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by danans 2y ago
Watch the spin afterwards. The more he tries to spin it to look better, the less he feels like he came off strong.
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by danans 2y ago
Trump cares a lot about overall looks. He didn't look like he was in control - that's what matters.
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by danans 2y ago
Seems like they were banking on the Ukrainian president bending the knee, and that didn't happen. The greatest damage done to the US by that meeting might be the public display of POTUS's histrionic decompensation, requiring the
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by danans 2y ago
> You have moved the goal posts from "precisely 0" to probably too late. For all practical purposes, if you're not an insider, the timing of "probably too late" coincides with "precisely 0" and the ava
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by danans 2y ago
Here are some examples of retail memecoins buyers trying to do that: https://www.reddit.com/r/solana/comments/1gye9qf/cant_sell_m... https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comm
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by danans 2y ago
I agree that today it doesn't make cost sense, especially in a retrofit scenario and when the marginal cost of additional solar panels is so low. However, heat removal methods could make sense for much more efficient, but much more tem
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by danans 2y ago
In the domestic/commerical, the simplest solution to this is to add more solar to compensate for the drop in efficiency. The next cheapest approach would be to cool the panels by heating water for domestic/industrial use, althou
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by danans 2y ago
> To them, it's a gamble the same as the as the lottery or sports betting. They know it has a negative expected value but they do it anyways because they find it fun. Sports betting and lottery, while like gambling is legal in many
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by danans 2y ago
> The incentive behind the work of DeepSeek might very well be wrong (something along the lines of a state-sponsored attempt at shrinking the US first mover advantage in AI to nil) In the space of international relations, right and wrong
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by danans 2y ago
> Musk was right when he called them out for fishing for money as if they were a non profit, but always had plans to become a company I believe that he was right, because he of all people should recognize when someone is working from his
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by danans 2y ago
> But IMO better option is to have hybrid type EV with smaller battery + Fuel Cell generator. That's exactly what fuel cell vehicles are today. They just don't have a plug or a battery with enough capacity to make a plug worth
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by danans 2y ago
> Otherwise, seems like a welfare program for industries built around resource extraction and complicated machinery. You say this dismissively, but that's exactly what it is. The basic problem with renewable energy (especially solar
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by danans 2y ago
> Think of it as like the relationship between cache memory and slower RAM: the combination performs better than either alone. Seems to me like upcoming long term storage battery chemistries chemistries might be more up to the job analo
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by danans 2y ago
> The latter has lower round trip efficiency but potentially lower capex Lower capex, but massive opex since clean e-fuels are incredibly expensive and AFAICT not on a fast path to getting cheaper, unlike batteries.
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by danans 2y ago
> Instead of waiting for FAA (fully-autonomous agents) we should understand that this is a continuum, and we’re consistently increasing the amount of useful work AIs can do without human intervention. Even if we never push this number to
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by danans 2y ago
The difference is in the first paragraph of the article: "due to a failure of the power steering assist feature that could make the vehicles harder to steer, particularly at low speeds, raising the risk of a crash."
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by danans 2y ago
> Prop 13 was passed on the back of California choosing to redistribute school funding away from local communities where the taxes were paid. > The result was predictable. Nobody wants to pay higher taxes that don't go to their k
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by danans 2y ago
America stopped caring about poor kids' education long before smartphones. It goes back to at least the passage of Proposition 13 in California which gutted school funding from property taxes. Even growing up in a middle class Midweste
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by danans 2y ago
> Pitara (S) <--> Father (E) <--> Vater (G) > Matara (S) <--> Mother (E) <--> Mutter (G) > Bhratara (S) <--> Brother (E) <--> Bruder (G) > Duhitar (S) <--> Daughter (E) <--> Tochte
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by danans 2y ago
It's not about the origin of a single language. It's about the origin of a population whose widely dispersed descendants often speak a language whose primary features descend from the language spoken by the original population (al
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by danans 2y ago
> Its more difficult with US since every fart affects rest of the world, sometimes massively The Guardian (UK), Al-Jazeera (UAE), and the Straits Times (Singapore) offer an outside perspective on the US, while still in English.
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by danans 2y ago
> ORMs are the devil in all languages and all implementations. Just write the damn SQL Agreed, or just use a key/val JSON document database and it's get/set APIs for basic operations. All the main ones also provide indexi
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by danans 2y ago
Yes, but they are likely dramatically accelerated in the AI timeline.
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by danans 2y ago
> Money needs to keep flowing. If all that remains of the economy consists of a few datacenters talking to each other, how can the ruling class profit off that? Plenty of profit was made off feudalism, and technofeudalism has all the too
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by danans 2y ago
> without grounding in the real world. > I've yet to see really good articulations of what, precisely we should be scared of. Bedroom superweapons? Loss of paid employment opportunities and increasing inequality are real world co
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by danans 2y ago
Not sure if your pun was intended, but 'wait' probably works so well because of the models being trained on text structured like your comment, where "wait" is followed by a deeper understanding.
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by danans 2y ago
But at this moment what's happening is that Capital is completing what Reagan started by finalizing the realignment of government totally toward its interests, at the expense of labor and the precariat. But sure, it all started a whil
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by danans 2y ago
There does appear to be a social cost to driving a Tesla in blue-leaning areas these days. Nothing overt, but I've heard people who bought them without knowing who Musk is (and don't agree with him) now openly saying "never-
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by danans 2y ago
> The problem with this is that if companies are just profit maximizers then one of the things it should do is to realign the government What do you think is happening right now?
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by danans 2y ago
> for folks who didn't like Google's direction Which rhymes pretty well with not believing in their mission. They are telling people to leave instead of trying to influence the direction from the inside.

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