WarmWash

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by WarmWash 5mo ago
Because of Japan. A rigid culture and tradition can obviously carry a lot of weight, but usually comes with intense racism as well.
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by WarmWash 5mo ago
I didn't even mention venture capital because the win rate is so low. When you have billions already, then maybe you can buy $10M lotto tickets that get pitched to you. If you're a regular guy and want risk exposure like that, you
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by WarmWash 5mo ago
Google is almost closer to a conglomerate than a coherent horizontally integrated corporation. The individual parts of Google are like Fortune500 companies themselves, and tend to act in their own interest.
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by WarmWash 5mo ago
>For the investors get their money back and the bubble to not implode, they functionally need to unemploy everyone in the US. More like $75/mo per user for the next 5-10 years if they can get 5% of the global population to pay that.
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by WarmWash 5mo ago
>Rich people have access to different types of investments, You mean hedge funds and private equity/private credit that all under perform S&P500?
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by WarmWash 5mo ago
IIRC Apple cut a deal to have their own version of Gemini that is hosted just for them.
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by WarmWash 5mo ago
The attention economy is real, your eyes have value that is surprisingly high, and buying out that attention so you can have a pure you-centered experience would just be too expensive for most people. Instagram gets ~$27/mo/user f
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by WarmWash 5mo ago
I wonder had we invented transformer architecture back in the 70's or 80's, if the pace of hardware innovation would have naturally slowed AI progression, and given humans decades to slowly adapt, rather than the current tidal wav
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by WarmWash 5mo ago
The quasi-mythical memristor would be choice for bread boarding a brain. However I suppose you could train a model and then manually place fixed resistors to build the network
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by WarmWash 5mo ago
This is where a smart grid would really shine, because the utility could drop the electricity price to 0 or even negative and turn on 100,000 air conditioners/heaters to effectively give people free climate control to absorb the load
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by WarmWash 5mo ago
Keeping the build trend going: Communication that detects the release and travels as close as possible to the speed of the natural signal in the rope, and is robust enough to recover without losing stability if the other team grabs the rope
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by WarmWash 5mo ago
I guess I'll be the one to point out that the richest American demographic is the 50-95%. And the ~75-85% are the actual backbone of the economy, with their relentless spending. If there is a reckoning, the most pain will be the demogr
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by WarmWash 5mo ago
Really it comes down to religion, and Israel being the bastion of anti-islam in the Middle East. Doesn't hurt that they are also liberal democracy and have advanced economy as well.
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by WarmWash 5mo ago
Because dividends are stupid and Berkshire is smart. Share buybacks are the optimal way to do "dividends". The only reason to do a dividend is because people like the feels of getting a cash payout.
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by WarmWash 5mo ago
Robotaxi failed so now it's Optimus bots.
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by WarmWash 5mo ago
This line of thinking though assumes it would have no impact on the largest players though. It hinges on a "calling their bluff", that high NW individuals won't change anything despite now being forced to annually liquidate a
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by WarmWash 5mo ago
You also have the state which pays for most of the top line expenses of having kids. Once you start making money, those benefits don't fade, they instantly disappear entirely.
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by WarmWash 5mo ago
Amazon can just mix in more water post cooling and then by your metric the problem would be solved. They can just rely on dilution like the farmers do. Or we can use our brain and actually hold the right people accountable.
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by WarmWash 5mo ago
>Datacenters are bad because they make it harder for polluters to dilute/hide their pollution levels
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by WarmWash 5mo ago
I don't see how you can make the case that Amazon is responsible for cleaning up farmer's waste... The water utility and the farmers need to solve the problem, not Amazon. If the farmers are dumping shit in water, they can pay to
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by WarmWash 5mo ago
Generally datacenters are built in less dense areas that already have low taxes. So the cost to "buyout" the town council (i.e. "We will cover 75% of your municipal budget") is a rounding error for the datacenter builde
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by WarmWash 5mo ago
So why aren't they protesting meat production, SUV sales, or golf courses?
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by WarmWash 5mo ago
Did you read these or did you just post them to illustrate my point? Like the only real datacenter centric point made in all three is that you can detect air being a couple degrees warmer within 1,700ft of a datacenter. The rollingstone art
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by WarmWash 5mo ago
It's pretty obvious the outrage around datacenters has nothing to do with datacenters and everything to do with knee capping AI progress. People should just focus on that, because you really really have to reach to make a metal box t
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by WarmWash 5mo ago
A datacenter ranks close to zero on the pollution scale. By comparison a golf course looks like a Superfund site.
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by WarmWash 5mo ago
Those things are cash cows for local municipalities. I don't think that aspect is communicated at all, or at least the media leaves that part out. A town a with a $50M budget can easily have a single large datacenter cover the townsfol
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by WarmWash 5mo ago
My argument isn't that art doesn't have an impact, my argument is that the artists to impact ratio is insane. 10,000 artists in, one $20k work of art out. Whereas something like the engineer is closer to 5 engineers in, $500k of w
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by WarmWash 5mo ago
Yeah, but is SpaceX actually worth $1T or does Elon just think that because of how Tesla investors value Tesla?
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by WarmWash 5mo ago
Math is a tool for solving problems, and people will do work to create value that they will share with you for helping them solve a problem which will ultimately create even more value. In short, math is a powerhouse tool for carrying socie
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by WarmWash 5mo ago
Conversion rates from user to subscriber are on the order of 5%. 5 people paying for every 100 people consuming is not sustainable. It's also true that most people are unwilling to fully "buy out" their ad value. For instance

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