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by lesuorac 1mo ago
So, if you go read through all the FBI reports about Black Lives Matters you find references to OMGs. Apparently a lot of various organizations like Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs will use large events like protests as cover. There's also cou
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by lesuorac 1mo ago
Arguable he had all 3. He was right about the market going up for AI, he was right about the years, and he had double-digit billions behind him. It's just there's no sufficient capital when you decide to re-leverage to 4x every ti
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by lesuorac 1mo ago
Imo a bit of both. The founders [1] of mcdonalds probably did care about say cheaply providing people with enjoyable food. But I would bet soon after they sold [2] the company the actual values changed and definitely a bunch of CEOs down th
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by lesuorac 2mo ago
Very interesting graphics. Definitely changed my mind over RCV vs STAR. Although I'll still support either if I had the opportunity.
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by lesuorac 2mo ago
You can vote with your vote too. There's a reason Tim Apple gave Trump a golden trophy.
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by lesuorac 2mo ago
> The US is a net oil exporter, while China halved their oil imports [2]. This seems to be the opposite point you want. Everybody is going to have increased expenses for everything due to their oil dependency _except_ China. Which will r
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by lesuorac 2mo ago
Everybody here is all so small minded. The government has spent centuries doing spycraft and has a budget in the billions.
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by lesuorac 2mo ago
> We have this notion of “retraining” but that’s not real. While I haven't been "retrained" my understanding was the real issue that it's lip-service. Like the Department of Labor doesn't actually show up to a cl
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by lesuorac 2mo ago
Right, his popularity increased in the US election because people did not like the incumbent (Biden / Harris). Take a look at other world wide elections that happened in 2024. Like France (parliamentary system so no presidential electi
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by lesuorac 2mo ago
Idk maybe there is something nefarious but afaik Putin's always been cordial with Trump as well as let him do various investments in Russia. I'm not sure there's much reason for Trump to alienate his friend; if you've ev
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by lesuorac 2mo ago
Not just that but they voted significantly more against the incumbent in the rest of the world than the US. People really did not like Trump they just didn't like incumbents more. It's almost like if the Democrats ran a competitiv
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by lesuorac 2mo ago
You should never need to pick between just two candidates though. The need for any sort of alternative system to first-past-the-post should've been plainly obvious in the '00 election. The problem is the people that could change t
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by lesuorac 2mo ago
You don't think he tanked the company? Twitter used to be profitable. Now, it needed to be folded into xAI to survive. Then that combined mass needed to be folded into SpaceX to survive. Then that combined mass needed to IPO to survive
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by lesuorac 2mo ago
Dunno about the Boq stuff but it regularly tries to run `git status` in a fig workspace ...
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by lesuorac 2mo ago
> Blended Exclusivity Score ... 17/4000 = 0.425% > In a gaggle of 100 suitors, it's actually unlikely that a single one will meet all three criteria. Perfection. We now have a truly unreasonable set of standards by which to
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by lesuorac 2mo ago
> That paradigm is how Japan funds its entire public transit system as a profitable enterprise: allow the rail company to own and develop real estate in close proximity to the stations. We did that though! It's just so much more pro
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by lesuorac 2mo ago
> while keeping ownership of the asset at the end. But they're not actually interest in owning 2 year old phones though right? They're just interest in you / 2ndary market not owning any?
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by lesuorac 2mo ago
> There are a few countries that didn't do that (Sweden comes to mind) and they ended up not having a much worse outcome than anyone else. I have no doubt Sweden did better than say sub-saharan africa. But it seems to me that only t
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by lesuorac 2mo ago
The lack of mark to market has always kinda confused me. Like trivially if I go out and buy a plot of land for say $1M there's no way I can sell it tomorrow for $1M. So it's liquid value is really much less. Like to use the exampl
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by lesuorac 2mo ago
Sure. I also liked the idea that some of the rules are to promote tribalism by making clear defining lines. A much weaker form compared to missions where people go out into the real world and get insulted and retreat back to the safety of t
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by lesuorac 2mo ago
You can't leave anything on the ground for free either. Like what is your argument? A new technology is expensive? That's why you invest into bringing the costs down. Google invested into balloons to share internet (Loom). Which t
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by lesuorac 2mo ago
Who do you pay rent to in space? Space is free; you don't even pay property taxes. Transportation costs are not but that's the whole reason you invest into (at the time) a space transportation company.
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by lesuorac 2mo ago
I guess I'm not sure on the purists take but to me I think they're going to eventually tank themselves over too many external hires into management that want to do things the same other other companies do instead of in-house solut
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by lesuorac 2mo ago
YouTube is probably one of the few companies that could benefit from data centers in space. Rather than co-locating media servers into ISPs you can stick them into space so they're just closer. Space in NYC isn't cheap. Space in s
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by lesuorac 2mo ago
Eh meh. If you're investing in an Elon company you better believe in the man because he's always ran them however he wants. Seems fine for the voting shares to reflect that since he's been running companies for decades; you h
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by lesuorac 2mo ago
Idk it makes sense to me. Like a lot of the rules are very fuzzy in their origin. The whole kosher business comes from a passage about "Not boiling a kid in it's mothers milk". I think most people would interpret that much mo
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by lesuorac 2mo ago
You probably do have to make it plainer. Afaik, Europe is not in solidarity on no long range weapons and it's mostly driven by the US who is trying to get out of helping Ukraine. So which countries are given the drones and which countr
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by lesuorac 2mo ago
Presumably they don't know where they are. It's not like something being civilian infrastructure is a problem - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_strikes_against_Ukrain... What's somebody going to do?
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by lesuorac 2mo ago
Worst for whom? Lack of chargeback risk seems nice for businesses.
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by lesuorac 2mo ago
The 60 seats business needs to stop. Fillibuster is a senate procedure rule. That's about the weakest a thing could be. At any point Democrats could have gotten rid of the filibuster with a 51 majority. Democrats would much rather let

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