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by jmyeet 7mo ago
There is a long history of what goes on a map being controversial. Changing a map or leaving it alone is a position either way. One such area is the disputed region of Kashmir, which has been an issue for decade, as recently as February 202
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
Wasn't it Joel Spolsky who said every option is a cop out? Or maybe Steve Yegge? I forget. It's something I agree with. I often have this thought when going through the options of something conceptually fairly simple: "who is
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
Intel really needs to be studied for how it's spiralled into a possibly terminal state of dysfunction. EPIC was Intel's first big folly that I remember and it almost killed the company. Years late, too expensive, motivated by Inte
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
> ... but in the bigger picture crime is wildly under-punished. Um, citation needed. > More than half of murderers go free. The burden is on the state to prove their case not on the accused to prove their innocence. If this completely
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
It's always "research". I put that in quotes because any press like this isn't really "research", it's "fund-raising". It's the academic game of getting papers into the right publications, g
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
Yeah, I've been baited by "breakthroughs" in storage technology for almost 40 years at this point [1]. I'll believe it when it's in Best Buy. Battery "breakthroughs" have really taken up the mantle of head
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
The framing is wild (emphasis added): > The 189 member states of the United Nations set a target to bring the share of people living on less than $1.25 a day to half its 1990 level by 2015 ... Economic growth did nearly all the work.
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
It's hard to find quantative data but one clear example is DNA-based exoneration by the Innocence Project [1] > Among the many insights drawn from these wrongful convictions is the realization that a guilty plea is not an uncommon o
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
I would be fine if high conviction rates reflected prosecutor's only bringing good cases. It doesn't. It reflects the odds being stacked against you and it being so expensive and high risk to defend yourself. This high cost and po
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
So I have mixed feeling on this. I'm thinking of Carter fulfilling a campaign pledge to pardon draft dodgers. Whether you support that or not, he did what he said he was going to do and I'm sure only some of them had actually been
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
I'm not saying throwing a MOlotov cocktail is ok. It's not. I think most people are analyzing the incident as being indicative of the times we're living in, particularly with the warehouse fire. But where people are "OK
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
Anything but exposing the abusers who Epstein and Maxwell trafficked to [1] and investigating (let alone prosecuting) child abuse [2][3]. Britain has many real problems. This isn't one of them. [1]: https://www.pbs.org/
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
The US used to have a massive Strategic Helium Reserve [1]. Starting in the 1990s, Congress passed a law to sell down the reserve. This flooded the market with cheap Helium (yay, party balloons?) because the mandated pricing just didn'
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
Terrestial helium isn't produced by nuclear fusion. It's produced by nuclear decay. As you may know, you get alpha, beta and gamma radiation from decay. Gamma rays are just energetic photos. You typically need thick lead and/
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
Put another way: the idea didn't raise $17M, the team did. That's usually the case but you can fully expect a pivot in their future. Once open source spreads into an area, it tends to kill (commodify) commercial software in th
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
Shifting liabilities from corporations to the public coffer is what companies do. You'll often hear this described as "privatizing profits and socializing losses". Let me introduce you to the Price-Anderson Act of 1957 [1]. I
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
I'm a big believer that humanity's future is in space in a Dyson Swarm. There are simply too many advantages. It's estimated that humanity currently uses ~10^11 Watts of power. About 10^16 Watts of solar energy hits the Earth
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
I suspect uou've misread that document. It is a good document though. It's saying a large parts plant uses ~188,000 MWh, I think per year. A modern AI data center uses 20-100MW+ of electricity. Those two things aren't the sam
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
So it's hard to get numbers here so I went looking for electricity usage figures for an automobile plant. This obviously depends on the size but the estimates I could find for a theoretical plant that produces 1000 vehicles a day are:
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
Back when Netflix was $8/month I just had it forever without thinking about it. It was at first a great way to catch up on TV shows. Netflix was after all originally a place for studios to monetize old content, particularly TV. Even a
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
I'm reminded of Asimov'sThree Laws of Robotics [1]. It's a nice idea but it immediately comes up against Godel's incompleteness theorems [2]. Formal proofs have limits in software but what robots (or, now, LLMs) are doin
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
At the time of writing this the USD price of BTC is $70,934.09. 1.1m times that is $78,027,499,000 or $78B.
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Part of the reason I follow all this is because the whole system is gloriously complex. I have no real reason to follow it and I'm by no means a subject matter expert but I do know enough to see a lot of reporting on all this is just o
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
This is hard to say because physical delivery prices aren't easily discoverable (as mentioned). Here's one way it matters though. Futures markets are typically in a state of backwardation or contango. Backwardation simply means th
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
You are correct: the CFTC has primary authority over commodities and futures. I'm glad you pointed this out because in looking up who it was I learned that the cFTC (not the SEC) has regulatory authority over prediction markets too. Th
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
1.1m Bitcoin is currently $77B not $7B. Gold is a weird one. It’s has a hell of a run over the last decade. I’m not sure it looked so rosy in 2015. I kinda feel like betting on gold is betting on the end of civilization. I don’t really want
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
I think the wallets go well beyond "hundreds of millions". Aren't there like a million Bitcoin in dormant wallets associated with Satoshi? Personally, I'd assumed that whoever the person or persons were, they're dea
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
So I follow the oil and gas industry and markets. For anyone that doesn't know, commodity markets mostly operate two different markets: futures and spot. Futures contracts are an agreement to deliver (or take delivery, depending on whi
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
I personally think is the US's Teutoburg Forest moment [1]. Rome was capable of rebuilding legions. After all, they'd done so historically (eg after the Battle of Cannae [2]) but Teutoburg really exposed the rot and dysfunction wi
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
I hadn't considered or read about this problem before but it makes sense. It reminds me of the cuneiform problem. Between 500,000 and 1 million tablets have been collected. This is one of the earliest preserved writing systems. Even so

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