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871.
by eru 4mo ago
> Globalization was the test, AI is the final exam. I'm not sure history will end so soon.
872.
by eru 4mo ago
How does owning some bitcoins let you run a powerful LLM?
873.
by eru 4mo ago
Please go ahead. If you are right, you can raise billions of dollars for your startup.
874.
by eru 4mo ago
Why would it be a good business model?
875.
by eru 4mo ago
Well, the 1950s and 60s are long gone, and conditions for workers have kept improving.
876.
by eru 4mo ago
Going on a tangent: it's somewhat funny that people always talk about the birds and the bees. Bee reproduction is complicated. For example, male bees have no father. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplodiploi
877.
by eru 4mo ago
Mostly agreed, however I'm not sure about 3: I suspect it works like gym memberships, and the companies mostly make their money from people who don't use the subscriptions all that much.
878.
by eru 4mo ago
Could you elaborate a bit? I'm not aware Amazon has a monopoly on retail, nor even online-shopping? Could you explain what you mean with the diapers?
879.
by eru 4mo ago
Mostly agreed. You can crack a whole lot of eggs without making an omelette. Though I suspect China would do even better, if they didn't bother with the subsidies. Just like Japan would have done better without MITI.
880.
by eru 4mo ago
The US was one of the countries I had in mind. Government workers are some of the most unionised of all industries there these days, but eg president FDR was staunchly against the practice.
881.
by eru 4mo ago
Yes. There's eg combined power plants that use waste heat from power plants to heat houses. The problem is that this tends to make the power plants less efficient at electricity generation. So this waste heat recycling should only be
882.
by eru 4mo ago
> the datacenter doesn't have a few million dollars to spare. What makes you think so? Datacentres are already very expensive, and getting permissions quicker (or at all) might be worth a couple million dollars. > The heat is wa
883.
by eru 4mo ago
Using waste heat like this only makes sense in some places some of the time. And when it does, people should obviously go for it. Work out a deal, when there's some surplus to share.
884.
by eru 4mo ago
You mean they have dropped rates, or you mean that residential property values have fallen, and thus they pay less property taxes?
885.
by eru 4mo ago
The dataset is valuable in the same sense that water is valuable. It doesn't fetch a high price, because everyone can get it for free.
886.
by eru 4mo ago
> How many weeks of legally mandated paid time off do you get, and how many additional days do you get on top of that as a median worker in the US? :b For comparison: unions are at best toothless in Singapore, there's no minimum wag
887.
by eru 4mo ago
We have these in Singapore as well, and our unions are toothless.
888.
by eru 4mo ago
Until fairly recently, the general public used to be very suspicious of government employees unionising. Because it was unionising against them, the general public.
889.
by eru 4mo ago
The top level command suggested that any unionisation is good. Even with a terrible union.
890.
by eru 4mo ago
Well, is Uber a monopoly and collecting monopoly rents?
891.
by eru 4mo ago
Please give me a few examples of people succeeding with the technique. Specifically, examples of people later exploiting their monopoly to charge people more than they otherwise would have paid.
892.
by eru 4mo ago
As far as I can tell, the Chinese government itself is complaining about 'oversupply' in the solar panel market. Ie it doesn't sound like they are subsidising it anymore.
893.
by eru 4mo ago
> This isn't "the market working as intended", this is an exhaustion fight to the bottom where the one with most money gets to stay in the market. As with most venture capital startups. I believe this VC tactic is a well d
894.
by eru 4mo ago
> This is one reason why DeepSeek & GLM are priced so cheaply, they are competing with impossibly low token prices in China. They have to keep prices low, in order for people to use them. Sounds a bit circular? Aren't the compa
895.
by eru 4mo ago
This might be like an observational study vs a study with a control?
896.
by eru 4mo ago
CEOs have limited bandwidth, and can only breath down so many necks at once.
897.
by eru 4mo ago
> This brings the value to the local community of a nearby datacenter up from near zero to potentially a few million dollars per year. You are not wrong, but the whole issue is a bit silly: there should be legal ways for data centres (an
898.
by eru 4mo ago
I'm not so sure actually. Perhaps plenty of people get fed up with real world darker and grittier and wanted their fiction to be more uplifting?
899.
by eru 4mo ago
Yes. If you are clever enough, you can encode a lot of formulas in geometry and paper. Navigators of yore used to have a lot of these tools.
900.
by eru 4mo ago
Your logic is infallible. Of course, your premise is rubbish. It's not about whether 'someone' is managing these things. Even an owner-occupier is managing their own lights and exteriors. A useful criterion is whether the g

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