If you're a billionaire or a trillionaire the outcomes are great. You can use the infighting over increasingly scarce water and resources to cement your control over society and you can live in the few remaining temperate zones with plenty of fresh water for yourself.

I mean yeah everyone else is fucked but we're all going to be billionaires right? We're just temporarily inconvenienced... And I'm sure Elon Musk thinks of you and me as his buddies. We will be joining him on Mars

A libertarian is somebody who thinks their girlfriend shouldn't have to use a car seat.

Aside from the issues with platforming their advertisers don't want to see that stuff next to their advertisements. Not the raw stuff. You've got the internet and you have Google you can easily find that information yourself.

Also your reading comprehension needs work. Your concern isn't with the unnamed blogger your concern is with David Heinemeier Hansson and whether or not the things he said support what the unnamed blogger is accusing him of. You don't want more quotes from the unnamed blogger you want quotes from Mr Hansson.

It takes 2 seconds to Google the phrase " David Heinemeier Hansson ethnic cleansing accusations". Plenty of sources at that point and plenty of direct quotes if you care to be bothered. Or is your Google broken again? For some reason every time I run across somebody backing right wingers their Google is always broken... Oh here is the point where you pretend to not be backing the right winger.

Not talking about VRAM or unified memory. Regular DRAM.

There's been a lot of advancement recently on how to best manage MoE expert swapping (FreeToken is just one example).

Best joke of the day, but I was hoping for something about the misnomer. Floss refers to the stringy stuff and there's no string in this story?

But I might have asked my dentist about this if I'd seen the story before my last visit. Pert' shure I'll have forgotten all about it by the next time...

Very productive opening joke. Thanks.

Last paragraph.

We can only hope, but I predict it ain't gonna happen. Sadly.

Currently reading How AI Thinks by Nigel Toon. Some interesting bits and it's going quickly, but not seeing anything much to recommend in it. The intersection of "experts on AI" and "people who write well" remains small, though it may become more difficult to tell if they use AI to help write? I think it's only the deepest experts who can really explain things clearly, whereas AI is mostly focused on sounding deep with hallucinatory seasonings as convenient.

Right. But I don't think it is throwing a bone. The New Glenn is becoming a good rocket, and is there a good reason to not use New Glenn for rocketry? The recent incident of it blowing up is no different than a Falcon 9 blowing up on the launchpad 10 years ago. New rockets, new problems.

And it is for a darn good reason to have multiple providers. As an example, at one time, Boeing was a respected company that created good products. Now after becoming a bean counter company, they are rapidly becoming an also ran, with a crew capsule that reminds me of the early Soviet nuc subs.

And despite all the love heaped on Spacex, there is no guarantee that the same won't happen to them.

This isn't to disparage the Falcons, they are really good rockets. Starship - not so much, but that's a vanity project. But time moves on, and I've never been into the hot hand theory.

Need? There are lots of things you don't "need". But this seems like something that could legitimately improve my oral hygiene because -- like most people, I suspect -- I don't floss nearly as often as I should. Having it integrated into the brushing process would mean I do it 2-3 times per day, rather than once every few days. Is that worth $500? I guess it depends on how important $500 is to you. I'm not very price-sensitive and I am very lazy.

I'll wait until these have been available for a while and see what the reviews look like... but if the reviews are positive I'd say there's about a 95% chance I'll buy one.

I have one, and I don't use it enough. It takes time and effort to fill, use and clean up. Did I mention I'm lazy?

The notion that democracy and capitalism are innately incompatible is rather interesting, given that every long-running democracy has a predominantly capitalist economy. There has never been a durable multiparty democracy with a state-owned or centrally-planned economy. Not one! There are several examples of non-democratic nations with capitalist economies, but the complete lack of any successful non-capitalist democracy argues pretty strongly that capitalism is a necessary (though not sufficient) prerequisite for a healthy democracy, which is the opposite of incompatibility.

I did note that you attached the qualifier "unfettered", but has there ever been an example of unfettered capitalism? I'm not aware of one, and it seems fundamentally impossible. Capitalism requires a state to enforce property rights and contract law, and it's hard to think how any state could exist that does those things but doesn't also impose some regulation. If by "unfettered" you mean "lightly regulated" rather than the literal meaning of the word, then it becomes a question of degree but democracies have gone through many cycles of liberalizing and regulating without ceasing to be democracies.

No, in fact most attempts at democratic socialism have been entered peacefully. They tend to begin by election of a socialist leader with enough support to begin nationalizing all or most industry. Examples include the Allende regime in Chile, India's government for much of the latter half of the 20th century, Sweden's Meidner Plan, Venezuela (Chavez' second attempt; his first try was a coup but then he was elected), etc.

Socialist revolutions almost always install non-democratic regimes, though many claimed to be democratic (e.g. the USSR had decades of elections in which every race had only a single candidate, chosen by the nomenklatura).

They did make as good an attempt as anyone... but still had to restrict emigration to prevent their population fleeing the workers' paradise.

Fair, many people do use the term imprecisely.

I doubt it. Which is why the cheaper devices being discussed won't provide backup power during an outage.

The discussion is about equipment that is designed to plug into the house wiring via an outlet, not a standalone battery that provides its own outlets. If you want to discuss an entirely different sort of equipment, then obviously the conclusions change.

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