First Street very likely doesn't have some magic model that can predict the future better than anyone else.

When you get a mortgage you have to pay for a flood survey. Even my house 700' above the village where the bank is.

Your flood risk is absolutely predicted by the flood history of your location. The bank writing the mortgage has the skin in the game which is why they make the buyer pay for the flood survey.

It sounds like First Street might be liable for damages based on pseudoscience if these Realtors bring a case. It would be interesting to see them present solid evidence that they prospectively beat the existing flood models and survive a cross-examination.

If they've published a peer-reviewed paper then I missed it.

Hostile design is often a sign of libido dominandi, not just laziness.

SmartTube has probably hundreds of settings you can tweak to improve usability and accessibility. The developer clearly has a user-first philosophy.

You have Revanced for Android but Apple doesn't allow such things.

It has some excellent accessibility improvements over stock.

Cheaper to just pay the bribes.

In America it's known as K-street. Or "donating" to an Inauguration Gala. Or hosting a high court judge in a European palace for a couple of weeks. Or giving decision makers absurd private sector salaries when they 'retire'. Or giving the Governor's wife a $200K no-show job. Pick your branch, there's a way.

In India the system is less formal.

It's been, what, a week, and they got 6000 jets through maintenance during a very busy holiday travel season?

That speaks to fantastic logistics. There are anonymous folks out there who did a great job and deserve a ridiculously generous Christmas Bonus. :gallant bow:

Good. Mastodon is a lot less harmful to its users than Facebook is, because it doesn't have algorithms that try to maximize "engagement".

Social media companies that use "engagement algorithms" are pure evil. They know their products are harmful but attempt to hide that fact. Banning them for kids under 16 is a start, but I would like to see this entire business model banned for anyone. It's a scourge on humanity.

Social media platforms like Mastodon that don't use "engagement" algorithms, don't have "sponsored posts", don't show you ads, and have an option so you only see content from accounts you actually follow are fine. The Facebooks, Instagrams and TikToks of the world are evil criminal enterprises that, in a just world, would be shut down and charged with criminal conspiracy.

I agree with the registries that even if this is legal, it's an abuse of the process. Whatever country has jurisdiction over Afrinic (Mauritius?) should simply expropriate the IP addresses and give them back to Afrinic. It's not as though we don't have enormous legal precedent for expropriating property when it's in the public interest.

I too bought memory in April to avoid tariffs. I had to run a stupid python program to generate a dataset that required 96GB of RAM for a delayed project so I figured I might as well bite the bullet. DDR4 was still a good value at that point (it's a problem that can run overnight, performance wasn't too important).

But how are the tariffs limiting the manufacturing supply capacity of RAM factories in East Asia?

Do you have a mechanism to propose?

Do you think they're making enough to meet demand but then blaming tariffs to justify jacking up prices? All of them? It would be an interesting conspiracy but is there any evidence to support that theory?

> How much is this problem is down to AI and how much to beautiful tariffs?

What mechanism are you thinking of where tariffs could limit supply of VRAM from East Asia?

Simple price increases, sure, definitely, but this is described by manufacturers as a supply & demand problem.

Do you have a different angle we should consider?

> It did happened before, but not on this scale and speed.

Check out Meltwater Pulses 1a and 1b.

Part of the problem is our terrible competition environment. Our competition law is basically toothless and almost never really enforced. So in most industries, we have a few big players who don't need to innovate or be productive to stay profitable, and a high barrier of entry for innovative new players.

And unfortunately, the huge players are very successful at lobbying the government to keep the status quo.

This is very disappointing, especially seeing as even traditionally worst-offenders like China are going all-in on renewables. It's short-term gain for long-term pain.

Aww. My bubble has been burst.

Because it's likely to lead social media giants to quit the EU, and we'll see mental health across the EU improve tremendously.