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by jmyeet 5mo ago
"let the market decide" means "let the billionaires decide" and they have. They've decided they don't care about public opinion and are more than happy to push all the infrastructure costs, pollutions and exter
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People are starting to see just who the government works for and this goes for local, city, county, state and federal governments. And it's not you, the voter. It's for the interests of the wealthy. We're seeing just how easy
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by jmyeet 5mo ago
There are lots of reasons you can oppose fracking BUT oil wells are generally built on pretty low value land eg West Texas and the Dakotas. Also, fracking creates a lot of jobs. Plus the landowner (often farmers or ranchers) will typically
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So this is something I know a fair bit about. This article touches on just one aspect. I thhink I know what it's referring to and it's actually a big deal. This administration is looking at every step in the immigration process an
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So I’m not in academia but even I’ve known for 20+ years how horrendous the job prospects are. I liken it to a game of musical chairs where everybody sat down in 1972. Academia is full of baby boomers who refuse to retire or die. And the nu
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We're not reading the crop report. We're reading an article written using the crop report. Those are two very different things. I'm honestly scratching my head over here because this is bordering on being deliberately obtuse.
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Chinese citizens aren't the target audience. The US administration is. This article is basically saying "please, Mr President, get China to buy more of our agricultural goods". The "when" of media coverage is just a
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This is about China. The timing of this article coming out during the Trump-China summit is no accident. The article beat around the bush (pun intended) that the real issue here is that China stopped buying (or seriously cut back) US agricu
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The SpaceX IPO may go down as one of the most manipulated in US history. I'd actually like to see the likes of Vanguard and Blackrock do is ignore the rules that will force passive funds to invest in SpaceX on a small float, creating p
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
If the residents of Tahoe owned their electricity provider, we wouldn't be having this problem. This was the norm up utnil the late 20th century and then we started selling off all the utilities for "efficiency". These public
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
Transferring wealth from the young and poor to the old and wealthy is the entire purpose of our government. This is now the endpoint we are bouldering towards: the bottom 90% increasingly have nothing left to steal or exploit. And just like
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
So I got curious about the progression of processing power, specifically how long ago did a GPU have equivalent to the latest iPhone chip? The iPhone 17 Pro has the A19 Pro, which has ~2.5 FP32 TFLOPS. The RTX 5090 has ~100 TFLOPS, so a fac
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
Back in the dot-com bubble, people started inventing new metrics to "value" dot-com companies that lost money hand over fist. My favorite was "revenue multiples". So instead of a a P/E ratio, it was just a multiple
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Because people do things like this. They spin up OpenClaw and ask it "find me a computer with an RTX 5070Ti or 5080 that's in stock within 50 miles of me that I can go and pick up today". So now the agent is crawling bestbuy.
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
This an example of survivor bias dressed up as general advice that doesn't consider the entire ecosystem. And we need look no further than what's happened in Hollywood with writing in particular. The general progression of a Holly
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Police budgets are completely out of control. Defenders will often quote base salaries and it's almost always intellectually dishonest. Overtime can 2-3x that base salary. It gets worse too because, depending on the police department,
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
Everything is going to get so much worse and AI really is to blame. So many websites now have these verification pauses and CAPTCHs because of AI agents. Part of it is agents. Part of it is everyone running their own awful versions of Googl
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
We've been here before [1]. In that case, extra load on the grid meant the municipality needed to purchase more power (at higher prices), which raised everybody's prices. Electricity supply is highly regulated. Prices for electric
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
I've been looking into options for this and we are getting close. There are two main constraints: memory and memory bandwidth. NVidia segments the market by limiting the amount of memory on GPUs. It currently tops out at 32GB (on a 509
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
It's hard not to look at Meta and come away with any conclusion other than they shit the bed. Hard . I think the last good move Meta made was buying IG. Maybe not good for IG users but absolutely a great move for Meta. Not quite as go
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Your assertion seems to be that those things haven't had massive productivity gains over time. Cleary they have. Firefighters aren't carrying buckets of water or using a horse-and-cart. No, they use fire engines, helicopters and p
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
Thing is, technology (particularly automation) could make life better but it not doing that is a choice. Think about it. We could live in a world where people only had to work 20 hours a week or even at some point not at all. We don'
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This is misleading, arguably false. All land in China is state-owned. You own the building. You don't own the land the building is on. In this way, it's really no different to leasehold in the UK or land-lease in NYC. Do we say th
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
> I can see that Visa and Mastercard are freaking out, not because Pix can take over their business model, but because it can give ideas to other countries doing the same. Oh they absolutely will. And the US government will come to their
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I believe expensive housing is at the root of many societal problems, it's not even funny. We don't have park benches because we've adopted hostile architecture to keep out "undesirables". This mostly means "ho
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I've been on the Internet for decades at this point and one thing I've noticed is that communities that, for example, ban political topics actually mean "positions I don't like" as "political". This is som
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This topic keeps coming up so I'll summarize some points I've alrady made [1]. 1. The size of this market manipulation can be measured by the gap between spot or physical oil prices (which generally aren't public) and the
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China has been involved in other conflicts, notably Vietnam and Korea. I don't put them in the category of imperialist ambitions however, for several reasons. First, they're in China's backyard. China doesn't want a host
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I don't accept the premise that China intends to invade Taiwan. Or, rather, that claims certainly requires some proof. This is an idea that the US has been pushing but maybe, just maybe, we shouldn't take fearmongering from the gu
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
There are some observations we can make here: 1. Drones are a relatively recent evolution but are really a continuation of asymmetric warfare that has been wildly successful post-1945. The US has been woefully unprepared for cheap, mass-pro

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