jonners00

With social media, the cost benefit analysis doesn't deliver marginal results, just less stark/concentrated results. Drink driving is self evidently bad even though 99 times out of 100(?) it does no harm, because one time out of a hundred its consequences are catastrophic. Social media on the other hand is harming essentially 100% of the population in initially milder ways - even if you don't use it you're forced to live in a dumbed down society where wealth and power is becoming concentrated in the hands of those who pedal digital dopamine and in a democracy being undermined by disinformation. Of course 'initially milder harm' is step one in frog boiling.

Yeah, but they don't know which specific one of Firefox's last dozen users I am.

Heat exchanger melts salts, salts boil off? Some kind of potential in there to use evaporants for attitude/altitude correction. Spitballing. Once your use case also has a business case, scope to innovate grows.

I think it's as simple as USA plus Canada plus Greenland equals bigliest country in the world

Er, that example most definitely isn't one of 'the changes we associate with him'.

They did (unless you're one of the drafters of the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act, in which case, weirdly, they didn't)

I think the rationale behind this is possibly 'Elon's share price defies gravity based on humanoid robot and self-driving hopium. Someone bolt some hopium onto our dog of a share price please.'

In our case:

over there; bed; basket; lead; walk; wait at the door; go to [room]; go to [family member]; stay; stay on the path; paw; paws up; sit; lie down; heel; don't pull on the lead; no more poo poo; no more wee wee; this is the commute; up; where's your piggy?; treat?; buscuit?: up for a cuddle?; want to come up?; permission; okay; no; stop; this way; stay close; hungry for some food?; water?; down; don't lick; who did this?; come here; shall we go the pub; let's go;

and probably 5 or 6 more words/phrases. I don't include words like catch/fetch where accompanying action may trigger the response.

It's definitely not a three year old's grasp of language, but it's probably a point that a baby crosses somewhere between 9 and 15 months old.

>It's even less helpful than if the friend just suggested to contact support and/or delete the facebook account.

To be fair, pretty much all advice in life is less helpful than 'delete the facebook account'

He runs Y combinator. This is his site!

there's a lovely documentary by a blind British comedian about exactly this: https://connect.open.ac.uk/seeingintothefuture/

Those are the energy sources they're replacing with this tech - according to <https://reneweconomy.com.au/new-worlds-largest-sand-battery-...> it's surplus energy from renewables that will 'charge' the battery (so likely wind, hydro and solar that is produced but surplus to the grid's requirements)

>Did goog pay a license for those pirate recordings?

If their copyright monitoring algorithm recognises the tracks being performed and the licence holders have opted to receive a share of ad revenue rather than issue a takedown notice, then I think the answer might well be yes.

I think the idea that there's currently an 'index tracker bubble' is fascinating: i.e. that the total value of the S&P 500 is no longer based on a multiple of aggregate earnings but is instead driven by finding the price that needs to be paid to achieve the necessary 'churn' for tracker funds to fulfil their mandates as they allocate the funds that their subscribers place with them each month. This creates a scarcity premium that drives up prices and attracts more subcribers. This has a ratchet effect that never previously applied and that will probably prevail until something goes catastrophically wrong.

>if GPUs are really being used as the lein or collateral, these are fundamentally depreciating assets and are marked as such even if the depreciation rates are slightly wrong.

As long as the initial value of a blackwell chip derived from correctly forecast and discounted cash flow is sound, this is correct. On the other hand, if the initial value is a function of scarcity/demand and high manufacturing cost that's wildly detatched from actual returns then 'could be an issue' is a significant understatement.

It is a monopolist in the format it specialises in - medium length 'creator content' that the creators typically post every 2-10 days. Some do post to Nebula and Patreon, but really, there's nowhere else to go for that kind of content, and that's the content that most of their ad revenue is attached to.