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721.
by api 8mo ago
Short form video is addictive, so they want to push it. It maximizes time on site.
722.
by api 8mo ago
I agree. I’m just saying that public companies have less power against the state than you think they do.
723.
by api 8mo ago
I guess the motives are not just financial. They’re also just general opposition to change. There was this weird period after WWII where we built tons of housing. It was a major factor in building the largest middle class in human history.
724.
by api 8mo ago
The main impediments are density limits, zoning, onerous permitting requirements, lawsuits from NIMBY groups to block everything, and so on. The entire developed world is basically a big housing cartel where existing home owners work to lim
725.
by api 8mo ago
AI as a tool to make health care cheaper and more scalable is not an inherently bad idea, but I would not let these fools anywhere near it. Anything they touch is going to be a pure grift.
726.
by api 8mo ago
One Trump tweet can destroy a company’s stock price. Trump has amazing power over public companies as the absolute king of the attention economy.
727.
by api 8mo ago
“We will do literally anything to make housing more affordable except build more of it.” Forget where I first saw that but it’s absolutely true. The left will try rent control, subsidies, taxes and prohibitions against speculation, banning
728.
by api 8mo ago
Depends on who you mean. Some of them are nodding and smiling while they count the days until Trump dies. Some of them are “pilled” and totally on board.
729.
by api 8mo ago
Large corporations, especially publicly traded ones, have zero power to resist their sovereign government. Publicly traded companies are heavily regulated and dependent on their stock price, making them trivially vulnerable to political ret
730.
by api 8mo ago
The problem is industry and dense urban centers. Light residential is not the thing that’s challenging to power.
731.
by api 8mo ago
Open source GUI development is perpetually cursed by underestimating the difficulty of the problem. A mature high-quality GUI with support for all the features of a modern desktop UI, accessibility, support for all the display variations yo
732.
by api 8mo ago
What's the performance impact for nested virtualization in general? I'd think this would be adding multiple layers of MMU overhead.
733.
by api 8mo ago
Honestly just decent smart cruise and lane keeping is good enough. Concentrate on making a solid long range reliable EV is the best way to compete with Tesla in the short to medium term.
734.
by api 8mo ago
Not really. Marx didn't know anything about game theory. But he did come up with some adjacent ideas. > the Soviet Union proved otherwise. It brought many millions of people out of poverty but also had to make some hard and maybe so
735.
by api 8mo ago
This is a problem domain AI is good at. Have AIs do first-pass, then when they flag something an actual doctor reviews it. Then if they concur it goes to your doctor, who knows you, who can review it.
736.
by api 8mo ago
... which overthrowing the machines didn't stop. People just found another authority to mindlessly obey.
737.
by api 8mo ago
This really looks like it's describing a bubble, a mania. The tech is improving linearly, and most of the time such things asymptote. It'll hit a point of diminishing returns eventually. We're just not sure when. The accelera
738.
by api 8mo ago
By heat I think the parent mostly means industrial process heat, which is mostly supplied by natural gas now. Coal is still used in metallurgy. Electric heat is rare since it’s inefficient (thermodynamics) and thus expensive but it’s used i
739.
by api 8mo ago
Better superconductors here. Would you like a $20 MRI down at your local drug store to detect cancer at early stage 1?
740.
by api 8mo ago
Catalonia is one I'm familiar with as an example of something a bit like syndicalism working, but it isn't that big and it isn't entirely standing on its own. These also, as you say, tended to get bowled over eventually. Try
741.
by api 8mo ago
Yes, humanity has used mechanisms like LeGuin’s before. It’s called strict theocracy. A lot of the anarcho types I’ve met have a blind spot there just like they do with energy. They tend to be social liberals, LGBTQ, etc. and they don’t thi
742.
by api 8mo ago
Climate change is a great example of a horrid game theory problem. Solving it requires an all cooperate pact as long as fossil fuels remain one of the easiest cheapest ways to get power. As long as that’s true, any defector can outcompete e
743.
by api 8mo ago
Rust as a good language for LLMs. That’s interesting. I wonder if you could design a language that is even more precise and designed specifically around use by LLMs. We will probably see this.
744.
by api 8mo ago
Going off on a huge nerdy tangent but... people think that about anarchism because the violent dystopian image is what you would actually get in most scenarios. Anarchism is the politics of ignoring game theory. If you study game theory eve
745.
by api 8mo ago
It’s 2026 and code reuse is still hard. Our code still has terrible modularity. Systems have terrible to nonexistent composability. Attempts to fix this like pure OOP and pure FP have never caught on. To some extent AI is an entirely differ
746.
by api 8mo ago
AI is at its best when it makes the boring verbose parts easier.
747.
by api 8mo ago
That's the thing though. Paperclips transcend ideology. That and I'm not sure what Chomsky actually advocated. He was a tireless critic of American and Western imperial ambitions, but what would he replace them with? I get the imp
748.
by api 8mo ago
One of the crazy things about these files is: it’s clear that the root motivation for a huge number of these guys is just to get with very young girls (and sometimes boys). Nothing sophisticated. Nothing inspired. Just what the most atavist
749.
by api 8mo ago
UBI doesn’t mean people don’t work. It means work is partially decoupled from basic needs. People would work for two reasons. One is to make extra money and afford a lifestyle beyond what UBI provides. The second is to… do things that are m
750.
by api 8mo ago
The RAM shortage is extremely temporary. It’ll last as long as it takes for new capacity to come online. RAM shortages and price spikes have happened many times before. Eventually China will catch up in EUV fabrication and flood the market

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