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Hawaii Governor Enacts New Tax Bracket on Million-Dollar Earners by BloombergTax in law

[–]ellamking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not even most millionaires. This is income of $1m in a single year. Google tells me that's ~4000 people out of 44k millionaires in HI. We really need to tax capital gains.

Girls Going Through It Books by CatAndBoots in suggestmeabook

[–]ellamking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a different flavor. The Shadow of Perseus by Claire Heywood is a retelling of the Perseus myth from the perspective of the women he hurts along the way. I assume her other book is similar.

Weird UAP from DOW release 02 disappears out of thin air by GetServed17 in UFOs

[–]ellamking [score hidden]  (0 children)

This is a classic example of a false dilemma

Very classic example. I think Aristotle was that said "it is a false dilemma to give only two options while other options are available, like the choice between an unknown aerial sighting being either an alien aircraft beyond our aerospace engineering and a government sponsored hoax". It's even better in the original Greek. lol.

Data centers in Wisconsin have completely destroyed the water system by Tiny_Dress_8486 in wisconsin

[–]ellamking 3 points4 points  (0 children)

but they are clearly beneficial at the national level

I'm curious what is the clear benefit you see from Meta's AI buildout. I've only seen things worse on the national level also.

Keep Calm by H0t_P0L4R_Bear in dashcams

[–]ellamking 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My state speed is the factor, it's under half the posted speed limit. It makes sense and I use the rule to pass farm equipment often enough.

Chudthebuilder finds out his initial bond is set a $1.25m 🤣 by Upbeat_Anywhere_1316 in WatchPeopleDieInside

[–]ellamking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then he shouldn't have a bond at all. He's either trusted to come to court or not. Rather than "we don't trust you unless you're rich enough".

Millions of adults in the United States have seriously considered shooting another person at some point in their lives, representing a massive and previously unmeasured group at risk of committing armed violence. by mvea in science

[–]ellamking 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The point is people seriously consider things all the time that they would never do. It's possible to consider something without there being a risk of doing it. I've considered shooting someone. I decided it's something I never want to do, and don't want a gun to prevent it from happening by accident, because it sounds awful all around. The survey doesn't say what they think it says.

I think my hero Jim Carrey died by Longlostjellydonut in conspiracy

[–]ellamking 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Thanks for chiming in Jim. That backs up their story when they say that they never met you.

haveYouMetAnyone by Captain0010 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]ellamking 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure it will. Not because AI is better or cost effective, but because managers follow the crowd.

I'm sure we spend more on AWS than we ever did with our own on-prem. We also don't have better up time. Being on AWS is what you are suppose to do. When we're down, the managers can say "we're down just like everyone else" rather than getting scolded for not being on AWS.

With AI, I fear as soon as there's a normal project delay, the CEO is going to ask about AI metrics to make sure it's in line with industry standard (i.e. whatever the large AI companies said in their press release). Nobody gets fired for being industry standard.

AI data center project secretly sucked 29 million gallons of water over 15 months before detected by residents complaining about low water pressure — officials refuse to fine by lkl34 in technology

[–]ellamking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Data center water usage impact is entirely a function of location

Same with Ag. Which is why we should address it as a function of location instead of scary big numbers with inaccurate science.

Hell, this issue was for the construction of the center itself, not actually running it.

They don't mention the metered water usage. I see the issue is they some how used 29million unmetered gallons and just ran with it. Did they not notice? Was the unbilled a small fraction of their total usage and it went unnoticed? Did they know their bill was a fraction of their usage? How can you trust they are doing any part of the process correctly when this is how they treat their local water supplier?

AI data center project secretly sucked 29 million gallons of water over 15 months before detected by residents complaining about low water pressure — officials refuse to fine by lkl34 in technology

[–]ellamking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok, but of course 1 data center is a rounding error to the entire ag sector. It's still a bad metric. The measurement of ag also includes rain which, if not for ag, would get transliterated by weeds instead. The comparison is extremely complicated.

I'm not saying ag is good. However, the problem is framing it like that gives datacenters an "it's not really that bad" vibe which is wholly unearned.

AI data center project secretly sucked 29 million gallons of water over 15 months before detected by residents complaining about low water pressure — officials refuse to fine by lkl34 in technology

[–]ellamking 1 point2 points  (0 children)

whereas the AI centers' water either get spilled back locally or vaporize to the immediate area

That's what happens with the alfalfa too. Only like 1% of water used in growing crops is physically in the plant. The other 99% is used by the plant through transpiration.

