FabHK

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by FabHK 5mo ago
Exactly. Looking at competition from China, but also the West, I don't see Tesla having a moat in EVs, in robots, or even in batteries in the medium term (compare e.g. [1]). How can they produce the extraordinary growth and excess prof
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by FabHK 5mo ago
> to ban something we must be able to construct an argument that does not hinge on morality. For example, theft is bad because it deprives you of your possessions. No need to invoke morality. Ok, I'll bite. Why is it bad to deprive
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by FabHK 5mo ago
You raise a good point: There's nothing intrinsically good about betting and trading venues, and the sane default option might well be to prohibit it. We allow stock and bond trading as it fulfils important functions [1]. What you desc
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by FabHK 5mo ago
9 GW is massive. About half a percent of world electricity consumption, half of what stupid Bitcoin burns.
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by FabHK 5mo ago
"Truth Social is currently unavailable in your area" Pity, in Hong Kong I cannot read the wise words of the king.
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by FabHK 5mo ago
Emirates, Qatar, and Etihad all seem to have fleets that are approximately 50/50 between Boeing and Airbus though.
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by FabHK 5mo ago
Indeed. Embraer (Brazil) does jetliners carrying up to around 150 pax. So did Bombardier (Canada), though they sold their C-Series to Airbus (now the Airbus A220). Then there's COMAC (China) and UAC (Russia; also a conglomerate of Sukh
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by FabHK 5mo ago
Sorry, but that is wrong or confused on multiple levels. You claim that a) "real money" (whatever that is) is determined by how much money central banks supply, and b) the stock market is a redistribution mechanism, not a wealth c
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by FabHK 5mo ago
Simplex is not applicable. Simplex only minimises a linear function (f(x)=c'x) under linear inequality constraints (Ax≤b). The minimisation problem here is unconstrained, but (very) non-linear.
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by FabHK 5mo ago
Had totally forgotten that Apple had rolled out post-quantum crypto (ML-KEM and ML-DSA, FIPS 203 and FIPS 204, respectively) already back in 2024. [1] Slightly off topic, but it's great to see "crypto" to mean cryptography, h
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by FabHK 5mo ago
Check Matt Levine's excellent "Money Stuff" column. He dissects a few examples (Ayatollah Khamenei, a recent public referendum, maybe more).
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by FabHK 5mo ago
The stock market is not in the least zero sum. That's just a fundamental misunderstanding. There's dividends, capital allocation, etc.
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by FabHK 5mo ago
A fictitious assembly instruction (and pretty good TV series). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire_(computing...
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by FabHK 5mo ago
During the dot.com bubble, so many folks went to work for startups that old-fashioned corporate IT (in insurance, industry, banks) was struggling to hire. The saying goes that they hired you if you could spell "C++".
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by FabHK 5mo ago
Just saw Kraftwerk live exactly a week ago, 2026-05-06, in Hong Kong on their Asia tour. They played Radioactivität, among their other hits. Recommended indeed. There might not be another tour, Ralf Hütter is 79! Over the next month, they w
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by FabHK 5mo ago
Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz had a critical investigative report in The New Yorker on Sam Altman and OpenAI last month asking whether Altman could be trusted. Paul Graham of Y-Combinator in response tweeted some positive things about Alt
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by FabHK 5mo ago
One factor: There's a limit on shorting, due to discounting. Suppose you're 100% convinced that Jesus does not return by 2027, so you want to buy the "No" trading at 96 cents. But you only get your 1$ back in 2028, when
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by FabHK 6mo ago
Industrial uses plus those missing 5% are the problem.
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by FabHK 6mo ago
We can engineer planes to function extremely reliably. And power plants operate in more predictable environments than planes.
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by FabHK 6mo ago
> where the only injuries comes from traditional construction and mechanical industry work. Still count.
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by FabHK 6mo ago
Indeed, anti-nuclear sentiment predates the 1990s. The book _The Power of Nuclear_ by Marco Visscher does a good job tracing the history from the shock of the nuclear bomb in 1945 to the enthusiasm of the 1950s and the increasing scepticism
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by FabHK 6mo ago
Just because it is 2D doesn't mean it's not a spectrum.
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by FabHK 6mo ago
2.5 bn iOS installed base, clearly a niche market.
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by FabHK 6mo ago
FWIW, Gruber consistently condemns Trump, and portrayed Cook's obsequious sycophancy as lamentable and highly questionable "take one for the team" acts Cook chose to do for the sake of Apple. It strikes me as a fairly plausib
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by FabHK 6mo ago
> I don’t understand why self is placed in the list instead of smalltalk. The article explains that: > Smalltalk inherited the notion of a value and its type from earlier languages, and implemented the idea of a class. All objects had
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by FabHK 6mo ago
The "Well Informed" column is a weekly series of very short articles (half a page, or even just a column) on health issues. You can hardly expect a very deep dive. > Nope. There's barely even an article there, and it just
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by FabHK 6mo ago
Your comment: > people need to realize instead that moderation is a better answer than continuing to be gluttanous over dubiously "better" alternatives. The article: > The prudent thing to do is eschew these products altoget
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by FabHK 6mo ago
(It used to be "_borne_ witness", so fast enough in adapting to new ways?)
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by FabHK 6mo ago
Very interesting. From Wikipedia: > English had a four-form system, comprising the words yea, nay, yes, and no. Yes contradicts a negatively formulated question, No affirms it; Yea affirms a positively formulated question, Nay contradict
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by FabHK 6mo ago
Indeed. It seems like system 1 and 2 could fail identically, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 are all correct, and as described the wrong answer from 1 and 2 would be chosen (with a "25% majority"??).

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