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- Comment on CATL says next-gen sodium-ion battery supports 500 km range, readies for 2026 mass production 21 hours ago:
Plus market dynamics means that even if it’s 90% cheaper to make, they will only reduce the price compared to LFP by 10% to maximize profits.
- Comment on Peter Thiel Antichrist lecture: We asked guests what the hell it is 2 days ago:
Hes saying that caring for oneself is the only thing that matters, that others should fend for themselves.
Theil is a pure randian. Hes not advocating for building strength to help build up a community. Hes advocating for communities where only the strong can afford to buy into while everyone else dies.
- Comment on Peter Thiel Antichrist lecture: We asked guests what the hell it is 2 days ago:
Just insane ramblings from a man that would be safely ignored if he didn't have billions of dollars and decades of king making giving him unimaginable leverage into our nation and world.
- Comment on Misogyny or something... Idk 1 week ago:
A clone of his cousin, then.
We should toss superboy in there, get Superman's/luthors clone involved.
Call it half of a half incest.
- Comment on [JS Required] Google Fined $3.5 Billion by EU Over Ad-Tech Business 1 week ago:
That is literally part of the EU demand.
- Comment on OpenAI announces AI-powered hiring platform to take on LinkedIn 2 weeks ago:
Openai has an "at cost" azure deal with Microsoft. They don't make any azure money from them.
This feels like a mix of "kee pthe bubble moving somehow" hype and a shot across the bow at Microsoft, who are in a nasty back and forth with Openai right now because openai wants to break its early deals with Microsoft to go fully for profit to get a large amount of funds from Softbank. Microsoft isn't okay with that, as it would cost them exclusivity to Openais tech and various other things.
- Comment on Ding ding ditch is punishable by death apparently 2 weeks ago:
The meme is referring to this murder of an 11 year old who just rang a doorbell and ran. The murderer was lying in wait in his yard with a gun, and shot the kid as he ran out of the yard.
The kid ran for another block or so with his friend and then died.
- Comment on OpenAI Boosts Secondary Share Sale to $10.3B, Presents Offer to Employees on Wednesday 9/3 2 weeks ago:
If you're sure you're going to make $1,000,000,000,000,000 as long as you hold onto 10000 pieces of paper, selling them for way, way less than that is very stupid. Even if it's generational wealth, it's still very stupid.
Most of the openai share owners are already millionares, either via the high salaries or whatever. To have people like altman, a billionaire, sell "trillioanre" shares for mere millions of even hundreds of millions strongly implies a need to cash put at the top of the bubble, put those hundreds of millions in your hyped up pocket, and let the rubes hold the bag.
The other part of this is the marketing. It may very well be the biggest IPO ever, which will be sppashy andl oud and keep the bubble going longer, which is exactly something you want if you have no substance to show instead.
- Comment on If it ain't broke, don't fix it: Why Jagex's new CEO is happy for it to be the 'RuneScape company' 2 weeks ago:
The guy that immediately cancelled the long running pride event minutes after starting there?
Sure, sure. He just wants to let things be.
- Comment on Heroes with super strength would be really out of shape 2 weeks ago:
Exactly. His body isn't human, it just looks like it. He gets all his energy from photosynthesis. In at least one "bullshit" iteration, he can sap solar power from plants directly.
This is not a person with a person's constraints.
- Comment on An activist has started using AI to identify ICE agents beneath their masks 2 weeks ago:
They are already using this or worse. Theil's Palintir is already doing tons of nasty data analytics. Ads in luck Palmer's weapons/surveillance company Anduril, and you have the data input and attack payloads ready to go, all from Chud industries.
- Comment on IcanfixherIcanfixherIcanfixherIcanfixher 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Tesla said it didn’t have key data in a fatal crash. Then a hacker found it. 2 weeks ago:
The jury basically didexactly that. They weren't buying they "oopsy doopsy" story.
