Yup. I’ve only ever needed this to see a psychiatrist about my ADHD personally. It’s expensive (still much cheaper than the US), but you get an appointment in a week or 2.
And the drugs they prescribe are still covered by the national healthcare system so once the treatment plan is in place, you visit the expensive doctor once or twice a year and get prescription refills through your GP (no need for a visit and the visit is free anyway), doesn’t end up costing too much in the long run.
Are there datacenters that are piping heat directly into lakes?
Yes, Equinix is one company building them. Of course they’ll tell you that this results in zero water loss, but it can’t be good for the long term health of the lake to use it as a heatsink.
In cold climates with distance heating, though, it’s possible to make efficient use of the heated water in the cold months by using it for residential heating. Not very useful in the summer though.
Good news, socialized healthcare is cheaper than non-socialized healthcare.
Several EU governments spend LESS money (as a percentage of GDP) on healthcare than the US does, while having universal healthcare. That’s quite literally not counting the part that Americans pay out of pocket or for their private insurance, just what the US government pays for the few programs it does have (Medicare, Medicaid, veterans, etc). Add in everything the American citizens themselves pay and not a single country spends as much.
In the Baltics we’ve been consistently hitting 3-4% in recent years despite the target being 2% (which most countries are barely hitting). We have socialized healthcare. Poland is now leading the pack around 4.5%, they still have socialized healthcare.
Russia’s waging a literal war, has military spending over 6% of GDP and still has universal healthcare.
The US itself could easily afford universal healthcare. Insurance companies, hospitals and even many doctors don’t want it because they’d all make less money.
So again, source that socialized healthcare will be dismantled because of a slight increase in military spending?
The real danger to social systems in the developed world is the aging population resulting in the tax base shrinking.
I mean when you heat up a lake, it starts evaporating faster. Also some have switched to using evaporative cooling instead of AC. That’s why they’re building them in deserts. You can save a lot of energy, but need to waste water. In the desert that might piss off people living nearby.
But yes, the power plant water use is actually bigger than direct use. If it’s a lossy thermal plant.
Out of curiosity as a foreigner, when you say “in the city” in London, does that mean London, or the City of London, or is it an “it depends” kinda situation?
And I’m sure that you, being from the UK, know the difference already, but I’m leaving this explanation here in case someone else reading this ends up one of today’s lucky 10,000
I’m Estonian, travel compensation for your personal vehicle is tax-free if you use it FOR work. But compensation for going to work? Regular income and social taxes, so basically no employers do it.
And why would you, anyway? I know if I had an in person job with a commute compensation it’d incentivize me to move further away. Why live in the city if your company would pay you to commute an hour each way from the countryside and you don’t see your neighbours from your windows.
Some companies will pay for your bus pass though. That makes more sense as an employer than paying someone more to commute from further away lol
Wouldn’t it be 60 million if it’s 600k people x $100 deposit though?
You could wear the subwoofer while you masturbate to cartoons
Since I’m not a native speaker, I had to Google… It’s just a blanket. I put a cover around my blankets regardless of type personally - it’s easier to wash the cover than the blanket.
When smartphones became a thing, everyone had Samsungs. I played around on a classmate’s Samsung Galaxy Whateverthefuck (might’ve been a Gio or a Y) and in addition to the hardware itself being shit because it was a low-end device in like 2010 or 2011, the software was HORRIBLE. So I vowed never to buy a Samsung and I still haven’t. Maybe their software got good, maybe it didn’t… But my first smartphone was an Xperia and the one after that was the second-gen Moto G. Quite stock-like Android and that’s what I’ve preferred since (though I’m now on iOS, but that’s a different story)
The fact that there’s still an active campaign to convince people that their votes are worthless means that the votes may not be completely worthless yet.
It’s largely little tech too. CEOs of small startups think they can vibe code their entire tech stack.
I offered to help one out because one of the founders is a friend and they’re targeting the first two R’s of reduce, reuse, recycle. But I don’t think my friend managed to sell the other founders on the idea of bringing me on so it seems they’ll continue with their current tech stack of “it was created in visual studio with AI”.
127.0.0.1
Even bog standard ios hides some stuff they claim to have.
WHAT RENDERS YOUR WORLD
Apple GPU
Your graphics processor identified itself as Apple GPU. This tells us the manufacturer, the generation, and roughly the price of your machine. Combined with your screen size and font list, this string alone can distinguish your device from most others on the internet. The technique is called WebGL fingerprinting. No permission is required.
Uh sure, that string tells you the generation and price.
When I’ve tried running a ~14 gigabyte distillation of whatever model it is I was trying to run, it would come out super slow at I believe 50/50 GPU to CPU. It gets so slow it was just more bearable to run a 7 or 8 b model that would actually fit entirely in VRAM and run entirely on GPU. Also made the rest of computer usage more bearable.
To be fair I do only have a 6 core 6 thread CPU though. It shot up to 600% usage so even the DDR4 memory wasn’t really bottlenecking it. I suspect a 9950X would fare a lot better.
When did I ever say AI would be better than humans in general? I said it’s better than some humans and significantly cheaper than humans. You say I’m using strawmans, yet you’re not arguing the points I’m actually making, only the ones you want me to be making so you could win. Bye bye, I’m out.
Uhh… All shareholders get wealthier when the stock price goes up, there’s no magic mechanism where it’s only majority shareholders.
Obviously majority shareholders will make even more, but they all profit from it. I’m not even American and my retirement fund jumped up decently from the S&P 500 going up. Though now I’ve exited from the US ETFs completely. Only Europe and Asia now.
Six? There’s Jensen Huang, Lisa Su, Alex Karp, Peter Thiel, Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Satya Nadella and Sundar Pichai at a minimum to start with, but there are many others too. I’m including the CEOs of Nvidia and AMD because they’ve been pushing AI for years to get more valuable customers than we ever were to them.
Just in case anyone needs a list.
Idea: put the data centers in Texas. They have their own grid separate from the other two. It’ll be fun.