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marcyb5st commented on Thousands of U.S. farmers have Parkinson's. They blame a deadly pesticide   mlive.com/news/2025/12/th... · Posted by u/bikenaga
CGMthrowaway · a day ago
>people mistakenly repeating the conclusion that AI consumes huge amounts of water comparable to that of entire cities

Does it not?

"We estimate that 1 MWh of energy consumption by a data center requires 7.1 m3 of water." If Microsoft, Amazon and Google are assumed to have ~8000 MW of data centers in the US, that is 1.4M m3 per day. The city of Philadelphia supplies 850K m3 per day.

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/abfba1/...

marcyb5st · a day ago
Yeah, but that is for everything. YouTube, Amazon itself, AWS, Azure, GCP, ... not just AI stuff. I mean, it is still a lot of water, but the numbers are not that easy to calculate IMHO
marcyb5st commented on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?   english.elpais.com/techno... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
katsura · a day ago
How will that work with local/offline agents? They are getting better and better.
marcyb5st · a day ago
Audits? Like it happens with licensed software. The issue is that if any country won't play ball with either not adding the taxes or by closing an eye, everyone is gonna put their datacentes there and become un-auditable.

I guess the other countries can slap sanctions on them, but the people benefitting won't care really.

marcyb5st commented on He set out to walk around the world. After 27 years, his quest is nearly over   washingtonpost.com/lifest... · Posted by u/wallflower
marcyb5st · 3 days ago
Apart from the despicable thing (IMHO) of being an absent father, I wonder how his mental health will be once he is done. As an avid trekker myself (I did the a good 60% of E1 trail [1], Camino the santiago, Via Francigena, and others) every time I was away for a prolonged time (say longer than 2 months) coming back to normal life was really hard. I believe they now call it post-trail depression.

[1] https://e1.hiking-europe.eu/en

marcyb5st commented on The AI wildfire is coming. it's going to be painful and healthy   ceodinner.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/LordAtlas
AbrahamParangi · 9 days ago
Candidly, the accusation of short-sightedness doesn't really make sense when it comes to enthusiasm in a technology which often in practice falls short today but which in certain cases and in more cases tomorrow than today is worth tremendous business value.

If anything, you should accuse them of foolhardy recklessness. They are not the sticks in the mud.

marcyb5st · 9 days ago
Can a company like openAI be worth an estimated 1/5th of Alphabet, which offers a similar product but also has an operative system, a browser, the biggest video platform, the most used mail client, its own silicon to running that product, the 3rd most popular Cloud platform, ... ?

I think that is the recklessness in question. Throw in that there is no profit for OpenAI & co and that everything is fueled by debt and the picture is grim (IMHO)

marcyb5st commented on What Is Generative UI?   tambo.co/blog/posts/what-... · Posted by u/grouchy
bccdee · 10 days ago
> Users get personalized interfaces without custom code.

Personalized interfaces are bad. I don't want to configure anything, and I don't want anything automatically configured on my behalf. I want it to just work; that kind of design takes effort & there's no way around it.

Your UI should be clear and predictable. A chatbot should not be moving around the buttons. If I'm going to compare notes with my friend on how to use your software, all the buttons need to be in the same place. People hate UI redesigns for a reason: Once they've learned how to use your software, they don't want to re-learn. A product that constantly redesigns itself at the whims of an inscrutable chatbot which thinks it knows what you want is the worst of all possible products.

ALSO: Egregiously written article. I assume it's made by an LLM.

marcyb5st · 9 days ago
Yeah, additionally imagine supporting something like that: "Yeah, I cannot reproduce your issue because things on my end look different". A nightmare for sure.
marcyb5st commented on Iceland declares ocean-current instability a national security risk   edition.cnn.com/2025/11/1... · Posted by u/donohoe
horsh1 · 16 days ago
So what countries will be the beneficiaries of this process?
marcyb5st · 16 days ago
None? It is not certain any country will benefit. Countries built their infrastructure and population centers according to the weather of the location. If the weather changes probably every country will have to adjust.

If you are asking which area will benefit from climate change I would say Siberia as it will become increasingly important due to the northern corridor remaining ice free and because a lot of people will be displaced by weather/sea level. And that place is empty. Additionally, it has nice farming soil which right now is not used since there are easier places to farm but in a warming world this could change

marcyb5st commented on Europe's New War on Privacy   unherd.com/2025/11/europe... · Posted by u/joecobb
marcyb5st · 17 days ago
I agree, a citizen of yet another EU country
marcyb5st commented on Iceland declares ocean-current instability a national security risk   edition.cnn.com/2025/11/1... · Posted by u/donohoe
mr_00ff00 · 17 days ago
Would current collapse make more than just Northern Europe colder? Or maybe they would be warmer?

They seem to suggest only certain northern countries would be affected because warm water stops flowing from the south.

So the southern waters would stay hotter right? Or what about across the Atlantic where the currents do the opposite (and make the winters so cold). Would Boston and New York get more temperate?

marcyb5st · 17 days ago
North of the Alps temperature would drop considerably. South of the Alps, probably fine due to the thermal mass of the mediterranean sea. However, for the whole Europe you would see a massive drop in rainfall, since basically all the humidity comes from the Atlantic's warm air that carries a lot of it.

Additionally, Carribeans, Mexico and South of the US would also be fucked since the energy wouldn't disperse and all the heat and humidity would stay there. Hurricanes would be much more violent, with way more rain, and likely more frequent.

Labrador current might become weaker though, but it is not a given. Currently, the waters from the gulf stream cool down and sink to the bottom of the ocean, so they don't displace the artic waters and hence are not likely the cause of how cold north eastern US is.

marcyb5st commented on     · Posted by u/GodelNumbering
marcyb5st · a month ago
How does waiting time affect earnings for a company like Nvidia? Is 57B of actual hardware delivered or purchase orders signed during the quarter?
marcyb5st commented on Google boss says AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality'   bbc.com/news/articles/cwy... · Posted by u/jillesvangurp
rvz · a month ago
Most of all of Big Tech, especially Google are doing just fine, making $100B a quarter.

Startups and other unprofitable companies however...

marcyb5st · a month ago
After COVID they were still making a killing, but axed 12k people anyway. So, if someone starts doing layoffs and the market reacts well profitable companies will do layoffs as well

u/marcyb5st

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