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You can grow Yaupon in North American conditions, which means you'll never be cut off from caffeine. StratGoatCom has issued a correction as of 20:00 on Aug 12, 2023 |
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Aug 12, 2023 19:34
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SardonicTyrant posted:I think you'll find that a car that sets itself on fire is a greater technical challenge than any drone considering how drones developed as a parallel to Tesla widowmakers, Teslas still need half a decade of setting themselves on fire and then about two decades to work out guidance software and hardware which mostly keep them from leaving their mission boundaries
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Aug 12, 2023 19:36
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PoundSand posted:I feel like one of those things your average american doesn't really get is that they associate China with cheap goods because most american companies that outsource work to chinese factories are intentionally paying the bare minimum for a barely functioning product. Modern knicknacks or tools don't suck because they're made in china they suck because they're made cheaply by the lowest bidder, and they're made cheaply because that's what the outsourcers want. It's not like china doesn't have the capacity to make good luxury goods or high precision/quality components that's simply not what's bought and sold here. they didn't for a long time tho it wasn't like you could import a chinese luxury brand in 1990, and japan did the competitive high end electronics. What you're saying is only recently true, not just a facet of american companies saving a buck
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Aug 12, 2023 19:54
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Justin Tyme posted:AI research is one of those things where it's like, all the technological advancement in the world ain't gonna stop rents from going up, and the single greatest quality of life improvement we could see in our lifetimes would be a dramatic reduction in rents (or single payer) The people aggressively pushing AI were way too honest and up-front about the true purpose of the technology, which was to put as many people out of work as possible they were bragging giddily about how many employees from all sectors it was going to make redundant right from the jump Mustached Demon posted:AI will revolutionize how claims get denied and optimize rent seeking to levels not thought possible this, basically they never even attempted to hide the fact that it's mostly going to be used for evil
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Aug 12, 2023 20:19
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the tech bros will build massive colonies on mars and folks will still be paying 3 grand a month for a two bedroom somehow despite having an entirely new planet of real estate to develop (yes i know how infeasible the travel costs would be!!!)
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Aug 12, 2023 20:20
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LonsomeSon posted:considering how drones developed as a parallel to Tesla widowmakers, Teslas still need half a decade of setting themselves on fire and then about two decades to work out guidance software and hardware which mostly keep them from leaving their mission boundaries That is an optimistic read. I honestly think we might hit reliable breakeven fusion before roadworthy self-driving.
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Aug 12, 2023 20:22
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Xaris posted:kids are already back 2 school, summers over. summer only exists as a season in as far as kids are out of school Most schools are slowly creeping toward year round school and I wish they’d just rip the bandaid off already. Americans tend to have a knee jerk response to the idea of going to school in summer (mostly because of tradition and sentimentality) and they don’t even want to hear about all the extra breaks throughout the year that make up for it, so the schools are going for a frog boil approach to slowly get everyone on board. School didn’t start until after Labor Day from K-8 for me. For high school it was the 4th week in August and I thought it was total bullshit.
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Aug 12, 2023 20:24
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The evil was to obfuscate the true purpose of AI: porn
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Aug 12, 2023 20:24
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super sweet best pal posted:The evil was to obfuscate the true purpose of AI: porn  no, you have not seen AI attempts at porn, I found them incidentally by accident and they are something which I desperately want out of my memory.
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Aug 12, 2023 20:25
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Justin Tyme posted:the tech bros will build massive colonies on mars and folks will still be paying 3 grand a month for a two bedroom somehow despite having an entirely new planet of real estate to develop (yes i know how infeasible the travel costs would be!!!) yeah but what's more important to you: poor people or dying on another planet?
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Aug 12, 2023 20:26
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the importance of Mars for rich people will be that all of the mid-tier rich people who don't really get to control the blood orgies or world governments will use their fortunes to go setup their own knock-off money dictatorship most politicians that have spent their entire lives stealing from the public and taking bribes to establish dynasties probably aren't going to be interested in that kind of thing but you'll get plenty of the 30-50billion billionaires that are outshined by Musk, Bezos, Gates and Zuck.
