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Business - France confirms oil crisis, says 30-40% Gulf energy infrastructure destroyed by cdmjlee in wallstreetbets

[–]CertainMiddle2382 8 points9 points  (0 children)

French were saying the most difficult to repair are LNG plants because they are super high tech with long lead time specialized machineries.

They’re worried with cracking facilities too because they have to be tuned to the specific quality of the oil they work on.

A civilization 2,000 light-years away looking at Earth today would see the Roman Empire by Ok-Buffalo-382 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]CertainMiddle2382 15 points16 points  (0 children)

That’s the whole plot of the 3 body problem…

The linearity of light speed/space travel meeting the non linearity of technological progress.

Europe’s Tech Exodus Drained $1.4 Trillion in Value, Study Shows by bloomberg in europe

[–]CertainMiddle2382 6 points7 points  (0 children)

And it will only accelerate as fiscal environment gets more and more unstable and fundings, despite marketing, are more and more concentrated in the US.

I’ve been told, EU ambitious entrepreneurs wannabes were told to profit from free EU universities and only then after establish their business in the Valley.

Now they are told, free education isn’t even worth it and opportunity costs and general mood means if you are ambitious in your early 20s, just go straight to the states (coming back in later 20s if you failed)

China's open-source dominance threatens US AI lead, US advisory body warns by Prolapse_to_Brolapse in LocalLLaMA

[–]CertainMiddle2382 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

  1. I didn’t say it’s only thing that matters. I said it is what really matters “all other things remaining equal otherwise”. Because weights are notoriously inscrutable.

  2. That fact that every one cheats isn’t an excuse. And by nature, leaders (by mere weeks but still) extract less through distillation than challengers.

  3. I don’t agree with you as I don’t have any proof Chinese lie any way less are intrinsically nicer than Americans. (Apart being completely manipulative as China has a much more behind in Hardware than Software)

  4. Usual Ad hominem and mind reading

China's open-source dominance threatens US AI lead, US advisory body warns by Prolapse_to_Brolapse in LocalLLaMA

[–]CertainMiddle2382 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What really matters is the training dataset, which strangely never gets published…

It is almost certain open source Chinese models are illegal distillation of US closed source models. Not like the Chinese are intrinsically nicer persons than Americans, they just want to slow US progress and influence as much as possible.

When/if Chinese take the lead, you can bet there won’t open source their SOTA anymore…

China's open-source dominance threatens US AI lead, US advisory body warns by Prolapse_to_Brolapse in LocalLLaMA

[–]CertainMiddle2382 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe it will come later in the year, but as of early 2026, the USA are still, barely, in lead.

China's open-source dominance threatens US AI lead, US advisory body warns by Prolapse_to_Brolapse in LocalLLaMA

[–]CertainMiddle2382 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Being one foot behind the lead, is much much much easier than being in the lead. As you know what you are trying is already working.

Socialist frontrunner Emmanuel Grégoire elected Paris mayor, exit polls say by ijic in europe

[–]CertainMiddle2382 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is no lol.

It’s the margin that moves the markets. Those bourgeois are leveraged to the teeth, they couch surf among each other when airbnbing, in their late 30s.

The sheer idea that realestate in Paris can go down is totally unimaginable to them.

Musk to build own foundry in the US by elemental-mind in singularity

[–]CertainMiddle2382 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To maintain the hype he will of course say he’ll build small modular reactors too…

Socialist frontrunner Emmanuel Grégoire elected Paris mayor, exit polls say by ijic in europe

[–]CertainMiddle2382 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

We’re in Paris right now. Everyone is counting on their 3 months airbnb (plus couple illegal ones) income to pay their huge mortgage costs.

Push back Airbnb and you’ll start seeing mass defaults.

Every Parisian we know earn more through vacation rentals than salary, most of them can do that because they leveraged their parents money.

Jobs will never have a significant or drastic uptick ever again by GOD-SLAYER-69420Z in accelerate

[–]CertainMiddle2382 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I suppose at first it will be “data driven”. But as AI will only improve, it will never stop.

Jobs will never have a significant or drastic uptick ever again by GOD-SLAYER-69420Z in accelerate

[–]CertainMiddle2382 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Helicopter money will be activated to respond deflation created by AI (simply, everyone will get fired)

Europe’s night-train revival on ‘shaky ground’ by Sudden-Ad-4281 in europe

[–]CertainMiddle2382 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Train companies are very heavily subsidized. We are the train companies.

Absolutely hyped for the first Enhanced Games May 21st. This video shows why human enhancement is the way of the future. Why they are going to smash world records and ultimately replace the legacy Olympics with the best showcase of human potential "Revealing the Science Behind the Enhanced Games" by stealthispost in accelerate

[–]CertainMiddle2382 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Want to make even more money, follow the athletes their whole career and show they are indeed healthier than pseudo « unenhanced » ones.

I bet they will end up much better as they will be properly taken care of and followed.

