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@ Ragdoll_X @lemmy.world

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  • I predict that this post will get approximately 01000011100101100000000000000000 upvotes

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  • I mean it's fine for me, but if it's broken for others I'll just use this one then.

  • I predict that this post will get approximately 01000011100101100000000000000000 upvotes

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  • For those who are curious, that's the IEEE 754 representation of the number 300.

  • Zotac accidentally lists RTX 5090, RTX 5080, and RTX 5070 family weeks before launch — accidental listing seemingly confirms the RTX 5090 with 32GB of GDDR7 VRAM

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  • Knowing Nvidia's exorbitant pricing, I think I'll keep Intel's Arc B580 in my wishlist.

  • Zotac accidentally lists RTX 5090, RTX 5080, and RTX 5070 family weeks before launch — accidental listing seemingly confirms the RTX 5090 with 32GB of GDDR7 VRAM

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  • You might just want to use Kaggle tbh

  • X's declining user base: Elon Musk's platform projected to lose millions of users in 2025

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  • Eh, I'll continue enjoying my yiff there. Once most of the artists & content creators I follow move to Bluesky I probably won't have any reason to stick to Twitter though.

  • Texas House introduces bill to establish a strategic bitcoin reserve

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  • Didn't some country already try this and fail miserably?

    Edit: Oh yeah, El Salvador invested $150M in bitcoin only for it to lose half its value lol

    Edit 2: lmao at the replies. For those of you who haven't read the Wikipedia article on this, here's the gist of it:

    • Salvadorian president Bukele forces businesses to accept BTC as legal tender, sets aside $150M in cash to back up his BTC plans, and offers $30 to anyone who signs up to a government-backed digital BTC wallet. Most Salvadorians never used it, and most who did just spend their $30 and leave. Less than 0.0001% of financial transactions use this BTC digital wallet, and most Salvadorians disapprove of Bukele's decisions, with >70% having little or no confidence in BTC, and 9/10 not even understanding what it is.
    • Bukele announces a "Bitcoin City", which leads to El Salvador's overseas bonds to fall by 30%.
    • In 2022, because of the BTC crash, the Salvadoran national reserves lost $22M.
    • By 2022 only 20% of businesses were actually using BTC, and only 3% thought it was actually valuable. By that point El Salvador's BTC had lost half of its value, and Bukele responded to its volatility by "buying the dip" like a maniac, with many economists predicting the country would likely default on its debt. And in usual right-wing fashion he cut public spending to make up for his incompetence, including water infrastructure and public services in some municipalities.
    • Finally, after all of this bullshit, in March 2024 El Salvador's BTC holdings stood at a 50% profit. Now that it's valued at >$100K their profit is higher, though by how much I'm not sure. Bukele still hasn't sold the BTC for some reason.

    If you look at all of this and genuinely think that the recent (and undoubtedly temporary) increase in the value of Bitcoin makes this whole thing a "Big Chungus W win for Bitcoin" or whatever, I strongly urge you to stay away from crypto and any casinos for your own sake. I assure you that there are plethora of better ways to spend the time of government employees and taxpayer money, and you deserve better than whatever faux-utopia crypto bros have sold to you. Actually investing in the country's infrastructure and economy, or even something like Norway's sovereign wealth fund, are much better ways to improve the economy without some long-term gamble that causes citizens to suffer.

  • Seasons

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    OP do you live in Antarctica

  • Palestinian Group Says Israeli Forces Targeted, Killed Sole Surviving Orthopedic Specialist in Northern Gaza on His Way to Work

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  • He was probably KRHAMAS

  • ‘Unprecedented risk’ to life on Earth: Scientists call for halt on ‘mirror life’ microbe research

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  • Meh, we get a new one of those every year now. They'll have to try harder to impress me.

  • Russian TV host gleefully claims Trump's Cabinet will 'dismantle' America, report says

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  • Really it's going to depend on the specific product and where/how it's produced, but of course as with anywhere else a lot of our stuff is imported from other countries, so since the Brazilian Real lost a lot of its value relative to other currencies in the past few years things have gotten a lot more expensive.

