Why is one data center that uses hydro power relevant to the the original poster's point? Do you dispute the fact that data center demand far outstrips any amount of renewable energy being produced in the US (at least according to his numbers)?

Why would you think that? Can you answer that question with yet more questions?

As I understand it, the base model displays speed and other information in the center display (turn your head to look at it). The paid option puts it on the dash screen in front of the driver. If that's true, that's worth the outrage. I could see them wanting to charge a subscription for this "service" which would be even more outrageous.

He didn't say it would. He said it would offset it in cases where the lack of proper insulation means the ac needs to run more.

And they're welcome, as a business to swallow those aquisition expenditures, or fund their own Canadian content, or not do business here.

The list of developed countries that don't have domestic cultural protection policies is low. The US doesn't have one because of its size (or I'll throw you a bone - HOW AWESOME THEY ARE) - it simply doesn't need one.

Kind of hilarious in light of how pro-protectionist things have swung there. If the US audience started consuming predominantly anime TV, movies, books, etc overnight (purely just because of how good they are, right?) you'd bet your ass US would do the exact same thing.

What you don't get is that French is useful for many people - it just wasn't useful for you - and you project that because to you, personal experience is reality. Calling Mandarin, Spanish, Hindi, and Arabic more useful languages for living, identifying with other citizens, and employment in Canada is fucking bananas - and I'm married to a Taiwanese woman and speak some Mandarin!! Nothing you've said has changed my mind. Your points are noted, but still remarkably dumb.

so why aren't they given force adoption

I feel like we need a "take Murdoch5 to a real job" day or something. I'd literally pay to sit you down some time and explain how the real world works.

I don't think these systems are intended to sell power to the grid. There's no provision for a two way meter. My understanding is this is about offsetting household usage only. And 1200 watts is quite small.

Yes in many respects it's quite astounding it got to 250 years without something like this happening before. We're definitely in a new phase of American history. While the United States will continue in some form (Rome continued for a long time after the en of the republic), it's now a very different country now, and it isn't going to go back to normal.

Both the agent and the LLM model are running locally. There is nowhere to send the data for harvesting or training. That's the beauty of the local models. That's also the downside. They are frozen in time, their knowledge set at the time of original training. You have to download new versions every so often to get the latest updates, latest training.

They don't offer their 128 GB versions anymore do they? For the good models, 128 GB is kind of the sweet spot. 256 would be ideal. Back when they offered 128 GB models, they were $10k.

Currently sort of looking at a computer with the AMD Rizen AI Mac 395 with 128 GB of RAM. Price is slowly climbing. When I last checked a few months ago it was a solid $3k. $3k pays for a fair amount of Claude Pro which is all I use right now. I would love to play with local models though.

I've been watching the youtube channel "No Place Like Localhost" and he's been trying out the various open weight models available now and they are getting a lot better and catching up to the "frontier" models.

So the solution is... more money? If $5000 a year for a median Chinese person gets as much as $63000 a year in America, who is really ahead? By your logic quantitative easing has made America massively wealthy through inflation. High income and high prices don't necessarily mean someone is rich. And the opposite doesn't mean they are "poor."

If we all must be renters to motivate us to work, that is a pretty bleak future for America.

Of course they are. But doesn't mean the home-grown rage isn't real. They probably are egging on the AI companies to build more data centers and waste resources and get into further debt.

Except that it was CCP policy of one child per couple that got their society into the situation they are now in where men between the ages of 18 and 40 outnumber women. And especially in the rural areas the problem is much worse. The CCP is largely responsible for this and also the lack of education and opportunities in the rural areas. While the cities boom, the rural areas are left to decay, although that's where the food comes from.

"Just let me live the life I want to live, by fucking up others' lives way more than the other party may have mildly inconvenienced me for sound policy. Wait, why is this affecting me now?"

It's a tale as old as time.

and they ignore our laws in favour of their own

Well, we can at least tell you learned zero Canadian history.