Buelldozer

joined 2 years ago
MODERATOR OF
[–] Buelldozer 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What legal risk? Musk is unelected and his office is a fairy tale with no legal authority or protection.

[–] Buelldozer 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I pre ordered Star Trek Voyager Elite Force

Hey! I had thousands of hours into ST:EF. Even clanned up for that one. Fraggers United!

[–] Buelldozer 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I’m always surprised at what their argument is. “Don’t make us invest in cheap renewable energy that will make us independent from other countries”.

If you'd bothered to read the article you would have learned that Norway is already at 95% renewable due to their Hydro Power.

[–] Buelldozer 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Eggs have to be cage free in CO since January 1st.

I can buy an 18 pack of those exact same eggs here in Central Wyoming for 8.87. That's right, I get 6 more of the exact same eggs for $2 less.

Denver is stupid.

[–] Buelldozer 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

What the heck happened to American eggs?

Denver is a special place, further its one city in a VERY large country and they don't cost anywhere NEAR that much in most places. I'm in the middle of Wyoming and 18 large eggs (Dozen and a half) cost $6.72. I can buy 18 Brown Cage Free Organic eggs (just like OPs) for 8.87.

[–] Buelldozer 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I wouldn’t put it past the USA to ddos the platform… Would you?

I don't see "the USA", as in the Federal Government, running a DDoS against a Chinese AI company. I can see some private companies doing it but now we're talking about a conspiracy. Without having more verifiable facts I think Occum's Razor comes down on "Internet Hug of Death" as the most likely explanation since it doesn't require multiple bad actors involved in a hidden conspiracy.

On the other hand, china’s Ai is censored and will not tell the truth about China.

Eh, I'm going to let other people battle over DeepSeek's content.

In the end I'm honestly not disturbed by DeepSeek. I commented elsewhere that this kind of innovation driven market disruption is normal in the tech industry. It's been happening since at least the early 1950s when companies and even countries were contesting to be the top supplier of mainframes. (If you want more on this hit up the youtube channel "Asianometry", he's got a great series of informative videos on it.)

At this point it should be expected that any new field of tech, such as AI, will have at least two disruption events in the first decade (ish) after becoming mainstream. After that the market and the number of companies in it will expand for another decade(ish) and then as that market matures those companies will start down a path of consolidation.

So everyone, mostly investors, need to stop and breath for a few minutes. The rest of us can smile and get ready for the upcoming improvements.

[–] Buelldozer 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Meh, this is how Tech has always worked. The list of companies that foresaw endless growth due to a temporary market advantage is long. As an example ask Intel how their DRAM production is looking these days. They were dominating the market with it in early 70s but by the early 80s they'd been entirely supplanted. Anybody still buying new ZIP drives? How much market relevance does MySpace or Napster have these days?

This particular stock "crash" is really just an investor driven blip that Nvidia will quickly put in its rearview mirror but its a signal flare that the AI Market in general and the GPU market in particular is ripe and waiting for disruption. That disruption is coming and it will arrive quicker than most realize.

[–] Buelldozer 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

If you are the CEO of a hot new startup do you admit to not being able to scale up to meet demand or do you slow down access while claiming a cyberattack?

DeepSeek is probably being hugged to death by the Internet as literally tens of millions of people all over the world sign into to play with the hot new thing. We've all seen this before.

[–] Buelldozer 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

But then we also withdraw from the Plaza accords.

The Plaza Accord ended in 1987. It was replaced with the Louvre Accord.

[–] Buelldozer 45 points 3 months ago (1 children)

European and NATO nations need to make sure they’re pulling their weight.

Which is something that every President starting with Bill Clinton has been saying but the EU has had its fingers stuck in its ears while going "La la la I can't year you!". They learned nothing from the Yugoslav Wars, didn't wake up for Crimea and it took extreme clanging of the alarm bells to get them to respond to Russo-Ukrainian War.

The EU has more people than the United States with an economy well capable of providing for common defense. It's time for them to quit faffing about and get to it. The US was never supposed to be the eternal linchpin of NATO.

Obligatory: Donald Trump is a cancer.

[–] Buelldozer 6 points 3 months ago

I can't see that top image without thinking of HLC / Grandpa Buff...

[–] Buelldozer 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Sure, I have an American Flag I put out on the appropriate days like Memorial Day, Labor Day, Veterans Day, and July 4th.

I also have a variety of University Sports Teams and Political flags that I will put out when appropriate.

view more: ‹ prev next ›