Those are the prices for just buying equipment, which at least retain some kind of value. 3 million+ American kids are enrolled in competitive soccer with annual clubs dues between $1K and $5K, and that money is just gone at the end of the year. Basically none of those kids are going to have a career in soccer, so it's clearly a hobby, and everyone knows it. And soccer isn't even the most popular sport!
It's probably more correct to say that there are some people who project that 240GW of additional power will be required by data centers in the near future.
Yes, that number is absurd, and data centers will certainly need to make do with less, regardless of actual requirements.
That also fails to take efficiency and cost optimization into account.
Just parsing out salutations and please/thank you from AI requests reduces utilization and that’s not really even intense optimization.
I don't understand the question. (maybe the question mark is a mistake?) Assuming it's a statement, my guess is the rapacious capitalists would disagree with that claim.
"If you keep predicting market crash every single day of your life you will be the greatest predictor in the history of mankind because markets do eventually crash a little"
This is the crutch of everyone unwilling to actually put their money on the line and bet.
“I think AI is a bubble and it’s going to collapse”
“Ok, then there are ways to bet against it if you’re really sure”
“Oh I’m sure I’m right, it’s just that the market might take a long time to realize I’m right”
Come on… there was no subtlety in the article at all. He said it’s all a house of cards, it’s all going to collapse, it’s all a grift… surely someone that certain should be willing to put something in…
> If someone knows of a general introduction to 3D CAD which focuses on vendor-neutral descriptions of terminology and concepts, I'd be very interested
I'm not sure there is such a thing. Maybe a drafting book would be a vendor neutral description of spec'ing a 3D manufacturable object on a 2D surface.
Otherwise the way the software accomplishes the task is kinda the point which will necessarily have methodology specific terms in it.
"Electronic design automation (EDA), also referred to as electronic computer-aided design (ECAD),[1] is a category of software tools for designing electronic systems such as integrated circuits and printed circuit boards."
Established in the 60s so it was kept pretty secret for a long period of time.
It's interesting to think that the government has been using technology to watch us for awhile but now thanks to ubiquitous networks, cheap internet, phone and apps like tinder and strava and a bit of ingenuity, we can watch back. :)
Wow, that is a good one. I'm surprised that I've not heard of it. Maybe not admitting something officially really does help in keeping something out of press. The list of intercept stations is comic: all except ~4 are in US or allied countries that are far from any adversaries.
MKUltra was another government program that was widely run but kept secret.
Not so fun fact, the UnaBomber was one of the subjects of that program and it is said that his personality changed drastically afterwards. Note his wiki page doesn't call out MKULTRA or government links by name...
Unabomber-CIA connection is wild. This is great stuff.
> There are some who claim the dirision associated with the term Conspiracy theory is in fact a Conspiracy..
Haha, that's entertaining. I've heard of quite a few stories, some proven, that CIA or similar agencies were fabricating evidence and bribing people to _create_ conspiracy theories. I believe one such case was a diary discovered related to "Richard E. Byrd's North Pole Flight". If I recall correctly the person that found it later admitted that he was bribed or coerced to do so. I can't look up sources now, might try and look it up later today.
It makes sense. If conspiracies are leaking, you can create fake leaks and then discredit them. Shaming and marginalization is great too.
> Sure-- she could meet with someone at a branch to help her. Their first available meeting was a month away.
You have to expect business to optimize for their common case and just make sure there is a path for the exceptions. That's what this bank did and it's just the way of the world.
I'm not a big phone person either, and it is inconvenient for sure, but I get benefits from that and the cost is extra friction when dealing with online institutions. Everything has a trade-off
Labeling the phones essential infrastructure can pretty easily backfire if your goal is to be able to modify the phone as you like.
For an example think about how mods are treated on cars. There can be very good reasons for those restrictions, but if your goal is to be able to modify phones in the way you want, that might not be the best way to go about it.
In short, be careful what you wish for because sometimes you get it. :)
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