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Plus interest makes no sense and is unnessary. Adjusting for inflation is so the person can buy the same movie at today's prices. At that point, the person is made more than whole already because they got to see the movie for free and they can chose to get it again.
Technicians are constantly behind in work. Many data centers are pulling 24/7/365 shifts to keep up with demand. Larger data centers have hundreds of full time employees.
Yes many servers are left in fail over states for long periods of time, but that can only be done because new capacity is actively being deployed to make up for that fail over. Modern data centers are far too big for a single person to be repairing things every once in a while. Stuff is breaking every hour of every day
Data centers require lots of technicians to install, maintain, and decommission servers. Who do you think installs those video cards?
So just double your cloud bill for several few weeks, costing site like GitHub millions of dollars?
How do you handle duplicate requests to external services? Are you going to run credit cards twice? Send emails twice? If not, how do you know it's working with fidelity?
Because it's significantly harder to isolate problems and you'll end up in this loop
* Deploy everything * It explodes * Rollback everything * Spend two weeks finding problem in one system and then fix it * Deploy everything * It explodes * Rollback everything * Spend two weeks finding a new problem that was created while you were fixing the last problem * Repeat ad nauseum
Migrating iteratively gives you a foundation to build upon with each component
At least in the short term, I think the economics will prevent stores from using this for marketing data. Operating these drones has to very, very expensive and I don't think knowing about your driving habits for a few miles is worth the cost.
The only reason these things could be economical in the short term is because theft costs retail companies an insanely high amount of money.
However, this might change if these drones become cheaper to operate and purchase.
I would think there's some crime that would prevent people from using these to the extremes. I am almost certain it's illegal to put an air tag on someone to track their whereabouts and I would also think those laws would apply here.
When the shopping cart was first introduced to grocery stores, nobody wanted to use it. People preferred to continue lugging around heavy baskets rather than push a cart. Actors had to be hired to walk around the stores pushing them around to convince people it normal and valuable to use them.
Sometimes people are resistant to use things that improve their life and have to be convinced to work in their own self interest.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/14/business/grocery-shopping-car...
Forget comparing old builds to new builds
Why? It's extremely relevant.
In the 80s you could get a 15-20 year mortgage at 20%
20% was the rate for 30 year mortgage in the 1980s. My source is specifically for 30 year mortgages.
If your monthly payment today is less than it would be at 20%, it is only because you are expected to be paying for it at least an extra 10 years compared to the past
That's a gross overgeneralization. Interest rates are lower across the board today.
If your monthly payment today is less than it would be at 20%, it is only because you are expected to be paying for it at least an extra 10 years compared to the past
I never said they weren't but you also haven't provided any evidence that arent.
And that's before even thinking about how salaries haven't grown anywhere near as quickly as real estate prices
You're literally just repeating your original claim with no new evidence.
Only looking at home prices compared to salary is very misleading because it doesn't account for changes in interest rates. Mortgages were almost 20% interest in the 80s. Cheaper doesn't mean much if you still can't afford the monthly payment.
Also looking at average price doesn't account for the rising quality of housing. In the 1980s the average home was around 1,700 square feet. Today, it is nearly 2,700.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MORTGAGE30US
https://www.newser.com/story/225645/average-size-of-us-homes...
Correct but theyre saying the headlines are wrong because the statistic that they use is not accounting for people that are reluctantly part time, but they're not mentioning that there is a statistic that does track that and that statistic also reports that unemployment is low.
It is a lie by omission.
This interview was about how the data and our feelings about the economy don't match. The crux of their argument is that we're looking at the wrong data and the right data shows the true state of the economy, but the true data exists and doesn't align with our feelings either.
Honestly, this is a completely bogus interview that is at best, misleading, and at worst, outright lies.
Well, all that is absolutely true, but sadly it’s even worse than that. What it doesn’t account for is people who have a piece of a job — they work an hour or two here and there, but they want a full-time job. It doesn’t account for that.
The BLS does track that as part of the U-6 unemployment rate which is near a 20 year low. The U-6 unemployment rate counts people that work less than 35 hours per week, but want to work more hours, as unemployed.
