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by jmyeet 10mo ago
> Tesla is not supported by subsidies significantly more than any other car company Tesla was saved by a DOE loan [1]. Tesla was kept afloat with carbon tax credits. Yes, the Big Three got bailouts in 2008. And now, most importantly, imp
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The example I often end up pointing to is the "rise" in left handedness [1]. It didn't actually increase. We simply stopped punishing people for it. There have been seismic changes in the understanding of autism (and ADHD) ov
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We are seeing the culmination of the 50+ China industrialization project at the samme time as the West's 50+ year financialization and deindustrialization project, all to concentrate even more wealth in the hands of the 0.01%. China is
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by jmyeet 10mo ago
Three thoughts: 1. Just to repeat myself from another comment on this thread, there is no such thing as a defensive weapon. Were it not for the various missile shields, the Israeli state wouldn't act with wanton abandon against its own
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There is no such thing as a defensive weapon. You might be tempted to say "what about a missile shield?" but such a thing allows the owner to act with impunity with levels of violence we arguably haven't seen since 1945. As a
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I hope the plane gets found but we've basically known for a decade what happened. We just need to confirm it. And that is that upon leaving the airspace of Malaysia into Thailand, the pilot changed course to take the plane over the Ind
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A game that (IMHO) handled this really well was Assassin's Creek Odyssey. Athens takes up a huge part of the map but is on the same scale. Of course it's still a fraction of the size that the ancient Athens would've been but
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If you ever want to put the cost of something into context, remember that Mark Zuckerberg spent $77 billion on the Metaverse. I went looking for an article I read a decade ago about the challenges of supplying water to NYC and maintaining t
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It was about the American presidential election. The audience was Americans. About America.
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So the top 1% of income is currently ~$570k. The vast majority of people will never see that. But more relevant is the top 1% of net worth is currently ~$11.6M [1], which is vastly more unattainable. Also, the net worth of the bottom 99% is
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I'm constantly reminded about the 2000 election. Part of Al Gore's communications strategy was to constantly talk about the "top 1%". Now he wasn't wrong about this but interestingly there was a survey in 2000 that
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So your position is that I have a long position and I somehow think that I can move the global silver market by commenting on HN? Do I have that right? This all might be new to you but it's not news and it's not controversial (e
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I'm surprised the WSJ didn't have any depth on what's happened and why. "Backwardation" is a term that must be used here. That's where the spot price was higher than the future price. For anyone unfamiliar, pre
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Meanwhile, we have the former governor of Florida and now Seantor from Florida Rick Scott, who was CEO of the company successfully prosecuted for the largest Medicare fraud in history ($1.7 billion) [1]. Here's what to watch: how long
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This is not correct at all. The GOP are masters of using parliamentary procedure to avoid votes that would pass that they don't want to pass, nominations and bills that they can't defend voting against. This was a big issue in the
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There's no putting this genie back in the bottle. MAGA is a cult and every cult has a mission. MAGA's mission is to uncover the elite pedophile ring. A cult can only be sustained so long as the mission is incomplete. Epstein is co
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by jmyeet 10mo ago
It's a good question. For context, lawyers deal with this all the time. In discovery, there is an extensive document ("doc") review process to determine if documents are responsive or non-responsive. For example, let's s
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I thought this was going to be Peter Thiel but if he's on brand, he's living under or in a volcano on a tropical island somewhere. Plus he probably can't stand on previously consecrated ground. Honestly, Palantir is one of th
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by jmyeet 11mo ago
There are going to be many, many questions about this because a lot of it doesn't make sense and doesn't fit any profile. School shootings in particular and mass shootings in general tend to follow a particular pattern. Usually th
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This administration has done more to undermine US power than probably any in history. This isn't a new statement either (eg [1]). Personally, I think that's not such a bad thing because we are the bad guys. I know people get all i
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Part of this is just class interests. We now have a bunch of billionaires who--shock, horror--align with billionaire interests. The days of the maverick operating out of their garage are long over. But another part of this is transhumanism,
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In 1945 as World War 2 wrapped up and the Cold War started, many in the US believed that it would take the Soviet Union 20+ years to build the atomic bomb. It took 4 years. There were several reasons for this. It became a national security
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Mozilla has been in a dire place for years. Notably someone years ago posted a chart showing how exec salary keeps going up while marketshare keeps going down [1]. In the Microsoft antitrust trial in the 1990s, the court established that ha
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I've done some reading on how they cool JWST. It's fascinating and was a massive engineering challenge. Some of thos einstruments need to be cooled to near absolute zero, so much so that it uses liquid helium as a coolant in parts
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So here's a fun experiment for you. Look at a periodic table and start with Cobalt (the first element after Iron) and look at what its uses are. Wikipedia is fine. And then ask if there are alternatives for that metal. In some cases we
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> Life is probably abundant everywhere in the universe. I'm not convinced of that. Yes it seems like the building blocks are abundant but there's so many steps beyond that to get to abundant life. The first life we had in the A
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by jmyeet 11mo ago
As a reminder of the timeline: - November 2023: audio leaked of Apartheid Defense League CEO Jonathon Greenblatt saying they had a Tiktok problem [1] because Tiktok didn't sufficiently censor live broadcast of the genocide, unlike, say
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The Universe coalesced into hydrogen and helium from a quark-gluon plasma soon after the Big Bang. It's kind of staggering the sequence of events that occurred afterwards to bring us here. As many of us know, the fusion in stars produc
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It's hard to truly comprehend the damage Red Scare did to all of our collective lives. The Post-WW2 era utterly destroyed the labor movement and pretty much any form of collective action. And all but about 10,000 people are worse off f
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At this point I trust the Chinese government way more than almost every US tech giant. I don't own a "smart" speaker. I've never liked the idea of having an always-on cloud-connected microphone in my house. Like, it&#x27

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