Zigurd

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901.
by Zigurd 10mo ago
The US has about 80,000 troops stationed in Europe. That's a lot. But non-US NATO armies have over 3 million troops. 2026 NATO isn't anything like 1970s NATO.
902.
by Zigurd 10mo ago
Russia invading Ukraine caused an expansion of NATO. If the US attacks Greenland, it might not end NATO. Instead it could cause Switzerland and Austria and maybe even Mexico to join NATO. It might even precipitate a euro-pseudo-NATO to put
903.
by Zigurd 10mo ago
Without overt Russian involvement.
904.
by Zigurd 10mo ago
When I first visited Latvia, I thought it was a charming side effect of communism that store names were quite small on the façades. Was there an ethic of abjuring crass commercialism? Then I noticed the shadows left by larger store names ab
905.
by Zigurd 10mo ago
Many big Chinese cities banned gas motorcycles and scooters long ago. Taipei did not. You can smell the obvious difference. Electric buses make a big difference too.
906.
by Zigurd 10mo ago
Noise is environmental pollution and detrimental to health.
907.
by Zigurd 10mo ago
I know the scale isn't comparable but I much prefer an electric chainsaw to a gas chainsaw. I own both kinds because every couple of years something big falls across my driveway that I can't lift without cutting it up. Mixing two-
908.
by Zigurd 10mo ago
Wait, let me ask my Humane AI Pin... yeah, I'll think the same.
909.
by Zigurd 10mo ago
Factories already buy over $25 billion worth of industrial robots every year. Humanoid robots are neither going to displace specialized industrial robots, nor are they going to be particularly useful since industrial robots can lift entire
910.
by Zigurd 10mo ago
Step 1: Within the Facebook App (Most Important) Open the Facebook app. Tap the Menu icon (three lines/your profile picture) > Settings & Privacy > Settings. Scroll to Notifications (under "Notifications and Permissions&
911.
by Zigurd 10mo ago
The play store should reject apps that use audible notifications other than those controlled by Android platform notification permissions. Making a user dig through an obscure multiple layer settings jungle to track down and kill annoying n
912.
by Zigurd 10mo ago
We've decided that using trucks as gender-affirming care is more important than the lives of vulnerable road users. Denmark should see that as a hint.
913.
by Zigurd 10mo ago
Evidently not united enough to prevent the head of state from being snatched in an operation that almost certainly had inside help. On the other hand, especially if this was a White House directed operation, the planning could be so shortsi
914.
by Zigurd 10mo ago
Yes. There's been no invasion of Canada, which is actively waging retaliatory economic war on the US.
915.
by Zigurd 10mo ago
Subjective kvetching about a social media platform that is totally open to analysis, without providing any numbers at all seems like a singular failure of journalism. A news site like MS Now has the resources to do that, but evidently not t
916.
by Zigurd 10mo ago
Sure. 80X. I'd even agree to that. Which is a bit over 10% of what Elon thinks SpaceX is worth.
917.
by Zigurd 10mo ago
That's an excellent outcome to hope for. The odds are that we have already used up our "stopped clock is right every 12 hours" karma. Not that anyone should feel sorry for Maduro.
918.
by Zigurd 10mo ago
Somewhat to your chagrin, I think, I agree that 27X is a reasonable multiple. But I'm a generous guy I'd give them 50X. Do the math.
919.
by Zigurd 10mo ago
Relatively recently Aerojet Rocketdyne valued ULA at about $2 billion. Do you think SpaceX is worth 10 times as much? That seems reasonable. How about 50 times as much? That's stretching it but, hey, it's Elon. 100 times as much?
920.
by Zigurd 10mo ago
SpaceX is in fact not profitable. Depending on how you price internal transactions for manufacturing and launching Starlink satellites you can fudge the hell out of the term "cash flow positive." In fact, SpaceX continued to take
921.
by Zigurd 10mo ago
Does anyone pay for Grok? Despite claims of profitability, SpaceX still needs huge investments despite having spent all the lunar lander money without producing anything more than a render. Tesla is valued at more than the rest of the car i
922.
by Zigurd 10mo ago
Prediction: on this thread you'll get a lot of talk about how government would slow things down. But when the AI bubble starts to look shaky, see how fast all the tech bros line up for a "public private partnership."
923.
by Zigurd 10mo ago
The US accounts for a share of the UN budget roughly equal to the US share of global GDP. The US accounts for a fairly small fraction of the NATO budget. Very little of the US defense budget is spent via NATO. The US being "ripped off&
924.
by Zigurd 10mo ago
This "It seems odd to me that the US supposedly isn't a major power, yet still finances..." does not mean what you seem to think it means. Soft power and alliances are vastly cheaper than hard power. We are in the find out
925.
by Zigurd 10mo ago
So many commenters here assume US global hegemony that, in reality, expired after the 1980s. Without its allies in Europe and Asia, the US can't act effectively.
926.
by Zigurd 10mo ago
Brunel ran "modeling" agencies. Who else decided that was a good business to get into? The whole thing is not even close to the worst part of it yet.
927.
by Zigurd 10mo ago
it's very likely that the terminals don't equal the count of users. Terminals on airliners, ships, and other shared use cases have far more users than the number of terminals would indicate. The other side of the coin is that they
928.
by Zigurd 10mo ago
You meant that totally unironically?
929.
by Zigurd 10mo ago
You could replace all of the arguments against automating CEOs with the same arguments against automating allocation of capital. In both these cases people are imagining their work to be more subtle and ineluctably human than, for example,
930.
by Zigurd 10mo ago
So Reiki masters and fortune tellers are safe from being automated, too?

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