What is the value in listening to an educational podcast if I cannot be certain that the material is factual?
I'm not, alcohol kills 200,000 Americans every year.
It sounds like they're taking the door stop because they want the security features of the building to actually function and the other tenants are actively conprimising them
I think Google search and apples ecosystem are extremely different. Google search is trivial to leave, any one can switch to bing by just typing a different address in the URL bar. Switching off of apple products is painful and difficult and it's by design. My wife and I switched from iphone to Android over a year ago and we're still fighting with apple to stop routing some text messages to iMessage when it should be going to our phones over sms.
I don't think that's a fair comparison because they're fulfilling substantially different niches. Gemini is a conversational model that can generate images, but is mainly designed for text. Stable Diffusion is only for images. If you compare a model that can do many things and a model that can only do images by how well they generate images, of course the image generation model looks better.
Stability does have an LLM, but it's not provided in a unified framework like Gemini is.
Don’t be so sure about that… rates will fall sharply in a recession, otherwise inflation will run hot
What? Lowering interest rates raises inflation.
See today's print
Can you link? Not sure what your talking about
IMO this is paranoid behavior and not healthy. Part of existing in society is having reasonable trust that just because someone can take advantage of you in a moment, doesn't mean they're going to. You're getting in an argument with a server because of your fear that a local hacker printed out a sticker, walked into your local restaurant, seamlessly put the sticker onto the table, didn't get caught, you just happened to sit at the exact table they picked, and whatever vulnerability they're trying to exploit is compatible with the exact device you have. Thats not going to happen.
Scan the QR code, dude.
Original comment is specifically talking about Miami, which is a city where young people are trying to live and work.
Semantics
Semantics is half of what the legal system is. People spend years in court for what they meant in contract.
They get rid of the word spy on the camera, amazon gets a fine and this will now this happen hidden under the surface. It's semantics. What's the real solution to hidden cameras that spy on victims undressing?
As I and others keep saying, it's much more than that. The issue wasn't that it said "spy" it's that the camera provides specific descriptions of how to use this camera illegally. I don't understand your need for "the real solution." There is no "real solution" to any human problem. We're never going to prevent this from happening at least once, but we can make iterative changes that make it harder and make it happen less frequently.
The issue isn't of potential illegal use, it's an issue of explicit illegal use.
The camera description specifically describes how it can be used for illegal purposes.
There's a huge difference between selling "stump remover" and "spouse poison" even if they're the same chemical.
No, but I would if they sold bathroom cameras.
The issue isn't of quality, it's an issue of legality
Nothing I said disagrees with your statement. In fact, I specifically said they could do better. My point is that it's wrong to say google drive is easy to build or maintain.
I'm not defending google or saying they haven't done anything wrong here, but it is insanely hard to make Google drive. I very much doubt Google drive has a staff of any where near 100k employees and it's probably the largest file browser ever made. It's an engineering marvel. Can Google do better? Absolutely. But, it's objectively wrong to say there's nothing hard about building something like Google drive.
I think this is like looking at the Burj Khalifa and asking how hard it can be to make a building. It's not just a building, it's the tallest building ever built.
It's not even the eventual human, humans are in data centers all the time.
Temperatures of 40° Celsius are easily high enough to kill someone doing manual manual labor. Especially because that heat isn't caused by the sun. If someone starts suffering from heat exhaustion, going into the shade isn't going to do anything to help them.
Spanner is probably the least likely thing to ever get cancelled at google by a long shot. It powers basically every single product at google and has been around for many years. I can't think of another Google product that has been around for so long and used internally and externally so heavily besides Gmail (which uses spanner).
My guess is that it's for AI photo editing features. The temperature can help the AI model determine people from objects.
I agree, unfortunately their decision to only provide two years of software updates is a deal breaker for me.
I think that's an incorrect oversimplification. The Internet didn't grow from ARPANET like a seed grows into a tree. ARPANET didn't become bigger and bigger until it became the Internet. The Internet was the merger of many networks and many of them never communicated with any computer in ARPANET and we're developed with absolutely zero funding from the United States government.
That's a false equivalency. The military invented a network that inspired the Internet. We're not all using ARPANET to send emails.