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by nickff 1y ago
Well, the question isn't what OpenAI's intellectual property is worth right now, or what you expect it to be worth, but what it is likely to be worth after OpenAI has become insolvent (and few/none of the current employees ar
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by nickff 1y ago
“Face value” is a reference to currency, postage stamps, bank-notes, and stock certificates, which have a value printed on their face, but which are not always actually worth that amount. I am a native speaker, but excessive use of idioms m
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by nickff 1y ago
Not an insider, but I think your comment gets to the core of the issue. One of the pictures used in the story has a Space Shuttle in it, and another has a Vehicle Assembly Building; neither of those have been used (for anything interesting
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by nickff 1y ago
You're right that the delta has been reduced, but producing physical goods still requires much more capital outlay (which is still disadvantaged).
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Software has also benefitted from a massive tax subsidy relative to hardware, as the latter requires a massive capital investment. Hardware requires expensive real estate, and benefits from saving the spending, whereas software can exist o
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by nickff 1y ago
Even this forum can’t decide whether skilled personnel are a boon because they positively contribute to the local economy, or a negative because they undermine employment prospects for locals.
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by nickff 1y ago
As the governments have grown more powerful and intrusive (in terms of introducing policies which only affect narrow groups), lobbying has grown in importance. I am not sure why anyone is surprised.
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Even with a twin, you still wouldn’t “know”, because there might have been a difference in either their injury, their ability to heal (people can heal at different rates for many non-genetic reasons), or other, even ‘random’ factors. There
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by nickff 1y ago
The company would have to be severely undervalued (or perhaps perceived to be severely mismanaged) for this to be the case, which seems strange to me. Then again, the typical PE strategies (loading the company with debt and cutting investme
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by nickff 1y ago
Leveraged buy-outs (LBOs) must be profitable for the investors backing them (or else I'm sure they wouldn't), but I agree that it is very strange, and I really don't understand how this could be the case.
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by nickff 1y ago
I never said that I'd heard any officer state that they'd lied to a reporter. I said that I believe that access is/was choreographed (to present a certain narrative to the reporter), and that I don't think the reporters
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by nickff 1y ago
The Fighter Pilot Podcast is probably the best of them, both in terms of production and content, though recent episodes have drifted away from the ‘core content’ where it really shone. War on the Rocks has had some good ones as well, but no
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by nickff 1y ago
My suspicions are based on listening to many podcasts with ex-military officer guests, and what they’ve said about serving ‘pentagon tours’, being publicity/public affairs/media officers for their units, and speaking with the pres
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by nickff 1y ago
The question is how choreographed the rest of their ‘access’ is. This author seems to think they were getting ‘real dirt’, but I suspect that the officers they were talking to were actually walking a highly political tightrope in hopes of a
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by nickff 1y ago
From what I understand, these press pools (specifically the White House press pool) began as what the author describes as "stenographers parroting press releases, not watchdogs holding government officials accountable". It seems l
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by nickff 1y ago
> "Ironically green energy, EVs, etc is probably one of the best blue collar investments the country could make right now" People have been saying this for 20 years, and it seems plausible, but it hasn't really worked out
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by nickff 1y ago
Good thing that airliners spend so much time at altitude!
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by nickff 1y ago
They also happened to know about an old airport which was no longer active, but did not know about the concrete barrier in the middle.
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by nickff 1y ago
Fuel depletion is risky, but not that risky; see the Gimli Glider for a case much more dangerous than this, which still worked out amazingly well. Edit: Here is the Wiki on incidents... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F
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by nickff 1y ago
Payroll taxes are supposed to cover Medicare and Social Security (along with some other programs), but they cover less than 2/3 of those costs. It’s not true that “the money was already put aside”, because retirees these days are getti
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by nickff 1y ago
Social Security is 22% of the budget, how is that not relevant to the deficit? It's the largest single category of spending, and spending more than the government takes in is the source of the deficit. https://fiscaldata.tre
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by nickff 1y ago
This has been attempted (for a military aircraft IIRC), and proved too difficult to be practical. It may now be possible, but it is more challenging that it appears from just watching our feathered friends.
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by nickff 1y ago
Avoiding con-trail creation has been a factor for military aviation since at least WWII; bomber pilots then were briefed on what altitudes to fly at to avoid them as well, but not because they were especially stealthy.
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by nickff 1y ago
> "What OpenAI and Nvidia are doing is insultingly in everyone's face. It's just a so obvious that it's become a bit of a punchline." From your post, it seems that you resent OpenAI for something, but I don&#x27
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The problem with this argument is that if R&D ever stops, OpenAI will not be differentiated (because everyone else will be able to catch up), so their pricing power will disappear, and they won't be able to charge much more than th
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YouTube's ads are much lower-cost than the 'premium' AdWords ones, because the 'intent' is lower, and targeting is worse.
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by nickff 1y ago
Not OP, but there were many videos posted, (especially early on in this conflict,) depicting very nice neighborhoods and commercial districts in Gaza (some of which were in the process of being destroyed or abandoned).
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Many of them don't. Consider that BMW famously didn't run ads for most of its history... but now it does.
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The problem is that if everyone hops jobs every 9-18 months, it’s not worth training up juniors because the employer will never get to benefit. It seems that we’re in an unfortunate, but stable equilibrium.
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Every industry is federally regulated.

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