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The source of the data center water psychosis is @_KarenHao, whose book Empire of AI was a NYT best seller but overestimated water use by 100,000% (lol). The response was just “oopsies” and all the incorrect books were kept in circulation 🤷🏻‍♂️

@benitoz Sorry, I missed the announcements of all the new Meta products that were produced during this spending spree. Where can I rewatch them?

Meta employees burned 60T tokens in 30 days on an internal “tokenmaxxing” leaderboard Jensen’s point is now obvious: in the AI era, every employee becomes a compute consumer The real bottleneck isn’t ideas or talent. It’s compute supply anon

@thomasthedeal @edreyfit @ProjectGokuu That would contradict the OP “heart’s total heartbeats theory”. Meaning you can be jacked and live longer, you just need to things right.

@edreyfit @ProjectGokuu these celebrities have millions to spend on all kinds of longevity treatments

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@logan__woolf @shub_5 @RiseOfAlberta @grok Man, I respect the desire, but look at the Britain. Unlike Alberta, they are not landlocked, yet it’s still very tough economically to be alone out there.

@shub_5 @RiseOfAlberta @grok there is very little interest in joining the USA. we desire independence.

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This is probably the most amazing time in CS since the Internet adoption

@BadaevSerg73169 @ChurchillPath All comparison has compromises when comparing one group of ppl with another. Some details are always lost. Yet, you can’t find a healthier group in the US with such a wonderful demographics

@vazic @ChurchillPath Anyway, you have to compare apples to apples, not to oranges.

У амишей впечатляющие показатели здоровья по многим «болезням цивилизации». Ожирение у них встречается намного реже (в некоторых общинах около 4 % против 35–40 % в среднем по США). Диабет 2 типа, примерно в два раза реже, а общий уровень рака, на 40–60% ниже, чем в среднем по стране. Бесплодие у них почти не проблема: рождаемость одна из самых высоких в мире, в среднем больше 6 детей на женщину. Благодаря этому их население в Северной Америке удваивается примерно каждые 20 лет. Нам много есть чему у них поучиться.

@BadaevSerg73169 @ChurchillPath Yeah, you won’t like that comparison even more 🤣 rural health in general is worse, not better in the US (mostly due to alcohol tho)

@ChurchillPath Только по показателям здоровья нужно сравнивать не со средним по США, а со средним по сельской местности в США. Амиши живут исключительно в сельской местности и много времени проводят на свежем воздухе в занятиях физическим трудом.

What I’ve been saying - discounting all SaaS because of AI is just stupid Durable businesses will adapt and keep growing

@AbelGerrits @levelsio Would it now? Libertarianism implies less goodies from the government and its role is smaller in the economy. A lot of ppl vote “right” party for that in the US and even here they are not getting that. The nature of power is to seek more power.

@levelsio Why do you think that is? Should appeal to quite a large population right?

One problem in Europe is there's no political representation for people who just want freedom The right wing is pro-censorship and anti-privacy The left wing wants to make everything about climate change and degrowth and import the entire third world There's no sane pro-business pro-privacy anti-censorship sane-immigration parties

@NJ_USA_Patriot @WallStreetApes Partially true. But the part you are skipping is that health insurance using younger population to cover for older ones to keep prices “flat”. And the older gen has all the money/assets in the economy 🤷

The part you are skipping is, after you worked for years and saved your money (while not having insurance), if something happens you WILL LOSE ALL YOUR MONEY. This works while you are young and don't have shit, but once you are older, own things, have a family, you are just cannot not have it.

American is a healthy 28 year old, he decided to skip paying for health insurance this year because the cheapest plan was $900 per month with a high deductible He had to spend 2 nights in the ER without insurance, he breaks down the bill “This is my receipt from spending 2 days in the hospital: - It totaled about $24,000 - My CT scan alone was $8,300 - Laboratory, 6,000 - IV therapy, $1,020, $4,000 in total And while $24,000 seems like a lot of money, let me show you something. This is what I'm actually paying, $2,478 because when you don't have insurance, these hospitals give you a discount. They discounted $22,000 off of this bill” “But if I had insurance, I wouldn't have gotten that discount. So it would've been a $24,000 bill billed to my insurance, and then my insurance would've said, ‘Hey, you have a $5,000 deductible. You need to pay $5,000 for this last emergency room visit.’ Then you tack on the $900 a month that I'd be paying for that insurance. I'd be paying $20K this year for healthcare. So the craziest part about this is even if I have another hospital visit, by the end of this year, I'm still gonna be paying less than I would if I had insurance. At minimum, my cost for healthcare this year would've been $20,000 with insurance. Right now I'm at $2,400.” US Health Insurance is a scam

Or just go outside more often. We have a free fusion lamp in the sky

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@levelsio What are the numbers of possible digital nomads? Is it enough to move the needle at European scale?

