jmyeet

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by jmyeet 6mo ago
If you go to another country, you should be aware of their laws. If you don't like their laws, don't go. Personally, I've never understood Dubai's "charms". Is is Earth's Mos Eisley [1]. The legal system i
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
So every time a post about successful public transit comes up, we get the full gamut of responses: - "This wouldn't work in the US because of X". X is usually land area. Ok, but what about China? - "We should fix some [c
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
At some point this kind of insider trading will end up hurting any supposed "integrity" of the markets. This sort of thing is meant to be actively prosecuted, even if that didn't always happen or didn't always succeed. T
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
The entire use case of dynamic pricing is to raise prices. Airlines were really the first to do this but there it kinda makes sense. You have a plane. It's going anyway. You want to fill it. At the other extreme is RealPage, which is e
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
I was looking into the highest bandwidth optical transceivers. 400Gbps were easy enough to find so thanks for posting this. I honestly didn't know there were 1.6Tbps transceivers like this. One note: I believe the SMF max fiber length
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
Bidirectional is a lot like biweekly. Biweekly depending on context means twice a week or once every two weeks and bidirectional can both mean per direction and total of both directions. But yes I meant 512Gbps each way, to be clear.
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
The benefits are twofold: physical colocation and bandwidth. Thunderbolt 5 offers 80Gbps of bidirectional bandwidth. PCIe 5.0 16x offers 1024Gbps of bidirectional bandwidth. This matters. TB5 cables can only get so long whereas fiber can go
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
The uS has 4% of the world's population but 25% of the world's prison population. We have a higher rate of incarceration than, say, Russia or Iran [1]. If deterrants worked, why do these incidents keep happening? Why isn't th
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
I want to point out just one example. There's a guy by the name of Michael Lacey who is popular in Tiktok under the name Comrade Sinque [1]. He spent 21 years in prison. It was a much longer sentence. I'm not sure what happened to
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
> ... it’s not allowed to use immigration machinery as a pretext to punish political expression. That’s exactly what they are doing. I agree: this is exactly what the administration is doing. > I’m generally receptive to point the fin
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
The Kalshi CEO should put their considerable wealth into bets on Kalshi that this will happen. I'll wait. We have a situation where selective prosecution is used to command loyalty while the ringleader has been immunized from any kind
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
The answer to this is that Google gave ICE this power by complying instead of fighting the subpoena or notifying the subject of the subpoena, both of which they can do according to the ACLU [1]. Willing, optional compliance with the adminis
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
According to the ACLU [1]: > This document explains two key ways that recipients can resist immigration administrative subpoenas: First, any gag order in these subpoenas has no legal effect; you are free to publicize them and inform the
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
Now consider that the Defense budget is ~$1 trillion and the Department of Defense has never passed an audit [1] and the administration is seeking $1.5 trillion next year [2]. [1]: https://www.taxpayer.net/budget-appropr
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
I don't believe that either Anthropic or OpenAI are going to survive the AI valuation crunch. Google, Meta and Microsoft will because they're not AI-only companies. There are four reasons why I believe this: 1. I honestly don&#x27
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
I'm surprised the EFF didn't address the issue that traditional printer manufacturers already comply with law enforcement, specifically that a fingerprint of yellow tracking dots [1] are printed and printers will often refuse to o
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
Counter point: China. Economic viability isn't what led to "wide availability and inventory". No, it's imperialism. It's exploitation of the Global South. It's paying slave wages through subsidiaries in West Af
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
To anyone who espouses these claims that the government isn't capable of anything or that it's somehow a moral hazard I just have to ask: how's that working out for you in particular and society in general? Does it feel like
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
I'm not sure the author realizes just how formulaic books, TV shows and movies are. For movies, a hugely influential book in Hollywood is Save the Cat [1]. Once you understand this structure, you'll see it everywhere and it's
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
You have to consider all the costs of employing someone, not just the direct compensation. Benefits, health insurance, taxes (eg employer payroll taxes), office space, equipment, various insurances, utilities, costs related to just having t
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
Tbf people aren't reliable either. Not that I'm defending the AI models but remember these long-standing bugs were introduced by people and not found by people for years. Anytime anyone feels insecure that AI will genuinely do the
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
So I want to talk about the Claude Mythos mega-model that had a real marketing push in the last week. Marcus Hutchins (of IWannaCry fame) posted about the economics of this [1]. The upshot here is this was a longstanding BSD bug but mostly
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
You don't even have to go to the issue of climate change to defned this anymore. The far more relevant factor is the cost of energy as well as national security. Europe as a whole has engaged in greenwashing where instead of really sol
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
I looked at the actual decision [1] and didn't see Filburn mentioned once. I find that odd. Filburn [2] was a controversial and far-reaching decision that said that the Federal government's ability to regulate interstate commerce
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
This isn't all that significant to anyone who has done Calculus 2 and knows about Taylor's Series. All this really says is that the Taylor's expansions of e^x and ln x are sufficient to express to express trig functions, whic
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
I was curious about that too. Gemini actually gave a decent list. Trig functions come from Euler's identity: e^ix = cos x + i sin x which means: e^-ix = cos -x + i sin -x = cos x - i sin x so adding them tog
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
What I don't understand how difficult it seems to be for some people to simply ignore topics or people they don't like. If an algorithmic feed keeps presenting you with certain topics, it's largely because you're engagin
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
The only person who seems to claim that Dyson Spheres were a "joke" is Angela Collier and people quoting her. I've seen no other source for this claim. But even if it's true, which I don't think it is, it doesn&#x27
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
I had to laugh when I read this: > Avoid JavaScript reimplementations of HTML basics, e.g. React Button components instead of styled <button> elements. I've been hearing that for the entire Internet era yet people continue to
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
Ultragrav (YC S27). We plan on generating the geographic tyranny of who has rivers and mountains and who doesn't by seeking to use ultrasonic audio to disrupt gravity so you don't have to hear it. We're hiring in Kansas city,

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