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by missedthecue 2mo ago
The explanation has never made intuitive sense to me and the political power of almond and alfalfa farmers continues to elude me. Yes, almond farmers have money but Larry Ellison, Musk, and Sergey Brin have a shitload more. As do non-tech i
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by missedthecue 2mo ago
100% true yet even when you solve this (for example with clean hydro in the northwest), you make zero progress with the anti-datacenter people.
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by missedthecue 2mo ago
Because airlines don't -and can't- promise incident free travel. They promise to get you to your destination. They don't like engine problems and the domino effect that has on their routing any more than you do. Saying this a
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by missedthecue 2mo ago
The interesting thing is that Visa's payment rails are cheaper than Pix. Pix charges businesses 0.22% to 0.33% while the Visa network rate is only 0.10% to 0.15% per transaction. The main thing that makes card transactions more expensi
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by missedthecue 2mo ago
This was my experience too. GP referred me to a gastroenterologist and the appointment they offered was so soon it was almost inconvenient.
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by missedthecue 2mo ago
But then the blame might be correctly placed? If he had no pre-existing conditions and was on a no-existing conditions plan, that plan might have saved him a lot of money. Imagine car insurance regulations changing in such a way to force un
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by missedthecue 2mo ago
Are you saying that most hospitals have 50% profit margins, of which 90% are paid to the chairman leaving only a thin margin? That seems difficult to believe. They may have 4.2% margins knocked down to 4% by exec comp but I don't see t
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by missedthecue 2mo ago
Well it wouldn't "vanish". The $1T savings (if produced) that were once spent on healthcare would instead be spent on anything else.
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by missedthecue 2mo ago
Hmmm. That really just means that specific treatment angle wouldn't work for other cancers. Not that zero conceptual treatment pathways might work for both CML and other cancers.
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by missedthecue 2mo ago
Curing cancer is evidently easier than simply not going on Fox News every 3 weeks and telling everyone they will lose their jobs.
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by missedthecue 2mo ago
A good year for Alaska Airlines is 5% sales growth. OpenRouter is growing that much per week I'm guessing.
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by missedthecue 2mo ago
Largest by total parameters. GigaChat 3.1 Ultra: 702B
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by missedthecue 2mo ago
The largest non-US non-China model is Russian which surprised me.
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by missedthecue 2mo ago
Morale is so bad that people are trying to off themselves and they aren't even being shot at yet. I have low faith in the USN in the event of a Taiwan contingency. And I think the idea that they can force Iran to their knees with a blo
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by missedthecue 2mo ago
The funny thing about this quote in context was that Ben Franklin was using it to argue for MORE state power, not less. Remember, Ben was the guy that would steal private letters and publish them in his newspaper.
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by missedthecue 2mo ago
I dont understand it. If most grid capacity is already installed, the people who don't build their own little island with solar and batteries end up being shrinking demand against a pool of fixed supply. Meaning their bills probably de
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by missedthecue 2mo ago
In the same way that a drought solves a flood. Technically yes, but it introduces an equally as dangerous and possibly worse problem.
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by missedthecue 2mo ago
It's already true in France. Over 65s are 22.5% of the population and under 18s are 17%. And the difference is rapidly widening.
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by missedthecue 2mo ago
Yes. A massive implosion in aggregate consumer demand due to shrinking population will hit real estate, stocks, tax revenue, and therefore the ability to meet debt repayment obligations. Frustratingly, (and counterintuitively), it won'
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by missedthecue 2mo ago
The real problem aging societies face is not a shortage of money but a shortage of people.
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by missedthecue 2mo ago
This is what the policy wonk idealists say, but the undeniable evidence going back hundreds of years is that dense cities are fertility shredders.
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by missedthecue 2mo ago
Yes, but the inverse implication of countries heavily competing is that young people will be severely restricted from leaving as well. An incredibly underrated future possibility is that it becomes much harder to get a passport.
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by missedthecue 2mo ago
This is the extremely marketable "solution". Easy to sell to voters. The problem is that it does not work whatsoever. There is no evidence anywhere that transfers to mothers increase birth rates, or that transfers to women increas
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by missedthecue 2mo ago
The big 3 produced 6.47 million passenger cars in 1970. The big 3 produced 15.66 million passenger cars in 2025.
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by missedthecue 2mo ago
Big 3 global workforce headcount today is far far below what it was in 1970. The outsourcing explanation doesn't make sense.
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by missedthecue 2mo ago
The big 3 don't employ half a million fewer because they weakened unions. It's because manufacturing needs fewer people now. The UAW can't simply force them to retain half a million people sitting around doing nothing, and th
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by missedthecue 2mo ago
How would that even work? The federal/state government would legally ban people from writing code (like they can legally ban people from practicing law or medicine) unless they have a certificate from the programmer industry guild? I t
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by missedthecue 2mo ago
But despite those margins, it's also an industry with a LOT of unprofitable businesses, unlike any other industry in history. From many people's perspective, if they already earn well, why rock the boat in a high effort high risk
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by missedthecue 2mo ago
Most tech workers I have met with parent commenters opinion have been laid off at various times in their career. I think it's important to note that unions aren't very good tools to avoid layoffs. If there is a company specific ha
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by missedthecue 2mo ago
To power an AI data center with off-grid solar panels, you'd need about 45,000 acres of land devoted to your solar farm. The panels themselves could be literally free and the natural gas plant would probably be more economical.

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