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by nickff 11mo ago
It looks like these laptops are usually sold with Windows; are you saying that every manufacturer should be obligated to develop drivers for every software which is theoretically compatible with it? Or are you just saying that we need even
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by nickff 11mo ago
This used to be the case, but bonds have been positively correlated with stocks in recent years, so they have not been an effective hedge. Additionally, it seems possible/likely that we are headed into the long-predicted COVID stagflat
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by nickff 11mo ago
How is what they’re doing a ‘hedge’? It seems more like alternative financing, or keiretsu.
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by nickff 11mo ago
I don’t know of other countries which produce both types of vessel in the same shipyard, though I expect that some must.
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by nickff 11mo ago
> "Zvi and the Cato institute both have lengthy pieces about why the Jones act is bad [1] [2], and whether or not you believe that has entrenched our shipbuilders, the US essentially manufactures no ships compared to South Korea and
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by nickff 11mo ago
The website you linked to specifies a subtly different thing from what you’re asserting: > ”Forty-eight percent of the people who died from blast injuries among our colleagues' households were children and 40 percent were under 10 y
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by nickff 11mo ago
I suspect that you’re right, but I believe that I heard something about a similar ‘drive’ being used on some sort of telescope satellite in the past (though I can’t remember the specifics).
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by nickff 11mo ago
Customers want humans to perform each menial task, while paying almost nothing for that privilege, so that they can have the satisfaction of screaming at someone when a mistake is made.
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by nickff 11mo ago
Many of the ‘AI data centers’ are being financed with debt; some are being done as joint ventures with companies like Blue Owl Capital (whose stock is also taking a beating).
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by nickff 11mo ago
It is my understanding that neither Canada nor the USA allows for the importation of products containing THC, so I don't see this as having anything to do with Canada. Perhaps I do not understand what you mean to say?
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by nickff 11mo ago
> "Why not actually bite the bullet and allow automations to interact with web resources instead of bothering humans to solve puzzles 10 times per day?" This is a great idea if you've developed your 'full-stack'
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by nickff 11mo ago
It seems as though part of the rationale may relate to ‘defunding’ the Venezuelan government (as the current administration seems to disfavor them), which appears to be deriving a significant amount of revenue (which may not be going to the
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by nickff 11mo ago
The possibility of this being an ‘act of war’ does seem very interesting, but I’m not sure Venezuela could claim it in this circumstance, as the vessels do not appear to be ‘flagged’. I would be interested to learn what the status of unflag
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by nickff 11mo ago
Could you please clarify this statement for me: > ”You can't shoot people in war because they are guilty of a crime unless they can legitamently be targeted for some other reason.” From what I understand (and I am no expert), in a
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by nickff 11mo ago
Does everything you say apply equally to DDoS attackers? If not, you need to come up with some way to differentiate ‘malicious users’ from benign ones. Amazon’s ‘bright line’ seems reasonable, though I’d personally love to see an even bette
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by nickff 11mo ago
It is commonly referred to as a ‘short position’, though it is not ‘shorting the stock’. Equally, purchasing calls* is referred to as a ‘long position’ (as is holding the equity). edit: smallmancontrov below pointed out that I wrote 'p
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by nickff 11mo ago
Even if you're right, but the value goes up before going down, you can lose out with a short, if your counter-party makes a call for collateral you don't have.
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by nickff 1y ago
In the case of “The Big Short” it did make sense, because the ratings were required by the government, not the purchasers (who often/usually disregarded the ratings for the purpose of valuation), and the sellers paid for the ratings.
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by nickff 1y ago
And the one product is made up of two components (training and inference) which are each extremely competitive, undifferentiated, and losing money.
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by nickff 1y ago
Even Trump "mostly adheres to most of the treaties" the USA has signed. The USA has signed a lot of treaties, and violating most of them would take a concerted effort, and quite a lot of time.
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by nickff 1y ago
Most other countries have voter ID, and the controversy surrounding it is puzzling to most foreigners. Additionally, parliamentary systems which result in majority governments are much more ‘dictatorship-like’ than the US system where indiv
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by nickff 1y ago
Pharmaceuticals are only a (high) single-digit percentage of medical spending in the USA, and the (likely) reason for the ads is the highly competitive nature of the market. Most of healthcare spending is on labor, specifically doctors and
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by nickff 1y ago
While I find your comment enjoyably pithy, in the case of vitamin D, many humans are currently living at latitudes which they are not suited to (skin being too dark to generate enough vitamin D given the insolation), and eating diets which
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by nickff 1y ago
It seems like the problem with WaPo is that it’s constantly losing money, and has been since well before Bezos bought it. This makes it difficult to be hands-off for (at least) two reasons: he can’t just put it in a conventional trust, beca
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by nickff 1y ago
I completely agree that crypto is being used as an end-run (if you'll pardon the expression) around the existing financial oligopoly, whose regulatory burden is paid for by the monopoly rents extracted by the government-endorsed player
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by nickff 1y ago
What you're describing is (in my view) the best casus belli for both the 'war on drugs' and a 'war on crypto', but a moral case does not make a criminal case (on its own).
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by nickff 1y ago
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but Zhao was convicted of crimes which were a direct result of his operating a crypto exchange, and not any other criminal activity. It may be possible to operate a legally-compliant crypto exchange, but
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by nickff 1y ago
I actually don't understand what you or the article mean by "meaningful and meaningless work", the article approaches an explanation in one paragraph, but they seem to have left a lot to interpretation by the reader. Perhaps
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by nickff 1y ago
They are taxed; they are taxed because they are a subset of profits, which is a taxed category. They are not taxed more than other profits, but that doesn’t mean they’re ’not taxed’.
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by nickff 1y ago
If a company retains earnings, it has to pay taxes on them (as profits), but the money is still at risk (from a shareholder’s point of view) if something bad happens to the company (lawsuit or market problem). Shareholders usually want to r

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