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Comment Re: Won't work (Score 1) 43

Google's idea at the time was to use their pull to improve content on the internet, and they started issuing SEO guidelines. They regularly update the guidelines to match whatever they think will be better for the internet, and the SEO consultants follow it like a flock.

It's not entirely wrong, if you have two articles, the longer one is more likely to have more information. As a metric it's easily gamed, and they need to stay on top of that somehow but didn't.

Comment Re:Wrong question. (Score 1) 174

Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Dylan Field, Evan Williams, Gabe Newell, Jay Koum, Larry Fucking Ellison, Zuck, Michael Dell, and Travis Kalanick are all dropouts to name just a few.

None of those people made advancements at the fundamental level. They all paid someone (or stole from someone) who had a college degree to do the advancements.

Comment Re:The YouTuber Adam Something (Score -1) 37

A YouTuber? Seriously? We Americans trust the experts. For those who don't know, the rsilvergun account was recently exposed as being a Malaysian, complete with screenshots of zir other social media. Only foreigners think random YouTube channels are more trustworthy than experts. We Americans went through this during covid. People were eatating horse paste! And refusing life saving vaccinations. Oh, how we all laughed when Herman Cain died.

Comment Re: Drives the speed limit? (Score 1) 15

While drunk driving happens in Dubai, as a Muslim nation they have exactly zero humor about it.
I figure the rate of bad driving from other things like just being an absurdly entitled citizen or part of the royalty is more common.

I've actually been in Dubai, deployed there once. Visited the city a few times. It's "interesting".

Comment Re:Thank Tariffs Trump! (Score 2) 73

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?

Comment Re:If only a certain OS didn't end support (Score 1) 73

> 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?

Comment trains (Score 1) 37

I understamd how Americans fall for this nonsense, but Europe has a well developed railroad system and efficient short distance flights.

Why would the Europeans fall for this inefficient, ineffective, economically insane, dangerous, unproven, ridiculous scam?

Comment Re:Europe has itself to blame for this (Score 1) 247

EU has around 1 billion people, ruzzia jas maybe 100 million, EU has 10 times the population. The only issue is that if Ukraine falls, putin will use force to make sure his army now includes Ukrainians conquered in Ukraine, just like he did with the residents of Donbass region. He will then take on the rest of Europe and given what ruzzians and Ukrainians have learned in thia war, the Europeans will find themselves in a really tough place Will the Europeans even fight at all? Polish, Lytovian, Finnish, they will fight, what about the rest? Given the experience and the size of the militaries, Europe stands no chance. Its best deffense is to help Ukraine with everything, instead European countries are busy with their internal problems.

Comment It could be worth it (Score 4, Interesting) 72

If they end up somehow building strong AI, then the investment will pay off in huge multiples and will absolutely be worth it.

If they don't manage to create strong AI, but manage to create a better search engine that somehow replaces Google, then it will be worth the investment (for comparison, Google profit is on the order of $100 billion per year).

There are a lot of other potential products that could bring heavy revenue, even without strong AI. AirBnB has $2billion a year in net profit, which isn't great but it's conceivable that even with the current crappy AI product, OpenAI could make a reasonable amount of revenue. With billions of potential customers, they don't need to make a lot of money off each person.

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