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New comment by momoschili in "'Pokémon Go' players unknowingly trained delivery robots with 30B images"

momoschili — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:37:03 +0000

30B images over the course of 6 years by a few million players. In a game that runs daily quests like this and weekly quests can easily be accounted for by a small fraction of users. I don't know how much you played Pokemon Go, but when the AR scanning tasks were introduced, most players didn't really want to do them, which resulted in the tasks be segregated from Field Research (since they were taking up a valuable spot)

This was GP's original point - it doesn't take the majority of people playing Pokemon Go to do it in order for them to get 30B images, especially since each scan was like multiple images - you look like a dork doing the scan

New comment by momoschili in "'Pokémon Go' players unknowingly trained delivery robots with 30B images"

momoschili — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:28:11 +0000

30B images isn't that much in the context of Pokemon Go playerbase of ~50 million (conservative estimate based on users today). That's about 600 images per person, in a game that has been out since 2016... that's pretty low adoption as the previous user said. I don't think the quest has been out since 2016, but considering a large fraction of users are basically daily users, it's still quite a small number of images.

New comment by momoschili in "AirPods Max 2"

momoschili — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:25:02 +0000

Different target markets. Audiophiles and wealth exhibitionists are much more willing to pay the large amount

New comment by momoschili in "The Misuses of the University"

momoschili — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:04:45 +0000

More often than not, the building is unnecessary. I'm sure the University s fine having a fancy new building, especially if the upkeep is offset by the American taxpayer.

New comment by momoschili in "The Misuses of the University"

momoschili — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:53:32 +0000

Well many buildings that are donated have research conducted within them. Not always a lot, but a large building is going to have plenty of uses. Eg stadiums often have medical research that is being conducted within them.

New comment by momoschili in "The Misuses of the University"

momoschili — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 21:52:52 +0000

The federal funds pay for it through the indirect costs funding its maintenance most likely... I suspect that represents a significant portion of the total cost of the building.

New comment by momoschili in "ASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chips by 2030"

momoschili — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 01:31:46 +0000

While this is all true, I think it should be emphasized that the EUV source and supporting it with optics (Zeiss) and other machinery is the primary engineering effort around the development of lithographic systems.

The primary difference between this machine and its predecessor is the degree to which it has been optimized around the specific EUV light source.

New comment by momoschili in "Is particle physics dead, dying, or just hard?"

momoschili — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:03:24 +0000

I'd argue so is the bed you sleep in every night, and the roof over your head. Best not to take those for granted, as I don't think the transistor would last so long if it wasn't sheltered from the environment.

The argument is that these kind of distinctions between how "classical" and "quantum" physics affects our lives is just a pointless endeavor that even academics don't waste their time with.

New comment by momoschili in "Is particle physics dead, dying, or just hard?"

momoschili — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 05:39:48 +0000

this kind of distinction is quite stupid in general as plenty of things that we rely on for day-to-day activities such as our houses, desks, chairs, beds, shoes, clothes, etc are all based on Newtonian/classical mechanics. Basically everything that we use which existed pre-transistor strictly speaking only required classical physics.

New comment by momoschili in "The Great Unwind"

momoschili — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:54:27 +0000

you put it better than I could have

New comment by momoschili in "The Great Unwind"

momoschili — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 17:13:59 +0000

I started by saying nobody that mattered and specified the largest companies who were involved. I think it's pretty easy to conclude I mean the C-suite in charge of the largest organizations that enabled and perpetuated the fraud. I don't care if a bunch of Bernie Madoff's lackeys went to jail if Bernie Madoff gets off Scott-free. I don't understand why you continue to misrepresent, but I think at this point it is malicious intent.

New comment by momoschili in "The Great Unwind"

momoschili — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 17:10:59 +0000

looks like it's mostly lackeys

New comment by momoschili in "The Great Unwind"

momoschili — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 07:46:53 +0000

yet you have failed to provide even a single name as of yet. It's easily google-able that all of the major players got off scott-free.

New comment by momoschili in "The Great Unwind"

momoschili — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 07:18:27 +0000

None of the highest up were sent to jail. CEOs perfectly fine taking responsibility for the profits, but what happened to taking responsibility for the fraud they enabled?

New comment by momoschili in "The Great Unwind"

momoschili — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 07:12:57 +0000

Can you name any of them? As far as I know none of the CEOs of the major banks spent any time in jail. They tried to get the CEO of Wamu but he successfully countersued (LOL) to get the Feds to drop the charges?

edit: it's unfortunate that you can't bring up any actual evidence to support your assertion

New comment by momoschili in "The Great Unwind"

momoschili — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 06:24:18 +0000

Nobody that mattered went to jail. A few lackeys might have been thrown to the wolves, though it seems only 1 spent significant time in jail. Meanwhile the board members, C-suite of Lehmann, Bear Stearns, WaMu, etc didn't spend a second in jail. What's really shocking is you burying the lede.

New comment by momoschili in "xAI joins SpaceX"

momoschili — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 06:35:26 +0000

I agree that part of the bottleneck is deploying solar physically. China is the best in the world in deploying solar panels. They are only managing linear increases in their solar capacity, year over year.

New comment by momoschili in "xAI joins SpaceX"

momoschili — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 04:31:25 +0000

you would need 200 times the number of solar cells. I don't think you appreciate the scale that 200x is, especially when China is already:

1. quite good at making solar cells

2. quite motivated to increase their energy production via solar

New comment by momoschili in "xAI joins SpaceX"

momoschili — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 04:29:41 +0000

sure, we can neglect the water, but the USA has much more usable flat land than China, and that is a pretty inarguable point.

New comment by momoschili in "xAI joins SpaceX"

momoschili — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 23:57:56 +0000

you think we don't have enough space on earth for a few buildings? this seems like a purely western cope. China seems perfectly able to build out large infrastructure projects with a land area smaller than that of the continentenal USA