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by ethbr1 5mo ago
> good luck doing that without a regulatory push that's tenfold stronger than DMA The only way this would ever happen: Medicare and Medicaid If they could require a baseline open standard to make a device eligible for reimbursemen
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by ethbr1 5mo ago
> Smart home items should have lifespans on the order of decades Or at least only trade away long term reliability when there are useful features being gained. Eternally relevant rant about smart product solutioneering: https:/&#
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by ethbr1 5mo ago
This happened when business types realized technology could be enormously profitable (~PC era). Then inevitably, tech news turned into business news.
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The "excess" in "excess profits" means profits greater than what a fully-competitive, perfect market would allow. No one would be paying Apple or Google 30% of their revenue if there were infinite alternative app distrib
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Why does tangible vs intangible matter? For the last ~3000 years of human history, wealth has been liquid via some form of money.
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Do you have some examples?
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by ethbr1 5mo ago
By using progressive taxes, either wealth or income, those who benefited from the current system get to keep some of those excess benefits, while keeping less than they would under a no tax system.
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What's to stop PE from supporting NIMBYism in markets they're part of?
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Something can be mandatory insurance AND a tax.
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> pay those taxes with a smile on their face The government's monopoly on punitive violence isn't only intended for the peasantry...
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by ethbr1 5mo ago
> If we give one person enough money out of the tax pot to pay rent, that means the resources were redeployed from somewhere else that was about 1-rentworth of something. Yes, and that "somewhere else" is others' excess
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by ethbr1 5mo ago
> Implicit in this is the idea that if any body isn't acting in good faith, it will be so repugnant to voters that the state of affairs will quickly come to an end. This assumption is false. The appropriate democratic fix here is
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I feel like I wasted 25 min watching that (at 2x). If your thesis is "The US was founded on anti-intellectual principles" and your only supporting facts are: - Some of the early colonists were religiously-driven - The inco
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The economic argument in favor of cloud inference: higher utilization is always going to have a ROI for inference hardware. But maybe that hardware becomes so commoditized that it's not difficult to obtain / stuff in a box.
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And I'm saying, if 256GB of memory is a requirement for running customer-expected local models (and local models are preferred for some reason).
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(I'll take the charitable read and assume you meant an implied poorly trained, low cost Indian support as the descriptor) Google does and always has treated support as a cost center, rather than a feature or profit center. This worke
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If 256GB of RAM enables them to run on-device AI models that (for reasons) are a key feature differentiator? Personally, I think there's no way memory heavy inference moves on-device (vs cloud) due to the economics, but it's not i
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by ethbr1 5mo ago
If you received an email at work that was three paragraphs, you wouldn't assume the author put in more work than a one-sentence reply?
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> The only kind of structure able to survive a dead-on hit... That isn't the goal, because the eyewall of a Cat 5 is minuscule in footprint compared to the surrounding wind bands. Consequently, most houses are going to have to dea
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They do. One req is continuous tension using approved connectors from roof down to slab.
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Or in Florida's case, mandate hurricane ties on timber homes so they can't lift off their slabs. One of the things that annoys me most about non-engineering mindsets is not looking at problems from a multivariate optimization pers
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This. The central issue is the bait and switch. The bait: here is a ton of text The historical implication: because there is a lot of it, I put a lot of thought and effort into writing it The new normal: there is ZERO signal about the mag
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That's like saying one could expect New Orleans not to flood during hurricanes. There are problems. There is money you can throw at those problems. And there are some problems that are rare & low impact enough that it's not wo
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Hypothetically, what's the effect of that much thrust close to a water surface? I.e. if they cut a hole in the middle of a barge and it was burning at touchdown "against" the ocean I imagine water doesn't have the kineti
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To me the coolest thing about rocket engines from an engineering perspective is the tyranny of efficiency that the physics mandate. Because weight is so critical, there's no luxury of "another component". If something can be
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I think the ideal would be private banks enforcing exact legal rules (no fuzzy matches) and forwarding edge cases to the authorities (but not blocking them). All with transparency. You don't want private banks in the business of fuzz
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Ah, so Gemini is the new Watson.
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You don't know what that pelican has been through.
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My favorite are 50s and 60s recipe books. They use modern ingredients where appropriate, but mostly basic ingredients. Later and you start seeing "Use this new processed wunderfood ingredient substitute!" (70s-00s)
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We're already post dead info. The only solution is to find recipe books that were printed in previous decades. Which is ironic, given that Google's entire value proposition (to users) was extracting signal from noise... ... and

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