Big tech are the ones behind the age verification push. Linux wouldn’t become illegal, only the distros available to end users would be.

You can’t run anything like a frontier model on a self hosted solution. To get anywhere close you’d have to spend thousands of dollars on hardware which obviously isn’t free, or even a viable solution for the vast majority of people, let alone these students. And the quality of output you’d get from a model running on off the shelf consumer hardware like a MacBook is much more noticeably AI generated and trivial for AI detection tools to flag.

they’re here to stay. Cat’s out of the box.

People keep saying this as though it’s true. The odds that this current era of free and ubiquitous access to these frontier LLMs lasts forever are pretty slim.

You’re basing that on what exactly

heat the water a little bit to cool the stuff it needs

No. Heating the water a little bit would not be sufficient at cooling what the datacenters need to cool. You have to heat the water a whole hell of a lot.

It takes high salaries just to get people who want to do PCI compliance work

I don’t recall being asked to. The question was “Is there any research on this?” And I answered the question lol.

Now that you’ve been made aware of the research done on this you can go look it up. Just Google “Infrasound NIH” and I’m sure you’ll figure it out from there.

There is a lot of research on this. Exposure to this level of infrasound has negative effects on anxiety, the ability to sleep, and even cardiac function. Those who experience the level exposure associated with living close by to these datacenters can start to experience negative effects on their hearts ability to contract properly after as little as one hour. Take into account these people are exposed to this every hour, hour after hour, for years if not the rest of their natural lives.

And not only that but a frankly shocking change in tack given her roots in AI.

It’s important to note that two letter domains are generally reserved for country codes and would require a country for them to be provisioned.

Do you live in the United States? If so the only reasonable option for a router at this exact point in time is to run your own using opnsense or PFsense. You can buy an x86 mini pc with with a couple high bandwidth NICs and it’ll do the job

I mean I agree to an extent but also of course he would say that. Him saying this means less than nothing.

Fire trucks will gladly push a Waymo out of the way, but an ambulance doesn’t have that kind of horsepower, not to mention the fact that purposely colliding with another vehicle with a patient in the back is a great way to be sued and probably lose your qualifications

If we have to maintain a national road system without charging people to drive on it, everyone will still be stuck paying for the roads. So since that would evidently be non-viable then there will be no ambulances and no roads. So have fun dragging yourself in your belly to the nearest ambulance-train, because nothing else would be cost effective lol

we wouldn’t need to repair them every five years

We don’t need to do that now…

So you’d prefer to have less mobility, pay more in taxes, displace millions of low income rural people across the country, uprooting them from their homes and thrusting them into poverty? That would also effectively destroy the countries agriculture industry as an obvious knock-on effect which would make groceries even less affordable than they are today, overpopulate cities, make it much easier for the government to surveil and control your movement and ability to gather and demonstrate, etc etc.

Thats a no from me. You can keep your dystopia to yourself lmao

I would predict that ambulances would cost a bit more due to higher fuel and registration costs, but I’d come out ahead because an ambulance ride is rare, compared to the income and property taxes that I pay every year.

So you think you’d come out ahead in this scenario where private cars don’t exist but roads still need to for emergency services?

So in your scenario where you as a taxpayer still have to pay for the roads to exist for things like emergency services (Invalidating your own entire original point, because you don’t seem too keen on my ambulance-train idea for some reason), but now there are no taxes being paid by the users of the road? No, you would just pay more comparatively as a non driver than the ex-drivers. The only way to come out ahead would be for emergency services, mail, and other logistics systems you rely on every day would to operate via means that don’t need to be subsidized, the only one of which are freight train tracks. (Passenger rail is out of the question in this scenario obviously).

Especially since the overwhelmingly-likely way that I might break my leg is getting hit by a car

Actually the overwhelmingly-likely way you might break your leg is by falling. Either from a height, at speed (like from your bike) or just plain old tripping).

Walking and biking require no subsidies, by the way.

Sure they do. Many sidewalks are maintained by your local government. The ones that aren’t, usually because they charge the homeowner with this responsibility, are often eligible for subsidies and financial assistance programs. If nobody is driving, taking busses, or passenger rail because they can’t be supported by a user-paying system, lots of people will need bike at a minimum, so just sidewalks won’t work. You’d need to maintain some sort of “road” to accommodate all the bikes. Theres really no way you come out of this on top. You either need to get really wacky and increasingly unrealistic to even make this idea work at all, or else it just doesn’t.

If your insinuation is that the existence of subsidization is the be-all-end-all of whether a form of transportation is viable or nonviable, then we need only turn our gaze to every other form of transportation available to us which is subsidized to hell and back as well to see how nonsensical your comment is. The only form of overland transportation that doesn’t require substantial state and federal government subsidies is freight rail.

So here we are again, with no way to move people around because it’s too “inefficient” for you. Have fun on your walk to your ambulance train.

Yeah your nonsensical comment would be validated by a nonsensical reply, wouldn’t it

Did they state this, or is it a guess? Most corporate desktop users aren’t even the ones making the corporate purchases

Yes they stated this.

If desktop users are valued more, it’s because advertisers pay more for them.

Because the advertisers thing they’re corporate users at work

If a store is willing to pay more to advertise to a desktop user, but also tries to prevent them from using the site

Corporate advertisers are more willing to pay to advertise to corporate buyers. Non-corporate, non-business personal users are not corporate buyers in this context so they benefit more from funneling them into an app for purposes unrelated to advertising to them.

Ok then the next time you break your leg make sure you limp a few miles to the nearest ambulance-train lmao