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by mandevil 6mo ago
Which part? That GCC countries export refined Jet-A? Kuwait was responsible for 15% of seaborne jet fuel exports in 2025 (1), something like 10% of the world's total exports. In 2024, Bahrain exported 20 million barrels of jet-a (2).
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by mandevil 6mo ago
Jet fuel in particular is more complicated than that. At the moment, most of the shipping passing through the straits are coming to and from Iran. I believe only a few ships for other countries have transited, none of them tankers- the GCC
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by mandevil 6mo ago
I'm using that only for AMZN because they seem to have made a choice to not turn a profit and instead to expand their business. The other companies I mentioned were directly profitable by this point in their respective revolutions, exc
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by mandevil 6mo ago
Previous generations of technological change of the calibre we are told AI will be also required major changes to the real world and new products to be built: new cell towers had to be constructed, fibre cables laid, data centers built, per
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by mandevil 6mo ago
Is it actually profitable? That the presumed market leader, Anthropic, changed their business model just today to kill off their buffet monthly plans and switch to a la carte for Enterprise makes me doubt they are making money off of sellin
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by mandevil 6mo ago
I know that people keep saying "we're early on here", but I take it as a negative signal that people keep thinking we are in the early innings here. Compared to previous generations of technology change, a great deal of time
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by mandevil 6mo ago
The "official" value of a stock is it is the current best guess of the market for all future earnings until infinity discounted back to the present at some discount rate (to account for the time value of money). That price to ea
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by mandevil 6mo ago
In order to call it a NASDAQ 100 Tracking Fund you need to pay the NASDAQ a licensing fee (same with S&P500, Wilshire 5000, etc.). The contract you have with NASDAQ will determine exactly how much freedom you have to change rules and st
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by mandevil 6mo ago
S&P500 held fast to their rules on consecutive quarters of profitability and forced TSLA to meet them (must be profitable in qX + sum to net profit over the past year). If they hold to them this time, SpaceX would need to be profitable
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by mandevil 6mo ago
All I will say is make sure to enjoy your knees while they don't hurt, whippersnapper.
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by mandevil 6mo ago
Sorry, I forgot that for many engineers this is, in fact, their first time going through a technology cycle like this, and so would need more explanation. I am too young for Visicalc myself, but the cycle that I saw while I was in high scho
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by mandevil 6mo ago
This complexity requires a lot of money- from investors- to sustain. If those investors don't see a return on their investment before they get too anxious, then no more money will be invested and the business is dead. So that would sug
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by mandevil 6mo ago
Visicalc is often described as the killer app of the first generation Personal Computer(1). It was the product that drove them into every small business in the country, that blew up sales of personal computers and brought them out of the re
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by mandevil 6mo ago
And not normal for a company that has been at it this long. The Apple II went on sale on June 10th, 1977. Visicalc went on sale October 17th, 1979- 860 days separate the two. ChatGPT was opened to the public on November 30th, 2022, which wa
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by mandevil 6mo ago
In June 2022 the Oracle acquisition of Cerner (a EMR now billed as Oracle Health) closed, so that would be after the 2022 date and before the 2023 date. Cerner was 28,000 employees. If they do cut back to their size before the acquisition,
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by mandevil 6mo ago
Since we don't actually do genetic tests at birth, this would only ocurr in the context of national qualifying, think about what the experience of someone who trains to be good enough to qualify for the Olympics, then gets this test an
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by mandevil 6mo ago
It will certainly do that. Previous attempts at this (the Olympics did genetic tests from the 1960's through the 1990's, other organizations have done similar tests into the present) always did wind up discovering cis women raised
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by mandevil 6mo ago
The Olympics used to do this. From as early as the 1960's they were doing genetic testing on female athletes. They stripped Polish sprinter Ewa Kłobukowska of all her medals and records in 1967, in spite of the fact that she gave birth
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by mandevil 6mo ago
Santhi Soundarajan (1) shows exactly how this ends up catching cis women who were raised as women from birth. Which is why it's a bad idea to draw strict lines. Edited to add: Based on http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Ess
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by mandevil 7mo ago
Yeah but buying a sofa from Ikea doesn't let people steal my banking passwords. There are serious consequences to software bugs that there aren't in cheaper ready-made clothing.
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by mandevil 7mo ago
Study of self reported emotional closeness with best friend (from a 2002 questionaire of a 1997 longitudinal study) found no difference between black men and black women, and a small gap for Hispanics, no economic differences for white wome
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Is the Male Loneliness Epidemic Just for Wealthy White Men?(link.springer.com)
27 points by mandevil 7mo ago|3 comments
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by mandevil 7mo ago
Optuna or skopt are open source and won't take any GPU time at all to do it.
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by mandevil 7mo ago
When both members of a couple Work From Home at least 1 day per week, they have an estimated lifetime greater fertility of 0.32 more babies (if both WFH versus if none do). This is one of the strongest effects in the natalism literature I&#
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Couples where both WFH have 0.32 more babies(nber.org)
5 points by mandevil 7mo ago|2 comments
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by mandevil 7mo ago
It's opposite Gell-Mann-Amnesia: I am a SWE and I come here because I find it one of the best places to keep abreast of the broader software world, not just the little corner of it that I'm currently working in. So in the things t
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by mandevil 7mo ago
After the crash, the Wright's built a new plane, the 1909 Military Flyer. It came back the next year to Ft. Myer and became the first plane, anywhere in the world, to be bought by a government (1). Orville Wright taught three Army offi
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by mandevil 7mo ago
Then they should have mentioned that in their court filings! The reason that the tariffs were collected while there was doubts as to their legality is that the US Government promised, in court filings (courts literally marked this as estopp
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by mandevil 7mo ago
Because this hypothetical memo was paid for by our tax dollars, not your own private money! That means it belongs to the American people, not individuals for their private gain. Using it for your own gain would be theft from the American pu
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by mandevil 7mo ago
I can't even imagine what "next token prediction" would look like generating x86 asm. Feels like 300 buffer overflows wearing a trench-coat, honestly.

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