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by nabla9 11mo ago
Analysis assumes constant tariffs. Trump has sown chaos by altering tariffs on a whim, and that messes up the economy worse than predictably high tariffs. Businesses can function under high tariffs, but if tariffs change and there is consta
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by nabla9 11mo ago
Summary: Many trade models fail to capture the full harm of tariffs. PWBM projects Trump’s tariffs (April 8, 2025) will reduce long-run GDP by about 6% and wages by 5%. A middle-income household faces a $22K lifetime loss. These losses are
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The Economic Effects of President Trump's Tariffs(budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu)
11 points by nabla9 11mo ago|6 comments
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by nabla9 11mo ago
Does it matter anymore? After the Twitter exit bump, the whole Mastodon ecosystem has dwindled to less than a million monthly users, distributed over hundreds or thousands of servers. Mastodon.social is filled with complete crap. It’s like
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Israels top military lawyer resigns, goes missing, is found and thrown into jail(apnews.com)
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The Stallman Paradox: How Web3 Became the Ultimate Open Source Theater(paragraph.com)
14 points by nabla9 11mo ago|10 comments
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by nabla9 1y ago
Every document parser must first answer this question: Why not pandoc import filter. -- The above does not mean: "do not parser outside pandoc". There are reasons not to use pandoc. It means: Please explain why not. It helps oth
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by nabla9 1y ago
With 70%+ profit margins on data centers, it's enough that just $1.43 billion in data center revenue is secured for $1b investment to pay back. Nvidia's larger investments are even more conditional. With OpenAI, the investment is
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by nabla9 1y ago
Check up what the word grandstanding means.
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by nabla9 1y ago
> makes his living off an a16z platform That's some record level grandstanding.
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by nabla9 1y ago
All good as long as people don't think that modern industrialization means lots of jobs. In all industrial economies, the number of people working in the industry declines, even if the industrial output increases. You could maybe incre
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by nabla9 1y ago
They made simple categorical error in the paper. Computable systems can have have mathematically undecidable problems inside them. Game of life is maybe the simplest example of simulated universe that contains many undecidable problems. T
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by nabla9 1y ago
Shit. Debt and over-leverage are the things that make the AI-hype problem for everyone. As long as AI investments are funded from revenue and wealth seeking profits, the bust makes a dent but takes very little from those who stayed away. Wi
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by nabla9 1y ago
I did read the article, so here is one sentence debunk: Computable systems can, and often do, have mathematically undecidable problems. They fall into the same categorical mistake as the Lucas–Penrose argument, and they even use that argu
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by nabla9 1y ago
North Korea did the last critical nuclear test in 2017. Others have not been testing for decades. I think he is saying something confused and vague.
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by nabla9 1y ago
> The statements made by the President himself? Who is attention whore and bullshitter. For any other president statements equal policy, that's not so with Trump. The statement is so vague that it does not indicate out of ordinary n
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by nabla9 1y ago
Subcritical experiments are done in underground test sites. US does them 1,000 feet underground inside boreholes in Nevada test site because the explosion releases plutonium. Hiroshima has a Peace "Watch" Tower where they show n
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by nabla9 1y ago
The statement lacked any detail. It's just attention whoring. The US is conducting nuclear tests periodically just like other nuclear powers. Subcritical nuclear testing is allowed. The last one was in 2024 https://www.energ
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by nabla9 1y ago
"We predict that much of this work will be given to lower-wage human workers, offshore or at lower salary," Why would companies regret this outcome?
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by nabla9 1y ago
To my knowledge all x86 based systems and ARM and Qualcomm designed chips all use 64 byte cache lines. Apple's M2 uses 128-byte cache line.
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by nabla9 1y ago
Nvidia is Nokia customer in data center. AI-RAN is partnership where Nvidia and Nokia will sell to telecoms and private 5G/6G networks.
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by nabla9 1y ago
Nokia expanded into data center networks. Nokia sells optical data center interconnects. They also plan to provide AI services in the Edge, that's why Nvidia invested.
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by nabla9 1y ago
Losing your device and not having any passwords is like losing your fingerprints. >Device loss scenarios >Users are largely unsure about the implications for their passkeys if they lose or break their device, as it seems their device
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by nabla9 1y ago
Thanks. > with five copies of Pluribus playing against one professional Although this configuration is designed to water down the difficulty in multi-player setting. Pluribus against 2 professionals and 3 randos would better test. Two pr
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by nabla9 1y ago
> equilibrium strategy is guaranteed to not lose, In my scenario and tournament play. Are you sure? I would be shocked to learn that there is a Nash equilibrium in multi-player setting, or any kind of strategic stability.
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by nabla9 1y ago
Question: If you put the currently best poker algorithm in a tournament with mixed-skill-level players, how likely is the algorithm to get into the money? Recognizing different skill levels quickly and altering your play for the opponent in
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by nabla9 1y ago
The court has jurisdiction. Gaza is not part of Israel by any law. It's a direct application of 1949 Geneva Conventions. Most Israeli legal scholars agree that Israel's defense does not work.
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by nabla9 1y ago
That's a political matter. Countries do not join because ICC is a failure. More countries do not join because ICC is is not failure and is not compromised.
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by nabla9 1y ago
ICC is not failed implementation.
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by nabla9 1y ago
The arrest warrants are as solid as humanly possible. Before the arrest warrant by the Judge, before the ICC prosecutor even attempted to ask for arrest, they asked second opinion from a Panel of Experts in International Law that included

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