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> we need to shine a light on evil and wrongdoers globally and imprison them

bro you need to turn of your computer. what the heck are you concerning yourself with here actually? Look outside your window, THAT is your TRUE reality. (as an exercise point your finger at anyone who you want imprison...).

Those, who are endlessly shouting at each other on Twitter etc., arguing with AI bots, addicted to things irrelevant to their lifes ... are just lost. Don't be one of them. Tune out and focus on things that actually matter to you.


The billionaire class controls most of the media and many politicians. They are remaking the world with little consideration for you or I. They have a very real effect on the real world outside your window.


protip: do not drink fanta, do not eat mcdonalds fries, do eat oats (but just buy real oats and throw in raspberrys or whatever), do not eat chips. Doesn't matter whether you are in the US or UK :)


The answer is obvious, you synthesize hydrocarbons. It's your guess as to why this isn't done or hardly even talked about.


This is one of those obvious ideas, that sounds good on a first glance, but where it's totally non obvious, if it's really profitable in practice.

The maximum power you can take from the grid depends on the max. power of your electrolysers. But you only want to run the electrolysers, when they are profitable, that is when the electricity prices are low enough due to oversupply. On the other hand the whole equipment is probably expensive to buy and keep running, so you want to run them as long and often as possible. Additionally you may use energy storage to prolong the profitable time windows of your electrolysers.

That said, it would be really great, if hydrogen and/or hydrocarbons would be synthesised at scale. There are many pilot projects and I hope one finds the right tech and trade offs to make this profitable.


Sure. H2 is one of the storage methods. Been saying that for years. But when there’s a need surge in Bayern now and overproduction at the sea… that still doesn’t help you.


Because the resulting fuel isn't economically viable. You need to amortize equipment costs and round trip efficiency is really poor.


you don't synthesize them you securitize them


Not my cup of tea personally, but I recommend watching his interview with Lex Fridman for some behind the scenes insight. He comes across as incredible smart and knows exactly what he's doing. Also not afraid to re-invest millions of dollars into producing these videos. Obviously it's very much a for-profit endeavour. Not sure, don't think he's fooling anyone and his accomplishments deserve at least some respect I think.


I've not seen the interview, but I'd be interested in which character comes across.

"Mr Beast" is clearly a character that is played up to, visible in the YouTube videos. Behind this is Jimmy Donaldson, who seems to regularly give interviews about his motivations, and describes in a much more mature way how he just wants to create good content and be altruistic. Beneath this however is the private Jimmy Donaldson who seems like a much more cynical capitalist who knows how to manipulate and stay under the radar on the law in order to make money through illegal mechanisms (gambling).

I'd assume it was the middle one that turned up in the Lex Fridman interview as with most of his interviews. The latter seems much more private.


That's not even a contention here. He's a top-level YouTuber.


Have you watched the video? Because the whole point of it is exposing how MrBeast is earning money by manipulating his children audience into gambling.

Yeah, he cracked the code of how to milk money from children, incredible smart at what he's doing.

I don't think he deserves absolutely any respect for exploiting children for profit.


The game is truley mind blowing. The rules are simple and clear, there are no special hidden tricks, yet almost every puzzle goes from "it's impossible" to "oh didn't think of that". Truley shatters you assumptions over and over.


Some of it will undoubtly be super useful. Things like:

- Proofread button in mail.

- ChatGPT will be available in Apple’s systemwide Writing Tools in macOS

I expect once you'll get used to it, it'll be hard to go without it.


Hope they can deliver. Right now Apple hardware is silly compared to PC+Nvidia if you wanna play around with GenAI. Both in price and performance. Worst case macs end up as thin-clients, all AI running on Nvidia in the cloud. Would eat into their competive advantage a lot I think.


Right now Apple hardware is silly compared to PC+Nvidia if you wanna play around with GenAI.

You mean it's silly how far ahead Apple is since they offer 192 GB of VRAM while Nvidia only allows 24 GB for reasonable prices? Or do you mean it's silly to compare <$10K Macs with >$30K Nvidia setups in the first place?