They found Tesla liable for $235 million. It's the first case Tesla hasent been able to settle, and that's a big ol' number. They are going to have more lawsuits coming.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Looks like a fun time. Raw fury publishing is a good sign.
- Comment on OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police 3 weeks ago:
Did the feds charge the other people caught in the same sting? I'm not seeing any articles about the fed vs state charges.
- Comment on Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple 3 weeks ago:
China spending 1/20 of what the US does to subsidize cars isn't relevant? Sure thing buddy.
The whole point of all of these "china is only dominating in EV sales due to subsidies" comments is to throw shade on China's impressive progress. A contrast with their subsidies vs other countries in the same space, motor vehicles, is entirely relevant.
- Comment on Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple 3 weeks ago:
You should learn about US fossil fuel subsidies. The US alone pumps almost 800 billion/yr into subsidising the industry.
China tossing 40 Billions/yr into EV subsidies is basically pocket change comparatively.
- Comment on OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police 3 weeks ago:
They haven't refused to charge him. He has a hearing scheduled on September 3rd.
- Comment on A hacker used AI to automate an 'unprecedented' cybercrime spree, Anthropic says 3 weeks ago:
They will undoubtedly start offering their own Ai based "anti ai" security product shortly.
The shovels must flow.
- Comment on From Snoop Dogg to Lap Dogg 3 weeks ago:
He came out and said him and Trump are solid. I think he performed at his inauguration too.
- Comment on Best Practice Ideas 3 weeks ago:
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- Comment on The original Splitgate will live on with player-hosted matches 3 weeks ago:
Im glad for it, but it still feels PR puffery from the "make FPS great again" company bankrolled by turbotax.
- Comment on How Kenya Is Becoming the World’s Geothermal Powerhouse 4 weeks ago:
The video is 2 years old. Any new developments?
- Comment on Vampire: the Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Pre-Order Trailer 4 weeks ago:
People said good shit about cyberpunk 2077 at release. Take games journalism with a grain of salt. Even the very largely honest ones generally only get the first "X minutes" to demo, which designers pack impressive moments into for the press, but then the rest of the game is half baked or a slog.
No preorders is always right.
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 4 weeks ago:
Hes canonically also said he hates cops that worship him because they are supposed to be the vanguard of law and order, not murderers. I think he then went on to kill those cops, to really just nail the whole point home.
Surprise surprise, it didn't take.
- Comment on Lies of p has been really good! 4 weeks ago:
It was a free update that came out at the same time as the DLC, but yup they lined right up.
- Comment on Lies of p has been really good! 4 weeks ago:
Have to give lies of P lots of credit for adding "on the fly" difficulty settings. Most souls-likes wont budge here, likely due to the rabid fan pushback, but it is someone who dislikes the punishing genre mechanics but likes the game itself, it made the game buyable for me.
- Comment on Have you watched masterpiece named "Happy"? 4 weeks ago:
Blood, trash and Tarantino? "From dusk to dawn" called, and it wants to fuck pulp fictions feet.
- Comment on Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says 5 weeks ago:
The huge win in digital for them was killing the resell market.
No used games means no competition from previous owners. Prices can stay at $60/70/80 forever without any user market forcing prices down.
Every media vendor wants digital only to cut production costs, but it's really to own the market. Consoles did exactly that for decades. The shift to subscriptipns for not only online at all but also to "sont own games, just gove us a monthly oart of your invome forever" was them pushing this advsntage to its maximum conclusion.
Only now, with falling sales and falling interest due to "quick media" like tiktok/instagram/etc, is microsoft giving up on its console moat and sharing all games across devices. Only a loss of relevance as an entertainment medium is forcing them to open the market up again.
- Comment on Steam Beta: Wider store pages; Video support for written game descriptions 5 weeks ago:
Looks like you still can't adjust the font size with either control+up or directly in the settings.
Steam: the billion dollar storefront failing to implement an insanely common accessibility feature browers have had for 20 yrs.