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outside2344··on As Wisconsin cities flee Flock, its shared camera network loses value
After all, how do we know domestic abuse isn't happening there without cameras?
outside2344··on Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit
Honestly at this point it is usually the Europeans that need this (I have been asked if Chile has good tacos from a European). At least in my experience, most USians (in spanish Americans means everyone in the hemisphere) now know more about South America than the average European.

(Which is to be expected, proximity and all)

outside2344··on In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices
So energy demand was increasing? Perhaps electric cars?
outside2344··on AI saves about 3% of your hours, and almost none of it reaches the money
But is it a 3% gain if we include the costs? Or would it actually be cheaper to just hire humans with the money going to tokens?
outside2344··on Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model
But the whole game is lying and stealing isn't it?
outside2344··on Waymo Premier
Yes, and this is a policy failure.
outside2344··on Solar Energy Saves Europeans $135M a Day
This is not true. Batteries are cheaper than peaker power plants using fossil fuel. They also allow the operator to fulfill market demands at the minute level versus the hours previously that it took to turn on a peaker plant.

This is being done at scale in California and Texas.

outside2344··on Solar Energy Saves Europeans $135M a Day
This is the exact scenario they are being used in at scale. The company removes their gas peaker plant infrastructure and replaces them with batteries. Already have the grid interconnect and now can dispatch power on the millisecond level instead of hour level.
outside2344··on Solar Energy Saves Europeans $135M a Day
My solar panels amaze me every day. It is just crazy that a flat panel, that doesn't have any moving parts, and requires a once a year cleaning (at most), just eliminated my power bill completely.
outside2344··on S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic
SpaceX is a junk stock. It has no place in the S&P 500
outside2344··on Home alone: Remote work, isolation, and mental health
He's a twat so its totally on-brand.
outside2344··on Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers
They have to say this because we know how to value a satellite and space company (aka at 1/100th of their offering price).
outside2344··on Morningstar values SpaceX at $780B, half its IPO target
The market can stay insane longer than you can stay solvent.

In the short term the market is a popularity machine but in the long term it is a weighing machine.

outside2344··on Morningstar values SpaceX at $780B, half its IPO target
Which is still 10x what it is worth
outside2344··on Germany news: Childfree adults to pay more for elder care
So the plan is to make the cost of living even more expensive for people without kids?

Do they understand the problem in the first place? Many people can't afford to have kids.

outside2344··on Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps
Consider in your presentations leading with this as a demo to motivate the technical infrastructure you've put in place.

It is hard to grok what Contracts, etc. etc. allow you to do in the abstract so working through how it allows us to build a decentralized GitHub might be a good anchor in a tangible use case.

outside2344··on Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps
Your goal, I think, is to build a movement around Freenet.

How does bringing in "the woke mind virus" or "virtue signaling" into a technical conversation help build your movement vs. cause people to tune out?

outside2344··on Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps
A wise boss of mine, after reading a set of threads that I wrote like this, asked me to go think for a day on the difference between "being right" and "being effective."

Some of the things you say in these threads might be "right" but I can assure you that many of them are not effective, which is counterproductive to the goal you are trying to achieve.

outside2344··on Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps
So he forked the project and went his own way. I am not sure I see the issue here. This is how we do open source on the internet. You don't have to join him, but he also has the right to go his own way too.
outside2344··on Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods
The fact that they aren't a usual event is probably exactly the challenge here.
outside2344··on Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait
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outside2344··on Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait
A Iran drone then bombing UAE's oil infrastructure as payback?
outside2344··on Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI
And the Trump thing, which cratered his car business
outside2344··on A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline
Did you not consider the 5 second dopamine hit I got from owning the libs?
outside2344··on 50K Tahoe residents need power as utility eyes redirecting lines to data centers
It will be hilarious if Google built a data center in Nevada only to run Incline Village out of power (where Sergey Brin pretends to live as a tax dodge).
outside2344··on Brent Crude hits $119.56/barrel peak today
This is going to work until all of the sudden it doesn't.
outside2344··on Brent Crude hits $119.56/barrel peak today
Starting to spike in certain states as well: https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2026/04/13/m...
outside2344··on Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block
Less headaches, free futbol matches!
outside2344··on Nowhere is safe
Trump has blundered like an idiot into this in Iran ...

... but the upside is that the same dynamics are making it possible for Ukraine to beat back Russia too.

It is a bad time to be an invading force.

outside2344··on F-15E jet shot down over Iran
And running out of Patriots
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