What would be silly is running a 192 GB ML model on a chip that slow. In practically every case you would be better off with a multi-GPU PC or a cloud GPU instance, simply because the performance gap is so enormously massive. You can buy a whole lot of cloud GPU hours for the price of 192 GB in a Mac, especially when you consider that you don't have to pay extra for the electricity and you don't need the very latest chips to far outperform Apple's best.


If I wanted to build a PC today that could run the big models that were released recently (For example, Mixtral 8x22B and Command-R with as little quantization as possible) what would I buy?


RIP my friend. Good thing you found the energy to warn us before dieing. By the way, your first sentence is missing a verb. Your second sentence is missing the word "way". Your third sentence should end with a period and the first word should be capitalized. I hope you can still use your last breaths to correct these mistakes. We must give our everything to avoid further casulties in future generations.


it's not about mistakes, it's about style over substance


Is dieing a correct word? Should it not be dying? :)


Nit: casualties


It's "R.I.P.", not "RIP".


Orderly, rational people. Hard working, rich country, despite no natural wealth. No cutting corners, one of the reasons bureaucracy is so horrid. You are expected to have your shit together, still people are as lenient as they can be. Things work, you can trust people. Low crime, clean streets. Good sense of morality. Country is capable of much more, still holds itself back a lot, preference in humbleness. Things are built on solid foundations. Not a bad place to be.


> clean streets

Living here, i disagree. Just on my way to the train station i saw at least 10 cigarette butts on the ground. And its like that across the whole city.


I just had some friends visit on the way to their home country, after spending 4 months traveling through Spain.

They liked Spain a lot, but the first comment they made when we went for a walk was how clean the streets and the surroundings where.

Your cleanliness mileage may vary per Land, I guess.


Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not - but in case you're not - seeing "10 cigarette butts" - instead of, say, piles of trash, dung, old broken down cars, and/or drug paraphernalia - seems pretty clean to me, as cities come.


Yeah, it's amazing how different peoples' expectations are. A bunch of cigarette butts would seem horrible compared to a Japanese train station, but compared to anything in Latin America it would be extremely clean.


>rational people

Hardly. A lot of people buy into FUD without questioning it. A lot of people never question their government or rules no matter how stupid they are.

They'll just tell you to follow the rules even if you explain to them in a 100 page essay why those rules make no sense and are even detrimental.

They never acknowledge the possibility that their government/bureaucratic systems in palce can be faulty. If it doesn't work for you, then it must be your fault, not the system's fault.

It's the kind of blind trust in the system that lead to the Wirecard scandal happening under the watch of the entire world.

Rational people constantly question things, not trust and follow them blindly.


> clean streets

There's junkies fighting for crack in their underwear in minus degree weather right in the center of Frankfurt, shit and needles everywhere all around hauptbahnhof, come on.


Just switch to Android, why take this kind of user hostility from Apple?


What should I do if I have both and want both to operate the way I want because I paid for them? Just like I paid for a Macbook and a Surface and can install anything on both at my will


> What should I do if I have both

Already messed up. Shouldn't buy things you don't approve of.


Or different things should be regulated. You can say the same about drug/alcohol market but somehow these are regulated, why not doing regulations for smartphones/os-es?


For the same reason I don't switch to Windows: the alternatives are even worse.

Apple isn't the best, no one deserves "best" in desktop and mobile operating systems, but it's the least bad.

In mobiles we basically have a duopoly, and the only ones who are likely to care about the customer's interests are regulators. Neither Apple nor Google have any incentive because there is no 3rd option.


> Apple isn't the best, no one deserves "best" in desktop and mobile operating systems, but it's the least bad.

MacOS and iOS are the most limited in terms of customizability (personalization) and freedom for developing software for them. As much as that might surprise you, many people care about that and can't stand to use Apple operating systems because of it.


> Apple nor Google have any incentive because there is no 3rd option.

Uh. Apple and Google compete with each other. Why would they need a 3rd option for incentive?


Because they're both shit in different ways.

If there were 1-2-3 more options, that would give them incentives to be less shit overall.


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