WarmWash

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by WarmWash 2mo ago
You're right, I'm sorry, it's the 60-95%* that are the richest. The one percentage have a staggering amount of wealth, but it's mostly in assets. The "upper/upper middle class" have just as much, but it&#x
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
The better question is where are all these Americans who will buy more expensive American stuff.
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
It's too embattled for me to comment on Trumps execution. I'm just speaking to the theory. Tariffs have been used to protect industry for centuries by every country in the whole current debacle. Again I'm just speaking about
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
You cannot increase wages without the money to do so. The factories are broke too. Manufacturing has these fundamental deficits that make it very capital punishing compared to software or finance, or consulting. Britain is a better example
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
Like I said in my earlier post, the richest group of Americans is not the 1%. It's middle/upper middle/upper class suburbia. This is even more pronounced because these are the people with cash who spend it. Billionaires ar
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
Why wouldn't the users just generate it themselves?
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
It's easy to be upset when you see the wealthiest class of Americans spend all their money on cheap Chinese versions of what you build. Not even because they cannot afford your products, but simply because they can cost cut by going wi
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
I have close the zero faith that the EU would be able to make the cultural changes necessary to move to self dependance. Especially with being well behind in the current AI arms race. You need the opposite of a "workers utopia" to
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
I think people forget that China is an authoritarian ethno state with a single leader for life. But hey, they have cheap shit, so what better wagon to hitch your country to?
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
The most ironic thing is that Chernobyl basically solidified that Europe would be dependent on Russia for the next 30 years.
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
The reality is that people judge their quality of life in relevant terms, not absolute ones. Better to be absolutely poor in a poor country than relatively poor in a rich country and all that
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
Interest rates are still within "normal" range, so the market is signalling that's it isn't that big of a deal. Countries have a debt crisis when their debt is huge and their interest rate is off the wall. Pretty much th
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
I think one of the major things you learn as you get older is that there is a huge abundance of people who say the right thing, and a much smaller group of people who do the right thing. The internet made this even worse by celebrating peop
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
Hard disagree, if you have ever actually dealt with this stuff, you would know that it's all mitigation. Hardware isn't the binary world of digital stuff. Shielding is a filter with a curve and long wire runs make every aspect wor
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
Once again, convenient logic swoops in to save the ego.
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
Reminds me of the endless "12 year old wins $25k young innovator award for inventing a solar panel that can go on the roof of an EV to charge while you drive!" type proclamations
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
It also all goes to the party, who are the owners of Alibaba (and every other company in China). Should you ever need someone in a foreign country to do something for you, it's good to have as much information as possible at your dispo
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
Probably the same people who doordash a $43 big mac at 8pm because "I'm hungry and I don't want to have to get up and drive over there"
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
I think the most damning thing about porn hysteria is that society as a whole ran the experiment of an open internet for 30 years, long enough for a full generation of people to be fully raised on it and -none- of the things the anti-porn c
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
> Let me know if you figure it out. If you tell people at a dinner party your wealth came from it, will they be impressed and intrigued, or will they roll their eyes and be dismissive? "I know how to throw dice" doesn't ha
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
https://store.waveformlighting.com/products/centric-daylight... Pricey but they are flicker free
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
It's not that they go to home depot, it's that they buy whatever is cheapest because "LED bulb = LED bulb", and then talk about how LED bulbs are trash.
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
We have some free air stations in the US around me, but they are rare, and people absolutely beat the shit of them. Half the time they're broken :(
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
I feel like 6-figures would be the clearance price on it...
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
People loose track of this a lot. Massachusetts, the small state in the US, has a population 25% larger than Norway. The New Jersey suburbs of NYC, not even the whole state, has a population comparable to Norway. Norway is cool, but it&#x27
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
They are saying "If having a group of like mined people creates instability, show your work."
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
They do pay, that's why these towns are doing all these shady things to minimize public input. The problem is that the towns generally want to spend the money on new stuff rather than give the money back in tax cuts.
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
Yeah, but when we account for that scale, and look at resource usage, datacenters aren't topping the charts, or even really getting in the top 5, for anything. You have people who eat meat at every meal losing their mind over water usa
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
Flavor of the month LLM gets inundated and swamped with users. Sideline LLMs have free compute and offer cheap prices to draw in crowd. Becomes flavor of the month LLM. Back to step one. It should be pretty clear by now that token prices ar
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
>"screenshot all the wild AI-bro claims" to keep track of them and call them out when it all collapses. But have you done the same for Zitron? Because the AI-Bros have consistently been more accurate and Zitron consistently pre

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