jmyeet

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by jmyeet 3mo ago
> We show that language isn’t isolated from political currents and that this dynamic has been a facet of human history for much longer than previously thought. Um, when did anyone think it wasn't? The entire history of linguistics s
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There are three companies I am confident will survive an AI bubble popping: Google, Microsoft and Apple. A lot has been made of Google's recent earnings being cash flow negative (I think for the first time ever?). Building data centers
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It's this [1]. From 1986: > If there were not an Israel, we’d have to invent one It's lying about working on a ceasefire [2][3]. It's sending more and more weapons to Israel afer October 7, going so far as to split them in
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First the super majority isn't a constitutional or even legislative barrier. It's simply a Senate rule. Rules for the Senate are established at the start of every Congress. There's no reason why the Senate couldn't simpl
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This is a good article. It reminds me of a story. At a previous employer we had heteregenous elevators. In one bank, some went to the lower half of floors only while others went to all and the company installed a "smart" elevator
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Israel isn't independently capable of doing anything. When Israel was created it was a poor backwater. France and the USSR were early allies. I mean Israel deliberately attacked the USS Liberty and killed ~34 American servicemen in the
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It's called the ratchet effect [1]. In our modern political paradigm, conservatives torch the economy, introduce heinous policies and give massive tax breaks to the wealthy until their popularity drops enough that Democrats get voted i
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I would say 30 year fixed mortgage is one of the few things the US does right. Housing shouldn't be an investment and you shouldn't be able to hoard land to raise prices. As Xi Jinping said, houses are for living, not for speculat
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I understand the point you're making about blind devotion to Trump but the reality is that Biden is not free from blame here, in four ways: 1. Trump in his first term created the Abraham Accords that directly contributed to the genocid
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As everyone should know by now, the US government runs a massive deficit, that is the difference between tax receipts (and other income) minus expenses. The current US public debt is hovering around $40T and the annual deficit is pushing
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So I don't support the re-education camps that happened in Xinjiang. Exactly what happened here is still a bit of an unknown because unfortunately there's a ton of misinformation. Whatever did happen, you can go see yourself. It&#
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"But Tibet!!!" has to be the most intellectually lazy pro-American imperialism argument, particularly when you consider the US history of regime change [1]. Heck, this unwinnable war we're fighting in Iran has a direct throug
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I wonder if this is a generational thing. I grew up before social media and have long taken the position that I never post anything to the Internet that I wouldn't want public. I don't have a secret Reddit account or anonymous Twi
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The estimated spending on the 2026 election season is $11.6 billion [1]. One primary has had an estimated $60 million spent on it (ie the Michigan Democratic primary). Thomas Massie's primary had an estimated $35 million spent on it.
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Yeah I've been thinking about this and the analogy I came up with is that tokens are basically equivalent to an in-game currency in -free to play" mobile games. You're trading actual money for some notional "curency&quot
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Some will criticize renewable energy because the power output is spiky. This sort of thing is why that doesn't matter. There are plenty of things you can do with excess power. There's been research in manufacturing gasoline from t
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They aren't neutral either. They're hosting military bases and miilitary assets that are being used to attack them. They are allowing their airspace to be used. Same with their waters and ports. Which is to say that all the milita
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This topic comes up a lot when it comes to rockets and airplanes and it's surprisingly difficult. For example, the F5 rocket is the most powerful rocket engine ever developed and that was 60+ years ago at this point. Up until Starship,
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Whatever your opinions on the war itself, this has been a fascinating exercise in how a small regional power has militarily defeated the global hegemon relatively cheaply (ie with a military budgets 1% of the size). Oh and "precision s
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The US government exists to protect American capital and the interests of capital owners. I'm not sure why people are still confused by this. This is about OpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceX. OpenAI, in particular, is a bet on there being a
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> 1 in 4 American workers stay in their jobs because of the healthcare. It suppresses wages and working conditions - and prevents innovators from heading out on their own. Yes. That is the point . This is how capitalism works. Just look
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There was an excellent article about AI DC value and depreciation yesterday [1] (discussion [2]). The effective life of GPUs in paticular is a huge unknown. One of my big questions has always been "what will happen to existing GPUs whe
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This is a good article. I've been curious about how this is going to play out. A couple of data points: 1. An enthusiast had a project to get a V100 working on his PC [1]. This was a ~$10k GPU 10 years ago. It's now sold for scrap
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We shouldn't allow people to hoard housing and land. That’s the core problem here. It should be super expensive to own more than one property. I refer people to the Housing Theory of Everything [1]. I disagree with the Ultra-YIMBYs who
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This is just wrong. Western economies have largely been hollowed out from productive output in favor of hoarding land and property because there is inelastic demand and increasing prices has become a political goal. It should be super expen
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When I was young, I thought mandatory voting was silly. It made uninformed people vote. Well, certainly in this case, I was the uninformed person because seeing how non-mandatory voting works (in the US) should convinced everyone that votin
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While I generally agree there's some nuance here and that is that there really are few new ideas. Old ideas just get recycled. For example, mainframes and minicomputer. Yes they were displaced by PCs. But what is cloud computing if not
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> Google is one of the most hated corporations for it. This is such a terminally online take. It's important to not look at the bubble you're in and get fooled into thinking it's a representative microcosm when it almost n
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I'm not a fan of Sundar Pichai, particularly given how much he's paid, but the one thing I'll give him credit for is starting the Chrome project at Google. I'm not sure people appreciate just how impactful this was. And
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This is a kinda silly argument. Interstellar colonies would have the opposite problem: they'd cease to be the same species due to genetic drift. If you look at the (im)practicalities of interstellar travel, it's going to take cent

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