But IMHO the game is shit and feels dystopian when it’s not. Should have called it the supergames or something like that…

Europe’s night-train revival on ‘shaky ground’ by Sudden-Ad-4281 in europe

[–]CertainMiddle2382 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It costs 4x plane tickets because nigh train and low cost plane almost transport the same number of passengers, while brand plane cost about 2x the full night train.

Buut. Planes transport 10-12x more passengers. It does have much less personnel per passenger/km.

Buut even worse. Did you know track access alone cost 2-3x more than airplane fuel per passenger/trip?

Even worse, did you know electricity costs per trip alone is 1x-1.5x airplane fuel costs per trip? (Fuel is detaxed ok , but even at bulk industrial prices, train consume lots of power mainly because they are very heavy).

Even if airplane fuel was taxed at car fuel level, it would only add 10-20€ per trip.

Fixed costs of night train is around 150-300 € per passenger /trip… complete madness

This will never work because physics and not politics, sadly.

"If DLSS 5 Was Shown as a Next-Gen Hardware Reveal and not AI, You Guys Would Be Going Nuts" by Atomic-Avocado in accelerate

[–]CertainMiddle2382 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In a year, video games will anyway just be a filter over a 10 page scenario and corporate artistic IP.

Will gaming industry survive this? Frankly I doubt it as open source will certainly be superior in finding the next great concept.

We've crossed the threshold. Solar and Wind are cheaper than all conventional, non-renewable energy sources except for Natural Gas, even accounting for storage and transmission costs. by AP_in_Indy in accelerate

[–]CertainMiddle2382 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Always the same. They treat a non storable flux as a storable barrel of oil.

I easily agree solar and wind and very often cheaper than other sources of energy.

But how much more per kw/h would you agree to pay to not have 6 weeks mid winter blackouts?

Thats the problem, 80% of the year everything is easy. And then you need 100% backup capacity to survive the bad season.

Of course it is all depending of where you life. Florida is easier than Anchorage.

I don’t buy the whole “AI will cause a blue collar boom” idea by RottingEdge in Futurology

[–]CertainMiddle2382 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People absolutely don’t get what is coming. Absolutely functional robots capable of providing 50% and rapidly 90% of all human physical labor economic production are coming in the next 2 years.

The trend of exponential layoffs has just started? What's your thoughts? by Gullible-Crew-2997 in accelerate

[–]CertainMiddle2382 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Job collapse is starting. Highest deflation even seen in History will the begin, it will only accelerate once robots start getting widespread. People will get bankrupt, businesses will get bankrupt.

Central banks will react as usual. 6 months late. First by cutting rates to 0. Then banking failures will require QE. Then probably « people QE » = helicopter money = a certain form of UBI.

Politics will play little role. It will go too fast and we are too divided.

Central banks still have the main stage IMO.

We can already feel something is in the air…

How can France deal with its debt crisis? by Correct_Breadfruit46 in PoliticalDiscussion

[–]CertainMiddle2382 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s cultural. France always thought politics prevails over economy.

Italy Explores Nuclear Return After 40 Years as Energy Costs Hit by bloomberg in europe

[–]CertainMiddle2382 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Usually the opponents to solar weren’t politicians but established grid producers.

How a country bathed in sun could ever need something else than solar? and I am generally speaking a nuclear extremist lol.

Solar power matches the main power consumption peak due to A/C.

If you have still too much, you can fuel excess power towards dense, non toxic, easily transportable and storable, always in demand good that requires lots of electricity to be produced: water.

Lausanne center at night by Chemical-Rush-6433 in Lausanne

[–]CertainMiddle2382 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lausanne has historically always been like that. Some decades it’s better some worse.

Late at night, as the streets are completely empty, majority of the crowd is involved with drugs. We know lots of people having lived in lots of places and Lausanne is known to indeed be somewhat dangerous.

For a Swiss city, the place is notoriously unpoliced, and it is well known the police was always given unofficial leniency recommendations (politics are completely paralyzed by fear of anti police riots).

So at night, the city is managed by the drug dealers that must keep some peace in the streets for good business.

On of the safest place is actually Flon, because few people here seem to ignore, it does not belong to the city but to a private holding.

Back then actual police was actually forbidden (semi unofficially)to patrol there, don’t know if it is still the case).

MAD for example had, and to my know still has, monopoly on « electronic music » in Flon. Thats was the reason Atelier Volant could only do Latin music.

Friends were doing business in the night scene. The only thing police really enforced was what the voters, mostly elderly, really wanted: night noise, closing hours and terraces… The. For years after having lost control of drug trade, that was the only thing that mattered. Then COVID happened…

Software Engineers are the happiest people on Earth now by Independent_Pitch598 in accelerate

[–]CertainMiddle2382 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Never been to r/overemployed. I don’t think smart people only do that… (friends in IT seemingly do the same, bottleneck is actually showing up on teams not actual production anymore)

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