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by jmyeet 7mo ago
I'm going to re-characterize your categorization: 1. The people who don't understand (nor care) about the risks and complexity of what they're delivering; and 2. The people that do. Widespread AI usage is going to be a securi
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This was inevitable once Microsoft wrote a check for $7.5 billion. You're not going to pay that much and not recoup your investment. You might say that they could've gotten it from existing income. Maybe that's true but it do
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The point of culture war issues is to distract the population so they don't talk about economics. Your rent isn't sky high because of undocumented migrants or because there's a trans girl in Utah who wants to play hockey in c
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The history since 1945 has been the resounding and repeated success of asymmetric warfare. Specifically, the US has not actually won a war since 1945 despite starting or providing material support to many. We've been unable to topple
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I'm sorry but no. "Deep state" is nothing more than enemy within propaganda to justify a purge of government departments to replace them with ideologues and to further concentrate power in the hands of the so-called "uni
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There is this building where guys wearing masks wheel you into a room behind locked doors at dawn and then use drugs to knock you out. They then take sharp knives and cut you open and rummage around your insides, sometimes taking organs out
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The US cannot ruin Iran short of the widespread use of nuclear weapons. Air power has never resulted in regime change. Never . It takes boots on the ground and one just needs to look at a map. Iran is surrounded on 3 sides by mountains and
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How times have changed when a neoliberal institution (not quite as bad as The Economist) openly says this: > Even the threat of terrorism from the region was a consequence of American involvement, not the reason for it. Had the United St
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You're basically critiquing a chart showing how purchasing power is decayed due to inflation because it isn't adjusted for "baseline" inflation . That doesn't make sense. And yes, earlier variations are more impa
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I read recently that companies are getting almost resentful that they have to go through yuo to get your money. I keep thinking about that because I think it's true. I read some of comments here and on other threads about PE and I keep
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
There's a guy on Tiktok who is singlehandedly showing just how bad AI still is and how much it lies and hallucinates eg [1]. Watch a bunch of his videos. So these tools can be useful when you know the subject matter. I've done que
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
After randomly breaking the AM4 CPU and motherboard in my 4 year old PC last year and seeing that at the time I'd spent almost a new PC to get new parts and rebuild it. Less if I wanted to do a complete rebuild myself but I'm over
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
> Ukraine has become probably the de facto #1 drone based military in the world right now. I think Iran may well have that crown. Ukraine certainly was a testbed for drone use, first starting with cheaper but still military grades drones
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I believe there's a Chicxulub level meteor headed for social media and it's not addiction. It's liability . We, as a society, don't really care about addiction. That's reflected in our government. Gambling, nicotin
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Ukraine is completely dependent on arms from the US and Europe to sustain the war effort. Ukraine is running out of men to serve in the Army. Ukraine has no path to reclaim the territory it's lost. I'm not making a judgment about
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Most people just don't understand what a monumental rewrite of global politics this is and (IMHO) it will go down as the worst foreign policy mistake in US history and it's not even close. Some might say "what about Vietnam?&
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Speaking from experience, I had Netflix for years without thinking about it, starting at $8/month. At that price I didn't care if I watched it or not. Then it went to $10, $12, etc. Once it got to $15-16 (I forget), I cancelled it
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No, a moat is a competitive advantage/ OpenAI in particular is predicated on the belief that they will have a compeitive advantage. ASML is a compeitive advantage with EUV (for now). You can overcharge for if you have a compeititve adv
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
This argument is a bit scattered. "Rent seeking" is being misused here. It's a relatively new term (~50 years old) but it has a lot of history behind it, specifically with enclosures . The Enclosure Acts [1] were a series of
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> Employers tend to prefer full-time employees ... They don't [1][2]. > Most people work in services where there aren't really "capital owners". ~50% of Americans work for small businesses that hardly fit that mode
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This is Reagan-era starve the beast propaganda [1][2]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast [2]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYONGDA188S
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> Do you know why Hitler blamed the Jewish people and had them separated out? Yes, Hitler did blood libel [1], a tradition continued by Donald Trump [2]. > He blamed the Jewish Bolshevik revolutions in Germany for causing Germany to l
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I saw someone say recently "hobbies are a luxury" and I tend to agree. Think back decades ago and you had a single person or a family supported by a single income who could afford the rent or to buy their house and put their kids
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> Xi Jinping absolutely believes in Marxism-Leninism. Good. It also doesn't make China Communist, let alone establish that "Communism = bad" as you assert. > ... which did leave Japan and Germany operating below their p
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> The US' power doesn't come from it making so many weapons. The structure of the government. The principles it stands for. This is high school propaganda. It's classic "they hate us because of our freedom" nonse
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> China's stockpile of oil is only enough for a few months China is still getting oil from Iran. Maybe that'll change but there's still (IIRC) >100M barrels of oil in transit to China. Aside from that, the point isn&#x2
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The US is an arms dealer empire. It's economic strength and power come from its ability to sell weapons. The military budget is pushing $1 trillion (and probably will exceed it with supplemental funding for the Iran boondoggle). Rumor
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There are three things people often don't seem to realize about invasions: 1. What a barrier water is still to this day; 2. How many troops it would take to occupy a country; and 3. The logistics required to support an invasion. Knowin
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
The tl;dr here is, with all due respect, that your premises are basically all wrong. > (1) reducing oil shipments to China is good posturing for the US No, it isn't. For several reasons: 1. China has stockpiled ~1.4 billion barrels
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Neither you nor I can say definitively what the law is until it's been testedin court and really until the Supreme Court weighs in and that just hasn't happened yet. At least I'm saying "this is my opinion (and, as a

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