Flavius

> you keep hold of my photos and messages and I can only see them if I pay a subscription?

Privacy 101. This is the best private photo sharing app on the market. (wink wink)

Good news: rolling these facial scans everywhere in the country should lead to dozens of false positives.

So for every trillion that was invested, 100 trillion were made. Got it.

Nothing can be as bad as modern social networks. Unless they start pushing manipulation, brain rot, gambling and porn into each AI answer.

Too much competition from China. They would have bumped the price if it wasn't for the cheap alternatives from every Chinese manufacturer.

90% of countries use some kind of fossil fuel to generate electricity or heat, so burning trash instead won't increase the CO2 emissions. The rule is simple: if you already burn fossil fuels, you should burn trash instead.

Absolutely, but green activists are actively fighting against burning trash. This needs to stop. Even if a country doesn't burn coal it should still burn trash instead of sending it to poor countries. People need to take responsibility for the trash that they generate.

It's actually everywhere. Europe is full of door knobs. We're trying to make sure that everyone touches as many surfaces as possible. Next step would be tongue operated doors and switches.

> According to the book The Thinking Game...

According to me, this is nonsense.

> that's thousands of years of stored water and energy released

You make this sound like it matters whether the water accumulated over 10,000 years or 30 days. It doesn't.

It happened as their user base exploded and their infrastructure could not keep up with all the new demand.

> I have tried to do the same recently with the newer models and we're still not writing code by the time the older models had finished their work

Claude used to run at ~150tps in January. Now it runs at 50tps if you're lucky. That explains most of the speed issues without even getting into technical details about the new models.

> run free LLMs locally at native speed

This reads like a hallucination. What does native speed even mean?