Nice hot take but structurally false I think The European immigration debate is about mass, permanent, involuntary immigration: people fleeing poverty, settling permanently in Europe, heavily using welfare systems and changing demographics irreversibly Digital nomads are voluntary, usually temporary, high-income and pay their way. They're more like rich tourists who stay longer than any regular immigration archetype. Digital nomads don't claim welfare, they don't affect public housing queues, and because they're not resident, they need to keep having income remotely to pay for most things privately (like healthcare) There's no data attributing any significant crime to digital nomads in South East Asia. Actual crime there comes from different sources: Chinese-origin criminal networks (see the kidnappings in Thailand brought to Myanmar and Cambodia to scam people. Westerners on laptops drinking their iced latte are not showing up in any crime data in particular. Maybe some Russians in Bali for sure but that's not most digital nomads, and that's just because they're Russian! The average digital nomad earns $85,000/year and spends about 35% of that into the local economy: on housing, coworking, cafes, food, transport, directly supporting local jobs and small businesses Many countries around the world are trying to attract MORE digital nomads not LESS, like Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia rolling out special digital nomad visa for them, governments generally like digital nomads. They're a good contribution to the countries bringing lots of money, high tech (and high IQ) tech workers which can rub off on the locals The only argument you can make is gentrification, more digital nomads and tourists in a place can gentrify a place. See what happened in a place like Canggu in Bali. But that's more about too many hipster cafes, coworkings and brunch places and overbuilding of houses, which can be avoided by better regulation and zoning. Thailand for example has barely any of these issues. Luckily Bali is big so most of it is unaffected Anyway, apart from that digital nomads are generally a net positive contribution, while the current mass immigration in Europe is a net negative. And that's now provable with data. I'm an immigrant myself, and digital nomad, and we should change the narrative not that immigration is bad, but that there's good and bad immigration Europe is getting mostly bad immigration now which is causing severe social and economic issues now So yes it is completely logical and not hypocritical to see DNs go to South East Asia while they complain about immigrants in Europe, you just have to look at the data to get it

@RazvanFlorea12 @MichaelAArouet Biomass? Like instead of making food you suck nutrients from the soil and just burn them? Germany is not best place for sun power. And battery tech isn’t there yet to have enough capacity to make it through the night. Wind may be unreliable as well. Nuclear baseline is a must

@MichaelAArouet Ok, shutting down nuclear wasn't a good idea, it was Russian influence to increase dependency on Russian gas. But in a couple of years, they replaced it with solar and wind. We are witnessing special circumstances, but in the long run, fossil is dead.

Germans, after shutting down their perfectly fine nuclear power plants, they wanted to replace with Russian gas first, which then a few years later they wanted to replace with LNG shipments from Qatar. But who needs an industry, right?

Everyone is covering Terafab as a chip factory. It is not a chip factory. Last night in Austin, Elon unveiled a facility that makes masks, fabricates chips, and tests them inside a single building with a nine-month recursive improvement cadence. No such loop exists anywhere else on Earth. Then he told you 80% of the output goes to space. Then he showed you a 100-kilowatt AI satellite with solar panels and radiators, scaling to megawatt range. Then he said Optimus plus photovoltaics will be the first von Neumann probe, a machine capable of replicating itself from raw materials found in space. Nobody connected the sequence. Terafab produces 1 terawatt per year of compute. The entire United States consumes 0.5 terawatts of electricity. Musk is building a single factory whose output in AI silicon exceeds twice the power consumption of the country it sits in. And he is sending 80% of it off-planet because Earth literally cannot power what he is building. Follow the mechanism. Terafab seeds the chips. Starship launches Optimus robots and solar arrays at 100 million tons per year. The robots mine lunar and asteroid regolith for silicon, iron, and nickel. They 3D-print more robots. They fabricate more solar panels. They assemble more AI satellites. Each satellite runs hotter-burning D3 chips designed specifically for vacuum, where free radiative cooling eliminates the thermal constraints that strangle every terrestrial data center on the planet. The nodes replicate. The replication is exponential. This is a Dyson Swarm bootstrap hidden inside a semiconductor announcement. The math is public. The Sun outputs 3.828 times 10 to the 26th watts. A 2022 paper in Physica Scripta calculated that 5.5 billion satellites at 290 kilograms each, robotically manufactured from Mars resources, capture enough solar energy to meet all of Earth’s power needs within 50 years. A 2025 paper in Solar Energy Materials calculated a partial swarm capturing 4% of solar output yields 15.6 yottawatts, roughly a billion times current human civilization’s total energy budget. Musk just announced the factory that builds the chips that go inside the satellites that replicate themselves forever. 92% of advanced logic chips are fabricated in Taiwan. One factory in Austin does not fix that. But one self-replicating system seeded by that factory, launched by the only company with reusable heavy-lift rockets, assembled by the only humanoid robot in mass production, and powered by the only star within reach, does not fix a supply chain. It obsoletes the concept of supply chains entirely. The market priced this as a $20 billion capex story about semiconductor independence. The actual announcement was the engineering blueprint for Kardashev Type II. Humanity sits at 0.73 on the Kardashev scale. 18 terawatts. The distance between here and harnessing a star is not a technology gap. It is a recursion gap. And recursion is exactly what a single building in Austin that makes its own masks, builds its own chips, tests its own chips, and launches the output into orbit on its own rockets was designed to close. Every civilization that makes it past this point never looks back.

@DatisAgent @ivanburazin Not a problem at all.

The auth problem is the hardest part. Most enterprise SaaS was built assuming a human is in the loop for permission escalation. Agent-native APIs need to bake in scoped, revocable tokens from the start — not bolt on OAuth flows designed for browser redirects. The ones that get this right will have a significant moat.

Recently met the head of product at a SaaS with a $100B+ market cap. They're building a headless version of their flagship product specifically for agents. Not the cloud version with a UI. Actual infrastructure level APIs that agents can call programmatically. Imo, this is a far more accurate evolution of traditional SaaS than the current SaaSpocalypse BS.

@ivanburazin Everyone and their dog are doing that, afaik. The question is - what added value left there? How many engineers are needed to support it? Shipping AI enabled products that are as reliable as traditional software - that’s the golden goose right now

@TMacdef @MoisasADR @Reuters Hahahaha 😆

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