Lots of folks in here calling out the "billion scans a month" and skipping over the "capable of" part. They're not claiming they'll perform a billion scans. They're trying to build enough machines that if absolutely all…
AFAICT, the "Rising layoffs year after year" news lately has been an intentional misreporting of "Layoff rates slowly returning to normal after the hiring spree during COVID stimulation"…
> AI takes in all the input, whether the original authors have consented or not, and do some "learning" What would it mean for authors who publish content publicly to the web, without access restrictions, to provide…
The DoW is engaging in simple crybullying. In my time as an online moderator I see it all the time. “You are impinging on my freedom to force you to participate in activities you have expressly indicated it is against…
I would very much like to see us return to something resembling the original copyright terms. Like: Manually file for 22 years of enforcement. Then manually file 20 years later for 22 more. You could create some great…
My source is first and second hand reports from management of game companies having worked in the industry for decades. But, they don’t make numbers like that public. The best public report I can find is…
> especially if you are willing to wait for some days or weeks after launch (an important sales window for the publishers). “Important” is an understatement. Even for long-term success stories, the first three or four…
Is the content of the comment productive to the conversation? Upvote it. Is the content of the comment counter-productive? Downvote it. I could see cases where large walls of text that are generally useless should be…
“About half of all food deliveries globally are shorter than 2 and a half miles, which basically means that all of our cities are filled with burrito taxis” There is a future where a city's burrito taxis are replaced…
> in fact they can start doing so today In fact they already have. There are 10s of thousands of forks of Bitcoin. Only a handful ever got significant attention. And, the original is still much larger than all of the…
There are at least two reasons to buy Bitcoin: 1. You need it for use as a collateral asset for smart contracts. There are no crypto cops or crypto courts. Only collateral gives contracts teeth. There are many options…
At a logical level, Bitcoin should be decorrelated from stocks. The fundamentals of Bitcoin network adoption and utilization are largely separate and independent. But, at an emotional level, Bitcoin is considered a…
> would prefer to pay all their employees $0 and have all diners/customers/etc pay 100% of the wages out of guilt. It is my understanding that this is literally the origin of tipping. After the abolition of slavery,…
One of the greatest problems in argumentation over the internet is that people gravitate towards acting as if every statement is intended to define a universal truth so they can argue against that strawman.
> This means if you ask it one question every two minutes, you're using about as much energy as a 10W LED lightbulb. Meanwhile your idle desktop PC and monitor are pulling 20-100W each. People tend to forget that doing…
Compared to the “Magnificent Seven”, Bitcoin’s volatility has put it in the middle, while it’s performance puts it at or near the top depending on the time window.…
> I find it a dumb idea what whether or not people can get credit to start/expand businesses would be dependent of solving math problems. That’s quite a mischaracterization. We can at least agree that Bitcoin’s supply…
You can buy a pizza from me with Bitcoin now. I’m not a vendor or even a chef. But, anything is negotiable.
> Maybe they should work on fixing that It’s not an either/or. While we figure out the practical solutions to corruption in impoverished nations, we can /also/ do other work to improve the situation in Earth. And, in…
I still remember from over 20 years ago I was sitting in the kitchen talking to my grandmother. She was smoking and had some Fox News talking head on in the background. Maybe Hannity? What I noticed what that there was…
We're getting warmer. Back in the days of king and country, people went through all that, went home, and some lived normal lives. A whole lot hid in that trauma from the neighbors and instead took it out on their…
I think the two of us are on opposite sides of the "These elements include:" list :) "Laundry to do..." is a trauma dump for pretty much everyone in this third decade of 24/7 local/global disaster reporting. It's the…
Compared to the dollar over the past five years… The dollar down vs itself by 20ish percent. The median home price is up 30ish percent. Oil is up 45ish percent. Gold and the SP500 are each up 80ish percent. Bitcoin is…
Of course. But, then there's the rest of my comment...
