The amount of power AI and Crypto require is orders of magnitude the amount of power required by pretty much any regular application. The company I work at uses somewhere around 2000 CPU cores worth of compute at AWS (and we have ~100 microservices. We are a fairly complex org that way).

Generally speaking, an 80CPU core system takes up ~200W worth of power. That means my companies entire fleet operating eats about 5kW of power when running full bore (it isn’t doing that all the time). My company is not a small company.

Compare that to what a single nvidia A100 eats up. Those GPUs take up to 400W of power. When doing AI/crypto stuff you are running them as hard as possible (meaning you are eating the full 400W). That means just 12 AI or crypto apps will eat all the same amount of power that my company with 100 different applications eats while running full bore. Now imagine that with the model training of someone like chatgpt which can eat pretty much as many GPUs as you can throw at it.

To put all of this in perspective. 5kW is roughly what a minisplit system will consume.

Frankly, I’m way more concerned about my companies travel budget in terms of CO2 emissions than I am our datacenter usage.

And I’ll bet roughly 50->90% of that usage is idiots doing crypto/ai garbage.

Yup. The baker isn’t the one that owns the bakery. They don’t own the mills. They don’t own the farms.

Instead, what’s happened is one mega corporation has bought most of the bakeries, they set prices to the maximum level possible and have backroom negotiations with mills that an independent baker can’t get in the room to make. The mills do the same thing with the farms. And the farms are all consolidating into few owners who get to run on almost no employees (It doesn’t take a lot to run a modern farm). Further, the mega farms and mills end up driving small time farmers out of business because the mills won’t cut deals with small time farmers like they will with the megafarmers.

At every layer, there is some MBA asshole idiot justifying his parasitic existence because he thinks nobody else is as smart as him (even though he likely got the business because of his daddy or his wife’s daddy). He hordes the excess funds but builds himself a nice big house.

Yeah, there was a huge gap in the experience of a white person and a PoC. Further, the 70s was right on the cusp of stagflation. Not unlike what we feel today.

Layers, layers everywhere

It’s actually nuts. Visiting /r/conservative and while there are some boot lickers by and large they are in agreement that “fuck that guy”.

It’s wild.

LMAO. It’s hilarious to me how basically nobody is mourning the death of this dude. Hopefully it is making other insurance leadership start to rethink their careers.

Every single cop in Blobsky’s department is suspect. I find it highly unlikely that he spent decades raping people and planting evidence without his fellow pigs knowing about at least some of it.

Anything more solid than vegetable oil.

Oh no! You mean the city will have to employ more janitors?!? The horror!!

Security guards because the cops are busy shooting at people that try to ride without a ticket.

Yup. It’s well studied which is why when someone has a heart attack the recommendation is essentially eliminating all saturated and trans fat. (See the DASH diet).

Basically, if the fat is solid at room temp, it’s unhealthy.

1000%

Man, if it were just this then banks would be pretty stable.

The problem is banks don’t just lend and receive money, they invest. And they invest in everything. And they take super risky bets.

This is what caused the banking collapse of 2008 and what caused the death of SVB and a few other banks.

Your bank doesn’t just hold your money and debt, if you rent it almost certainly owns a peice of the company managing your property. It owns crypto assets. It has shares of startups. And it uses those assets to get more money to create more debt.

Dobb Frank was created to stop some of this, but unfortunately it’s been effectively repealed already.

The entire reason the McDonald’s app exists is so McDonald’s can have variable prices to rip you off based on what they learn about your habits.

I hardly classify using their services in unintended ways as “stealing”.

Time, multiple checks/options to back out, and independent evaluation is the way you handle this.

Lmao, everyone can read this thread including yourself. Try again.

Then how can you claim the statement is a lie?

Right, because it makes Israel look bad. Anything that makes them look bad is a lie right?

Oh? What’s the official number? Perhaps you can report how many children Israel has counted.

“I mean, sure Israel is murdering thousands of children, expelling people from their homes, bombing a sovereign nation unprovoked, and Israel is bulldozing homes to make way for new settlements. But other nations do bad stuff too so this is obviously antisemitic”

What’s antisemitic is conflating the actions of Israel with Jewish people. Jews aren’t inherently fascist and fascist Jews aren’t all Jews.

This is also fucking disgusting as antisemitism is a real thing. Trying to conflate it with Israel critique makes people take antisemitism less seriously which is also dangerous.