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From Wikipedia: "Waste-to-energy plants cause less air pollution than coal plants, but more than natural gas plants." That sounds, uh, pretty good considering the input is garbage!…

There's a (relatively) much more sustainable solution right in front of us, commonly used in Europe, that nobody even considers in America because it costs more: burn it at a much …

The Unabomber was anti-tech but not left wing in any coherent way.

Giving the police a smaller budget is the same level of extremism as murdering a bunch of refugees? And before I get piled on for saying "smaller budget", think about what calls to…

I don't really get how that works in terms of being tax-deductible. So I looked it up, and lo and behold: > Contributions to Collectives hosted by OSC are not deductible as charita…

> accepts tax deductable donations via opencollective but we do not actually have a registered legal entity that, uh, sounds sketchy

This also sounds a lot like one of the features of OpenChamber, from TFA

A lot of non-atheists are also vocally opposed to, say, teaching evolution in schools. It's easy to see how someone might think atheists typically believe in something that does co…

My point isn't that you, personally, don't want to buy a used 2010 Toyota. My point is that everyone, collectively, doesn't want to buy a used 2010 Toyota -- and Toyota has correct…

There are plenty of 2010 Toyotas still out there, running great, if you want one. The market has instead demanded more different-looking cars (for variety), and generally larger ve…

Maybe it should be "if the right people like you"

Good luck getting a working car at all for a couple grand these days.

I have found fast-charging prices near where I live to be fairly competitive with gasoline per-mile. The lower maintenance costs of an EV are icing on the cake, so to speak. But I …

Ah, but any 10 year old GPU now is e-waste, not useful LLM hardware. So it might as well have been mining ASICs.

I don't have a gas station at my house, and yet I still own a gas-powered vehicle. I also don't have a fast electric charger at my house, and yet I still also own an EV.

I am very skeptical that your Model 3 has a "practical range" of 372 miles. EPA range for the long range model is 342 miles, and I would expect usable range to be considerably less…

Random shitcoin mining surely isn't a large fraction of industrial GPU usage?

Transition to what?

I'm running a useful quantization of the previous version of Deepseek-V4-Flash -- quite well but with so much fan noise -- on a MacBook Pro M5 Max with 128 GB.

I thought we were doing that all along.

You'd think one of the first things the AI would do once it truly gets that powerful is make a lot more money for its owner.

Am I the only one who prefers a full on GUI (eg Claude Desktop)?

There's definitely a non-libertarian approach to "free market capitalism" that does not eschew regulation and does embrace ethics.

When did free-market capitalism stop being something to aspire to though?