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downrightmike··on How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent
Doesn't mean they'll let them be used or connected to the grid. Even if you do that in the USA they charge you the same rate for power from your panels as they do off the grid. You have to have an inspector come out just to get off of that default plan even though it is just a computer account update.
downrightmike··on Reddit will stop supporting RSS feeds on November 13th
There's the dead internet because it all became bots and then there's dead internet because the site itself committed harry kerry
downrightmike··on The End of a Fair Price: Dynamic Pricing and the Normalization of Gouging
Potatoes, eggs, whole mess of massive spikes in collusion everywhere is the problem
downrightmike··on OpenAI Targets $30B in New Funding at $1.4T Value
circular financing
downrightmike··on How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent
The power companies will just say that if they let everyone do that, it will kill line technicians and boom, no one gets solar. Happening in the USA today
downrightmike··on How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent
name one start up
downrightmike··on How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent
They make surge protectors
downrightmike··on Netanyahu claims ability to hack any iPhone and plant false evidence
Axos camera's ceo has another company that does the same thing with ALPR cameras
downrightmike··on Pacing the Frontier is not the actual goal for AI labs
Deepseek was super cheap, it isn't that costly, they like big numbers because that grants higher valuation, so they circular finance it all
downrightmike··on Pacing the Frontier is not the actual goal for AI labs
But insurance companies do not want to cure things, not profitable. So that revenue is just not going to work, insurance will not cover it.
downrightmike··on Driver Ticketed for No Insurance Just Because Flock (YC 2017) Said She Didn't
never going to tiwtter
downrightmike··on Driver Ticketed for No Insurance Just Because Flock (YC 2017) Said She Didn't
Paper is how it has always been. If 71% of the calls flock sends cops on are false positives, that means that 71% time is time cops aren't doing their jobs and we are less safe.
downrightmike··on The great crime decline is happening all across the country
That figure was created in 1963 by a lady who assumed that 3x starvation was thriving. Now may years later we claim ~34% of our population is now making up to $160k a year! we ended poverty, but they costs for an actual family of 4 starts at about $160k/yr. The figure shows that a huge amount of our population is still actually in poverty. You all just assume because the TV says so, it must be so.
downrightmike··on Every Household in This Rural Town Receives $10k If a Data Center Gets Built
Gotta have a local population large enough to absorb all the power grid upgrades. If the population is too small datacenters might have to pay it.
downrightmike··on Alibaba Cloud Joins as a Founding Corporate Patron with $3M
How is this not money laundering? For what is basically a single purpose vibe coded OS, there is a lot of money going to it when money is not (and never wanted to) going into ruby, gems or rails. very very odd situation.
downrightmike··on The great crime decline is happening all across the country
Just like abortions in the 70's stopped the super criminals from existing in the 90's. Not having unwanted kids goes a long way to prevent crime. Now we are in the place where people want kids, but can't afford them so they aren't.
downrightmike··on Uber CEO says you should answer emails over the weekend
sure, for $1m a message. Too poor?
downrightmike··on Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners
Let's be honest, the Japanese gov't has killed off every generation since the asian bubble popped in the 90's. Those kids in the 90's that still can't get a job should be in their peak earning years and have strong talent skills, (and having kids) which was all sacrificed. They don't have the skills or tax base they should and they are unwilling to actually fix it because the stock market needs to crash big time and the rich need to pay for it.
downrightmike··on Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners
gentrification pushing locals out. super simple
downrightmike··on FTC chair suggests AI developers should be liable for conduct of agents
Morris should be repaid for the fines he was levied for his internet worm released on accident then.
downrightmike··on FTC chair suggests AI developers should be liable for conduct of agents
Didn't meta make $10B in 2025 by scammers using their AI tools to scam our parents? Don't worry guys, meta will just lobby and bribe everyone to keep that revenue. Also don't worry about giving their new ai assitant full access to your bank account and credit cards email phone etc. nothing bad will happen
downrightmike··on Tell HN: AGI Is Here
AI is just a really fancy calculator that can run cron jobs
downrightmike··on Mercury 2.5 LLM hits 770 tokens per second
Give it a few months.
downrightmike··on Bwbach, My Guardian Goblin
One step away from an attack barrier
downrightmike··on OpenAI 'agent' hacked Australia's health service
Sacrificial pawn?
downrightmike··on OpenAI 'agent' hacked Australia's health service
Yeah... this is what an APT does. Can you imagine if China had done it? There would probably be boots on the ground
downrightmike··on Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges
IoT devices do not belong on networks
downrightmike··on Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
Then we end up like that anti-aging guy and end up older and giving ourselves untreatable diseases
downrightmike··on What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals
Back when they thought they could pay their way out of problems. Looking at you florida everglades
downrightmike··on Xbox continues its “reset” with dramatic restructuring
Part of Halo CE failing is boycott, I was interested until MSFT did all their shenanigans and cost people their livelihoods.
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