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Comment Why all at once? (Score 1) 32

I assume that, as an exercise, getting 5 simultaneous introductions working makes for a better paper; but is there a reason why you would want that in practice? Especially if there is any wobble in the ratios either randomly, across generations, or in the presence of certain environmental conditions that tweak the plant's metabolism one way or another that sounds like it would be a real pain in the ass to have to re-balance (and, if different patients are deemed to need different combinations even a perfectly stable plant is going to need re-balancing of the outputs) vs. very specifically going for a specific target output per-plant(or e. coli or yeast or whatever is easiest to bioreactor) and then just mixing to taste after purification. Is there some advantage I'm not seeing?

I realize that there are cases where some plant-sourced pharmacological effect looks like it is actually driven not by the identified 'active ingredient'; but by dozens or hundreds of assorted things, and in that case you just have to live with the complexity if you get better results with that than with purified isolates; but if you are deliberately engineering for very specific outputs why a mix of 5?

Comment Re:This will accelerate... (Score 1) 58

So far as fulfillment warehouses go, feasibility is already 100%, that is to say there is no task needed to be performed that can not currently be done by machines.

Again Amazon will replace ALL of their warehouse workers as soon as it is feasible. So far they have only been able to replace some of them.

Comment Re:Markup (Score 2) 22

Was an Intel CPU used to compute this?

The article says this: "Various sources indicate that a single Am9080 processor cost AMD only 50 cents to make (100 per wafer), yet it could sell them to military customers for $700 each." It however does not name "various sources". My best guess is the $0.50 does not include any capital costs and only certain operational costs.

Comment Re:This will accelerate... (Score 1) 58

Robots have been coming for decades. And Amazon is one company that will replace all their warehouse workers with robots at the first sign that is feasible. Amazon, of all companies, knows the limits of robots in automation as they have been trying to create fully automated warehouses for decades.

Comment Re:Oh Brave New World with such people in it (Score 1) 124

Or worse, because it is on the Internet, it must be true. I had a friend whose entire argument that some conspiracy theory was true because multiple people posted things on websites. I countered that I could set up a website to detail how that friend murdered a homeless person one summer.

Comment Re:Logistics matter (Score 1) 60

Yeah, but that doesn't mean they're ordering so far ahead that they don't have electrical connection approval for the building

You would be surprised. Again Micron is making high bandwidth memory for AI instead of consumer DRAM. They have already announced this.

. Approval for connecting to the grid should happen before they even break ground for the building, after whcih it takes anywhere from one to three years *after* they break ground before the data center opens.

Again you would be surprised by the lack of logistics for some of these data centers. And no one is not saying it does not require that level of planning. What we are saying is some of these data centers are being built on hopes and dreams as the foundation.

Comment Re:Did they fire their paralegals? (Score 1) 46

Did you? The first assumption is paralegals were fired. How about the assertion that having or not having a paralegal makes no difference if the lawyer does no verification of something the lawyer is submitting to a court. Regardless of who wrote the filing, the lawyer submitting the filing is responsible for the contents.

Comment Re:Not that hard (Score 1) 46

but make sure you're referencing one single case that actually happened and add your cited source next to it so I can verify it.

1) I doubt AI is smart enough to do that. 2) Verifying the case exists is trivially easy as the citation explicitly tells everyone how to find the case. The difficulty is in locating cases that are relevant to the legal issue.

Comment Re:Did they fire their paralegals? (Score 2) 46

If your lawyer does not have a paralegal, you should fire them.

1) So your advice is to only hire lawyers from large law firms? Lawyers with a solo practice may not have a paralegal. 2) A

Law is a very paperwork intensive industry. Now a days you can get away with 1 paralegal serving multiple lawyers, but nobody and I mean nobody goes without a paralegal.

Again small one lawyer firms exist so what you are saying is untrue. They should use paralegals to lighten their work load, but that does not mean they must always use a paralegal.

Smaller shops may have only one person doing the work of a receptionist and paralegal and other things, but they will always have at least one person.

Again I know of one person firms that do not always use a paralegal.

It is inappropriate for a lawyer to have the paralegal check his work, but if you are not going to check it at all, that is incredibly stupid.

You wrote above: "I can easily see a lawyer order their paralegals to fact check their reports" You just contradicted what you wrote.

Stupid as in how the hell did you get into law school and how did they not kick you out.

You literally wrote: "Did they fire their paralegals? Because that would explain why they still have issues. I can easily see a lawyer order their paralegals to fact check their reports ". Do you not remember what you wrote?

Comment Re:Cisco vs. TP-Link (Score 1) 183

You realize that this change has zero effect on any router, no matter its country of origin, that was on the market last Friday

You do realize that only applies to routers in inventory, not every single router forever. Every model of router will need to be "authorized" to be imported from now on.

Comment Re:Logistics matter (Score 1) 60

Unless the companies are completely incompetent, they aren't having the processors manufactured until they have a plan for bringing the building online, including power delivery.

Not from what I can see. NVidia is getting tons of orders for processors. Also the RAM shortage is because AI datacenters are buying all available memory and convincing the RAM foundries to make as much high bandwidth AI server memory as possible. When the bubble bursts, will these companies be left with orders no one wants. For example, Micron has stopped selling consumer memory in order to make HBM3E which is not consumer RAM sticks. Maybe Micron could sell some of that RAM to non AI datacenters, but the vast majority of those datacenters use ECC DDR memory as it is reliable.

Everything else in the data center is pretty much the same no matter what hardware you put in the racks. You still need floors, walls, and a ceiling or roof. You still need places for cables to go between racks (either above or below). The floors still need to be built to handle high static weight loads where the racks are. You still need power infrastructure. You still need cooling infrastructure. And so on.

Again, some data centers are being built without plans for cooling, power, etc. It is as if they just expect the surrounding area just to build all of that for them.

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