Generally i agree with your logic and thought process. While I don't think we have public numbers for FSD, for Tesla cars on autopilot, the fatality rate seems to be about 2-3x lower than the national average. However I do think that's probably a misleading average because Teslas are generally newer and (at least in my experience) owned by older drivers who are in theory a lower accident risk. Would perhaps be more interesting to compare them to the fatality rate for Lexus or something with a more similar buyer demographic and set of safety features. I like Tesla and dislike Musk, I don't see their actions as particularly reckless. I think a more interesting contrast is with Mercedes and GM Super Cruise which seem to be rolling out on a very small subset of highly tested roads. How does the human cost of that approach compare to the Tesla approach of a more generalized but perhaps less capable system?

There's always some mod drama, but reddit was in a relatively steady state. Some subs drive off users with their mods, but those users have likely found other subs that are a better fit. Surely there are plenty of volunteers to take over the big subs, and while most of them are probably well-intentioned, I'm not clear how you pick a new mod team. You'll get a good number of people who are either inept, misaligned with the community or who volunteer their services in poor faith. I doubt that'll sink their user numbers too much in the short term, but i think it'll take a bite out of the vibrancy of the community and mark the point where things enter a slow decline.

I don't know that he is a moron.

He's picked a relatively esoteric pain point to see if he can strongarm his way over the will of many in the community. Most of the media struggle to explain what's even really going on here and i'm not sure how much will there is for major subs to stay closed for the long run.

However if he succeeds in steamrolling the community on this point then he's got a reasonable path to driving the site to profitability. If he can prove that the protest doesn't work then there's nothing to stop them ramping up ads, selling content to train LLMs, and shutting down nsfw content.

Plus he's not playing the long game, he needs a few quarters of solid numbers to take the company public and get his pay day. It's hard to quantify the goodwill and vibrancy of an online community and as long as he can jump ship before it's clear what they've traded to get those numbers, then he'll get his.

if only there was a giant corporation that had spidered all of reddit's pages and maintained a cache copy of the pages you'd like. Perhaps they could even put a link to that copy on the search result page...

They also could have easily made it a per-user API call limit and allowed users to buy Reddit Red or something that would allow you to increase your personal limit.

My half-assed theory is that it's to do with building the main page. It probably requests a certain number of posts from each of your subscriptions and then applies some magic sorting to get a list of front page stories. But what happens when that process doesn't return enough to fill the front page? Well they you have to go back and try to get more candidates. That could create a failure mode where the front end servers are making a bunch of extra requests as they attempt to find enough content to fill the request.

Which seems to be very closely related to this group. They list the head of Stellerator theory at the Max Plank Institute and the heads of Engineering and Assembly of the W-7 X as their advisiors. If anyone is going to give this a fair shot, this certainly seems like a good team to bet on

I'm assuming you are in the US but it's debatable whether there was a vaccine mandate. Certainly, many jobs had them, but you are always free to leave your job if you don't like their requirements. If you genuinely and honestly believed the covid vaccine was dangerous to your life, then leaving your job is a totally reasonable response.

Anecdotally, there was also a really large crossover between the anti-mask crowd and the anti-vax crowd. I knew a few anti-vax people who masked and tested all the time instead, which I can at least respect as a reasonably congruent viewpoint. But I think when people talk about "anti-vaxers" they mean the literal unmasked mouthbreathers spewing conspiracy theories on social media, and as a large group their arguments weren't credible at the time and haven't really stood up in retrospect either. Maybe covid wasn't as dangerous as we first feared, but it still killed a huge number of people and i'm still waiting for those millions of vaccine-related deaths to emerge.

Plus you could absolutely have chatgpt transcribing the audio from the zoom call and providing hints and suggestions based on the paper you wrote.

Do you actually use it? My ISP offers 10Gig service and while i'm really really tempted, it seems like a lot of work to get the cabling and network gear up to spec. I feel like we're fairly data hungry, but i doubt we top 2 or 3 TB/month

It's partly ridiculous because ChatGPT doesn't need a world-class supercomputer, i'm pretty sure it was trained on a cluster of workstations each with a bunch of high end nvidia cards. Expensive but not billion pound expensive. Britain isn't even that far behind in talent, what's missing is the opportunities to stay in academia and make a good living without getting subsumed into american tech giants (like deepmind did). Putting this money into education would go much further, but that's obviously not the point.

There are probably niche situations where it benefits you, but because of the way cookie-based tracking works it'd be really hard to not just leave a chain that connects right back to your home IP. Using a dedicated virtual machine with a VPN installed for those situations and making sure it can never connect from your unprotected IP and also making sure you never share any account credentials seems like it'd be nearly perfect (if the VPN provider can be trusted) but shit like that is hard. Perhaps if you are trying to reach the press from an oppressive regime or leak documents out from under a three letter agency then you *might* have the motivation to do that well... but the average person who hears a VPN ad on a podcast - not a chance. I'll bet both google and the fbi have a database of people who use VPNs badly - it'd be nearly trivial to do with google analytics.

That's also the problem with an uncapped service. If you are slower than xfinity and have a similar cap, then most users will stick with xfinity. But if you are slower and have no cap then you'll be a magnet for highest volume users.

Yeah I'd have to assume it's something like that. The apple advantage (if it's iridium or similar) will be that it works anywhere in the world, whereas TMobile's option will presumably just work in the US (and maybe PL, NL and CZ where they also own frequency) Though tmobile will also let you text for free (apparently) which is kind of amazing

I hate the Murdered Grandmother fee