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New comment by nemo44x in "Europe's new climate in seven charts"

nemo44x — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 12:11:04 +0000

Time to get AC in homes. Especially in the Uk Where homes are generally terraced/attached, small, and decently insulated. The costs to operate wouldn’t be too painful.

Secondly, much of Western Europe (except Norway) needs to figure out how to bring energy costs way down. It’s so expensive compared to the USA and Canada and people take home significantly less money.

New comment by nemo44x in "Global population movements from 1990 to 2023"

nemo44x — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:40:51 +0000

It can but it takes a very long time to bring food online. To develop real estate.

Especially when the real numbers of immigrants is much higher.

It takes time to train more doctors, to raise more cattle, and to build more homes. Way more than the rate of immigration over the last 30 years.

It makes rich families richer though. But it hasn’t been good for working people and the community culture the country once had.

New comment by nemo44x in "Global population movements from 1990 to 2023"

nemo44x — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:38:40 +0000

And it’s a good thing all that wealth is evenly distributed and not hoarded nearly exclusively by a small class of families.

I can assure you mass immigration is not good for the working class families of this country despite what an economist might say in aggregate. The reality is more people drives up the costs of food, shelter, medicine, and other resources that are not very elastic.

Don’t overthink it.

New comment by nemo44x in "Sleep research led to a new sleep apnea drug"

nemo44x — Sat, 23 May 2026 12:41:07 +0000

I don’t know but I wonder if people that have insomnia or similar difficulty falling asleep (anxiety, etc) struggle with a CPAP. I am fortunate to fall asleep very easily, usually within 3-5 minutes or even faster. And I use a CPAP (nose saddles not a full mask), and prefer it to not using one while sleeping. The way it just opens all passageways is relaxing and I think helps fall asleep even more quickly.

New comment by nemo44x in "Sleep research led to a new sleep apnea drug"

nemo44x — Sat, 23 May 2026 12:36:36 +0000

If you truly have sleep apnea it’s not just about feeling refreshed. There could be other reasons you’re tired.

But sleep apnea is really bad for your heart and lungs and does damage to them over time.

New comment by nemo44x in "Sleep research led to a new sleep apnea drug"

nemo44x — Sat, 23 May 2026 12:32:11 +0000

Get 2 opinions. And yes about weight - some people won’t have Apnea if they get their BMI to like 25 or whatever.

Saying that I have a CPAP machine and love it.

New comment by nemo44x in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

nemo44x — Fri, 08 May 2026 19:17:36 +0000

The problem today is we had 10 years of “learn to code” and a a lot of people did. Similar to 2001. 2009 wasn’t really bad for tech since we had a huge shortage of workers in the space. Companies would hire straight out of mid-tier universities. CS departments were desperate for students.

New comment by nemo44x in "Supreme Court to hear arguments in landmark Roundup weedkiller case"

nemo44x — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:33:51 +0000

Roundup has saved far more lives than it may have cut short, if any.

New comment by nemo44x in "Education must go beyond the mere production of words"

nemo44x — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 19:39:46 +0000

School was, is, and will always be a filter to determine who should manage and access resources.

New comment by nemo44x in "GPT-5.5"

nemo44x — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:15:06 +0000

It’s like all these things though - it’s not a real production worthy product. It’s a super-demo. It looks amazing until you realize there’s many months of work to make it something of quality and value.

I think people are starting to catch on to where we really are right now. Future models will be better but we are entering a trough of dissolution and this attitude will be widespread in a few months.

New comment by nemo44x in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

nemo44x — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:11:39 +0000

For years the advantage big tech had was that capital expenditure was minimal and now with every big tech company trying to become an AI company they’re blowing gobs of money on data centers and everything that goes inside of them.

AI is a huge bubble right now and although it is useful and future models will be more so, the truth is that it’s a lot of pie in the sky too.

New comment by nemo44x in "Ping-pong robot beats top-level human players"

nemo44x — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:03:09 +0000

Well, I guess we’re going to fire all the Ping-pong players at the office and replace them with these robots.

New comment by nemo44x in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

nemo44x — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:01:59 +0000

There’s very little R&D cost. Possibly little cap-ex as the infra to build exists.

New comment by nemo44x in "Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training"

nemo44x — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:12:28 +0000

Probably aren’t seeing the promised productivity improvements of AI in terms of shipping production code and not just “super demos” that aren’t robust. So they want to see if the withers are really putting in the time or if the models struggle past a level of complexity that stalls or reverses early gains.

New comment by nemo44x in "Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated"

nemo44x — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:54:58 +0000

The funny thing about AI is counterintuitive. It will put an even higher value on quality as quantity is now essentially worthless. I don’t believe AI can generate high quality on its own. It needs to be used and manipulated to generate higher quality outputs than a human or AI alone can.

New comment by nemo44x in "AI Resistance: some recent anti-AI stuff that’s worth discussing"

nemo44x — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:50:46 +0000

> We’re automating the interesting work with AI and leaving the drudge work for humans.

I think you have that backwards.

New comment by nemo44x in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

nemo44x — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:51:12 +0000

For thousands of years people were unsure if they’d have food the next day and still had a lot of kids. This happens today in the poorest parts of the world.

People are not having kids because they don’t want them. Those that can use birth control and failing that access abortion, etc.

People stopped having kids precisely the moment they had the option to.

New comment by nemo44x in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"

nemo44x — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:49:26 +0000

It’s a weak take and here’s why. Huge tasks like going to the moon are made up of many different individuals that have different goals. Some are rocket scientists that want to innovate on the science of rocketry. Others are government admins with political goals.

So to call the entire thing “political” ignores the purpose of those involved and critical to the outcome at the expense of just labeling it all “political”.

New comment by nemo44x in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

nemo44x — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:09:31 +0000

What’s a better method for determining how to utilize and distribute resources? To determine where energy should be used and where it should be moved from?

New comment by nemo44x in "AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice"

nemo44x — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 16:40:42 +0000

Don’t apologize to these types of people. It will only make your problem worse as now you’re an admitted offender. Ignore them or better yet laugh at them to put their insane ideas back on the margins where they belong.