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by ericd 2y ago
Right, it seems likely to be disruptive in the short term, and there would be skill shortages and big holes in the domestic supply chain. I mean more abstractly/directionally. It does seem like it’d be best if it was phased in predicta
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by ericd 2y ago
It’s not, but our balance of trade is very deeply negative. We import a lot more than we export. Partly because our currency is kept artificially strong by reserve currency status, preventing our exports from becoming more competitive whe
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by ericd 2y ago
I mean, we were just talking about tariffs, not whatever else may be in their plans. But point taken, you think that the net result will be worse for poor people. I don’t necessarily disagree, it just seems that this one bit might be somewh
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by ericd 2y ago
That JEC doc doesn’t seem to mention tariffs? Yes, prices will rise, the question is whether it will increase their leverage in the job market enough to boost their earnings enough to counteract the higher prices.
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by ericd 2y ago
It will almost certainly accelerate inflation, but won’t it also give domestic manufacturing workers hurt by globalization a lot more demand for their work, and leverage to increase their wages? It seems like the main people hurt by this wo
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by ericd 2y ago
That power imbalance mainly exists if you don't save any money and/or live in an area with only a couple of employment options in your field and can't move. If you save up enough money to take a couple years off, there's
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by ericd 2y ago
Just saying, if it's built acceptably well, it shouldn't require engineers putting out fires constantly to not go down. But I'm sure you're right that I'm underestimating the complexity of the system as it's be
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by ericd 2y ago
If your highly cacheable, almost entirely static news site goes out when no one is touching anything, that's pretty suspect.
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by ericd 2y ago
Probably no one here is trying to profit by their additions to the discussion, but they’re still regularly sharing very useful information.
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by ericd 2y ago
Yeah, it’s wonderful. Especially once you take the time to up/downrank domains.
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by ericd 2y ago
Demonetizing the web sounds mostly awesome. Good riddance to the adtech ecosystem.
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by ericd 2y ago
16 megs of ram was ~free by 2016.
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by ericd 2y ago
Heh yeah, I guess the flip side might’ve been working on me, Majorette was the exotic imported brand.
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by ericd 2y ago
Yeah, it’s cool to just see what goes into it, and get a more intuitive understanding of the tradeoffs and what needs to be done to move more of this to green energy. It makes the (large) challenge of matching generation to consumption a wh
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by ericd 2y ago
Funny, I’ve always thought the French Majorette were the best. Many of them had pretty good suspension which helped a lot in rolling across uneven ground.
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by ericd 2y ago
The only carbon capture/sequestration method I’m aware of without significant tradeoffs outside of price is direct air capture, and last I saw, that clocked in at $600-1200/ton (Climeworks). So maybe not such a terrible deal?
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by ericd 2y ago
Yeah I guess that’s reasonable.
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by ericd 2y ago
Yep, the current solution doesn’t seem great. Are there known-good alternatives that are probably equally effective as deterrents?
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by ericd 2y ago
Sure, assuming it's not a stolen car. But I don't think that's a safe assumption in the cases where a chase is potentially worthwhile.
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by ericd 2y ago
I was just listening to the head of a municipal bus line on NPR talking about how there’s 70% non-payment of fares. Less than a third of his riders are doing what they’re supposed to. The interviewer then asked whether it was true that ther
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by ericd 2y ago
Ah yeah, it was all before July, so if they made big changes then, then maybe my experience isn’t representative.
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by ericd 2y ago
Dang, that's not been my experience at all. I've had them come out 3x for tire repair (construction site alongside our commute), and they've always come out to to my house to fix the tire in my garage, same day, after a coupl
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by ericd 2y ago
Not sure about entering houses, but a friend’s 5 year old just got bitten by a stray dog on the stomach during a month stay in India, she had to go through a course of rabies shots in the stomach.
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by ericd 2y ago
My understanding is that in a lot of places, the water has essentially coated the pipes with minerals, so the water doesn’t actually touch the lead, and it ends up not being as large a problem as you’d think. I think the problems arise when
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by ericd 2y ago
Ahh that explains it, thanks. Seems like a potentially large problem given their strategy.
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by ericd 2y ago
Interesting that they’ve scaled on-chip memory sublinearly with the growth of transistors between their generations, I would’ve thought they would try to bump that number up. Maybe it’s not a major bottleneck for their training runs?
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by ericd 2y ago
Very solidly enterprise-only. They make single chips that take an entire wafer, use something like 10 kilowatts, and have liquid cooling channels that go through the chip. Systems are >$1M.
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by ericd 2y ago
Compare it to the same period last year ($8.7M in sales). That’s a pretty solid growth rate.
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by ericd 2y ago
I’ve dabbled with building something like this for myself, I’m guessing it’s not totally unintentional, it’s the first step. After getting it to interpret what it sees on your computer, give it the ability to use mouse/keyboard, maybe
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by ericd 2y ago
Why couldn’t it IPO? People would certainly invest at this valuation.

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