JumpCrisscross

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by JumpCrisscross 1mo ago
Having gone through one ice-dam related roof leak in the past, I'm also not thrilled with the idea of superheated liquids hanging out casually above my bedroom while I sleep.
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by JumpCrisscross 1mo ago
> There is no apt response other than for the over 50% of Americans who voted in favour of their current situation Single-digit percentage points of turnout changes would swing the House and Senate. Double-digit percentage changes in v
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by JumpCrisscross 1mo ago
It looks like solar can already power about a third of American household demand, and is on track to get to two thirds within five years [1]. (Commercial and utility is leading the acceleration, even into Q2 2026.) That said, we're hit
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by JumpCrisscross 1mo ago
> guessing their solution is for us to be even more dependent upon oil? They're competent enough to be able to model the demand destruction occuring globally. In the meantime, given "Canada supplied the U.S. with more than 60
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by JumpCrisscross 1mo ago
> Even Saudis couldn't have stopped them. That's not particularly American election issue Energy prices are absolutely an American election issue. Variations in real personal disposable income growth and inflation predict a v
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He Accused His Brother of Sexual Abuse. Then He Took on His Family(nytimes.com)
2 points by JumpCrisscross 1mo ago|0 comments
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US military reveals it has weapons in space(ft.com)
55 points by JumpCrisscross 1mo ago|18 comments
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by JumpCrisscross 1mo ago
> if part of the browser's logic requires more computational resources than most consumers have, what's the problem with "outsourcing" that bit to Perplexity's servers? It's not longer my agent. It'
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by JumpCrisscross 1mo ago
> What about giving it to your secretary with a list of what to shop? "When a Comet user directs the Assistant to locate an item on Amazon.com, the Assistant takes screenshotsof the browser view, sends those screenshotsfr
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by JumpCrisscross 1mo ago
> removing the cost of hiring architects and hiring lawyers to draft contracts For multi-unit houses, sure. The actual analogy is closer to removing the cost of the cement plant from every house. Fixed versus variable costs.
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by JumpCrisscross 1mo ago
> Two big differences are low switching costs and a higher rate of innovation The concept this entire thread seems to need is the difference between fixed and variable costs.
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by JumpCrisscross 1mo ago
> If the article is to be believed they aren’t including their training costs In this metric. Revenues aren't a scam because they don't include costs. We're getting a partial picture. But concluding adversely based on se
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by JumpCrisscross 1mo ago
> you must see the world as sunshine and rainbows and corportaions working for our best interest I'm literally not seeing the throughline from A to B. It's like saying a greedy capitalist nuked himself as a gotcha. Like, how
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by JumpCrisscross 1mo ago
> If they stop racing, the wave of open models will pass them How is this different from planes or cars? If Ford or Boeing zero line their R&D...well, we know what happens.
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by JumpCrisscross 1mo ago
> but they don't have to be constanatly trained This is an open question!
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by JumpCrisscross 1mo ago
> would like them to communicate something else though Then wait for the S-1. They aren't communicating internal financials to you.
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by JumpCrisscross 1mo ago
> models don’t exist without training. I don’t see how excluding the training cost from the thing they are selling(inference) is perfectly reasonable Planes and cars take a lot of capital to develop. That's a fixed cost. Building
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by JumpCrisscross 1mo ago
It's gross margin. Not including training in gross margin is perfectly reasonable.
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by JumpCrisscross 1mo ago
> If they were GAAP profitable they either wouldn't be sharing or would be IPOing already They'd be in their quiet period...
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by JumpCrisscross 1mo ago
Profitable without Capex, i.e. gross margin. Inference is included in COGS. Capex (training) is not. That's reasonable.
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by JumpCrisscross 1mo ago
> idea of removing model training from your costs is a little wild tbh It's one of several metrics and tries to estimate steady-state profitability. It's the only one being leaked because it's the most sensational one. B
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by JumpCrisscross 1mo ago
Zitron is worthless–lying about numbers and not correcting the record when you're called out means you aren't trustworthy. Worse than that if you directionally agree with him, which I do.
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by JumpCrisscross 1mo ago
> Yeah pretty much? Your hypothesis is Rockstar made up a fake mole, buried it, let the opposition find it and put it in a legal filing, and this somehow helps them. Got it. If this isn't a troll account I'm worried.
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Why Buying Weapons Is So Dangerous: A Saudi Case Study(phillipspobrien.substack.com)
4 points by JumpCrisscross 1mo ago|1 comments
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by JumpCrisscross 1mo ago
Sure, at FaeGre. Not FaeHre. Again, probably a typo. But if I were up to shady fuckery, that's one way I'd hide it.
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Post Peek – Litterbox-Inspired Tweet Viewing Extension for Chrome(daringfireball.net)
2 points by JumpCrisscross 1mo ago|0 comments
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Litterbox: XCancel for iOS and Mac(andadinosaur.com)
2 points by JumpCrisscross 1mo ago|0 comments
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by JumpCrisscross 1mo ago
> classic game theory I'm not sure it is in unionisation fights, particularly in an industry as tightly knit as gaming. You're trading a short-term kiss from management for being hated across the industry. That forecloses all
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by JumpCrisscross 1mo ago
> Letting them dissolve or oppose the union? You're saying Rockstar would make up a mole that didn't exist, now, and that would somehow help it keep the union dissolved? What?
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by JumpCrisscross 1mo ago
> versus investment to scale EV sales to compete You can do both if you convince Berlin or Brussels to give you cash.

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