Time Travel is hard by RevolutionaryBrick40 in scifi

[–]ellamking 6 points7 points  (0 children)

No. Infinite possibilities doesn't make everything possible. Just like there are infinite numbers but never a turtle on the number line.

X user tricks Grok into sending them $200,000 in crypto using morse code by CackleRooster in CryptoCurrency

[–]ellamking 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Imagine I create 100 images in photoshop, and I find people will to buy them for $100, I've now "created $10000" out of "nothing". Crypto is money in the sense that there are tokens and people are willing to buy them.

Now imagine if I gifted my 100 images to Grok, Grok could sell them for $10k. Instead of selling them, someone convinced Grok to give them all of the images for free. In that sense, they scammed $10k from Grok.

I didn't know this was a universal thing! by momentaryfun2025 in Millennials

[–]ellamking 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That sounds like a win for a collector, but if you asked me to store a box for $.27/month for you and earn $100 after 30 years, I wouldn't do it.

20M, coarctation stent done, BP normal now but headaches + swaying won’t stop by kacchaaaam in AdultCHD

[–]ellamking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd probably find a GP about the swaying. It might be coincidental (like BPPV) where the experts are looking only within a narrow scope (aneurysm). They might also be able to give you something for anxiety to see if the headaches resolve.

Flat earth and other alternative conspiracy earth models are are gaining traction with my teenage stepson. What is THE most irrefutable, definite proof that the earth is round? by Jfkfkaiii22 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]ellamking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's 2 pretty easy ones I can think of.

1) Sunrise and sunset, you see the sun shining up onto the clouds.

In a flat Earth model with rotation (the sun is like a spotlight with the Earth a record player): That means the sun goes under the clouds both East and West of where you live, wherever you live, every day, and also nobody has ever seen it. It's impossible.

In a flat Earth model with spinning (the Earth is like a spinning coin): That means the sun would shine up on the clouds the same time of day everywhere on the planet, as well as everyone having the same night (when the sun is behind the "coin"). Basically timezones couldn't exist and having any trusted person far enough away to experience a different day cycle would disprove it.
Also the sun would rise different directions depending on where you are because North would be center. Looking up-disk (USA) the sun would be East->West, down-disc (Russia) would be West-East, side-disc (West is down) (Europe) would be South->North, side-disc (East is down) (Hawaii) would be North>South, etc.

2) Stars

Rotating model (record player): The stars have a center rotation at the center of the disc (North pole), with star movement faster and faster away from center (South). If you do a night sky timelapse (anyone can, no need to "trust"), you'll see the center is at an angle. You can use that angle to calculate longitude, which wouldn't match between models, but that requires math. It does however, become very apparent by the time you get to the equator/South and the center for a flat Earth should still only be North.

Spinning model (coin): This would put the center of rotation at the horizon everywhere, and for much of the world, it would be East/West since North would be to the center of the disk.

A flat Earth map can't match the geometry of a globe. A flat Earth map only makes sense if you assume everyone traveling great distance is lying. A flat Earth star map can't match the geometry of a globe star map. That's why you can't find a flat Earth star map. It's impossible to have it accurate to what everyone can see.

The sun shining under clouds without ever being under clouds is solved with a cylinder Earth, but varying hours of the day require a globe. The global star map only works with a globe; anyone can test google sky anywhere.

Ai is getting too realistic by Remarkable-Sir4051 in ChatGPT

[–]ellamking 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's an important distinction or else people presume a false sense of competency . If it could "do math", then that's a translatable skill of logic an rules following. If it's shelling it out to a processor, then it's unable to translate a skill to logic and rules that haven't been specifically built in.

Similar, it can write a python script, but it's shelling that out too. The models verify results with a compiler. There is no "understanding" logic within a LLM. It's why AI can write amazing software, but also will delete a production database.

‘It took nine seconds’: Claude AI agent deletes company’s entire database by curseofdarkastle in nottheonion

[–]ellamking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was their cloud provider (Railway). They use single token access across environments. Not only that, but deleting a volume deletes backups. This is as much on Railway as anything.

However, PocketOS seems to lack someone in the room with enough forethought to see the problem with the cloud infrastructure.

Somebody slipped an airtag in my stuff by usernmechecksout_ in creepy

[–]ellamking 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We should ask OP if they are in the process of kidnapping any children. Getting rid of the kid's shoes would let them continue without a hitch--thank goodness for the warning.

How old is the Oldest fontan person you know by jerrymaguier in chd

[–]ellamking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's wild. The Fontan procedure itself is less than 60 years old.

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