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Comment Re: "Some results could be sponsored" (Score 1) 23

You didn't know who saw it, but you don't know that now. I don't look at everything on a web page. I block out as much irrelevant bullshit as possible, some with my brain, some with tools that may not make it clear that I didn't see the ad.

You only know who clicked the ad, and even that you can't be sure about. But you could know before who was responding to your ad if your ad contained an offer, by who came in asking for it.

Comment Re:This isn't necessarily the canary (Score 1) 18

There are LOTS of specialized niche forms of business that AI can do to a certain degree. Often as well as, or better than, people. (Remember, LLMs are only one facet of AI, though a very publicized one.) More usually, at least right now, the AI can only do a part of the job better than people, and totally can't handle another part. But that means you need fewer people.

OTOH, expect most AI applications to fail. That was what happened when computers first started to be widely applied. But the ones we remember are the successes.

Comment Re:Move where it is sunny the most (Score 1) 85

There are, but they add more cost and reduce efficiency. So that means more solar panels, which means more space required to put those solar panels.

You're also likely to want to put them somewhere that has a more even day length all year round rather than a place like here where you get 1/4 as much sun in the winter as the summer. Which means it's likely to be warmer, which means you'll need more power for cooling.

Maybe some people can make that work, but I'd start from the assumption that the people building these data centres probably aren't retarded so they probably did consider solar and batteries as an option and decided not to go that route.

Comment Re:Jet engines (Score 1) 85

NOx was the reason Chrysler finally stopped development of turbine cars, but they also had problems with fuel efficiency when idling at 15,000 rpm. I don't know whether they ever solved that, but given the turbines could run on pretty much anything that burned it might well have made sense in the long run to release turbine cars that used a lot of fuel when idling but used a fuel other than diesel or gas so it didn't matter as much. They certainly were run on alcohol at times during the development process, for example.

Comment Re:A house divided cannot stand... (Score 3, Insightful) 57

Since WWII governments have worked tirelessly to divide the populations of the West so we'd fight each other rather than oppose them. Now they're whining about "unity" because they've realized that by dividing us up so badly they've destroyed the cohesion that's required to maintain a first-world society and raise an army to fight whatever enemy-de-jour they may want us to fight.

And they're also shocked that the millions of people they've imported would rather vote for one of their own than for established politicians. Democracy isn't meant to work like that!

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