I just realised I haven’t read that word in years… I’m guessing since exactly when I left Reddit.

Worth.

I don’t see how it would be faster to build than to buy. Supermarket builds take several years.

Legally I think the problem goes away when you considee market saturation… You have a certain amount of buyers in a given area, and once there are enough shops to serve those buyers then adding any more shops would cause market saturation… Nobody makes enough profit, bad times. So, the suggestion to buy out an established shop, rather than trying to set up a shop in an area that would saturate the local market and mess with multiple businesses is not a bad one.

Yes, Coles/woolworths could sue them if they used eminent domain or similar to force a buyout. But the duopopy would be just as likely to sue if the govt built a brand new shop in an area that existing retail already served (which would be the whole point). So… Sued by 1 business in scenario A, or sued by multiple in B…

“Oh, the cows around here just make naturally high-phosphate milk, you idiot regulators” - Nestle

Great article. AUKUS has shit me since the moment it was announced by that criminal, Scomo, and the evidence keeps coming to make the deal worse and worse all the time.

The key source of a lot of data in this report, and the primary source interviewed, is Cotality Data (formerly CoreLogic). They’re a private, yank ‘business intelligence’ company that’s owned by two enormous private equity / venture capitalist firms (Stone Point Capital, and Insight Partners, whom in turn own $170 billion+ worth of financial service and credit companies… Sure seems like they would have a vested interest in saying that home prices going down is a bad thing. So then they bring in another industry financial service analyst (SQM Data) with similar ties… These groups are just being given a mouthpiece to repeat ‘prices low bad. Negative gearing removal bad’.

Where’s the balance in reporting, ABC?

Not one mention of the Australian housing affordability crisis.

“In Sydney, fewer vendors are listing than a year ago, yet total stock is up almost a fifth. That’s a demand problem, not a supply surge.”

Get fucked, I still see houses where I live sold in under 10 days regularly. The observation of Sydney is just as much a sign that those selling their second or third property are refusing to lower their prices - and can afford to do so. That’s greed. Let them hurt until they have to lower prices to make first home ownership possible for younger generations, that’s the whole point.

Where’s the counter-points from Grattan Institute or similar? Nowhere to be seen. Nice one, ABC.

Dairy whitener is just a colloquial product name. It’s what they call those little UHT creamer cups in India. The article is more about high phosphate levels.

High phosphate intake over many years leads to hyperphosphatemia - basically, stiff crystals in your heart, arteries, kidneys, etc… Coronary disease, arthroscherosis, etc… Not good.

Nestle is arguing that they ‘did the test wrong’, but IMO that’s unlikely as they simply sample the milk and check its polyphosphate levels - if it exceeds the standard, its non-compliant. Simple.

More likely, Nestle is trying to do damage control in the media whole they backchannel some bribes to sweep it under the rug.

Quality meme skills. I’d say marry her, but you already did.

I’m in my 40s and I just want to let you know that people have been saying this since I was 16.

Which is one of many reasons I’m not running out to buy a VR/AR rig.

Did you know they have social poker in real life?

Social video poker, also (webcams).

VR certainly ain’t an enabling technology for poker.

The story has been updated and the title changed. They caved.

Members of the Group of Seven bloc of highly industrialised economies on Friday agreed to release 100 million barrels of diesel and crude oil from their reserves over four months.

But Jensen told us that “compute equals revenue”.

Why would Bezos do this? Surely Amazon with its enormous cash reserves would be foolish to sell off its most highly-powered compute assets and then lease them back.

He’s probably stupid and doesn’t like money. That defintely makes more sense than the entire AI value proposition being vaporware.

Tfw shoot red cylinder in game and nothing happen.

nervous laugh

My Pixel will still be covered for 7 years though right? I need those upstream updates for GrapheneOS.

It’s funny watching them rig the system and simultaneously keep shooting themselves in the dick.

Nvidia - desperate not to lose business as they’re now ~93% dependent on AI sales, so they keep ‘investing’ in OpenAI, Anthropic, etc… Who turn around and of course immediately buy Nvidia AI chipsets.

OpenAI and Anthropic - panicking that investors will realize their IP is worth nothing (what we’ve said all along) as they are overtaken by much cheaper models, so they lower their pricing drastically - can’t risk losing that market share*.

*market share is irrelevant really, there is no first-to-market winner in AI, but you cant lie to idiots investors for another 16 rounds of funding to 2030 unless you can show userbase growth to them.

Really hard to keep propping up the con when barely anyone is paying.

Fingers crossed for horrible things to happen to then soon.

Yep how do you bring back the advancement chief?

Travel? Cool, by the time it arrives, the exact same amount of time will have passed locally as remote. The 100 years of advancement will arrive after your local advancement + travel time. So it will already be out of date. Useless.

You’d have to use faster than light travel, or communication - eg by quantum entanglement over a distance ten million orders of magnitude greater than we’ve ever witnessed it. Woah, did someone say that this is fundamentally impossible with our current understanding and technology? Yes, they did. Reading is fun.

You’re telling me what I was talking about? Returning back in time is exactly the comment I was responding to.

This is incredibly random but I’ve been wondering lately what might happen if we colonized a place where comparatively speaking time moves much faster than on Earth.

In theory you could bring back years of advancement in a shorter timespan, but this is obviously just a pipe dream.

This goal is impossible for the reasons I explained.

Yep, and as I said, the return trip with all the rapidly evolved super-geniuses would be the impossible part of the plan.

You can’t travel someplace else - experience say 100 years, and then travel back to your place of departure and have had only 20 years passed. That’s fundamentally impossible.

I explicitly said ‘return back as though less time had passed’ - i.e. backwards time travel - was theoretically impossible.

I never claimed travel forward though time was not.

Yep, but you start with the same argument. VR tech ‘may some day’ be cheap and accessible enough to be truly useful widely.

Exact same case with AI. Its pretty shit now, but may evolve into more useful products one day much later when tech evolves.

Injecting obscene amounts of capital on either path is stupid because the end goal is unlikely to be close and the market isn’t proven.

A lot of people forget that VR headsets and gear have existed in evolving forms for decades, then big tech got hold of it and went bananas with it circa 2015 spending enormous amounts of money. Myself and anyone my age went ‘um this is still the same old tech - it’s very expensive, it gives you a headache, and it’s cool but it’s not incredible. This will die in a few years when nobody buys it’. And so it did.

Big tech is the problem in both cases - they need to always have a new shiny bauble to dangle at investors and say ‘this is the future and it will make us all trillionaires!’.

Fully in agreement that the way they’ve implemented LLMs is far more cancerous and illegal than anything that happened with VR, but there are still valid parallels.