anamax

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by anamax 5d ago
Nope. If there are 5x as many truck runs, the trash per truck is 1/5th. The more likely result is that each of the providers runs far fewer trucks than a single provider would because trucks and drivers cost money. Unless the 5 compan
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by anamax 5d ago
While maximum US tax rates have varied significantly, the amount of money collected as a fraction of GDP has been remarkably stable. I mention both rates and "fraction of GDP" because rates can't be spent. The maximum take is
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by anamax 8d ago
Every president after Clinton, and maybe him as well, (yes, including Obama) said that Europe had to become responsible for its defense. During that same time, Europe has insisted that it knows better than the US cowboys. And, Europe cert
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by anamax 10d ago
It's unclear how to map "nominal prices" and "years of expenditure" onto "here's the money spent each year to get us to the point that trains run regularly", the latter being somewhat related (modulo
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by anamax 11d ago
There's some hope of smaller SRAM in the future - https://raaam-tech.com/technology/ is a three-transistor SRAM.
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by anamax 1mo ago
> California is also talking about shifting to a mileage baded road tax because EVs (which they heavily incentivized) saving money on gas can't go untaxed. EVs in CA have a special $121 tax to make up for "don't pay gas ta
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by anamax 1mo ago
Every time you enter regen, you're engaging the brakes as far as the tires are concerned.
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by anamax 1mo ago
Presumably they pay the local govt. Note that said "prime real estate" is not exclusive; it doesn't reduce your ability to enjoy said scenic overlook for free.
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by anamax 1mo ago
Govt should not have information unless there is a very specific and "in the law" reason for govt to have that information. If there's no reporting rule, there's no reason for govt to have that information.
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by anamax 2mo ago
> I don't see a fundamental reason why AI actors couldn't build the same kind of notoriety and following. Can AI's trash a room at Hotel Marmont? Dump their girlfriends when said girlfriends turn 25? Become Scientologist
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by anamax 2mo ago
> There are 1000x as many tax payers and the government still makes sure every single mom who gets a venmo payment for $60 pays taxes. That's a join in an existing database. Where's the database and what's the code for thi
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by anamax 2mo ago
> There are already organizations taking advantage of this, actively producing "AI propaganda", meaning propaganda aimed at the LLMs themselves in order to influence their understanding of what is truthful and bend it towards p
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by anamax 2mo ago
> You can't get the inability to allocate some large object because there's a spray of small objects in its way ... The large objects live in their own space Assume for the sake of argument that the large object space is for ob
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by anamax 2mo ago
Car brakes can get hot enough to start a fire (wood, paper, maybe even gasoline - see race cars) but a spark is a hot piece of material that is large enough so it can keep its heat for a while. Brakes generate very fine dust that cools off
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by anamax 2mo ago
John Ford
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by anamax 2mo ago
In the spirit of “The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
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by anamax 2mo ago
> If you believe that some people have a pre-existing unfair bias in their favor, then applying a countermeasure is indeed fair. What definition of "some people" and "unfair" are we using? I ask because I'm prett
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by anamax 2mo ago
The New York Times Company operates under a dual-class stock structure where the Ochs-Sulzberger family holds roughly 95% of Class B shares. This family control allows them to elect 70% of the company's Board of Directors. Copied from
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by anamax 2mo ago
One of the founders of Renaissance Technologies, which runs some of the most successful quant funds of all time, said ""We’re right 50.75% of the time... but we’re 100% right 50.75% of the time."
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by anamax 3mo ago
I wonder why a balloon or an extra-long safety sausage wouldn't work.
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by anamax 3mo ago
The n word is a staple of activities by members of a protected class. Feel free to tell them that they're wrong.
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by anamax 3mo ago
It can be both or neither, not just one or the other.
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by anamax 3mo ago
bcd is a reasonable way to do fixed-point decimal arithmetic. binary floating point, let alone IEEE, is almost useless for implementing decimal arithmetic.
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by anamax 3mo ago
The article claims "One of the most surprising of these techniques involves the Roth IRA, which limits most people to contributing just $6,000 each year." That's sort of correct (the number is $8,600) wrt direct contributions
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by anamax 3mo ago
google "checkbook ira" - there are dozens of providers (including one at "checkbookira.com") for ordinary folk. That said, private company stock is typically limited to accredited investors or insiders. (That's law
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by anamax 3mo ago
Electric presses seem to be covered by the 1st amendment, and there's a much bigger "output" difference between electric presses and manual presses than there is between machine guns and flintlocks. (Not to mention that flin
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by anamax 3mo ago
Radio, TV, cameras That said, breech loaders were used by the British during the Revolutionary War (the Ferguson Rifle) and multiple shots from a single barrel using multiple "touch holes" was well known. And then there's Puc
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by anamax 3mo ago
> Europe is usually not this hot, hence lack of AC in many places. Europe averages 53k to 175k heat-related deaths per year. The difference depends on whether you listen to the EC or the UN. https://news.un.org/en/
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by anamax 3mo ago
GNU Emacs from gnu.org is usable without an init.el or any other customization. Every line in init.el is something that you have to maintain and move with you. And when you're using someone else's computer, their init.el won'
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by anamax 3mo ago
Similar usage pattern (no init.el), but I started with TECO Emacs in the late 70s.

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