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by jocaal 1y ago
You only need engineers for those. The type of science engineers and other academics do, are very different. The best way to lose top tier engineers is to de-industrialize and flood the market for engineering labour with low cost labour fro
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by jocaal 1y ago
My comment was a reply to > Given their current product offerings, I really don't see a way they could ever justify a $300B valuation unless they get everyone on the planet to subscribe to their $200/month plan.
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by jocaal 1y ago
L comment. If every person on the planet subscribed to the $200pm product, OpenAI's revenue would be 16.8 trillion dollars (used 7bn people x $2400pa). Would be hilarious for a company making that type of revenue to be only worth 300bn
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by jocaal 1y ago
This is the reason I dropped out of my masters program. There isn't room for exploration and looking for beauty anymore. Everything is about production throughput.
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by jocaal 1y ago
https://polymarket.com/event/us-recession-in-2025?tid=175098... Polymarket puts 30% chance on a recession.
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by jocaal 1y ago
This will probably never get the image quality of either of those. The image quality you get is proportional to the density of the detecting elements. These types of infrared methods usually have to touch the skin, so you would need a flexi
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by jocaal 1y ago
Not a chance for MD's. MD's are the only degree where jobs are guaranteed, but graduation is not. They will always have a shortage.
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by jocaal 1y ago
She is a great politician given the attention she can grab from the media. The primary goal of politicians is to get votes and she seems to be excelling at that.
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by jocaal 1y ago
I'm a EE masters student and I also want to reinforce how inaccessible EE is and that I don't really recommend it as a hobby. EE is a very mature field and it's very math heavy for a reason. The second you move past the hobby
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by jocaal 1y ago
Like most things in life, the profit that companies make follows a decaying exponential, the so called power law. Most of the money is in the big winners.
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by jocaal 1y ago
Jevin's paradox isn't guaranteed to take effect. It is an observation that sometimes occurs, not a tool for prediction.
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by jocaal 1y ago
In the article he mentions there is a well at the house. Also blankets and wood fires are free heat.
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by jocaal 1y ago
> Yes, but some people want all the benefits with none of the side effects Life is about making tradeoffs. There is no such thing as a free lunch, except while you are still a child.
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by jocaal 1y ago
Ok, I'll just ignore the rest of the context of this thread. > the side effects of the pill, which women endure and men don't. women are free to choose to not take the pill or take it and accept the consequences. Also, there ar
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by jocaal 1y ago
I hope you replied to the wrong comment, I don't think women complaining about paying for birth control is a valid reason for sterilizing a population. Also condoms exist.
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by jocaal 1y ago
> However, the US, need an external boogeyman who appears competent to make politics work. The republicans need an external boogeyman, the dems are very willing to create internal boogeymen.
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by jocaal 1y ago
> but are often conditioned by society to act differently Mind expanding on this a bit?
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by jocaal 1y ago
> That's because we got reliant on the funds from government Not we, some people got reliant on the funds from government. It is always at the cost of someone else. The tax the rich and bourgeoisie mentality is what led to Mao Zedon
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by jocaal 1y ago
https://archive.is/qMtHz
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by jocaal 1y ago
https://finance.yahoo.com/video/breaking-down-treasury-basis... Hedge funds were performing this trade with large amounts of debt and due to the tarrifs they were forced to sell off treasuries to obtain cash, so the tr
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Everything You Need to Know About the Basis Trade Spooking Markets(bloomberg.com)
2 points by jocaal 1y ago|3 comments
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by jocaal 2y ago
"A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both." - Milton Friedman
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by jocaal 2y ago
For your car note, insurance is only worth it if the thing being insured can ruin you if something were to happen to it. In the case of cars, you can potentially get ruined from the value of the other party's car. But if you live somew
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by jocaal 2y ago
> When we eventually find time for hobbies and charities we find out we don’t think like everyone else, and often not in a good way. We have “missed out” on experiences others take for granted Could you expand a bit on this statement for
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by jocaal 2y ago
There is no way to know if a business model is compelling. There have been many business models that didn't make sense to most people, yet yielded good businesses. If you believe there is potential, you as entrepreneur can take the ris
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by jocaal 2y ago
That is the case for western economies. China controls nearly all levels of its supply chain. In the past, they didn't have the skills for design, but over time has gained that skill set (china now creates nearly a third of the worlds
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by jocaal 2y ago
China's playbook in a nutshell
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by jocaal 2y ago
Making the framework 16 a gaming machine and going on about a modular gpu was a large miss in my opinion. That laptop should have been like the Asus Zephyrus g16 but without a gpu. If they released a refresh now, it should have the strix ha
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Amazon's Best Sellers in Computer CPU Processors(amazon.com)
1 points by jocaal 2y ago|0 comments
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by jocaal 2y ago
TIL dolphins are born with hair

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