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dibbsonline on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @07:45AM
from the smh.com.au dept.
If you ever find yourself buried beneath the rubble of an earthquake’s aftermath or expiring in a remote cave, salvation may not arrive in the form of a dashing rescuer or detection dog, but of a hulking, hissing, spiky-legged cockroach.
Scientists are developing cyborg paramedic cockroaches designed to find people trapped in places human rescuers can’t reach, with the latest recruits capable of delivering medicine by firing syringes from a harpoon system on their backs.
brutalist.report these days
I did not get this email, I'm on PAYG.
Adds up.
Takes a lot of IaaS to support the GPUs and workflows, all of that kit is immediately re-useable as general purpose compute to exit the commercial DCs they operate out of today.
Much of their current debt fuelled expansion isn't singular to AI. The circular narrative ignores this.
Off topic: I just wish people understood what a troll is rather than using the term for anyone abusive or bigoted. Like you aren't getting trolled simply by getting hateful engagements on social media.
On topic: As long as it's not considered racist just because they are African American. It's like where I live a woman at a sports match threw a banana at an indigenous person, completely ignorant to any race issue. Yet the media ran it way out of proportion, I would say it was the media that were racist, they set a narrative which followed which was deeply saddening to me.
I would definitely not run linux windows macos netgear cisco juniper because they once had a RCE.
Musk has said a lot of things that didn't ring true.
It's seeking equality of outcome which is basically communism and in no way equality as the nurse had every opportunity to also become successful in free society.
Seems pretty popular in places like India.
It's very biased, so the people that get the UBI won't be able to afford nice things or to live in nice suburbs near good social/health/education services as people with earned money will be competing for those. Choosing not to work is choosing to not take part in society, social services are part of a society.
It still needs some sort of utopia to work, that's where it has some similarity to socialism, but there is no utopia.
I don't always get mobile visitors, but when I do I use 750k images.
It's about $5000 in tax per household to fund a $38B rollout, and you don't get a choice. That's the unfunded half-ass costed guesstimate which was largely skewed by politicians to make it look better. Why not let people choose to spend $5k on fibre if they want?
The majority of connections opt for 12 or 25mbit anyway, sorry couldn't find url for nbnco statistic.
Technically, dropping billions on fibre in this day and age is stupid given that so much (vast majority) of the population is already in areas that can get faster IP (over 100mbit) from LTE, wireless technology is the future, imagine if it was spent on LTE sites.
Many people use the argument only fibre can do it, when that's just intellectual dishonesty about different types of layer 1.
4 million of Australia's households (roughly half) already have HFC that when upgraded will do gigabit.
It is illegal to compete with NBN.
The NBN was unfunded in its commitment. The same party implemented a $20b/year national disability insurance scheme which was also not funded. All these arguments saying it was bungled, but only the hollow commitments of the unionist/socialist party that implemented this were bungled. A lot of the angry people also don't pay a lot of net tax either which is the usual narrative of the ALP.
So it wasn't properly costed or funded, all these great things that party promised in power, but they still lost the next election anyway, so the people spoke.
Also NYT is fake news. :)
StartSSL charging to revoke their free certs after heartbleed, won't forget that.
They call them refugees but a big point of contention is often they migrate half way across the world and pay for a people smuggler, when 25000 genuine refugees were accepted that didn't try to push their way in. This leaves a black mark against your name and takes away the chance from a genuine refugee that couldn't afford to migrate and pay a smuggler to get asylum.
Can we take more? probably.
Should we let people that can afford to migrate to Indonesia and pay a people smugger to jump the queue get preference? Hell no.
100/150 user cap on hangouts and no administrative ability.
PE ratio of infinity no doubt.
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Posted by
dibbsonline on Friday March 18, 2016 @08:08PM
from the lime-technology.com dept.
I disagree. The best monetized site I've seen had a direct relationship with the advertiser, no ad blocking as the banners were local content, spot on topic and tasteful.
As soon as that subscribe overlay goes up I close the browser tab, every time.
It's not about the ads, why don't you put this much effort into not using "free" online tools and quality checking the content your customers recieve.
AFAIK there is still an ecomony, economising, and has been the whole time.
1. Mainstream (maybe lobbied) view that growth is constant and without it we're all going to die.
2. Incurred debt trying to achieve #1
Depends what they hedged at.
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No context, not news.. it's been around for years. Why post it?
I've seen south park, do you know you're an ad?