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by TradingPlaces 3y ago
Walmart has 1400 job openings with the word “software” in the title https://careers.walmart.com/results?q=software&page=1&sort=r...
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by TradingPlaces 3y ago
That’s a separate question. I’m just an Apple customer who doesn’t want to subsidize Android customers. That’s it. Explain to me why I should.
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by TradingPlaces 3y ago
The biggest issues are zoning and NIMBYs, and these are local. Hard to make a national push, or even a statewide push. I could write 5000 words on how that’s going in California right now (better than expected, but slow).
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by TradingPlaces 3y ago
Why is Apple obligated to support iMessage for people who aren’t customers? This seems to be at the root of the discussion, not this silly blue bubble thing. The costs of iMessage are included in the high price of Apple devices. Why should
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by TradingPlaces 3y ago
We underbuilt housing for 30 years leading to the pandemic. This is the result of that. New housing units per new person. Dashed line at median. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=1cYTJ
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by TradingPlaces 3y ago
Will someone explain why people who don’t pay Apple a dime have some right to use iMessage? That seems to be at the root of all this, and it makes little sense to me.
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Kagi 2023 Business Review Slide Deck(docs.google.com)
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by TradingPlaces 3y ago
I always go the opposite way — ice it down.
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by TradingPlaces 3y ago
Are you under the impression that the utility business is wildly profitable? I’d like to disabuse you of that notion. Not everything is a reinforcement of your priors.
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by TradingPlaces 3y ago
OK, last 365 days, 31% for Texas, 29% for Cali. You can play here https://www.eia.gov/electricity/gridmonitor/dashboard/electr...
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by TradingPlaces 3y ago
In the past 30 days, 33% of generation in ERCOT was wind or solar (mostly wind). For comparison, CAISO in California was 23% (mostly solar).
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by TradingPlaces 3y ago
Agreed, but you should also acknowledge that the system has produced the largest buildout of renewables. In the past 30 days, 33% of generation in ERCOT was wind or solar (mostly wind). For comparison, CAISO in California was 23% (mostly so
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by TradingPlaces 3y ago
The split between retail and wholesale puts the retail arms at the mercy of wholesale. This went all the way up the line to gas providers, who just decided to declare force majeure and closed up shop. Vistra tried desperately to keep the po
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by TradingPlaces 3y ago
The National Labs are hiring https://nationallabs.org/work-here/careers/
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by TradingPlaces 3y ago
A few weeks ago, they renamed it "Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365.” https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/enterprise/cop...
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by TradingPlaces 3y ago
https://www.wsj.com/video/ford-ceo-on-apple-google-and-elon-... Transcript: WSJ Joanna Stern: GM recently announced that it's ditching Apple CarPlay. Ford CEO Jim Farley: Yeah, how about that? JS: How about that?
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by TradingPlaces 3y ago
This is all being superseded by IIJA anyway. A lot of fiber is going to go in the ground.
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by TradingPlaces 3y ago
False advertising is not protected speech. 15 U.S.C. §§ 52-55 https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/topics/truth-advertising https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid%3AUSC-prel...
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by TradingPlaces 3y ago
Because they were already undercharging. During the low rate years, investors said they wanted growth, not profits. Now they want profits. Expect a lot of consolidation and rising prices over time. Unity was a harbinger.
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by TradingPlaces 3y ago
I only get this with Safari and Private Relay enabled. Works in other browsers fine in my experience (I use Kagi Orion as a secondary browser)
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by TradingPlaces 3y ago
"Large language models (LLM) have become state of the art in many benchmarks and conversational LLM applications like ChatGPT are now widely used by the public. Those LLMs can be used to generate large amounts of content which is poste
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by TradingPlaces 3y ago
Not 6 hrs, but I’ll take it!
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by TradingPlaces 3y ago
Now we need one for Dwarf Fortress.
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by TradingPlaces 3y ago
*if you ignore sparsity.
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by TradingPlaces 3y ago
I came here to say this. Rates are high because of Fed Funds expectations. Also, rates have been coming down since mid-October https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=1bU5a This is a terrible article from som
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by TradingPlaces 3y ago
That is the same as selling them. The redemptions are replaced by new debt that others will buy
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by TradingPlaces 3y ago
Nothing like being lucky and good.
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by TradingPlaces 3y ago
Freedom of association is also in the First Amendment.
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by TradingPlaces 3y ago
At US scale, that is a $1.7 trillion subsidy (6.7% of 2022 GDP)
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by TradingPlaces 3y ago
The big threat imo is smaller open source models running at the edge, not on expensive GPU clouds. Their lead rn is GIANT MODEL + AZURE GPU CLOUD. Anything that undermines that is trouble, because it is so expensive. For a long time, everyo

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