This comment is modded both funny and troll. The true mod should be insightful. However, it's not just MAGA adherents but also people on the left and even apolitical people. Many people surrender their skepticism in politics, science, history, and particularly economics. This is why social media and marketing are so effective, and this phenomenon exited way before AI was a thing.

I've been wondering for many years before the first traffic camera appeared, why the toll-roads aren't enforcing the speed limits automatically. The time you enter and exit the highway is recorded down to a second. The distance between these two points is known — your average speed could be computed on the spot even with the early 90-ies technology...

The polite police officers would be standing right behind the toll-booths issuing tickets without the drama of hiding in the bushes, then chasing you at highway speeds...

And, yeah, you could lower it by stopping at a rest area — but it'd still be a tremendous disincentive to speed.

I was and continue to hope, that such universal enforcement, affecting all voters, would cause the limits to go up to reasonable figures — or even be abolished completely...

I've run into these people, they're the worst

When have you last checked your compiler's output?

So, let the companies retain their monopoly over repair and then regulate that repair business as a monopoly, with government oversight, regulation, and approval of all prices and offerings. If a free market doesn't exist, then there is no free market to be enabled by a laissez-faire government approach.

produces higher quality sperm

That's really important for the sperm destined for the septic system, sure...

On the other hand, the average gas price in the US has increased from $2.98 to $3.98, an increase of 33%.

"For automakers, the new system promises less expensive software development costs and an opportunity to focus on what matters most to them: branding."

It seems like this statement is not true. Instead of providing a thin client for the phone, the car makers are going to duplicate the phone software in the car. This sounds far more expensive in terms of software development costs. Also, this has no effect on branding. The car is already heavily branded with the car make. I don't think the car makers care about sharing branding with Google. Instead, what matters to car makers is on-going subscription revenue, because that is what will justify the additional development costs.

If the complaint is a lack of developer control, does that mean that if Nvidia can install knobs in DLSS for developers, then you'd no longer have a beef with it?

Does this thinking extend to the stock markets, which are arguably another form of gambling this is now heavily regulated. Are you arguing for the pre-SEC days where there were no required public disclosures and no prohibitions on insider trading?

Imagine what the tobacco settlement would have been like under the current MAGA government. Instead of a deal to essentially heavily tax cigarettes and allow the evil to continue (i.e., a win-win for everyone except for the people that are killed by cigarettes), the tobacco settlement would have been replaced by a government protection law with only a one-time lobbying cost. That would have also resulted in a win-win, where the tobacco companies get to avoid the settlement tax and the politicians get to pocket the lobbying bribes as well as the insider trading jackpots. Of course, more people would get killed by cigarettes and state taxpayers and employees paying health premiums would all lose, but they don't matter.

The answer is that everyone is already doing exactly what you said. Groq is now essentially Nvidia, so even Nvidia is expanding their product portfolio. They offer GPUs (Blackwells and Vera Rubins), inference systems (Groq), CPUs (Vera), and networking (including InfiniBand and ethernet, where Nvidia now has higher data center networking revenue than Cisco). Currently about 70% of Nvidia data center revenue is from GPUs, and that percentage will drop when the Groq systems ramp up.

Yes, the AI customers don't have the money for all the data centers. Even the money-rich hyperscalars don't have the money and have to borrow. However, these hyperscalars are self-funding for the most part and borrowing is only for around 10-20% of their spending. They are being stretched, but a case could be made that they can "handle" the financial strain. Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta have a combined annual profit of over $350 billion, and their actual operating cash flow is over $500 billion.

It's the newcomers (OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI) that don't have the huge profits and cash flow. They have to depend on venture capital, private equity, circular "partnerships," etc. However, their levels of spending are far lower than for the hyperscalars, "only" in the $20-30 billion (each) range.

Thanks for your questions, Freenet caches data but it isn’t meant to be a long-term storage network. It’s better to think of it as a communication system. Data persists as long as at least one node remains subscribed to it. If nobody subscribes (including the author), it will eventually disappear from the network. So yes, if only your node subscribes then the data will only exist there and won’t be available when your machine is offline. But if other nodes subscribe it will be replicated automatically and remain available even if your node goes offline.

Not from 2023, the linked video is from last month. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...