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amazingamazing··on Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread
> Is corruption widespread throughout the government in this country, or not?

How is corruption defined for the purposes of this survey?

If there is none (I assume there is not), then it is only natural this number go up as the media highlights and propagandizes and highlights all actions taken by all government officials.

amazingamazing··on Corporate America is getting hooked on open-source AI
Encryption?
amazingamazing··on GPT-6 Astra
Not everyone is using 5.6 or even the best model so your premise is already wrong.
amazingamazing··on GPT-6 Astra
They don’t necessarily need their own models for that
amazingamazing··on GPT-6 Astra
1. No open ai and anthropic means no buying gpus to train. Now nvidia spends money on hardware training their own models. Opportunity cost plus expense.

2. Any open models created from this will not necessarily need their silicon, see apple mlx.

amazingamazing··on GPT-6 Astra
It is not in nvidia’s interest to be too good at model creation
amazingamazing··on GPT-6 Astra
You are making excuses for a a trillion dollar company. Wikipedia can do it.
amazingamazing··on GPT-6 Astra
Is it though? It is static content. A good CDN could trivially chew through literally millions of QPS… with 4 nines of uptime - the really good ones say they can handle orders of magnitude more than that.
amazingamazing··on GPT-6 Astra
We have such great AI and cannot keep a static site up?
amazingamazing··on Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
Could someone explain to me why it matters if google has the best model? Isnt the real metric cost per task?
amazingamazing··on Quasar 438B: Europe's Leading AI Model
How can it be that a 438B model is worse than Qwen3.8-27B? Are these benchmarks totally gamed?
amazingamazing··on How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?
The simplest argument against AI is the fact no public company appears to be making money on it, minus revenue that contributes to AI infrastructure.

Would love to see broken down counter example of public company.

So far Chegg and Duolingo have been devastated. Surely they could cut costs drastically with AI?

amazingamazing··on AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link
Make web apps.
amazingamazing··on Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio
If you have 2TB of VRAM you can’t run one of the big models which are comparable?
amazingamazing··on Mark Zuckerberg's Social Reckoning
Why settle. No confidence?
amazingamazing··on $44M Solar-Powered EV Production Deal Struck
Indeed. Solve that instead of making a 50k tricycle
amazingamazing··on Aptera announces a $44M to design and build a solar electric vehicle
So dumb. Build bike lanes and use ebikes, many of which already go 30mph+. The only hurdle is a weatherproof cover so you have heating and cooling and stay dry which together with an ebike would be way cheaper than this.

And as a bonus it will help with the obesity problem plaguing this planet which kills thousands yearly.

amazingamazing··on Flock CEO's Address Spread Online as Surveillance Backlash Explodes
So much for privacy should be a human right lol.
amazingamazing··on Flock CEO's Address Spread Online as Surveillance Backlash Explodes
You should read up on police use of the cameras I mentioned
amazingamazing··on Flock CEO's Address Spread Online as Surveillance Backlash Explodes
Do you believe anyone with a surveillance camera should have the owners name and address published if in any way a “public” area is recorded?

I suppose we can start with all Blink, Ring and Nest Cams. Then we will continue with dash cam owners.

amazingamazing··on State of the Map 2026
Ymmv i guess. I have made suggestions and seen changes in minutes before, as confirmed by other people. May be a function of the location.
amazingamazing··on State of the Map 2026
How is that different than Google or Bing? Don’t get me wrong OSM is great.
amazingamazing··on Zohran and the Short Link
I like click to cancel. Should have a year at least in url
amazingamazing··on Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account
Why are people so obsessed about twitter
amazingamazing··on An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation
In the AI age do such things matter? I am surprised they have not reimplemented at this point.
amazingamazing··on Man Charged with 3 Felonies for Breaking 3D-Printed 'Decoy' Flock Camera
The amount of highly upvoted incorrect statements here is hilarious
amazingamazing··on Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
16gb unified
amazingamazing··on Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
I should have bought a 100 m4 mac minis when I had the chance. Thanks hyperscalers for buying all the supply and renting it back.

A m4 mac mini is better than al of these per dollar, msrp adjusted.

Hopefully by the end of the decade China figures out manufacturing at scale and fixes this.

amazingamazing··on How credit card rewards became a $9.2B wealth transfer
What a silly article. Don’t buy things you cannot afford. Wealth transfer is a ridiculous framing. Is any heterogeneous situation involving money a wealth transfer?
amazingamazing··on Credit Card Rewards Became a $9.2B Wealth Transfer
Honorable but foolish. You could effectively get a discount and still use it the same way as your debit card.
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