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by Retric 4mo ago
I suspected you felt that way even though it hasn’t been my personal experience. I’ve heard people say older models can’t do X, when I used that way etc. I suspect people are applying their own learning curve as part of their assessment of
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by Retric 4mo ago
Do you have specific and objective examples of things people got right? From my perspective there’s very slow but very real progress happening in the AI space. I see people making wild predictions in both directions, but in terms of actual
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by Retric 4mo ago
Biologically when a cell in invaded by foreign organism who inserts it’s DNA and the cell now spits out copies of the foreign genome that’s often a viral infection. From that perspective it’s arguably the sperm that’s preserved and using th
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by Retric 4mo ago
Depends on what you mean by wages. Floyd Mayweather Jr.‘s career earnings are over 1 billion. Celebrities can get extremely high compensation packages especially when you adjust for inflation without an ownership stake in anything. Financ
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by Retric 4mo ago
> Federally? Not really. TikTok is just one of many examples where the federal government has played a significant role. I mean you can debate about how relevant terrorism, CSAM, etc are here, but lots of debatably minor changes still ad
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by Retric 4mo ago
Even the US regulates social media. UK, Germany, South Africa, and Brazil are all interesting because of just how different yet similar a role social media plays in politics. First past the post vs representative representation create some
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by Retric 4mo ago
> this is the basis for all non-retail politics. My point was there’s an internal disconnect inside the alt right movement which makes this play out in very distinct ways. Dig into say China’s political to social media connections for
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by Retric 4mo ago
The alt right playbook isn’t identical to other political movements because it’s facing different pressures. Right now it’s dealing with second generation propaganda where much of the leadership believes the narrative rather than the underl
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by Retric 4mo ago
Somewhere between just going out to vote and revolution sits moving to an area where your vote counts. I’ve not quite reached that threshold, but I avoid moving to DC due to the lack of voting rights.
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by Retric 4mo ago
A major outstanding software bug for a year proves they have not “solved coding,” which was their claim. I didn’t chose the words they used, but I can hold them to those words.
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by Retric 4mo ago
He spent that much time and you still misunderstood the direct message and missed the subtext. The lie is coding is solved, the proof is they had an outstanding coding issue they were working on for over a year while saying coding is solved
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by Retric 4mo ago
Customers abandon companies that fail. Remember how they used Brando to water plants and it kills them? Eventually mistakes break critical systems and you fail.
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by Retric 4mo ago
That’s ~true for now but keep the date someone said it in mind. It’s really easy to keep thinking technical limitations still true when they are wildly out of date.
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by Retric 4mo ago
There’s nothing non deterministic about cheaper daytime rates as you scale solar production. Net result, lower average electricity prices but a slow rise in nighttime rates across decades. Similarly people respond to price changes, that’s
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by Retric 4mo ago
Plenty of blame to go around, my understanding of the timeline is: Trumps first administration put in solar Tariffs with China (25%), Biden administration increased them with China (50%), 2nd Trump administration increased those and applied
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by Retric 4mo ago
Not quite, current nighttime load is largely a function of cheaper nighttime rates. People don’t set their EV’s to charge from 11-5AM because that’s the only time their cars are plugged in. If rates crater at noon on Sunday, there’s many a
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by Retric 4mo ago
Total electricity produced by coal + gas is down over the last 20 years. Total electricity production is up, the difference is from wind and solar. This administration swapped to actively suppressing Wind and Solar via tariffs etc, and yet
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by Retric 4mo ago
My point is because it doesn’t qualify at the organism or cellular level this doesn’t either. > actual cells that were part of the individual that stay alive beyond any age limit Neither the egg or sperm or egg cell survive to birth.
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by Retric 4mo ago
By that token normal reproduction qualifies as immortality as parents share a lot more DNA with their kids than those cell lines with their originator. Biologically those cell lines are generations of new organisms not the same individual
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by Retric 4mo ago
Executive compensation is often based around share prices, so this can be worth quite a lot to the people making these decisions without any long term upside for the company. If you want to understand how companies behave you really need to
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by Retric 4mo ago
That’s the brand not a specific device these days Apple is selling well over 200 million phones a year. The original iPhone sold 6.1 million units in its lifetime and topped out at the 3rd most popular phone in the US, being dramatically le
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by Retric 4mo ago
It was a bad phone, poor battery life, fragile, and relatively poor reception. That was more than offset by the unmetered internet connection + decent browser, but that’s a feature not everything.
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by Retric 4mo ago
That’s a simplified and somewhat outdated version, there’s a huge range of technology to mitigate each of these issues but infrastructure generally isn’t free. A turbine does provides inertia for free where you need to pay for a flywheel o
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by Retric 4mo ago
The baseline isn’t zero certification requirements. Florida specifically tacked on a Business and Financial Management exam because their goal wasn’t safety. You can compare various states here: https://irecusa.org/solar-li
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by Retric 4mo ago
America. It’s going through the courts which means California is involved as are other interested parties.
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by Retric 4mo ago
I don’t think we can extrapolate from current API pricing, but dramatically improving hardware in terms of cost:performance is the underlying reality. Betting against that you need to assume exponentially more expensive models every year.
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by Retric 4mo ago
That assumes Tokens will remain a meaningful expense. I’m not sure developers will find uses for ever more tokens nearly as quickly as the prices fall.
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by Retric 4mo ago
The bloat was a result of withdrawing government funding / oversight and replacing them with student loans. Looking like the DMV was no longer accepted as you needed to actually attract students, which means supporting an ever wider ar
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by Retric 4mo ago
In 2025 they specifically streamline the permitting process because it was prohibitive (HB 683). The legacy of the prior system is isn’t erased because the rules suddenly changed. Requiring a grid connection doesn’t impact every install eq
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by Retric 4mo ago
“Newton mechanics” has the benefit of a disclaimer suggesting that it is not a representation of reality. “Particle” isn’t great but it beats “point particle”

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