From what I've read, the deficit looked like a huge problem and turned out to not be a problem from WWII to 2008. That's the situation most economists, finance leaders and regulators grew up in. But, the demographic…
Lots of folks in here calling out the "billion scans a month" and skipping over the "capable of" part. They're not claiming they'll perform a billion scans. They're trying to build enough machines that if absolutely all…
AFAICT, the "Rising layoffs year after year" news lately has been an intentional misreporting of "Layoff rates slowly returning to normal after the hiring spree during COVID stimulation"…
> AI takes in all the input, whether the original authors have consented or not, and do some "learning" What would it mean for authors who publish content publicly to the web, without access restrictions, to provide…
The DoW is engaging in simple crybullying. In my time as an online moderator I see it all the time. “You are impinging on my freedom to force you to participate in activities you have expressly indicated it is against…
I would very much like to see us return to something resembling the original copyright terms. Like: Manually file for 22 years of enforcement. Then manually file 20 years later for 22 more. You could create some great…
My source is first and second hand reports from management of game companies having worked in the industry for decades. But, they don’t make numbers like that public. The best public report I can find is…
> especially if you are willing to wait for some days or weeks after launch (an important sales window for the publishers). “Important” is an understatement. Even for long-term success stories, the first three or four…
Is the content of the comment productive to the conversation? Upvote it. Is the content of the comment counter-productive? Downvote it. I could see cases where large walls of text that are generally useless should be…
“About half of all food deliveries globally are shorter than 2 and a half miles, which basically means that all of our cities are filled with burrito taxis” There is a future where a city's burrito taxis are replaced…
> in fact they can start doing so today In fact they already have. There are 10s of thousands of forks of Bitcoin. Only a handful ever got significant attention. And, the original is still much larger than all of the…
There are at least two reasons to buy Bitcoin: 1. You need it for use as a collateral asset for smart contracts. There are no crypto cops or crypto courts. Only collateral gives contracts teeth. There are many options…
At a logical level, Bitcoin should be decorrelated from stocks. The fundamentals of Bitcoin network adoption and utilization are largely separate and independent. But, at an emotional level, Bitcoin is considered a…
> would prefer to pay all their employees $0 and have all diners/customers/etc pay 100% of the wages out of guilt. It is my understanding that this is literally the origin of tipping. After the abolition of slavery,…
One of the greatest problems in argumentation over the internet is that people gravitate towards acting as if every statement is intended to define a universal truth so they can argue against that strawman.
> This means if you ask it one question every two minutes, you're using about as much energy as a 10W LED lightbulb. Meanwhile your idle desktop PC and monitor are pulling 20-100W each. People tend to forget that doing…
Compared to the “Magnificent Seven”, Bitcoin’s volatility has put it in the middle, while it’s performance puts it at or near the top depending on the time window.…
> I find it a dumb idea what whether or not people can get credit to start/expand businesses would be dependent of solving math problems. That’s quite a mischaracterization. We can at least agree that Bitcoin’s supply…
You can buy a pizza from me with Bitcoin now. I’m not a vendor or even a chef. But, anything is negotiable.
> Maybe they should work on fixing that It’s not an either/or. While we figure out the practical solutions to corruption in impoverished nations, we can /also/ do other work to improve the situation in Earth. And, in…
I still remember from over 20 years ago I was sitting in the kitchen talking to my grandmother. She was smoking and had some Fox News talking head on in the background. Maybe Hannity? What I noticed what that there was…
We're getting warmer. Back in the days of king and country, people went through all that, went home, and some lived normal lives. A whole lot hid in that trauma from the neighbors and instead took it out on their…
I think the two of us are on opposite sides of the "These elements include:" list :) "Laundry to do..." is a trauma dump for pretty much everyone in this third decade of 24/7 local/global disaster reporting. It's the…
Compared to the dollar over the past five years… The dollar down vs itself by 20ish percent. The median home price is up 30ish percent. Oil is up 45ish percent. Gold and the SP500 are each up 80ish percent. Bitcoin is…
Of course. But, then there's the rest of my comment...
From what I've read, the deficit looked like a huge problem and turned out to not be a problem from WWII to 2008. That's the situation most economists, finance leaders and regulators grew up in. But, the demographic…