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FOR NOW. People, police states are about two classes of people: the police, and you. What is remarkable about this story is that something happened to them. Now were they prosecute…

In modern American penal code you are ALL felons. EVERYONE. Ok, maybe the guy in a coma. Wait, there is probably some medical fraud statute that makes him a felon if he twitches a …

What is striking to me now that we are three years into the LLM revolution is ... there is no foundational software that has resulted. I keep asking where the good software is now …

Our military is now a multi trillion dollar per year corruption albatross that will bankrupt US. The managerial design of the military can't even pivot to cheap drone systems: ther…

Mars has lots of open land Of course with libertarians, it's never about the purity of thought, just the convenience to their pocketbook

At this point you should realize there are now tech executives that have 30 to 35 years of experience in all the dark patterns. Anything new is going to be an extremely rapid race …

Proliferation resistant reactors should probably be used. Like.... LFTR Basically, the normal operation of the reactor doesn't allow the production of weapons-useful nuclear isotop…

I passed the law that your existence is illegal. Follow it

Poor Microsoft, what have they possibly done to deserve such lack of faith??

There were a lot of amoral programmers. I'm not saying programmers as a whole are morally untouchable. But I would say the engineering barrier and the nerd barrier did provide some…

Well it certainly doesn't appreciate. And I feel that AI hardware is going to rapidly depreciate faster than even typical PC hardware

Probably a lot more EPO

scrape the scrapers... all's fair...

How is this not a class action lawsuit?

You are mere hundreds of miles from cheap Chinese panel manufacturing. The Chinese are going to pump manufacturing oversupply for likely a decade more. 10 years roi is mass scale c…

Strange anticapitalist stance for hackernews

If we really have intelligent LLMs, then I would guess they are going to inflate their token rates, which when someone sees "token costs" they should think "invisibly variable cons…

Get a battery

Why shouldn't that be true practically every consumer home in the world? Yes, grid scale deployments are cheaper, but I'm generally guessing a lot of the grid scale solar deploymen…

On a related note, why isn't a shotgun now standard armament for infantrymen? Is there a better/cheaper anti-drone infantry weapon? I saw this ridiculous Russian training video of …

So the hawking radiation is so strong that it impedes matter falling into the hole? And can you charge the hole with enough of a charge to use electromagnetism to move and contain …

Because they are dumping/subsidizing it token processing to try and get companies to fire as many people as possible. So they'll be dependent upon the companies when they have to J…

Hatari has existed as an emulator for like a decade.... I get this may be transpiled to the web, but...

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The end state vector of capitalism has been like this for decades now. What can change this: - large scale geopolitical demographic collapse of China and/or world trade requiring m…