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The biggest externality is the electrical usage. IDK why they keep mentioning water. The AI DCs are driving huge loads to grids, and all ratepayers are being asked to pay for that.…

>If you want anyone to read your content Reading the content is really not necessary, but the business is predicated on selling ads.

This is internet gold and makes me believe in people again.

1. Hard. No. 2. Fame-inducing. No. 3. Illegal. Maybe where you live.

The vast majority of CVEs are not exploitable, basically noise. I suspect that the overwhelming majority of the CVEs being generated by LLMs are either noise of the sort in the lin…

There's a large subsection of people that choose various vices. Gambling, drugs, alcohol (I repeat), soda and junk food. To folks that do not partake in these things, it's bizarre …

Well now I want one

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AFAICT South Korea does not outlaw condoms. Grandparent may be thinking of North Korea. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries...

Profit is up 20% YoY. Google is a money printing machine, and they printed over $40B last quarter. Are you kidding me.

Good luck bro.

I joined the class action lawsuit and got a small check a decade later. My proof that I had OtherOS ended up being timestamped whinging on the ars technica forums. My ps3 stopped w…

Windows 10 has ads in the start menu. https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/76s2fq/windo...

Huh I've never understood doormen, but I sure do hate QR codes for restaurant menus.

Do the start menu ads pay for this? It is conceivable that they could.

I don't know the answer to this, and I don't know how to find it. The stats seem to mirror Bird and cohort uptake. Are these datapoints muddied with escooter death and injury?

Yeah ok. How does gasoline taste?

The difference being that stupid-as website was a signal users could filter. "I found that drinking gasoline is actually medicine on 4chan.org" is vastly different than "Gemini sug…

Build baby build. It's the only way.

Yes it is impossible as long as it's one person one vote. If a trillionaire with an army of bots owns everything, people will vote that he does not.

If that works for someone, great. I would never pay for it, and would run not walk away from any shop that asked me to use it. The mess in-between working software is not something…

Telecom billing is seemingly designed to stochastically fail in favor of the telecom. This is not a shambles, but excellent system performance, from their perspective.

Are more young people getting cancer? How much? What kinds?

I am one of those young people laboring and paying taxes. It's not clear to me what I should do with the surplus of my labor that is available to me, that would be acceptable to a …

The way I understand my money market settlement account at vanguard, is that it's all, or nearly all, treasuries. Treasury not honoring government debt would be the worst bank fail…