You mean paying contractors exorbitant rates for slave prison laborers being paid $2.00/hr while the executives pocket most of the money?

Its an emergency situation, we had the largest blizzard in 10+ years. I think paying a higher wage over a short term for exigent circumstances where you really want people to show up is reasonable. Its roughly equivalent to a mid-level salary for a garbage man (which is probably too low for garbage men, but at least they get insurance and other gov’t job perks.)

Also, they don’t get government job perks like health insurance or a pension.

Nah, you could walk around smelling like vanilla or citrus and still smell masculine.

That’s because men’s scents transcend reality

I totally misread your comment. I thought they were making you pay for all that stuff, lol. Like if you have no electricity or generator, that’s illegal in most states.

Not sure what state you’re in, but some of those conditions are likely illegal. Might be worth getting a lawyer. I also know a few people who had asshole landlords until they said they were leaving and then they were suddenly nice when they realized they had to start looking for a new tenant.

Obviously that’s super situational and you know your landlord best.

If you’re in a big city, it can be a bit of the grass is greener on the other side.

I rent and have looked into buying property, but between property tax, insurance, condo fees, and interest its better to just keep your house down payment in savings in the market, and you spend less per month in rent than for a house so you can save that difference as well and let it grow / use it for a rainy day.

The main reason to own property is to have more control over your living space and avoid shitty landlords.

The way I saw it was the upside is appreciation (though the money is locked away in the property, so its very “break in case of emergency”) and its a good hedge against inflation from rent, though that would probably cause your house price to rise causing your property taxes to rise.

You can hide things in submenus, tabs, side bars etc. so you can get get to lots of things in a few clicks, think BTrees for indexing data, but you can search through a screen more more easily by taking in multiple things at once compared to a vector of data.

The issue is that you can rebalance BTrees and no one notices, you “rebalance” a GUI and people’s pre-remembered paths are invalidated.

Hope it does well, but consider how hard it was to get people to move from WhatsApp to discord, getting them to use a niche federated option is going to be an uphill battle for any non-techie groups for a bit.

It’s also inherently something that has to happen to add new features on a GUI. There’s only so much real estate, you add more menu options, then the menu gets too big and you need to reorganize it.

Pipes and repeatability are the big advantages of CLI for me.

Someone asks me how to do something, I can give them one or more commands and they can parse that and understand it.

On a GUI I have to trying and navigate them either in person or through chat somehow. Plus, if they forget how, they might need to ask again instead of just finding the command in their chat history.

GUIs are better for poring through data as a whole, like Google docs, but CLIs are better when I want to do an operation or filter through things without looking at the thing itself, ie git or grep.

As far as energy goes, its a matter of degree. LLMs are mainly bad emissions-wise because of the volume of calls being made. If you’re running it on your GPU, you could have been playing a game or something similarly emitting.

The issue is more image generation models which are 1000 times worse https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/01/1084189/making-an-image-with-generative-ai-uses-as-much-energy-as-charging-your-phone/

Original Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.16863

A moderately sized text-to-text model that you would run locally is about 10g of carbon for 1000 inferences which is driving a car about 1/40th of a mile. Even assuming your model is running in some kind of agentic loop, maybe 5 inferences / actual response (though it could be dozens depending on the architecture) that gets to you, that’s 10gcarbon / 200 messages to your model which is at least 2-3 sessions on the heavy end I would think. You could use it for a year and its equivalent to driving 3 miles if you do that every day.

Image generation, however, is 1000-1500x that so just chatting with your GF isn’t that bad. Generating images is where it really adds up.

I wouldn’t trust these numbers exactly, they’re more ball-park. There’s optimizations that they don’t include and there’s a million other variables that could make it more expensive. I doubt it would be more than 10-20 miles in a car / year for really heavy usage though.

From a billionaire’s perspective, more at risk children means more people to be exploited. There’s a whole industry fed by cheap prison labor. Orphans who go through the prison system are incarcerated or arrested at nearly 50% much of which gets funneled into cheap labor.

It seems like you’re not from the US, but it doesn’t matter how many working class votes we have, many industries in this country thrive off of exploitation of people outside of the view of the general populace starting with slaves, continuing to indentured servants, and undocumented workers now. The next exploitable labor pool is the prison system, and children who would have been aborted are sent to foster care instead where they are funneled into the criminal justice system.

I’m not saying you should have an abortion just so the child doesn’t potentially end up in jail, I’m just pointing out how the incentives to have a permanent underclass would actually support bans on abortion.

I’m wondering if you’re maybe thinking of the book Freakonomics where they attribute the legalization of abortion with the drop in crime?

Please explain how abortions mean more money for billionaires.

Forget DHS or other government agencies, these companies have been shown to be untrustworthy stewards of our data from regular hackers.

I get that discord is used to groom kids and there is a very real risk to allowing children to use it unsupervised, but that means kids devices are the ones that need to be locked down, not the rest of the world.

Clearly all those gay bars and drag shows used up too much electricity.

There’s also off-label usage for drugs where a doctor will prescribe a medication for a different effect than what is originally intended, that’s basically a positive side effect.

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Isn’t the positive side effect making you feel better, or curing some negative condition?