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This is still quite a bit away from the performance that deepseek gets on their H800. In their DSpark paper they report a throughput of 15k tokens/s/gpu. The MI300 should be able t…

GDP growth per capita adjusted for cost of living hasn't been that different between the US and the EU for the past 35 years: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-per-capita-worl…

If the US were serious about road safety, they would change the roads and streets to be more safe and tax 1500+ kg vehicles into oblivion.

Suburbs are highly subsidized. The quality of life only seems to outcompete cities because the quality of life in cities is lowered by the car centric culture. If you want to know …

Cars are generally not a mode of transport that makes sense in a city. There are some exceptions, but the vast majority of transportation in a city should be by foot, bicycle or pu…

Car dependence imposes a huge cost on the poor. With good public transportation and bicycle infrastructure, poor people wouldn't need a car. Reducing car dependence is a good thing…

That is how you get to the current state of car dependence in the US. Parking costs a lot. It should not be subsidized.

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That is the case, but banning it just for a few weeks will change that without much disruption. Most people are aware that Signal exist and switch the moment WhatsApp stops working…

Why is finding that we are not that different from other mammals degrading and disrespectful?

> Is anyone, anywhere doing that? You can do it in Switzerland: https://www.berufsberatung.ch/dyn/show/1900?id=7671

You still have to pay the interest on the loan. If your bond 10y bond you bought two years ago pays 1.5% and you need to take on a loan at 3.5% for 8 years to be liquid, then you a…

No, that is not true. Selling the bonds now at their current valuation or taking on debt and hold them to maturity lead to roughly equivalent outcomes. The MtM losses are real.

> So the obvious and sensible thing to do is have the government lend money to cover the time until the bonds mature, in addition to using the FDIC's money which did not come from …

Over 80% of the US population lives in urban areas.

Changes in money supply are not the same as inflation or deflation.

> which often cause, or share causes with, pornography consumption. I doubt there is substantial evidence for this statement.

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets If everyone were to switch to a vegan diet, global agriculture land use would be reduced by 75%.

I think it is wrong to value the well-being of some humans more than others.

Which could have also been achieved by telling him not to and that it is wrong or if that doesn't work banning the use of social media. He seems to be able to follow rules very goo…

Of course humans change. A state machine can also change state. Doesn't mean that a state machine has control over their behavior.

> Perhaps the better conclusion is that "free will" is merely our ability to alter our own biochemical state But isn't our ability to alter our own biochemical state dependent on o…

Not at all.

> Philosophers have been talking about justice and morality for æons, something so small isn’t going to turn our thoughts on justice on their head. Yes, but now neuroscientists sho…

Society also has to ensure, that this is done in a way that causes him as little harm as possible. It clearly failed here.