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AI should handle the calls, humans should do in-person. Trying to cure someone over the phone is foolish.

The economist is no longer capable of writing unbiased articles unfortunately.

A cursory search of bluesky web vs. mobile (surprisingly) suggests that the web experience might actually be better and users seems to recommend it over the app.

This is rare but does suggest a possible effect where users realize this over time and switch.

Yes agreed, but the net result is that living in the countryside was far from romanticized agrarian life people often picture it as. Lords owning land was a very old idea, it's a bit of a leap to say that was due to mechanization.

This seems obviously wrong as there are many counter examples. Employees in Ford's plants for instance saw huge wage increases and an additional day off. Mining mechanization made mines far less deadly and greatly reduced the human exertion required. I'd much rather harvest corn in an air conditioned combine vs. with an ox.

Even during the early industrial revolution, notorious for poor working conditions, people overlook why there was such high demand for those shitty jobs. The reason is because people were literally starving in the countryside. A family's survival was dependent on a good harvest.

The age of the dark forest is upon us

At least one benefit is you can now leverage LLMs to basically translate entire math textbooks into your preferred notation.

I would be curious whether you find it easier. I kinda think it'll be too many parenthesis.

I would simply disable windows update. It always seemed insane to me that the solution to preventing RCE was to open an RCE channel to basically every provider that has installed a driver or an application on your machine.

Each auto-update is by definition remote code execution.

Math notation ultimately is pseudo code just with mostly single letter variables and many operators that are encoded purely by position thus not even requiring a symbol.

Remember that the oft-used e^x is actually an infinite series, even writing it out in summation form would be quite verbose given its frequency in many equations.

Placebo also works so why aren't healing crystals and essential oils treated like real medicine?

Both aluminum and iron atoms are heavy and thus make it into the ocean where they both increase the ocean's carbon sink capacity. https://phys.org/news/2021-05-aluminum-affect-climate-ocean-...

From an energy POV, the chemical launch energy required for orbital insertion is 900GJ per satellite (when amortized) whereas the satellite produces 18,900GJ over its 5-yr lifetime, and far more if it lasts longer.

All energy generated on earth contributes to global warming, even solar panels which decrease Earth's albedo. If you care about climate change and the earth you should want the datacenters to be in space.

The earth is limited in the amount of thermal energy it can radiate.

Agreed, and I'm happy to live in a country where this is likely true. The only thing more deadly than pandemics are governments that gained sufficient power to round up their citizens systematically in the name of the public good.

Indeed, and it would have saved far more lives if leveraged the app to have hazmat crews come in a forcibly carry the infected to quarantine zones.

>Apple tried the damnedest at that during their intel era.

The story I heard was intel failed to deliver on die shrinks that were supposed to increase thermal efficiency. The fan also had poor routing and basically did nothing.

Apple was clearly not at the top of their game for that design, nor would you expect them to be as the decision was likely already made to move to apple silicon.

>Surely if the machine you go to for answers regularly makes things up you would just stop using it?

Not necessarily, namely because P != NP. Verifying the correctness of a solution is faster than solving it. Thus a system that outputs 99% incorrect solutions and 1% correct solutions can still be incredibly useful.

Thermal dissipation scales quartically with T, that's about as graceful as you can get from a physics POV, very few things scale at that rate.

COTs GPUs throttle at about 90-100C but that's because they have plastic parts and solder that melts. Those are relatively easy to eliminate.

We haven't tried much to scale up operating temp.

Pinch to zoom on an early iphone navigating those fixed-width sites worked surprisingly well.

I still prefer it to the responsive pages where stuff moves unpredictably and annoyingly. Before you never had that feeling that the webpage was fighting you.

I sometimes wonder if there is an equivalent loss for this new AI world and one that I've noticed is a kind of sameness that is slowly spreading across the internet.

Right but that's because you've now layered in government control. 401k plans are more heavily regulated, often negotiated by the employer rather than the employee.

The real question is why are employers able to limit employee 401k investment choices and employee health insurance. This is not freedom.

The beauty of capitalism is you have a choice. There are already ETFs that exclude SpaceX/Elon's company's for those who so desire.

See QQNE and SPNE.

Could there be any other reasons that DOGE did succeed?

One again CA trying very hard to become the EU and turn regulation into their main export.

>DOGE found an actually highly efficient Federal government

For anyone that has worked on either side of government procurement it is obvious that this is not true.

It's quite common for contracts to no longer make sense yet neither side wants to cancel them due to the paperwork involved. "Just put the money towards something else similar"

Plus the many high profile examples like high-speed rail, rent subsidies.

Yes it would be better if it took these into account but doing so would not change the overall numbers.

Risk of perforation is something like .03% and almost never fatal whereas a colonoscopy reduces colorectal cancer mortality by 60-70%.

>And you have to consider the opportunity costs of consuming the doctor's time, the labwork, and the facilities, possibly delaying treatment for someone else who actually needs it.

That is also rarely true. More often, greater demand for a service soon yields economies of scale, more efficiencies and overall more patients served at a lower price. Low volume is expensive, high volume is cheap.

Next YC batch: "We're Mollusca and we're democratizing access to nature's strongest material"

Not sure it's so clever because I completed it as "not always wrong but often wrong", which their graph in the article seems to confirm.

Mainstream predictions are easy, usually it means predicting status-quo. It's the out-of-consensus that matters (right 2 quadrants) and it looks like they are slightly worse than 50/50 on those.

Props for publishing it though.

Just as there a counter-suits perhaps we need more counter-laws. When something like this is defeated, a law is instead introduced to make chat control explicitly illegal.

Wikipedia's own founder can no longer stand how biased the site has become

I doubt that, there really wasn't much effort put to allowing GPUs to run hotter. You can always add a heat pump to create the thermal gradient of the GPU can't handle it itself.

Energy radiation scales T^4 so physics is really on your side here. If you can engineer GPUs to run a little hotter you get significant decreases in radiator size required.