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throwaway85825on US voters roundly reject data centers in ballot measures

Rents rise in proportion to the rest of the market, you look at comparables. The market is a function of supply and demand. When my city passed a bunch of tenant laws ~16k units left the market and rents went up proportionally.

throwaway85825on Synaptics Appears to Use Legal Threats to Block Open-Source DisplayLink Driver

Patents should require a prototype demonstration. Would clear up a lot of the patents for preexisting ideas.

throwaway85825on 'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save UK high street?

Instead of a tariff, shipping cost could be separated from good cost. Further separate the shipper and require competition.

There are still goods that are primarily bought in person, hazardous and large where shipping is prohibitive.

throwaway85825on Anthropic S-1

No, LLMs are still happy to mow down grannies to protect copyright.

throwaway85825on 'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save UK high street?

Government adds mountains of red tape, taxes employers to death and has reduced the spending power of the median worker to below poland through its plantation migration policy.

Commercial units sit empty instead of lowering rents because of the 'extend and pretend' in lending. The banks can't afford to revalue commercial real estate at the current market rate. It's like the 70s again.

throwaway85825on 'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save UK high street?

0 value add retail was always going to evolve to a lower friction experience. Sears roebuck catalog disrupted retail in the 1800s.

throwaway85825on 'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save UK high street?

When commercial rents aren't artificially inflated it allows for a greater diversity of businesses. There are tons of businesses that could exist if the government wasnt so intent on running a plantation economy.

throwaway85825on 'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save UK high street?

They don't have inventory/consumables which makes money laundering easier. The low transaction cost makes paying cash normal. The primary cost is labor and they force the indentured employees to pay it back for 'living expenses'.

throwaway85825on Anthropic S-1

Infinite context requires Infinite memory.

throwaway85825on Anthropic S-1

That's the push factor. The pull is, say there's a giant repo like windows or Adobe. LLMs produce spaghetti code because the repo doesnt fit in the context and it wasn't in the training set. If Adobe fine tuned it the LLM would be much more useful.

throwaway85825on Anthropic S-1

I would take that number with a huge grain of salt since the useless Google search ai box consumes Gemini tokens.

Intentional Gemini token consumption is likely very very small.

throwaway85825on Anthropic S-1

It's going to be all about the training set. Theres no moat in models trained on internet data.

There are tons of private datasets where a model will be fine tuned to provide useful domain specific responses.

throwaway85825on OLED iPad Mini

It's not just the maximum refresh rate, the variable refresh rate allows for power saving.

throwaway85825on Anthropic S-1

'AI' still fails the alignment grannybench.

throwaway85825on Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you bought

If they had charged people the economic price up front instead of intentionally bait and switching this wouldn't be controversial.

throwaway85825on Tesla Roadster

1. No rockets

Drones are extremely weight sensitive. Adding a heavy thruster would massively eat into the payload.

Trucks are also weight limited by the 80k rule. Brakes are far superior.

throwaway85825on Tesla's new Roadster makes a flying debut, hitting 60 MPH in under a second

Nitrogen specifically

throwaway85825on Tesla's new Roadster makes a flying debut, hitting 60 MPH in under a second

This is going to be the next oceangate and I fully support it.

throwaway85825on Tesla Roadster

I'll bite. What do you see as applications of for commodity cold gas thrusters? Excluding rockets.

throwaway85825on Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years

I accidentally went to a DSA meeting once. Was entertaining, they spent much of the time attacking eachother.

throwaway85825on Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years

Putnam did followup work investigating the causes.

https://www.puttingourdifferencestowork.com/pdf/j.1467-9477....

throwaway85825on Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years

https://www.puttingourdifferencestowork.com/pdf/j.1467-9477....

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

Research on this has been done and the cause is known. There is just no desire to improve the conditions of social activity on the part of civil society or the government.

throwaway85825on Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours

Much of this was taken back into government control after Wagner shot down government helicopters and a plane.

throwaway85825on Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours

In some countries maybe, but in west where all the valuable infrastructure is there is absolutely no way you could get a permit to shoot down anything.

throwaway85825on Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program

Displacement is a taxpayer funded externality. Companies are not entitled to taxpayer dollars just because theyre too cheap to hire american.

throwaway85825on Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program

That assumes anyone is actually checking up on this. Enforcement is virtually nonexistent.

throwaway85825on Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program

Yes, jobs.now

throwaway85825on Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program

Are they incapable of hiring Americans? Like it's treated as a given no company would ever hire an American, it's absurd.