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by dlisboa 7mo ago
> that could be 100 billion USD in deferred revenue, if we assume that LNG is not going anywhere from wherever it's sitting underground, and will be simply extracted and sold later That's not how revenue works at all.
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by dlisboa 7mo ago
A trillion seems large but it's not that absurd. The drone that shut down 17% of Qatar's LNG capacity is said to have caused 20 billion USD worth of annual lost revenue. They said it'll take up to 5 years to rebuild so that c
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by dlisboa 7mo ago
Israel is similiarly lucky that it is surrounded by neighbors with US bases that can intercept missiles and drones before they get to it. All of its more competent enemies are very far away. In a different scenario there'd be no motiva
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by dlisboa 7mo ago
Very few countries lack the technological capabilities to produce these kinds of drones. What most countries don't have is, for lack of a better term, the resolve Iran has shown. Venezuela could have built drones and resisted just the
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by dlisboa 7mo ago
There is an assumption here that the value in improving defenses is the same as improving offensive weapons. That is not the case in the assymetry that drones provide and Russia is the first example. Russia has not been able to improve AA c
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by dlisboa 7mo ago
Humans today perhaps. People tend to underestimate our abilities in nature because we’ve evolved to be able to shape it. In reality humans had generationally transmitted oral knowledge of food, plus are the only animals that can transform f
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by dlisboa 7mo ago
It was $999 back then. They could be made cheaper today. Those were Intel chips.
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by dlisboa 7mo ago
A solution to a problem that doesn't change the current state of affairs, which by your definition makes it a simple solution, is not an actual solution. There are plenty of simple solutions to real problems whose only blocker is upset
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by dlisboa 7mo ago
I wish more would be done on weight. The 12 inch Macbook was very lightweight, just 2 pounds. Today there's no Apple product that gets close to that: an iPad with the added accessories weighs more and it's still an iPad. The Macbo
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by dlisboa 8mo ago
You have to see there's a hefty dose of hypocrisy in this, right? American might has been used, quite extensively, to impose unfavorable conditions to local companies in their own soil in favor of American companies. Multiple American
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by dlisboa 8mo ago
I don't see it as misleading at all. You're leaving out half the world and implying it's doing fine. Regular Facebook usage in Brazil is also non-existent and it's the 5th or so biggest Internet market. China doesn'
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by dlisboa 8mo ago
A great example of what seems to be the current ethos for the generation (I realize Handey isn't of this generation). Very much "nothing matters as we'll all die anyway, who cares about what comes after". I don't fa
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by dlisboa 8mo ago
Same for Keynes.
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by dlisboa 8mo ago
Obviously not a macroeconomic analysis but if you watch YouTube channels like Caleb Hammer it seems people are literally spending their life away. No planning, no asset building, just hedonistic stuff. The kind of people you see there have
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by dlisboa 8mo ago
I agree. From the outside looking in the US seems to be in a very nihilistic mood, sort of "nothing I do matters anyway so I'll gamble away in the hopes of maybe hitting the only winning ticket out". People trying all sorts o
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by dlisboa 8mo ago
Emotional intelligence is what allows you to actually raise kids. Having it at midlife is a benefit, not a downside.
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by dlisboa 8mo ago
It either is the "second leading cause of disability and mortality" or it isn't, there's nothing to believe. I very much agree with GP that the claim is completely unsupported. I found the study that the article bases th
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by dlisboa 8mo ago
Unfortunately there is hypocrisy to go around. Here's the argument China and India will use: "coal and fossil fuel always was for all its history and still is the largest portion of Germany's energy mix. It's hardly in a
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by dlisboa 8mo ago
There are countless examples of democracies with endemic corruption. Democracy is not a cure to it.
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by dlisboa 8mo ago
What market does Tesla have? They won't prosper in China which has the biggest car market and better cars, that also happen to be cheaper. In the US, the second largest car market, they reduced their market in half. In Europe their sal
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by dlisboa 8mo ago
> Tesla also cannot justify valuations based on automotive sales/subscriptions alone - they were always going to have to pivot. Their valuation was never justified by that. They always sold a fraction of what other companies do.
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by dlisboa 8mo ago
I think it's fair to say they tried using SQLite but apparently had to bail out. Their use case is a distributed DBaaS with local-first semantics, they started out with SQLite and only now seem to be pivoting to "SQLite-compatible
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by dlisboa 8mo ago
Maybe. It's hard to know what kind of issues that test suite covers. If memory safety is the main source of instability for the C implementation then the Rust implementation won't be too affected without the test suite. Same if it
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by dlisboa 8mo ago
Elon Musk is already doing that kind of parenting, so I can see how he likes it.
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by dlisboa 9mo ago
All of this would easily be solved by just banning social media. Nothing will convince me they are a net-positive to society.
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by dlisboa 9mo ago
Not on mobile. Most internet access these days is mobile.
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by dlisboa 9mo ago
Much like dogs eat grass.
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by dlisboa 9mo ago
It's not strange at all. We grow what we eat, humans didn't start by eating insects. Plus growing plants specifically to feed livestock is an extremely recent development. Plus ants can't provide all the nutrients we need.
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by dlisboa 9mo ago
Which is my point from the beginning. Soybean production is worse than beef production for the environment when it comes to South America.
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by dlisboa 9mo ago
Yes, as you can see, it’s not for cattle.

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