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by chillacy 5y ago
Their current prototype fuses 1ms every 10m, their next is aiming for 1ms every 1s: https://www.helionenergy.com/faq/
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by chillacy 5y ago
Abstract belief formation is a topic of study. The gist is: first we hear something, then we assume it's true, then we maybe vet it later. Multiple experiments seem to imply that the default state is believing. https://www.f
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by chillacy 5y ago
I think refers to Nixon/Kissinger's move in befriending China after the Sino-Soviet split. The author says: > Instead, rather than attempting to challenge and contain Russia and China along their borders and coastal seas, the U
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by chillacy 5y ago
My understanding is that the attenuation at distance is a function of geometry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse-square_law
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by chillacy 5y ago
> start a trust I'm assuming this plan kicks off at death, so your trust wouldn't need to spend much to maintain itself.
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by chillacy 5y ago
Political outcomes in the past year or so have really been driving this home for me: Twitter / the internet isn't "real life". Taking a quote from Eric Adams: > Social media does not pick a candidate, people on Social
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by chillacy 5y ago
> Getting that sort of money is quite hard You could start a trust with ~1M in assets and if you avg 8% growth a year (taking into account management fees) you'd have 1B in 90 years just through compounding.
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by chillacy 5y ago
If one believes that legislators should be drawn from a pool of competent individuals who have options in private industry, you'd look at executive salaries in industry instead of the average US household. Singapore indexes its governm
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by chillacy 5y ago
> The most obvious problem here is the wording of the question. “Offensive” is a term almost exclusively associated with the political left. Conservative media has spent years reinforcing the idea that feminists, minorities and college s
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by chillacy 5y ago
> it's the reason why we buy anything You say it's 'the reason' which I'm not sure means 'the only reason' or 'a reason'. If it's the former: How will crypto, let alone any collectable or
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by chillacy 5y ago
That presumes rationality outside the market. All models are approximations of reality, even value investing based on fundamentals.
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by chillacy 5y ago
You can get pretty close to "right and wrong" in the markets if you pick a strike price and expiration date, keeping in mind that "public expectations" are part of the game. I think Taleb puts it well: “Don’t tell me wha
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by chillacy 5y ago
Software companies tend to be very scalable because they can get their customers from anywhere in the world. Unless the company was itself hyper local (which I’m sure exists but I’m struggling to think of an example) why would they handicap
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by chillacy 5y ago
As of this past week though, the price action is all in BTC reaching its ATH again of 60k+. Financial news is all about inflation, so I assume it's related buyers liking the fixed supply of BTC.
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by chillacy 5y ago
You use the word "value" in this comment to mean something different than the market price, but the definition isn't obvious to me. Maybe it's your personal values?
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by chillacy 5y ago
> irrationality of the market The idea that the market can be irrational presumes some sort of external correctness, but it can become a circular definition: either Burry is right or the market is irrational, there is no space to say tha
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by chillacy 5y ago
From his podcast interview it sounds like this is a “party” like the DSA is a “party”: it throws its support behind more mainstream candidates who advance their platform (mainly ranked choice voting for now). But being independent allows th
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by chillacy 5y ago
> if social media were as responsible for polarizing society as some people claim, then why are we seeing polarization increase in the US while it stays flat or declines in many countries with just as heavy use of social media around the
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by chillacy 5y ago
> It might work for utilities The uptime of Comcast where I live is definitely an order of magnitude lower than any large internet site. I have no other options for high speed internet, which doesn't seem to be a particularly bad de
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by chillacy 5y ago
Buffet’s insane returns are numerically more to do with how long he’s been in the market: > $81.5 of Warren Buffett’s $84.5 billion net worth came after his 65th birthday. (Housel)
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by chillacy 5y ago
Not just that, but the article doesn't even mention until halfway in that this bill is a 3.5TN budget bill, very much full of other non-climate proposals. Most people will read and comment on the title.
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by chillacy 5y ago
I recall watching a YouTube video maybe 10 years ago where a professor's lecture thesis I remember as "sugar is poison". Low carb/keto has been increasingly popular since then, so maybe we'll see where this takes us
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by chillacy 5y ago
I don't have the impression that Taleb's thesis is anything like choosing between two known valued bills on the ground. Maybe it would be more like: "if you were going to hunt for $20 bills on the sidewalk, which park would y
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by chillacy 5y ago
I think the parent poster is pointing out an apparent hypocrisy: Apple has rules which prohibit app developers from disclosing the apple cut in their apps, or even offering discounted off-platform purchase options within the app. Apple I th
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by chillacy 5y ago
If you’ve done those programs then you know how important form is to doing physical activities safely. The way I see it, the standard keyboard is akin to encouraging lifting with bad form, 30-80 hours a week.
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by chillacy 5y ago
> It’s a claim which could only be made by cherry-picking selective quotes from individual pieces of leaked material in a way that presents complex and nuanced issues as if there is only ever one right answer. Distributing narratives (wo
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by chillacy 5y ago
> Work is hard when you start out, but you reap the benefits for decades. That makes your 20s and 30s a terrible time to have a midlife crisis. Nothing sounds more horrifying to me than to find out that I lived a life on autopilot on the
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by chillacy 5y ago
Designed to be CPU mined: https://github.com/tevador/RandomX
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by chillacy 5y ago
I ran into this block last year trying to send a link with a comment like "wow this is wild, if this is what people really believe our democracy is in trouble <link>", that felt like a hinderance to even discussing the probl
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by chillacy 5y ago
As they say: "All art is derivative"

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