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Comment LLM: Fantasy progress, real bargaining chip (Score 1) 29

LLMs are far less useful than promised, but they're a great bargaining chip...oh, you want a raise? I can replace you with AI and pay you nothing...how does that sound? Is it true?...no, but you're probably not going to call their bluff and find out as either way, you're out of a job. We saw this with offshore outsourcing 20-25 years ago. I'm more scared of what people think AI can do than what it can actually do.

Comment Re:What's wrong with an accounting trick or two? (Score 1) 46

It's a bit like a jar of jam. You can keep scraping it for a little more for quite a while, but eventually there isn't going to be any useful jam. Then you'll have to buy new jam. This is how depreciation works, you figure out when it's time to buy new jam and write off the "loss" of your asset over that predicted schedule.

Because of the accounting and the second hand market, sending those graphics cards to the dump is going to likely be a bigger net benefit than trying to sell used compute cards with no display output. Most of them aren't ordinary videocards even if the chips in them are basically the same.

Comment So no they're not getting regulated or fined (Score 1) 69

It seems that way because you see headlines that they had such and such multimillion dollar fine levied but they appeal and don't pay the fine or it gets reduced to a tiny fraction of the profits from the illegal behavior. But funny thing the news media never seems to cover that...

I know of companies that literally have a classification system where they figure out which laws they can break. You will be shocked to find that the laws that affect rich people are generally in the list of ones they can't break while the laws that affect you are in the list of laws they can break...

Even under Biden it was difficult to get consumer protection laws enforced and the fines actually levied and paid and now the Trump is president worst case scenario you buy a little bit of trump coin and the problem gets solved.

Comment The problem isn't China's growth (Score -1, Troll) 26

The problem is we can't sustain this many billionaires let alone the number who want to be trillionaires.

And we can't take the billionaire's money away because if you try a bunch of old people who grew up on Cold war propaganda are convinced you're going to break into their house and steal their toothbrush. And anyway those billionaires earned it because if they didn't God wouldn't have blessed them /s

Comment Re:So pay the government their cut and it is (Score 4, Informative) 69

Nope they are getting fined because there are regulations.

Lack of enforcement - Nope they got audited thousands of times and fined!

Now you could argue they were not fined enough, I guess but clearly there is a regulation and clearly the regulators are checking up!

Their fines amount to a quarterly rounding error. https://www.businesswire.com/n...

Comment Re:Noviye Russkiye jokes aside, (Score 1) 92

What is scary is... what happens if a satellite is knocked out or Internet connectivity destroyed? Especially in a disaster.

Perhaps there is a personal physical override in those cases. It's certainly a good "remedy" for people who don't pay their subscriptions.

"The system takes between one and four hours to install, and Porsche says it’s about 1,000 euros ($1,140) to fit, with a monthly 20 euro ($23) service charge. "

Comment Re:Once More el Bunko strikes (Score 1) 49

This just in, part of the investment group of Paramount/Skydance is......ta da.....Jared Kushner, who is backed by the Arab Gulf regimes. So el Bunko is sticking his dick into the Netflix deal so he can benefit Kushner. And that's not the only property they want, they want CNN as well.

This would leave major media companies controlled by Arabs. Netflix is an American company. el Bunko will have many avenues for accepting "tribute" for all his "hard" work.

Comment Re:What's wrong with an accounting trick or two? (Score 1) 46

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

Comment "A" cryptocurrency? (Score 0) 77

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

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