Healthcare doesn't follow a supply-demand curve. You can't create surplus medical service and have that translate into lower cost for care.

The goal for any medical equipment manufacture is to dominate the market. To become standard practice and therefor the company gets a cut of the profits from every gallbladder surgery. Revolutionizing internal medicine by changing who gets paid.

There is a slight benefit that these devices might make it possible to treat more people even with a shortage of surgeons. But it's going to be priced according to what people will pay. It turns out, people are willing to pay quite a bit their life is on the line. That fear of dying from no medical insurance helps people justify the absurd premiums for health insurance. And keeping the employer as a middle man ensures that most of us can't afford to walk away from our jobs. Capitalism has labor firmly under their thumb.

Also, medical procedures won't get cheaper. The doctors will just make less on it, so will have to see more patients. The medical equipment manufactures make all the money on this stuff. Hospitals love it because there are a limited number of surgeries, and being able to push more patients though a handful of rooms looks like profit to them.

Inference for computer vision doesn't guzzle electricity.

My Californian city is threatening me for not putting all food waste in the yard waste (now compost bin). But I also don't like crows and rats pulling everything out, they've already trashed two bungee cords. And I've also forgotten to remove the bungee cord and didn't get my trash picked up that week.

I put most of my vegetable waste in my own compost bins and always have, it's free fertilizer. But I don't put grease and meat in there because that just creates a whole mess of new problems

It's $17-$22 an hour here in California, it's tracked inflation pretty closely. And the pay depends on what you're doing, picking strawberries pays better than tomatoes or olives. Other jobs don't need much labor, like corn and soybeans, where mechanical harvesters are the norm.

But it's baffling to me why you think that employers would continue to pay those rates in the hypothetical scenario that a bunch of inexperienced Americans, many of them straight out of the service industry, started doing serious physical labor. For the first year and youths, you almost never make that full wage. Especially if the owner senses that you are going to take a long time to get up to speed.

Arizona? Arizona doesn't have water issues. It is a desert with too many people in it. It never had water.

California otoh has a fuck ton of water but it is very poorly managed. Thus, water issue.

Mere lack of water in an area does in and of itself mean there is a water issue.

Does mars have an oxygen issue? Does Jupiter have a gravity issue?

Sheesh. The silly shit people here come up with thinking they're making some clever point. Slashdot, fish, barrel, blammo!

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1. Yes, they have a Union, the AMA. They avoid calling it a union for obvious reasons.

2. No, they're not gonna hate it, but you should. This will be forced on you, and when, not if, when it hallucinates it'll cut you to ribbons. But that's just a risk you'll have to take for the sake of the Shareholder (all praise the Shareholder!)

Why would they waste money sorting trash when in most places the recycling goes into the same dump as the garbage?

You need to waste your time doing that for the virtue signaling so the county/city can proclaim the success and wonders of their recycling program without spending real money on it.

I watch a lot of maritime disaster videos, so YouTubeâ(TM)s genius algorithm thinks Iâ(TM)d be interested in traveling on a cruise ship.

Living in a condo complex with shared dumpsters for garbage and recycling has left me with a pretty negative impression in regards to the general public being able to tell what goes where.

Pointless AI that guzzles electricity and contributes to climate change and pointless recycling that exists to prop up the plastic industry. Great job ohio. Great job..

I hope this was at least a juicy contract for somebody's nepo baby.

Has anybody else (who uses YouTube a good bit) never knowingly seen an AI generated video on YouTube? I ask because I hear all these accounts of AI generated slop ruining YouTube, meanwhile I don't think I've ever seen a single video that came off as being AI generated.

It's probably just my usage patterns but I'm genuinely curious in regards to how big a problem this really is as if it really is a big enough one it will eventually show up for me too.

That conflicts with zero things I said if you take it from the viewpoint of an American or America. IDGAF about Canada being able to make money through my country and spill a bunch of oil here, sorry eh.

It is from my understanding, but if you put it on lesser GPUs, then you'd be processing bound again. Also, the GPU has to support higher-bandwidth memory to move the needle there, not just have more VRAM, because as you quote the memory bandwidth is a factor.

This. There flatly should not be a camp there, period.

I blame federal flood relief for this. As a society we are used to the government paying for things to be rebuilt in the very same place where they were destroyed by a flood. I'm not against flood relief, but I am completely against the government paying for rebuilding in the same place which is definitely going to flood again. Relief funds should be only for relocation, and part of getting them should be giving up the land, which should become national Park land. (Or for state based flood relief funds, a state park.)

"The people who blamed the person who cut the NOAA before actually checking out if it's true have done almost as much damage as the people who failed in this particular situation."

You, sir, are smoking tiny orange dick.