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> who would want one

The Tumbler? Oh, you wouldn't be interested in that.

> Those firms also stop legally even being venture capital firms

We need an equivalent of the "Fiduciary" word for financial advisors ... but applied to VCs.

"Are you an Artisanal, Free-Range, Fair-Trade™ VC?"

> Systems that have capabilities that match or exceed human cognitive performance will be banned.

Man, Excel and calculators had a good run! Time to break out the pencils and notebooks again...

But, power efficiency isn't the primary reason I'd like Apple hardware with linux software.

Display quality, trackpad quality, overall form factor, and very high RAM space in a laptop would be the primary reasons I'd go with Asahi Linux.

> how many thousands of taxpayer dollars

$0. It's taxpayers euros.

But it's not inefficient if this fixes a chicken-egg problem: overcrowded big city and underpopulated rural area sucks.

Nobody can/wants to go in rural area if they can't make a living there. A fiber speed Internet unlocks lifestyle for many.

It's the same as investing in say a high speed railway between major cities A and B and adding a middle-of-nowhere stop C midway. That C then can flourish to become a medium/major city... So while the initial investment looked like a waste, it's beneficial to provide a better life for people living in both A,B, and C.

> please, do not ruin the book for me

It all boils down to this: if it's a personal book that I don't intend to share with anyone ever, then I'll scribble all I want¹.

If I think it could be read by others in the future or it's obviously meant to be read by others (library loan) then don't.

And instead take notes on the side, with page reference if you really want to refer back to a specific page at some point.

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¹ There's always a risk that a nosy kid finds my scribbled advanced-potion-making book in the future, but what's the worst that could happen?

> One UK man whose bill is usually less than £1 says he ‘almost had a heart attack’ when he saw £5.8bn invoice

That sucks, some people will get legit panic attacks and worse over this, especially for the smaller, more believable numbers in the 50k-500k range.

Hope they recover and sue for medical bill costs, emotional damage etc.

And like one reddit user suggests, everyone affected should write to their representative about hard billing caps protections

> Even feeling the heat output of a computer running at 100% in your office makes it clear.

What does it make clear? That I can replace the space heater my wife runs 9 out of 12 months of the year with a home server? And effectively get $0.00 per token during those times?

In houses running A/C year round, sure there'd be some impact, but in all the places running heat, doesn't seem that it'd move the needle on power bills.

There are startups whose entire business model is "cloud server as a home space heater" (aka "data furnace") ...

> that influencer will have their own opinions and quirks.

Yeah, and those differences in opinion might cause anger/sadness to people in a maladaptive unhealthy parasocial "relationship" with these influencers.

Those strong negative emotions might cause them to break out of it, or seek help / have people around them guide them to get help.

With AI sycophancy you're right it can be worse.

Look what happened with GPT-4o sycophancy already, and the communities mourning its deprecation.