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by blargey 10mo ago
If you don't understand a concept that's part of the stock market, reading the Investopedia article will go a long way. It's a nice site for basic overviews. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/buyb
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by blargey 10mo ago
If you want to be specific that general idea could be elaborated as "private ownership by people that only need the C-suite salary, instead of needing a C-suite plus a fat % RoI on the company's entire valuation because that&#x2
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by blargey 11mo ago
Counting on: - AI never advancing past a "firehose of mediocre slop" - Consumers as an aggregate "choosing" quality over cost and availability is a good way to never worry about AI, yes. But that's not the assumptio
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by blargey 11mo ago
> If a small group can spin up their own version of Wikipedia then there is the possibility of a more broad diverse market place of ideas. Sounds more like the world's least efficient way of querying the Median LLM Researcher about
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by blargey 11mo ago
Huh? 5x Arctic P12 is $24 on Amazon right now, no sale going on. And the whole Corsi-Rosenthal trend started specifically because consumer air purifiers were tested to be both noisier and less effective at their job. But I'd honestly p
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by blargey 11mo ago
I honestly have not idea what you're on about. First, the "by artists for coders" equivalent always existed! There's tons of free-for-commercial-use art packs and BGM tracks and sound effect packs out there, and more whe
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by blargey 11mo ago
Cheese is very high in saturated fats, which are linked to blood cholesterol (LDL). That said, Japanese cuisine is generally low in saturated fats, and adding 1+ instance of cheese per week is unlikely to tip it over doctor-un-recommended
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by blargey 11mo ago
And so the user response is just organic local political provocateurs crowing over examples of their "opponents" on social media being foreign plants, while ignoring all the times their "side" were baited by fake enemies
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by blargey 11mo ago
Most PE roll ups are not in your 401k - that’s what private equity means. While some may eventually find enough success to IPO and subsequently enter a big index, the past few decades of VOO / buy-the-market growth owes far more to t
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by blargey 11mo ago
> He who didn't binge-watch garbage reality TV can cast the first stone I'm not in a rock-throwing mood, but I qualify for that easily. False consensus effect cuts against AI...mass-production? aficionados just as much as hardl
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by blargey 11mo ago
Touches on the broader problem - that the less thought and care put into a comment, the more likely it is to be posted on the internet. Not sure what can be done about statistics.
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by blargey 1y ago
"Implementing" a low-resolution idea is equivalent to "producing" a higher-resolution idea. It's turtles all the way down. And ideas born without knowledge about their "implementation" are, by definition,
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by blargey 1y ago
The "non-ingestion allergen exposure" thing is a dangerous and common misconception, and the business-idea "joke" doesn't hinge on knowing or recognizing this, nor does it encourage questioning that part of the prem
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by blargey 1y ago
You could also see it as a double condemnation of colonialism - not just immoral, but an economically useless endeavor. Looking to the future, I'd prefer colonialism not be considered a lucrative strategy (though the thesis doesn'
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by blargey 1y ago
That they limit opt-outs instead of opt-ins, when the opt-in is the only plausibly costly step, speaks for itself.
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by blargey 1y ago
Do you actually use pencils? The most popular US (cheapo) brands have atrocious quality because they compromised on materials and construction to get the lowest sticker price possible. The brands that do have a claim to "perfection&quo
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by blargey 1y ago
Joining the crowd to express approval for extremism (or equally extreme disapproval) has a much lower bar than making the "top-level" statements you refer to, though. Inflammatory content is constantly rewarded with a firehose of
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by blargey 1y ago
Euphemism and dogwhistles to continue openly discussing the same things sounds like the opposite of compliance and self-censorship.
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by blargey 1y ago
re "behavioral sink" that wikipedia article is kind of a credulous stub that's missing the pile of criticisms of the "Universe 25" experiment (lack of reproducibility, much of the dysfunction being attributable to h
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by blargey 1y ago
That’s a good point - I’d naively thought of it as “self driving gets way better than humans -> self driving ‘goes to prod’”, but there is a real possibility that regulatory scrutiny falls off too early, or worse, the lack of incentives
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by blargey 1y ago
When people are actually put in danger, the historical response is that the entire fleet gets suspended / pulled off the roads (on top of the making headlines and triggering investigation stuff). 2018 Uber, 2023 Cruise, 2025 Zoox cases
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by blargey 1y ago
By the same graph, Japan is rated as more culturally distant from the US than Singapore, Russia, and Zimbabwe.
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by blargey 1y ago
For those interested, you can see the World Values Survey Questionnaire here: https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSDocumentationWV7.jsp (For Wave 7 (2017-2022), which the paper used) Some of the questions don't really
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by blargey 1y ago
Are you feeling down, or are things looking up for you? Do you have people to look up to, or do you spend more time looking down on others? Are you on top of the world, or working your way up from the bottom? Etc, etc. It's suffused th
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by blargey 1y ago
That link only lists some companies that have built factories (or are trying to), and nothing about how they were built.
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by blargey 1y ago
Are there US workers who should have been hired to do this factory-bootstrapping instead? Because that’s what the H1B stuff (and most illegal immigrant-worker debate in general) has been about, and otherwise it’s only superficially similar.
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by blargey 1y ago
According to their agreements with Georgia's state govt, factories like this are set to employ 8000+ locals once they're up and running. Given that scale, requiring 1/20 as many specialists working on site to set everything u
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by blargey 1y ago
The factory isn't even being "filled with foreign workers", it's being set up by foreign workers so they can start employing 10x as many locals to actually staff it long term.
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by blargey 1y ago
It's stated clearly that the factory in question is under construction . There are multiple such factories being constructed by Hyundai in Georgia, each under an agreement with the state to employ several thousand locals once they g
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by blargey 1y ago
Since it's apparently all denominated in stock, and vesting is conditional on multiplying the stock price 7.5x over the next decade*, every misgiving over the current valuation should make this package all the more worth it to sharehol

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