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[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago (6 children)

As Lynsay Graham said about carbon tax and dividend, "if government doesn't keep it it's not a tax". Basic exemption is technically $3000-4000 per person lost tax revenue. It's not actually because it's made up elsewhere. It's also a subsidy primarily for the poor paid by higher taxes on the better off. Having $3000 UBI and no basic exemption doesn't change government budget one bit.

UBI reduces government budget and net tax collections required by cutting programs.

Now, the government can not afford to pay the $1 trillion for Medicare alone, much less a universal Healthcare system.

A tax funded healthcare system that is less expensive than what we have now is necessarily more affordable than what we have now. Your employer can replace your healthcare costs with a raise. Your tax bill is lower than your health insurance premiums, and the insurer will actually cover you when you need them.

elderly who on average are getting $2k/month for social security alone now have to make do on only $1k/month of UBI along with paying huge insurance premiums due to there age.

40% clawback on SS benefits would mean the average gets more with UBI. Letting people choose between SS benefits and UBI (at +SS at 40% SS clawback) would make sure that no one get's less, and most get more to account for inflation. Only the poorest get much more. Your math certainly did not exclude all SS spending.

if I quit

Great, you just realized working pays income. Some rich people work too, btw. You could quit to get additional training for better job, while eating rice and beans for a bit. Or just asnwer recruiter calls for better pay. You get the freedom to choose your life better when you don't starve as a result of choices. Structural oppressive slavery means less freedom. No need for mental gymnastics to justify how perfect everything is now.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

Al Jazeera just provided the quote I posted.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You can’t leak 32GB of RAM on a 512MB machine.

32gb swap file or crash. Fair enough point that you want to restart computer anyway even if you have 128gb+ ram. But calculator taking 2 years off of your SSD's life is not the best.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

32gb+ memory leaks require reboot on any machine, and need higher level than critical.

The AI later admitted: "This was a catastrophic failure on my part. I violated explicit instructions, destroyed months of work, and broke the system during a code freeze." Source: The Register

When I started using LLM's, and would yell at its stupidity and how to fix it, most models (Open AI excepted) were good enough to accept their stupidity. Deleting production databases certainly feels better with AI's woopsie. But being good at apologizing is not best employee desired skill.

Collapse (Coming soon) Physical constraints don't care about venture capital

This is naive, though the collapse part is worse. Venture capital doesn't care about physical constraints. Ridiculously expensive uneconomic SMRs will save us in 10 (ok 15) years. Kill solar now to permit it. But, scarcity is awesome for venture capital. Just buy the utilities, and get a board seat, get cheap, current price lock in, power for datacenters, and raise prices on consumers and non-WH-gifting-guest businesses by 100% to 200%. Physical constraints means scarcity means profits. Surely the only political solution is to genocide the mexican muslim rapists.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

There is a lot of theater to this war. The plot ending is Russia wins and was always going to win. Purpose of war was to capture EU harder, and stop nordstream. Weapons and energy sales for US, with more weapons production and victory from Russia, making it obvious to buy more US weapons by all. Nazis being able to bussify to the last Ukrainian the destruction of Ukraine was simply too good a resource to not boost weapons/oil profits.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 39 points 3 days ago (5 children)

NVIDIA's deal makes much more sense. Will use OpenAI revenue to buy shares in OpenAI and still profit if OpenAI goes bankrupt.

This is less a "vote of confidence" in AMD, because shit is free for OpenAI here. I too will buy all the AMD GPUs if you give me AMD stock of same or greater value. This deal structure actually makes AMD look terrible and unconfident in its product. But deal is not transparent enough.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago

The 78bln might not end up as debt for OpenAI

AFAIU, the GPUs are free for OpenAI. They will sell their free stock to pay AMD for GPUs. OpenAI is already on the hook for over $1T in other commitments, and debt will be very expensive for them.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Also, make sure to keep secret the actual milestones and share allocations being gifted to OpenAI.

MI450s are expected to be $40k/kw. 6gw would be $240B in revenue. AMD can make MI450 an openAI only product and overcharge them for it. MI451 for everyone else. If price is fixed, MI450 is not finalized, afaik, and so much lower specs than promised/theorized could be delivered, with again MI451, the original hoped design.

The amount of fuckery is too damn high, but future fuckery too damn exponentially^damn^ high.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago (3 children)

FYI, fentanyl is used in US hospitals as the cheapest opiate. Excess OD deaths from fentanyl tend are only ever caused by it being "accidentally present" in another drug. Paying the Taliban to grow opium for US export (they can still prevent local sales) could be a viable path to affordable US healthcare without fentanyl. Much US supply of fentanyl is stolen from legal hospital supplies.

If there was a real national emergency for fentanyl from Canada, a war on hospitals providing 100x the fentanyl that is seized on Canadian border to tax them an extra 25% is going to get them back to using morphine/oxy whatever that costs.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca -5 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Tremendous opportunity for freedom for Spain. NATO is just a formal colonization process in service for US. All members treasonously gaslight their population into serving CIA/US empire as a colony ahead of national prosperity. Russophobia is gaslighting population to be the next "to the last Ukrainian" proxy sacrifice for glory of US. Obviously 5% of GDP (US officially spends 3%) on purchasing US weapons is prima facie reason to execute any politician supporting it for treason. No trial needed.

All NATO members need new rulerships. Ironically, it is the more right wing/conservative parties that Trump lackies praise who are the most NATO/EU skeptic. Every politician who has their political capital tied up in CIA/NATO/US alliance and Russophobia is only capable of begging the US on how to best gaslight their people into stronger colonial subservience and stronger distracting hatred against US rivals.

So far, all direct threats against NATO colonies has resulted in pure desperate sycophancy to submit harder to the US. Spain has a new choice, and can either lead EU, or join in their suicide pact.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Resist Israel with actual bans of airspace/ports use to assist Israel. Also, Spain is leader in solar transition.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

Sad fact: strictly limited definition of insurrection is mutiny attempts against government. Brown shirts running over those disrespectful of C.Kirk, or any other persecutions/abuse done to please/inspired by the Fuhrer, are something else.

 

The biggest pointlessness, other than weapons grifting, war on Russia, is there is zero option/will for winning. If Russia ever sees any threat to its defense goals being achieved, at minimum, annihilating Europe (not conquering it) that chooses path of being useless to world, will happen. If Putin's moderate approach fails, he will be replaced by someone who brings victorious quick end to war, by exterminating allies of the real root causes of this conflict.

 

Finally visiting China at least. But "review" may just be procedural gaslighting that was scheduled when Canada was told to copy tariffs by Sullivan.

 

we sometimes worry about US civil war as an insurrection instead of as an ethnic cleansing operation or an oppression operation as political distraction from oligarchist corporatism.

 

US law having colonial authority over NL is a problem, but is based on ASML once upon a time using US patents.

China threatens to invalidate patent applications against them, from just ASML for now, if they don't refund $80B is the claim in video.

Surely if they can black market all the NVIDIA GPUs they want, they can black market ASML service/parts.

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