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They call it 'onramping'. Moonpay is a big one, coinbase has one, onramper is another. Basically Applepay / credit card -> ETH or SOL or USDC, etc, then lose away!

arb?

Its one of the options. Other is sniping new pools and copy trading. Im trying to develop zero/same-slot tx landing with shredstreams first, because its basically needed to be competitive.

Another data point.

California pistachios consume about 500–600 billion gallons of water per year.


Because of this I always fix a piercing gaze on any pistachio that crosses my path

The pistachio meme

How that data point is interpreted may depend on whether the reader or someone they know likes pistachios or not

It might also depend on how the person views farmers versus how they view Silicon Valley companies

And so on

It's not intrinsically clear how a reader is going to interpret that data point without knowing something about the reader

Will they opine that water use for some purpose is "worth it" or "not worth it"

What do they think of pistachios

What do they think of "AI"

People might be OK with water use for pistachios but not for "AI"

The _amount_ of water use may not be the differentiator. The differentiator might be the _purpose_ of the water use

Food versus computers


The comments in this thread are hilarioisly nonsensical

All the way up to the top comment that refers to a "water usage argument"

Whats the argument

Its an article reporting Amazon's data center water usage. It does not express an opinion on that number. It discusses so-called "tech" companies' reluctance to release water usage numbers

2.5B gallons. Its a number not an argument

Facts are not arguments

Why the secrecy around these numbers

Why the defensiveness in HN replies


*hilariously

Your argument is something along the lines of:

1. People dislike X, so a small amount of water being used for X is bad.

2. People like Y, so a large amount of water being used for Y is good.

You can't draw any conclusions from this, apart that people dislike some things and like other things.

The argument establishes no relation to water usage. That makes the argument against AI "an ethical one because of water usage" just a trope.


The pistachio business is profitable

Not sure about the "AI" business

Where "dumb" money flows like water

But it seems that there is a limit

And so now it must target peoples' retirement savings


I've always found this a weird comparison. There is no more important use of water than providing food. I love tech and earn my living from it, but the importance of food cannot be overstated.

There are a whole lot of foods that are incredibly wasteful if you truly care about water consumption.

Saying "if it's edible then it doesn't matter how much water it uses, it's justified" isn't a good position to take.


I think the criticism here is that they're pumping that water in from the Colorado river based on a pricing schema that makes it artificially cheap t grow water intensive crops in a very arid region. If the pricing were modernized and rationalized those pistachios would be grown somewhere that has more rain fall. Moreover a lot of that water is transported with the pistachios out of the watershed so it creates 2nd order problems.

You could also argue that Amazon data centers are crucial commercial infrastructure that used for a lot of logistics necessary to move food around.


Its not a bad comparison because pistachios are a cash crop, not a staple crop. That is to say, pistachios aren't grown to keep people fed, they are grown for economic profit

Almonds use more water for the same calories of nutrition compared to a grain, somewhere from 4-8x more depending on the source.

Plus California was/is in a drought for years, that's why people bring up the almonds example.


pistachios is not the same thing as "food" it is just a small percentage of it. "Food" is important, pistachios not so much.

You find growing an incredibly water heavy crop in a place that doesn’t have the water supply to do so a weird comparison? And it’s not even a food that’s needed, so you can’t stand on that either.

You don't need pistachios. General compute is a few orders of magnitude more important to humanity's livelihood than pistachios.

And some foods are a lot more water efficient than others to produce.

Hyperbolic people help me ignore their fake concerns.

I came across this thread on twitter this morning but isn't he the CEO / co-founder and he's clearly a man? I guess I don't get the reference. I know he has a co-founder who's a female, maybe she was lead at the time?

"1. A Sequoia partner passed on Cloudflare because he didn’t think a woman could lead a security infrastructure company. Seriously. "


He's referring to Michelle Zatlyn afaict.

"Young Global Leader '14. Co-founder, President + COO Cloudflare"


ive had rappers offer me $10k for my ig username. i'm holding out for the bank to buy it.


It's against Meta's terms to buy and sell accounts, thus the bank would never do such a deal unless you structured it a certain way: create a business, the account becomes property of the business, then Chase buys the business and thus the account. This is how certain Twitter accounts were sold a long time ago. $10k for @chasebank (which is what I assume your handle is) is quite good regardless, though.


Just make sure to keep satiritizing chase bank there.


Every new technology promises to fundamentally change learning, education, personal growth and ends up being used in the laziest way by 99% of people. Radio, TV, internet, now AI. Eating right and exercise or GLP1?

I agree with the sentiment, however, by definition most people will not follow your advice.


how so?


https://www.signifyd.com/fearless-conversions/

They have a comprehensive customer ID system and let you adjust desired risk levels for various forms of fraud.

Epic username btw lol


How does it compare to Google Cloud Fraud Defense (previously ReCAPTCHA Enterprise)?


We have the same "problem" where I live in central coast CA. It's so rad to see kids ripping e-bikes all over town. Would I prefer the kid riding on the back seat isn't staring at her phone? Of course! But at least they are outside exploring! Fwiw most of the kids I see with this freedom are Mexican but that could be because I live closer to and work downtown, closer to lower income areas and not in the suburbs.


Have you tried losing weight and if so, did that help?


My dad used a CPAP for many years and was quite the evangelist for them due to how significantly it improved his quality of life. At one point, when trying to nudge him toward weight loss and diet changes for type 2 diabetes, I mentioned it may also help with his sleep apnea. He was adamant that the type of sleep apnea he had would exist no matter what and weight loss wouldn't help... apparently his doctor told him this. Fast forward 5 years, he ends up in a program for his diabetes that put him on a pretty extreme elimination diet which led to him losing a pretty significant amount of weight. During that time he kept having to turn the pressure on the CPAP down, until eventually even the lowest setting was too strong and he was able to get off the CPAP completely. For over a decade he talked about how happy that CPAP made him, he almost seemed proud of it. However, he got pretty emotional when he found out he was able to get off of it. As much as it may help, it is still a burden to need a machine to sleep.

I know it's an N of one, but it shows it can help and is worth a shot. Even if it doesn't completely resolve the sleep apnea, there are so many other additional benefits.

After an alert from my Apple Watch and a few extremely rough nights of sleep when my weight hit an all time high, I scheduled a sleep study for myself. It's 2-3 months out still, so I plan to lose what I can while I wait to see how much it can help. Even the first 10 lbs was a significant help and stopped the truly awful sleep I had for a week or two.


I was diagnosed while skinny. I do have a fat and long tongue though.


The fatigue from sleep apnea makes it more difficult to have productive workouts.


It is well known that weight loss has more to do with caloric intake management than workout intensity


Easy. It's all fake.


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