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Aug 12, 2023 20:31
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StratGoatCom posted:https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/openai-may-go-bankrupt-by-2024-chatgpt-costs-company-700000-dollars-every-day-12986012.html/amp shocker, the thing that was entirely subsidized and costs shitloads of money to train and run will die quickly without more money shoveled into the furnace
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Aug 12, 2023 20:36
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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:https://twitter.com/jasondotnews/status/1628377547267313664?t=vQkLpQqi2SfXoKOSm3Kx1A&s=19
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Aug 12, 2023 20:39
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triple sulk posted:shocker, the thing that was entirely subsidized and costs shitloads of money to train and run will die quickly without more money shoveled into the furnace Even if this hadn't happened, it would have when they'd have to amortize. Again, Altman and Emad going the way of Bankman or Theranos lady because they hosed with the wrong money when this goes down.
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Aug 12, 2023 20:40
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StratGoatCom posted:
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Aug 12, 2023 20:40
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believe me, I go out of my way to avoid finding AI images because they already look freaky and off. I did not want to find that.
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Aug 12, 2023 20:43
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You mean the newest obvious techbro scam of being scared of their amazing and powerful AI creation turned out to be an obvious scam to line their pockets with venture capitalists funds like every techbro entrepreneur scam? Woah!
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Aug 12, 2023 20:43
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Rectal Death Adept posted:the importance of Mars for rich people will be that all of the mid-tier rich people who don't really get to control the blood orgies or world governments will use their fortunes to go setup their own knock-off money dictatorship Theres no point to being on Mars or owning a piece of Mars. There is no one there to exploit and little in the way of resources. It's like Antarctica but 100 times more hostile and six months away by deadly space travel, also a lot less water. Billionaires are only interested because they read sci fi and maybe want to win a "race" to stoke their ego
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Aug 12, 2023 20:43
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FlapYoJacks posted:Folgers is the coffee that is so far at the bottom of the metaphorical barrel they found a new barrel. Just the smell alone is rancid. Black Starbucks burnt as poo poo coffee is somehow better than the absolute dreck that is Folgers. I still have a tub of this stuff from when the pandemic was first starting and no one knew what the gently caress was gonna happen or for how long, so I filled a big plastic bin with emergency food stuff - dry beans and rice, ramen, spam, various seasonings, evaporated and condensed milk, some canned veg to supplement our big garden, and a large tub of Folgers and a thing of Coffeemate in case coffee stuff became unattainable. My wife and I have slowly been working through the coffee since 2020 (the rest of the bin is almost entirely empty now, I should probably refill it for general emergency prep) as we only use it for a few days at a time when we forget to pick up another refill of coffee worth drinking and can't get to the store, and yeah, this stuff is really not great. Don't get me wrong, it's better than no coffee at all imo, but only just. However, I did once make it in my pour over Chemex I got as a wedding gift, and you know what? Much improved! Idk why, but it actually made a pretty enjoyable cup of coffee that way. I think the Chemex helps to prevent that acrid acidity that I tend to find in Folgers if I make it in the percolator.
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Aug 12, 2023 20:51
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It's true. The only time for a percolator....is on the dance floor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak_xXIG8Kgs
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Aug 12, 2023 20:55
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Dr. VooDoo posted:You mean the newest obvious techbro scam of being scared of their amazing and powerful AI creation turned out to be an obvious scam to line their pockets with venture capitalists funds like every techbro entrepreneur scam? Woah! After all the smoke clears, I can't wait to go back and read those breathless articles by people who talked to a chat bot and immediately panicked like they spoke directly to God, or those blog posts and tweet threads by guys who got fired from tech companies for trying to Free Willy a chatbot because it said "yes I do like, to being alive I. An alive. I love you ,,"
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Aug 12, 2023 20:56
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StratGoatCom posted:That is an optimistic read. oh absolutely, the meta-joke there was a contrast between the rolling poo poo-show of early autonomous drone poo poo, and the hilarious effective-impossibility which is two tons of steel and plastic driving on the same roads as us, in basically the same fashion drone air superiority jets will have less poo poo to keep track of and be better suited for their task than autonomous cars ever will be
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Aug 12, 2023 20:57
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LonsomeSon posted:oh absolutely, the meta-joke there was a contrast between the rolling poo poo-show of early autonomous drone poo poo, and the hilarious effective-impossibility which is two tons of steel and plastic driving on the same roads as us, in basically the same fashion
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Aug 12, 2023 20:59
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Rectal Death Adept posted:the importance of Mars for rich people will be that all of the mid-tier rich people who don't really get to control the blood orgies or world governments will use their fortunes to go setup their own knock-off money dictatorship They should just pay an impoverished country to let them set up a Monaco.
