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by nostrademons 11d ago
There has been a tendency for each of the last 4 presidents to do the opposite of their campaign slogans. GW Bush was "Compassionate conservatism" in 2000, and then he started 2 wars and radically expanded both the federal budget
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by nostrademons 11d ago
Depends whether you expect this conflict to continue. If these are the opening salvos of WW3 or even just a protracted regional Mideast war, yes you should get the EV . Experience in WW2 was that it became impossible to get petrol & d
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by nostrademons 11d ago
This doesn't work as long as hostilities continue, since as we've seen so far, pipelines are extremely vulnerable to drone and cruise missile attack.
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by nostrademons 11d ago
It would be interesting if AI actually did optimize the P&L at most companies. Right now, the vast majority of office jobs are bullshit jobs, because the director who holds the budget is incentivized to maximize headcount rather than P&
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by nostrademons 11d ago
"Money flows through markets, not into markets." That said, there is a meaningful difference in terms of who has control of the money, and what they choose to do with it . Bank reserves are a red-herring; before the invest
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by nostrademons 11d ago
It's always possible to make the number go up by divorcing the number from any real-world meaning. I think the "Singularity", as AI proponents call it, will actually happen, and will likely happen pretty close to its predict
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by nostrademons 11d ago
Then you have to time the market. Cash or short-term treasuries right now, moved into long-term treasuries when rates finished going up, moved into stocks when the economic damage becomes apparent. Getting the timing right is left as an e
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by nostrademons 11d ago
Higher interest rates basically mean that asset prices will crash, at least in real terms. The value of an asset is the discounted value of all future cash flows; as the discount rate goes up, the value goes down, particularly for assets (
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by nostrademons 12d ago
A rule of thumb is that it's never worth taking out insurance on something that you can afford to replace in full yourself. Note though that in many cases, insurance is mandated by law. In many states you have to have auto insurance
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by nostrademons 12d ago
I would agree with this solution, and also think that these other reforms to the legal system are necessary: 1.) The cost of the court system needs to go way down. It's not okay to have justice be a luxury good; every citizen needs to
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by nostrademons 12d ago
In the Bay Area they tend to be for AI companies, though I'm pretty sure I've seen at least one for an AI lawyer. (Meaning a general-practice lawyer that is actually a datacenter, not a human lawyer who practices AI law.) It&#x27
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by nostrademons 12d ago
The inflation fears are part of the vicious cycle. The typical mechanism by which a government would get rid of inconvenient amounts of debt denominated in their own currency is to monetize it and inflate it away. Bond purchasers know abo
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by nostrademons 12d ago
That's correct. The root cause is that the government is making promises it can't keep, which make those promises worthless. The correction is usually that that government falls, and a new government starts making smaller, mor
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by nostrademons 12d ago
It can be! If you've got a crack legal team at your disposal, you can absolutely sue over insurance denials that put your health at risk. The problem is that most folks who need an insurance plan that regularly denies them also don&#
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by nostrademons 12d ago
This is pretty standard procedure in a lot of industries: Health insurance will often initially deny coverage, either in the pre-approval or when you get the bill, but if you firmly follow up and hold their feet to the policy they will reve
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by nostrademons 12d ago
FWIW a bunch of friends of ours live in a development with metal roofs (built late 1970s) and they said it's been great. It just works, no leaks, no repairs necessary. There's probably a bit of selection bias in both directions:
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by nostrademons 15d ago
It works great if your goal is to pump up your install & conversion numbers so you can raise the next round of VC at 3x valuation. After a couple rounds of this, your VCs, in turn, can then use the valuation increase to tell their GPs
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by nostrademons 15d ago
I usually see full-stack and DevOps roles as being a creation of the startup and early growth phases of a company. In those phases, the market and product definition is changing rapidly. Whatever you lose in reduced technical depth of
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by nostrademons 15d ago
It's a civil offense, but that's different from it being legal. It just means that it's up to the company itself to sue you to collect any damages, and government enforcement bodies aren't going to touch it. The issue m
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by nostrademons 16d ago
Nurses do actually end up spending more time with patients, it's just that they spend more time with rich patients. The actual, tangible form this is taking right now is concierge medicine, home health aids, private practice, etc. M
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by nostrademons 17d ago
No. ToU is a part of contract law. Basically the website is providing a service for you. In exchange for your use of that service, you agree to be bound by the terms. This implicitly creates a contract between you and the website, with
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by nostrademons 17d ago
If you want your mind-blown, read up on feto-maternal microchimerism: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8762399/ tl;dr: All boy moms will have some proportion of XY cells lodged in their bodies until they
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by nostrademons 17d ago
I think the issue is the ToU violation, not copyright.
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by nostrademons 18d ago
Latinx is terrible, though, because it is something no native Spanish speaker would ever say. It's an example of the exact same sort of cultural imperialism that most of the people who like to say latinx rail against. The term that Hi
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by nostrademons 18d ago
It used to be (late 00's) that wikis had a big advantage in search results because backlinks were weighted heavily by the ranking algorithm and the dense connectivity of wikis meant that there were always a zillion backlinks to pages o
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by nostrademons 18d ago
It's on the list. #34 out of 72, middle of the pack. Within the U.S. Chicago, NYC, Philadelphia, LA, and DC are above it. Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and Phoenix are below it. They seem to weight heat-stress pretty highly in thei
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by nostrademons 18d ago
Explaining the intellectual position without saying that I accept it (my actual views on this are "it's complicated"): Arguments against KYC usually go hand-in-hand with the belief that AML statutes are a constitutional overr
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by nostrademons 18d ago
Most Americans are unaware of both how many people live outside of the United States and how bad things can get there.
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by nostrademons 20d ago
Waiting for Skynet to break out of its sandbox and kill us all...
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by nostrademons 22d ago
It said it was AT&T, which probably implies AT&T Fiber. Gigabit fiber.

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