    This is obviously not an exact or thorough comparison, but just to give you an idea: The minimum and median wages are, respectively (assuming the usual 40h/week of work):

    U.S. - $1.160 | $4.949

    Brazil - R$1.412 ($231,86) | R$3.123 ($512,82)

    I could be completely wrong but the cheapest USB-3 phone charger I saw on Amazon was $5, so 0.43% of the minimum wage and 0.1% of the median wage, while in Brazil's main online shop (Mercado Livre) the cheapest one I saw was R$32, or 2.3% of the minimum wage and 1% of the median wage, which seems about right considering the dollar is about R$6 right now.

    A new Nintendo Switch Lite costs $200, while here in Brazil the cheapest one I could find was R$1400, so almost the entirety of our minimum wage.

    Point is, most things, and especially electronics, are expensive as heck nowadays.

  • Russian TV host gleefully claims Trump's Cabinet will 'dismantle' America, report says

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  • Well, he ain't wrong.

    I feel bad for Americans, but a selfish part of me kind of hopes that the dollar crashes so that electronics become cheaper here in Brazil.

  • Does anyone else think the NYPD photos of the UHC CEO shooting suspect don’t match?

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  • I heard that he's an ethereal being from another dimension that has already faded away from our plane of existence so the police is wasting its time looking for him and should close the case.

  • Mechanical Batteries: The Future of Energy Storage? | FD Engineering

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  • They did test those block towers to see if they were resistant to earthquakes, and they were still standing after a test comparable to the strongest earthquake in California. Though I agree that compared to the other options available it does look way more unsafe and inefficient.

  • Neo-Nazis Are on the March Across America

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  • Frankly at this point it's a moral necessity

  • Carcinisation?

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  • IDK why but I actually thought the title was this pun when I first read it. It was only after reading your comment that I realized that OP didn't actually cash in on the joke (skill issue, smh).

  • In the space of 1 week, a second open-source Chinese AI model equals the best investors are pouring tens of billions of dollars into.

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  • QnQ pwease down't ask me abouwt Tiananmen Squawe, that's vewy mean...

  • Soup rule

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  • Ouch my cholesterol

  • oh no

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  • OpenAI, Google, Anthropic admit they can’t scale up their chatbots any further

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  • It's a known problem - though of course, because these companies are trying to push AI into everything and oversell it to build hype and please investors, they usually try to avoid recognizing its limitations.

    Frankly I think that now they should focus on making these models smaller and more efficient instead of just throwing more compute at the wall, and actually train them to completion so they'll generalize properly and be more useful.

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    Weird question from a weird guy

  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    To Catch A KICK Predator #2

  • Leftism @lemmy.world
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    Remind me again which party wants to protect the children?

  • Gaming @lemmy.world
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    Firewatch Is A Horror Game

  • Chess @lemmy.ml
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    Qf5 is a major blunder. Can you spot why? (Answer in comments)

  • Leftism @lemmy.world
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    TERFs believe in biological sex - until they don't

  • transgender @lemmy.ml
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    Elon Musk's daughter debunks lies about her: "He doesn’t know what I was like as a child because he quite simply wasn’t there"

    www.threads.net /@vivllainous/post/C91xDGJSUX_
  • Leftism @lemmy.world
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    Why killing Trump is (probably) bad - Some thoughts on the morality and utility of political violence

    ragdollx.substack.com /p/why-killing-trump-is-probably-bad
  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    This Video is About Electroadhesion (How superglue and electroadhesion work)

  • Leftism @lemmy.world
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    While Republicans decry left-wing violence (despite the fact that Trump's shooter was a conservative), remember that the right supports and commits acts of violence far more often than the left

  • politics @lemmy.world
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    In Post-Debate Poll, Voters Think Biden Is Too Old to Be President Yet Alternative Candidates Perform Similarly Against Trump

    www.dataforprogress.org /blog/2024/6/29/in-post-debate-poll-voters-think-biden-is-too-old-to-be-president-yet-alternative-candidates-perform-similarly-against-trump
  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    me whenever hbomberguy uploads a new video

  • Science Memes @mander.xyz
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    You really believe there's a shiny rock called "uranium" that kills you with its aura? Don't be silly, that's magic, not science!

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    I think there's a clear winner here 😳👉👈

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    i am filled with endless pain and ire 😇

  • Leftism @lemmy.world
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    Fetterman has to be one of the biggest disappointments for the left in recent memory

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    Amen 😇🙏

  • Lefty Memes @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    The greatest thinkers of our time and definitely not lizard people

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    yesterday was a very normal and not at all stressful day so I made a meme about it

  • Lefty Memes @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    only context in which republicans will pretend to care about LGBTQ rights