If you travel back a couple of centuries, your 6 jigowatts will only be worth about 8 million horses.

Cow tittie milk should be labeled "cow tittie milk" to remind people where the product comes from. It's natural for mammals to drink the tittie milk of their own species when they're young, but drinking tittie milk (a) when you're grown up and (b) from another species seems downright perverse. Likewise, people could use a good reminder how the meat they eat is produced.

Close. WebM.

But stallman will probably continue to be hung outside to appease corporate trolls.

you're stuck in the 90s. nobody even cares for that!

you know those reports showing ad networks sending all your data to China? well, that's AOL. and now yahoo (which Apollo also bought).

the worst performer ad networks in the planet, but they still get campaigns from apple and other big brands with too much money. so they can participate in reverse bidding (when the site you visit send all your info to hundreds of ad networks to sell an Ad in realtime) which then stores all that data, build your user profile, and sell it.

thats why they keep getting investor money to literally burn: people in the valley bubble think that is representative of the world, when they are .1%

but unlike uber, who benefited from it first, this cannot even scale with infinite money

remember when they cried the nyt lawsuit was forcing them to store and collect user prompts? lol. anyway here's the analysis of all users prompts.

It's really an opinion question, is AI going to dramatically alter the web or not? No one knows the answer to that. All that we do know is that AI is disrupting a lot of things and the web may end up being one of them. So depending on how you feel about AI that day, your answer can differ.

I don't think that is correct. The FAB in AZ is their fallback position if Taiwan is lost.

What do you mean "open-source"? If CUDA were open-source, you could run it on AMD GPUs or any other reasonable hardware. Instead, Nvidia provides libraries that only run on their own hardware.

I googled something like net worth of US billionaires and that was what came out on top. I was looking for the the $6.72T number, not the count of the billionaires, that count varies everyday be cause many up them are right at the $1B line. A strong up/down day in the market can change the number by 30.

My point is that even if you took every penny the billionaires have and passed it out to the general population you are only going to get a one time check for $17.920. And if they have to pay taxes first that one check will be closer to $14,000. Even though billionaires are extremely rich they are still nothing much when compared to the size of the overall US economy. The pandemic stimmie checks were of similar size and they weren't life changing.

People compare themselves one to one with a billionaire and feel very poor. But look at it collectively, if you confiscated everything the billionaires have they could only pay off the US deficit for about 18 months before they collectively went broke. And then we'd still have a giant deficit without anyone to tax. It's just a fantasy to think that taxing the billionaires can close the deficit or provide free healthcare for all. Use you brain and a calculator, it can't possibly work. Sure, make them pay more in taxes, but it isn't going to dramatically change things.

I just copied the quote and didn't edit it.

"According to Forbes, there were 868 U.S. billionaires as of 2025, holding a combined wealth of $6.72 trillion as of the end of 2024, a decrease from the 813 reported by Forbes in its April 2024 list but with increased overall wealth. The United States has the most billionaires globally, with these individuals concentrated in states like California, New York, Florida, and Texas."

$6.72T / 375 milllion (population of USA) == $17,920 per person.

Amazon has flooded DC with lobbyists trying to get De Minimus repealed. Analysts estimate ending De Minimus will increase Amazon sales by $22-25B. It is also generates instant profit for Amazon since Amazon charges a blanket 15% finder fee. It the a vendors pays $100 in tariffs Amazon adds their 15% right on top of that taking an addition $15 for doing absolutely nothing. Analyst estimate for that markup effect is an increase in $1.5B/yr in Amazon profits.

In the larger picture most economist are predicting a major substitution of goods purchases to service purchases which are not tariffed. In other words, a lot of people will simply stop buying these trinkets and instead travel, go to sports, concerts, etc.

This universal crawler would just copy everything verbatim and compress it with standard compression. It would then be up to the subscribers to process it into their own internal formats.

This is not a cheap thing to build, the central repository is going to need several billion dollars worth of storage. So the fees to join the group will be in the $250M range or more. But you'd have to spend that much on your own crawler so there's no loss.

Before you run off saying 'sign me up' note that each empty exabyte of storage costs about $100M to buy.