. They would also need to add ditches to have pools of water for wild life to make a come back.

It is a completely different phenomenon. In 500 years all these lands are going to have an ecosystem again even if they don't do anything but they have to live with it for 100s of years if they don't do anything.

silverFork··on As the Japanese countryside empties out, wildlife is disappearing
I looked at few documents about japan and I believe it was conclusive.

https://www.nippon.com/en/articles/-/14855

I will look up spain when I get time and get back to you. I have to be somewhere now.

silverFork··on As the Japanese countryside empties out, wildlife is disappearing
The problem is apparently the tall bamboo that is taking over and not letting native tree to grow. This bamboo does not have home grown competition although it is a native bamboo. The who thing probably needs some sort of automated tilling and panting or imported workers to remove the the giant bamboo and farm it somehow perhaps.
silverFork··on Anthropic IPO valuation talks drop to $1.3T
Typically in an IPO, the offering is about 20% of valuation of the company at the first offering. But with a $trillion or more, they will offer say 10% or less.. say $100B in one go is probably what the market can take.. Some banker has to back it up initially and defend that price... the next dump will be about same amount say $100B again but not the same number of shares. The underwriters are not obliged to back $1T and the IPOed company is not obliged to release more shares.

Ultimately the percentage of shares that public will trade is material. say 20% for $100B is quite different from 10% for $100B.

silverFork··on OpenAI will keep investing in AI data centers despite election results
As expected, capital won't budge. Humans vs Machine/Capital. Capital has its own interest.
silverFork··on Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production
You are right. I hadn't notice that.. Pick up truck category is different.
silverFork··on Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production
Even if one assumes all tesla trucks.. share of electric trucks in USA is 0.3%.

Tesla cyber truck sales are going down from 38k a year to 20k a year. The Chinese net sales of electric trucks is massively more than Tesla's production if you look at the data that I posted.

https://www.centraloregondaily.com/news/consumer/tesla-to-pu...

silverFork··on Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production
They are not selling in USA. Chinese are buying the Chinese made ones..

https://evwire.com/etrucks/market-share

silverFork··on Confessions from Slopaholics Anonymous
cute..
silverFork··on $2.5T has been wiped from US stocks
Everybody knew it was coming soon.. Some were waiting for anthropic to IPO first. Markets could not wait because of public sentiment.
silverFork··on $2.5T has been wiped from US stocks
LOL
silverFork··on I made a film in Excel [video]
Liked it. Reminds me of this one which is my favorite of all times

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13EoGmVBNhE

silverFork··on Data Centers Were on the Ballot Across the US, and They Lost. What Comes Next?
In my opinion, what will happen is 2 logical things. They will expands the centers that they already have and retire older stuff faster OR would replace them with more energy efficient varieties. Next is that they would try to bamboozle other countries to installing new data centers. What is ongoing will probably get modified before installation.
silverFork··on How to Conquer a Nation Without Fighting [video]
Is it specifically the you you or your country and the higher empire that your country is allied to. Everybody has a personal agenda but when a population elects people and allies with other nations then they select a leadership to do their bidding. When a coalition goes bombing and financing wars then their citizens have a hand in it. These countries may have critics from within but your view point is washing the wars to make yourself sound like a holy victim and the victims as the guilty party.

I am neither Russian or a Russian troll, the fact your rants show your own color and it is a smoke screen to hide your own agenda. Not only that, in our timeline it is the right wingers that pump that type stuff who are allies of Russian aka Trump aka Musk aka German rightwing aka EU centered rightwing coalition.

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