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by bpodgursky 2mo ago
It has been obvious since Google pulled from China and got replaced by even more censored alternatives that corporations have close to zero weight against the arm of the state, and taking the moral high ground against an established governm
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by bpodgursky 2mo ago
I think that's an exaggeration, everyone does this in a FPTP system. I've never voted for a candidate in any party I particularly liked, you just pick the closest.
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by bpodgursky 2mo ago
Only if you are too stubborn to register as the dominant party and vote in the primary.
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by bpodgursky 2mo ago
Over a tea tax without representation . Very common to forget that part!
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by bpodgursky 2mo ago
Because congress passed the law in 1970 and did not expect we'd lose the ability to pass legislation that fixes minor problems with the original laws. Since congress can't do that anymore, to maintain a functional civilization we
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by bpodgursky 2mo ago
It de-risks defense contractors working with Anthropic on other projects. The most aggressive interpretation of the blacklist is that Lockheed Martin was not allowed to use Anthropic to develop their own products, and that's not on th
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by bpodgursky 2mo ago
The mundane solution is to give congressional offices more money for in-house staff with expertise on technical issues. A lot of the "lobbying" is not really pressure groups, it's sort of a corporate-financed knowledge base c
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by bpodgursky 2mo ago
I'm long, I'm just looking for free money
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by bpodgursky 2mo ago
Short it. NVDA is the most liquid market in history.
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by bpodgursky 2mo ago
What clear crime did Meta commit here? I actually do agree that there need to be draconian regulations on social media apps for children but those laws don't exist , it's a failure of congress to not create them, but no you can&#
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by bpodgursky 2mo ago
That's fine
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by bpodgursky 2mo ago
Claude is still not perfect at reading and interpreting noisy graphical data (imagine something like an EKG or chromosomal microarray plot). Still better than an average person but makes mistakes, not sure if this fits your description.
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by bpodgursky 2mo ago
It's not a zero sum market, supply is nowhere near meeting demand, in the short term restrictions also hurt SpaceX because they are building out their own terrestrial datacenters in Memphis etc.
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by bpodgursky 2mo ago
Sure. Who knows. But, historically, strongmen/chieftains have not had incredible trouble keeping their goons under control. Most threats from from palace coups not popular revolt. Most normal people in uncertain times like order and
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by bpodgursky 2mo ago
If civilization collapses, the billionaires are correctly assuming the security team will stop following SEIU strike authorization protocol.
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by bpodgursky 2mo ago
Why do you deal with any of it? As a small business use Stripe Atlas or whatever.
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by bpodgursky 2mo ago
The vibe was people goofing around on Twitter. There's one guy making the call and the reset is kind of a meme.
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by bpodgursky 2mo ago
The US is wealthier, has more billionaires and has fewer of these barriers for small entrepreneurs. So no, this is not the monocausal explanation that applies equally everywhere. (YES, the US has regulatory capture, YES the wealthy attempt
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by bpodgursky 2mo ago
To degrees, but Spain's fertility rate is appalling even by modern western standards. ~1.1 vs ~1.6 in the US. It's a huge difference and closer to the East Asia collapses than to the US.
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by bpodgursky 2mo ago
Even in the US it's nearly impossible to steal a Tesla. In China with their omnipresent surveillance it would be suicidal to try.
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by bpodgursky 2mo ago
From a more accessible article: > BEIJING, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Tesla and eight other automakers said on Friday they will recall a total of about 4.3 million vehicles in China over concerns that doors may be difficult to open in an emerge
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by bpodgursky 2mo ago
The last thing I searched Google for was "india gdp growth" and Google gave me an estimate for India's 2026 GDP growth. It took like 2 seconds. It's almost certainly basically correct. If I had tried to find an authori
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by bpodgursky 2mo ago
I hear you, but this time is different and history doesn't tell us what happens next. They were wrong those times. They would be correct today. I don't have any clever argument to justify this, you just have to look at the ways
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by bpodgursky 2mo ago
They are literally not legally allowed to do this. Google Books tried. They lost. If you want this fixed, talk to your congressman, not Amazon.
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by bpodgursky 2mo ago
I don't say this to be mean, but you need to plan for a world where it's always summer. Maybe the valuations will collapse with OSS models but programming is never going back to normal.
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by bpodgursky 2mo ago
Nobody sells their company to Bending Spoons if they are thriving. So, clearly $130 was not the correct pricing. Is the correct pricing that allows growth without alienating customers somewhere in-between? Probably.
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by bpodgursky 2mo ago
> Haldenby, whose business consists of up to 15 staff in the UK at any one time, with sister companies also in the US and Australia, said he was "in shock" when he received an email detailing the price changes. > Richard Hal
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by bpodgursky 2mo ago
Think about what this literally means. There are a million doctors in the US. Doctors spend their day consulting patients, so, you need a million transcription reviewers. Let's say you pay each of them $50k/yr (aka rock bottom
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by bpodgursky 2mo ago
Validation will measure accuracy, and even if you require and get > 99.9% accuracy (and they should! don't get me wrong), it won't change that there will be anecdotes of patients getting wrong results given that millions of pe
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by bpodgursky 2mo ago
I am in fact aware that some of my stock investments have beaten the market while others have underperformed the market. MRNA, as it happens, is the latter.

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