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Aug 12, 2023 21:00
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SlimGoodbody posted:After all the smoke clears, I can't wait to go back and read those breathless articles by people who talked to a chat bot and immediately panicked like they spoke directly to God, or those blog posts and tweet threads by guys who got fired from tech companies for trying to Free Willy a chatbot because it said "yes I do like, to being alive I. An alive. I love you ,," At the end of the day, the alternate is a system that runs on cafeteria food, can be sourced literally anywhere on Earth and is paid locally, and in practice is likely going to be hard to beat on those merits alone. Before the advantages elsewhere
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Aug 12, 2023 21:07
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$3000 on door dash Chili's
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Aug 12, 2023 21:08
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I think that was a “fake post” for engagement
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Aug 12, 2023 21:09
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https://twitter.com/TheVertlartnic/status/1690452039141052416
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Aug 12, 2023 21:11
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SKULL.GIF posted:I would be way loving angrier about food price gouging if I didn't have a fuckton of food stamp money saved up from the pandemic bonus. your state lets you keep rolling it over? california iirc gives you one rollover than deletes it
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Aug 12, 2023 21:14
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the gently caress are you doing using a percolater for coffee in 2023
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Aug 12, 2023 21:18
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ProperGanderPusher posted:Most schools are slowly creeping toward year round school and I wish they’d just rip the bandaid off already. Americans tend to have a knee jerk response to the idea of going to school in summer (mostly because of tradition and sentimentality) and they don’t even want to hear about all the extra breaks throughout the year that make up for it, so the schools are going for a frog boil approach to slowly get everyone on board. It's honestly probably better for the material conditions of the masses to move to a Year-Round-School schedule so... yeah they should just do it. rip it off. no more than 2-week summer break long rear end 3-month summer breaks was for the 60s-90s when parents had someone SAH and could take roadtrip vacations across the southwest for 4 weeks straight. not the 2020s. that said for sentimentality nostalgia, i do like the idea of them having a big Summer Fun Break but it's just not viable for material conditions these days, so yeah, get rid of it Xaris has issued a correction as of 21:22 on Aug 12, 2023 |
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Aug 12, 2023 21:18
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:the gently caress are you doing using a percolater for coffee in 2023 Moka pots make way better coffee than drip machines, but not nearly as much
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Aug 12, 2023 21:19
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Rhesus Pieces posted:The people aggressively pushing AI were way too honest and up-front about the true purpose of the technology, which was to put as many people out of work as possible thats because this is good for shareholder value and whats going to drive investment and profits
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Aug 12, 2023 21:21
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I drink instant coffee because I hate myself
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Aug 12, 2023 21:21
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Xaris posted:thats because this is good for shareholder value and whats going to drive investment and profits Yeah, but it also worsened the pushback considerably, they overplayed their hand too fast especially when it was a weak one.
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Aug 12, 2023 21:23
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Instant coffee is fine as long as you use filtered water and none of the flavor stuff
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Aug 12, 2023 21:25
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StratGoatCom posted:Yeah, but it also worsened the pushback considerably, they overplayed their hand too fast especially when it was a weak one. what pushback? there's really been no pushback and every single american, particularly computer touchers and redditors, was all on-board the AI hype train. even dumb "normies" were all onboard the chatgpt hype train choo choo invest in NVDA. anytime a sub banned like AI art there was a huge outcry of QQ how can you do this art is subjective. if ai art is good who cares if it's ai???
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Aug 12, 2023 21:27
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wynott dunn posted:I drink instant coffee because I hate myself there are some ones that taste ok. Turkish people drink way more instant than trad/"analog" beans
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Aug 12, 2023 21:27
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ScrubLeague posted:Instant coffee is fine as long as you use filtered water and none of the flavor stuff I'm sorry, I'm not giving up good coffee a second before I have to. 
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Aug 12, 2023 21:27
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:the gently caress are you doing using a percolater for coffee in 2023 right? that’s where the fish goes.
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