No, it's how you get mens rea for the felony murder rule. You didn't carry the gun with the intent to kill, only to intimidate, but you still had a guilty mind, and if you then used the gun to kill someone in the heat of the moment, there's your mens rea.

And remember that actual cause does not mean literally pulling the trigger. At least in the U.S., the courts apply a "but for" test. If the event would not have happened without the previous event, then the previous event is considered the actual, not proximate cause. The police would not have shot the other person but for the perpetrator pointing a gun at someone (and possibly shooting at the police).

IMO, that's not meaningfully different than involuntary manslaughter convictions for allowing unsafe working conditions at a construction site or leaving your loaded gun out where a child can take it, both of which have happened.

True, but only momentarily. At the end of the first depreciation cycle, assuming purchasing of hardware is not accelerating, you're depreciating 5x as much hardware over 5x the time, and your momentary bubble in the stock price is gone.

And even if hardware purchasing is growing right now, eventually, that will flatten out, and the above will be true.

The only real question should be whether the depreciation rate is reasonable. If you're still getting substantial use out of the hardware after five years, then depreciating it over 3 years is questionable.

Also, the more slowly you depreciate it, the less you save on taxes each year. Faster depreciation is beneficial if you think the tax rate will go down and you will lose the benefit of that depreciation. Slower depreciation is beneficial if you think the tax rate will go up and you will benefit more from depreciating it later. So this may also mean that these companies are expecting corporate income taxes to go up. Make of that what you will.

ACK, and I was also probably wrong about the location. I had just had my first look at a tiny map and I didn't realize how much farther north the tsunami zone was. Only about a three-meter tsunami, which is quite small compared to March 11th.

Mod parent funny.

And Ponzi schemes are sure to collapse.

Thanks for the heads up. Middle of the night here, but if you want to follow it in English, https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworl... has a live feed. I'm watching it now. Haven't seen the epicenter, but the tsunami warning zone indicates the same area as the quake in 2011 that killed 20 thousand people and led to the Fukushima #1 fiasco.

Oh good I found a bot. Good luck training your llm here whoever you are.

I made specific points and your reply did not.

As for my worldview, you interpret posts the same way you interpret the news, exaggerating everything and extrapolating it to absurdity to make yourself upset or say something unreasonable. If you have inferred I was ever an extremist, you were wrong.

It's still the exact same silicon and it's got the same problems. Not all of them burn out but some of them do.

The real question is how long until it's replaced by newer or better hardware. Basically will we see custom hardware replace video cards soon for llm acceleration. Similar to what we saw with Bitcoin.

That Won't help consumers because the Fab capacity is just going to go to different silicone, but it does mean that a whole shitload of these gpus will become worthless. I guess some of them will show up on eBay. I got a lot of use out of an old rx580 that was a mining card. I think it did eventually die on me but I got about six good years out of it.

That's a one-time Bonanza though. And it's assuming we get it. The real loser there would be Nvidia since if they get replaced on the AI market with custom hardware then their market value is going to crash harder than I think any market value has ever crashed

Money laundering is the backbone of the entire cryptocurrency market. Although Trump has made corruption into a strong contender.

The greatest rap channel on YouTube, Patrick Boyle's, has a video about one of the major scams collapsing because the big boys have integrated crypto into sectors of our economy so there isn't enough excitement about it anymore to keep some of the financial scams going.

Also with the economy collapsing due to incompetent mismanagement from on high the stock market's going with it. And a lot of these scams were riding the stock market.

Still as long as we refuse to regulate the money laundering crypto isn't going anywhere. You'll Still lose your shirt when you invest in it and desperately try to hide it from your wife. But the big boys are in the pool now and so they're going to suck up all the scam money

thanks

Until the comment about equality. You need to work on your bait. When it's too obvious you just come off like an idiot.

I do sense a little desperation. A little bit of cope. Something is happening that you know is going to hurt you and your worldview isn't equipped to deal with it.

No, Amazon specifically said their layoffs are not due to AI.

Amazon spokesperson said the job cuts werenâ(TM)t a result of using AI, and pointed toward a message in October from Beth Galetti, senior vice president of people experience and technology, who said they were part of the companyâ(TM)s effort at âoereducing bureaucracy, removing layers, and shifting resources to ensure weâ(TM)re investing in our biggest bets.â

But reporter would like to have a story about AI job loss, so they forge ahead and build the narrative:

Still, the push for agentic AI is arriving as Amazon is reshaping its own labor model, raising uncomfortable questions about whether the tools the company is selling will displace employees, both within its ranks and among the customers itâ(TM)s selling the new software to.

That part isn't news, it's commentary.

Half of Netflix's standup specials are anti-woke marquee comedians, very few of which are actually funny. Take Andrew Schultz...shitty edgelord whose comedy persona is throwing the R word around and shitting on people different than him. Offensive comedy is like hot sauce...a little bit of offensiveness can be spicy and edgy....Schultz's material is just boring...it's like sriracha on saltines...gives the burn, but no good flavor. But hey, he interviewed Trump for some reason...not sure why Trump wanted anything to do with that boring moron.

However, their most famous is Dave Chapelle...TBH, I don't find his anti-trans stuff all that offensive. He's just made himself a figurehead for the anti-trans movement...at the expense of actual comedy. He USED to be really funny. Now his specials are just kinda long and tedious with few laughs.

Beyond him, there are tons of others: Hingecliff, Rife, etc....comedians who just aren't that funny, but hey, they say the R-word, right? They make fun of feminists, right? They're not afraid to make fun of the disabled, just like you did in grade school!!! They hate or shit on the same people. you hate!!!! Then there's Joe Rogan...producing a bunch of these. Famous?...yes...funny?...eh, certainly not to me. I don't get the sense people with more conservative leanings are laughing either.

Fortunately, this anti-woke comedy scene seems to be imploding. Comedy is supposed to make you laugh...not clap. You can inject politics into standup, but...if there are no laughs, it's just a Fox News commentary. For awhile it scratched an itch...a need for those who found the world going crazy and lacking common sense to be seen...who were frustrated with all this "woke-ness" that's not really a thing beyond a few corners of Twitter of conservative commentary. I live in the belly of the beast. I am among the liberals they're talking about. The "woke" movement was just loud randos online, not an organized movement. It wasn't a political movement. There are "woke" individuals, but they're mostly people, completely outside of power, with some undiagnosed mental disorder....just like the conservative prepper crazies stocking up on MREs and ammunition and building bunkers. However, the number and influence of "woke" individuals was greatly exaggerated.

Turns out if your comedy doesn't make people laugh, it just doesn't have a huge audience....hence why no one cares about the jackasses Netflix has been promoting so heavily. However, Netflix is anything but woke. Like all entertainment companies, they're focused on money, not politics. They'd never risk losing money for their beliefs, whatever they are.

So, what is your prediction? It sounds like you think Amazon is going to fire thousands of people in hopes that AI will eventually replace their roles, and then say, "whoops, it doesn't work, we're screwed," and the packages will stop flowing. Is that your prediction?