The scientific theory of carbon offsets is sound. The problem isn't in the idea of them, it's in the execution, which is either backed up (or not) by governments. The governments are in the pockets of Big Oil, so they don't enforce these agreements. Every time a corporation claims it's going to offset its carbon and doesn't, that's obviously fraud, and an executive should go to prison for it. And equally, the corporation should be fined more than it made through sales which would not have occurred without the fraud. Anything less is not a deterrent. The government creates the corporations (it grants them a charter, without which they do not exist) and then it fails to enforce their behavior.

It is still better to have carbon taxes instead and spend the proceeds on bioremediation including carbon fixing. But they would just have loopholes for the taxes, because the root problem is crony capitalism.

I don't have the ability to put in rail, and I still have to get to work. Fuck you for blaming this on me when I need to survive, and I have spent hours and hours in advocacy of superior solutions even though the typical response is mockery.

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Space is limited, to be fair, but if more storage were commonly needed that could no doubt be arranged.

The browser supports 3/4 of those devices.

The browser manages logins and passwords.

Don't some VPN softwares block all non-VPN traffic to the non-VPN interface while they are active? I swear I've used one like this before.

Maybe, but it seems more like an attempt at vendor lock-in to me.

Like Mew-Twoi inside the gates of Auschwitz...

Because wandering around with your face welded to a cell phone screen isn't annoying enough?

That might be a real risk for things like cryptocurrency mining, where being able to do something faster than others determines whether the money spent on electricity is less than the value you get out of it, but it probably isn't realistic for generative AI. Either the hardware is big enough to run your model or it isn't. If it is, then it won't just suddenly become worthless unless you decide that you absolutely have to have a larger model for some reason.

And if that does happen, then it becomes a resource allocation question, deciding whether to spend developer resources to find ways to tune smaller models more so that you get good enough results or spend money to replace the hardware and sell or rent the old hardware to someone who can still use it. After all, it isn't as though hardware becomes worthless just because it no longer meets your needs.

You'll always be able to get bigger, faster hardware in five years. That's not a good reason not to own the means of production. You either own the means of production and you're in the owner class or you don't and you're in the worker class, and having a bunch of companies in the worker class really isn't sustainable.

An A100 40GB costs $8,399.00. Renting it ranges from $1200 to $2682 per month.

How bad does the failure rate and/or power consumption have to be for it to make sense to spend 1/7 to 2/7 of the purchase price to rent it for a month? Yikes. That makes rental car rates look downright reasonable, and you don't have to worry about people totalling a GPU on the 405.

It's basically "indulgences" for pollution.

It was ALWAYS going to be gamed. Because it was how it was set up in the first place.

That's not really an accurate way to describe it. As people get older, they become less able to adapt to change. Becoming more conservative is a natural part of the brain aging process.

Conservatives always say this, but that doesn't make it true. There are plenty of very wealthy people who earn real money and still pay lots of money in taxes. To them it is about responsibility — from those to whom much is given, much is expected. And while being wealthy does make some people more fiscally conservative, the wealthy also tend to be more socially liberal, i.e. their politics are not aligned with the U.S. right wing at all.

People become more socially conservative with age only because they become less able to adapt to change, not because of wealth or because they're "becoming wiser".

"This is the taboo question that no none is allowed to ask, because everyone already knows the answer, and the answer is not the evil racist white man."

In fact that often IS the answer. Nations were destroyed with colonialism, and racism was literally invented to excuse it. Many have also been deliberately suppressed since through various foul means including sanctions, backing coups, and outright assassination. That answer is the real taboo, especially if you ask the governments responsible.

It's called RAIL.

No, I am not seeing that at all. I see plenty of cops. I see some every day that I go out.

Lolol modded down by someone who knows nothing as usual.

"AI" is not thinking. It chews up data and shits out data. If the shit is valid it's only a coincidence.

Nobody knows how to do that, at least not for a model of useful size. It would have to be reasoning in order to explain, but they aren't doing that.