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Comment Re:Local retransmission fees and forced ESPN need (Score 1) 83

Many local programming OTA stations stream their stuff as well. Since it's their own content, no fees are required.

This is a pretty good solution for local news, which is the primary value of OTA.

Many stations primarily only produce their local news/events, as everything else is acquired via syndication or the network affiliation in the evening (none of which they have a license to redistribute to those outside their DMA).

Comment Re:What is the point of this? (Score 1) 19

The driver comes all the way to the house and can't walk a few extra steps to deliver the package? There is some safety issues that can be reduced like dogs chasing the drivers or perhaps heavy packages or slippery areas, etc... but other than that this seems useless.

I could imagine in some locations (I am thinking locations like closely located single family residences) having extra "hands" could result in additional deliveries per hour, which means higher revenue for the DSPs. Maybe some MDUs, too.

Comment Re:Local retransmission fees and forced ESPN need (Score 1) 83

Local retransmission fees and forced ESPN need to go or be made opt in. People with there own OTA hook ups don't need to pay $30/mo for local tv.

The local broadcasters claim (and they are probably not wrong), that they could not survive without the re-transmission fees they receive from the TV companies, because they built their business finances around those fees (and those fees are only going to continue to go up).

However, one should ask if the local broadcasters need to survive in their current form. And their continued fee increases may eventually price themselves out of a business.

Comment Re:I'll just run it locally (Score 1) 112

The higher prices do not seem to be impacting the large PC manufacturers as much, though.

The largest of the PC manufacturers had long term contracts (aka memory price hedging). Those long term contracts are ending (or will end soon enough), and the memory manufacturers are now limiting the time frames of the contracts so they can capture the upside(s) due to the AI demand (and the manufacturers are also redirecting their fabs to the higher profit AI preferred memories, further reducing the availability of the classic PC memory supply).

The smaller manufactures (such as Framework) that do not have such long term contracts have already increased their memory prices at least 3 times in the last three months.

Comment Re:The AI IQ asymptote is coming (Score 1) 27

Fire sales on server equipment that almost no one can use in their home computer.

The OCP (Open Compute Project) solutions are optimized for the hyperscaler datacenters, and reuse in a home lab after retirement is not a design goal (well, unless you have a datacenter in your home). Given the demand for AI hardware (and profit to be made) the major vendors are likely prioritizing solutions that are OCP (or other hyperscaler designs) compliant, which will dry up the used market at the lower end that was a sweet spot for the home lab users.

Comment Leapfrog (Score 1) 27

For a company to show AI Leadership (whatever that means), the new model must leapfrog the previous released model numbers (from your competitor). Mark does not want to appear to be behind Google's previous model (it would impact his stature).

I wonder which company will figure out how to successfully game the numbers first.

Comment Re:Cannot trust (Score 2) 37

Fully homomorphic encryption is mostly theoretical, but that's because it is incredibly slow and uses huge amounts of memory, not because you can't write conditionals.

You can compute anything using FHE that you can with any other turing machine. As long as you can wait long enough.

For certain (3 letter?) agencies, knowing that the data always stays encrypted may be worth the trade-off of slow. Not for all situations, of course, but for very specific targeted uses.

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