A 4 TB hard drive that I bought a few years ago for $250 is *on sale* for $1000 part of what GenAI is doing to us is creating a situation where we *have* to use the cloud and the data centers where it lives because individual storage is becoming unaffordable

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because I don’t want to live in some great shared hallucination where an idea’s truth is proven when a critical mass of people insist it is

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I understand this viewpoint is not ever going to be popular, that by continuing to hammer on it I destroy my reputation and, frankly, my own economic prospects. you end up being the guy outside shouting at everyone, who are otherwise agreed, why can’t you just go along with it and we can move on?

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but the idea of living like that is physically painful to me. you can’t just make up the world that you want to live in!

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More confused. Rubio doubling down today that Ukraine has plain commercial Starlink and US government has nothing to do with its provision whatsoever. Then what the heck have 3 years of reporting about US contracting w SpaceX for Ukraine service been about? www.reuters.com/world/rubio-...

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