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Comment Re:Markup (Score 1) 14

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) 22

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:didn't they have this on tollways in oh years a (Score 1) 138

That's because people willing to pay to take a toll road to save speed can always avoid said toll road if they actually have to follow the speed limit on it. That eliminates the revenue the toll road gets, costing them money.
Florida had this situation with a new toll road that runs parallel to the highway around Orlando. Cops were running speed traps there. They were quickly banned because they noted it was killing the number of people taking the road, costing them far more in revenue.

Comment Re:Oh Brave New World with such people in it (Score 1) 98

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) 56

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 What now? (Score 1) 38

Unless I'm missing something, this ruling is just plain weird. Does contract law work differently in Italy?

This is not a long term contract. If Netflix was offering a price for, say, a two year commitment, then I get the objection to arbitrarily changing the terms. But to my knowledge, they are month to month, meaning the contract is for the month, and by agreement a new contract is created each month

Going back to those previous contracts seems like nonsense.

Comment The comments here are missing the point (Score 2) 119

Appetite suppressing molecules are no surprise. In fact, we have one on the market called GLP-1 that works so well, it almost works too well. The big story in the TFA is that this is a "small-molecule" - a relatively simply organic compound that you could synthesize in bulk in a chemistry lab or pharmaceutical plant.

By contrast, GLP-1 is hormone - specifically, a 30-amino acid chain of amino acids called a peptide that folds into a particular tangled shape that makes it work. Peptides are much more difficult to synthesize, and are quite unstable. Our bodies also tend to get rid of peptides quickly, so they don't last very long in the bloodstream.

Just compare how the two look:
GLP1 versus p-Tyramine-O-Sulfate and it is obvious which one is the harder one to deal with.

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.

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