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by nickff 2mo ago
I’m not saying that the lawsuits are necessarily wrong or bad (though there do seem to be many of dubious merit), just that they don’t accurately reflect the mix of safety and other problems between large and small producers.
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by nickff 2mo ago
The measures related to lawsuits are misleading and terrible, because of the way class-action lawsuits have incentivized lawyers to pursue dubious cases against large companies.
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by nickff 2mo ago
The US's problem seems to be that citizens demand a very high level of (costly) medical care, which would not be sustainable if implemented as a taxpayer-funded universal program. As an example, the numbers which I've seen indicat
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by nickff 2mo ago
I believe that it was changed after the comment you have replied to was posted.
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by nickff 2mo ago
Deep-sea mining has been studied and foreseen for at least 50 years, but it's never been economical. It is possible that current technology will allow for mining of nodules, but this still seems unlikely to me. https://en.wi
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by nickff 2mo ago
You are describing the justification that NVDA is using to explain their behavior; they see it as something of a 'bridge-loan' until the LLM business model reaches steady-state. The problem is that this explanation has been used f
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by nickff 2mo ago
The problem is that when a vendor finances their customers, they can create the illusion of 'real' demand for their product, when most of the the end-users are only actually using something because it's cheap. When the vendor
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by nickff 2mo ago
BRK has been roughly flat since the beginning of 2025; you might be better off in bonds or money markets (depending on your beliefs about near-term inflation).
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by nickff 2mo ago
If people really cared, they’d choose browsers that have better control, but that’s obviously not a priority for them. Why do you think this sort of thing should be regulated to suit your preferences when most people don’t seem to agree wit
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by nickff 2mo ago
I believe myself to be fairly well-informed, and usually accept the cookies, because I don’t foresee any potential harms, and it helps the people running the website. I am worried about many things like phishing and hacking/data leaks,
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by nickff 3mo ago
The manufacturers are willing to put in whatever seats the operators want, and airlines want to have the lightest, most compact seats possible because that allows them to offer the lowest price, which is what passengers choose.
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by nickff 3mo ago
What exactly do you mean by "10x doctor"? Some surgeons have a 10x higher 'revision rate' than others, and from what I understand, that may be an understatement. Many of the statistics which would indicate the ones to av
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by nickff 3mo ago
Quite reminiscent of Enron, though obviously not the same. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smartest_Guys_in_the_Room_...
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by nickff 3mo ago
There are many science fiction stories about amoral humans, cyborgs, and AIs. Paperclip maximization is a relatively recent meme, but the 'gray goo scenario' has been widely written about: https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by nickff 3mo ago
There's a wide spectrum of 'private credit', and it varies from low-risk to quite high risk, depending on the debtor. In the case of "AI Companies", their debt is low-risk, but many are creating special-purpose-enti
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by nickff 3mo ago
Is this comment pure speculation, or do you have knowledge (or anecdotal evidence) of a similar exploit being sold for $500k?
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by nickff 3mo ago
SPCX is valued as an AI company; any and all issues you have with AI company valuations apply to to SPCX. I too agree that SPCX’s space business is real and valuable, but it’s (almost completely) irrelevant here.
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by nickff 3mo ago
You can be that factor! Short sell the stock, and use the money to invest in a more-accurately valued business.
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by nickff 3mo ago
This may be a controversial view, but I don't think we should trust the actor in charge of regulating and limiting emissions with its own supervision. The Federal Government has a plethora of agencies which regulate pollution and energ
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by nickff 3mo ago
It seems that making government union members accountable is an intractable problem in the current political landscape.
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by nickff 3mo ago
From what I understand, this lack of liquidity is not an issue in ‘financial markets’, but can be a problem for other assets such as housing.
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by nickff 3mo ago
I’m saying that we shouldn’t base our tax policy on a bubble. The dot-com bubble was treated like a solution to the federal deficit, and it wasn’t.
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by nickff 3mo ago
Yes, that is intended to disallow officers from avoiding taxes by being compensated via ‘loans’ and other means. I can’t find any case where dividends or buybacks were found to be violations of that rule. https://cpataxteam.com&#
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by nickff 3mo ago
Congress is not permitted to levy property taxes.
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by nickff 3mo ago
Capital gains are permissible because of the 16th amendment; the 16A does not permit the congress to tax assets. It seems like quite a stretch to apply Moore to cash holdings.
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by nickff 3mo ago
>” Genuine question, why?” A wealth tax would clearly be a ‘direct tax’, which must be apportioned among the states according to the constitution.
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by nickff 3mo ago
Many locales have laws that do not allow remuneration above the 'reasonable wage', to prevent tax circumvention by having employers spread wage payments across multiple family members of employees, but I am not familiar with any j
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by nickff 3mo ago
Seems like power shortages: > ”The European Parliament has also faced blackouts this week due to energy consumption from cranking up its cooling system.”
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by nickff 3mo ago
I am not saying that one party paying taxes means that no counter-party should. I am just saying that the impact of different structures should be accounted for.
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by nickff 3mo ago
I agree that in a bull market, many corporations are not purchased and sold at book value. That said, we are on the largest bull-run in history, so we shouldn’t treat this as the norm, and base all our long-term decisions on the current sit

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