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by phtrivier 4mo ago
> Won’t we get massive inflation? I was expecting they would adress the elephant in the room : the price of the room to fit the elephant (as, in "rents"). There are form of subsidies in France called "APL" (nothing to
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by phtrivier 4mo ago
I wonder if this is reflected in other big exams or elite colleges elsewhere. Are the gaokao, X/Centrale, oxford etc... Results showing the same trend ?
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by phtrivier 5mo ago
Cue Pieter Thiel explaining how this message of compassion is actually the word of the ant-christ while setting his software (maybe "built in Rust !) to all the earthly empires.
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by phtrivier 5mo ago
HN front page : "Avoid debt like plague" Soon on HN front page : "How the richest people on earth used VC money and the lever effect to inflate the valuation of their startup (not even 'built in rust !') to kickstar
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by phtrivier 5mo ago
When it gets from 1000 to a 100. Or from 100 to 10. In production. On shelves. That the average consumer can buy. Do you remember the time where hardly anyone had a mobile phone, and one year later everyone got one for christmas ? I was the
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by phtrivier 5mo ago
Of course. Then, write your "breakthrough" article when they get to mass production. (Ok, you can write the article when they demo it as the consumer show six months before availability, if you really can't help. They won&#x2
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by phtrivier 5mo ago
> When it comes to new battery chemistries, it takes time to go from a lab breakthrough to mass production. Sodium ion is now being mass produced. A few years ago there was only low volume production. And before that, the technology was
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by phtrivier 5mo ago
And the next version of Windows is going to make it much more secure, fun and easy to use !
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by phtrivier 5mo ago
> Most of my friends spent 35-45k on a generator. Honestly curious: why do you need a generator ? And more to the point, why do "most of you friends" need one (35-45k seems like a huge investment, so it would not be some vanity
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by phtrivier 5mo ago
Of course it's easy: such decisions were taken _before_ the feeds where algorithmically built. You rely on unambigous, "physical" properties of the videos. There is a physical property of all the videos: the time of publicati
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by phtrivier 5mo ago
The article does not give context : it is not entirely about the price of fuel, but it seems like fuel was the last nail in the coffin...
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by phtrivier 5mo ago
I never heard about this company before this morning, so I can't project any second order effect of this closure. That being said, I suspect many people had never heard about Lehman Brothers before 2008...
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by phtrivier 6mo ago
> Gen Z went for Biden by 24 points, but the shifted right for 2024 so only went for Harris by 10. Kinda confirms my point, no ? Sure, not a "majority" of Gen Z went for Trump. But such a shift has to mean _something_ was done
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by phtrivier 6mo ago
A group "slightly" favoring Harris, thanks to the electoral college, is a group that favors Trump :P Also, gen z favored Haris by ONLY 10 points ? As in 55/45 ? Isn't the stat usually more on the order of 60/40 (if
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by phtrivier 6mo ago
I disagree. If your charitable application is profitable, it will get funded. Now, people will hate you for doing a "good" thing for money (exhibit A : name any pharma company selling the drugs that keep people alive ; that compan
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by phtrivier 6mo ago
I suppose the Tibetan people would have a different opinion. But it's true that China has not fought as many war as the US, UK or France in the past decades. Which is actually part of the enigma : if China decided to use a window of op
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by phtrivier 6mo ago
This was tongue in cheek, yes. That being said, "the Russian army will be driven to a virtual stalemate by a former comedian leading a decentralized group of startups remote-controlling handmade Wall-E clones equiped with machine guns,
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by phtrivier 6mo ago
This. I'm pretty sure any sufficiently autonomous / AI driven / remote control battalion will embed some "volontary" humans, so that "nuking the robots from orbit" is at least politically unpopular. Though
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by phtrivier 6mo ago
It's not "western projection" to say that China _wants_ to get Taiwan at some point. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj94y87k2ljo Given how the "peaceful" way failed in the last few deca
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by phtrivier 6mo ago
Well, to be fair, it allowed some of the old people to survive more than two years, so... Young people should react by voting in people who will defend them. Instead, they joined the elderly un voting for Trump. Go figure.
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by phtrivier 6mo ago
Substack tends to select for this kind of author. Not daily posts about their life and their latest hot take, but a few deep articles every few weeks, that make you think "hey, that's interesting". Although there is not neces
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by phtrivier 6mo ago
And then it will be just another war crime committed daily conflicts, and nothing will happen because there is no world police ? Ask Ukrainians, Lebanese, Gazaoui, Somalilanders, or even Iranians for that matters - that may not make a big d
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by phtrivier 6mo ago
The births of 2025 will be the warriors of 2050. By then, a bunch of those will be needed to, you know, run things around the country. It's clear that China is going to use tech (as in, artificial wombs, neural implants for optimized b
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by phtrivier 6mo ago
My biggest fear at the moment is robot armies and police forces. Case in point : we're all expecting China needs to invade Taiwan soon, or they will run out of soldiers because of the one child policies of the 70s/80s. Meanwhile,
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by phtrivier 6mo ago
What I'll watch which great interest is how big an improvement in interseason storage you need for the situation to flip on it's head entirely. If sodium-ion, or some kind of thermal, or some kind of gravitationnal (except pumped
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by phtrivier 6mo ago
It is indeed harder if you topography writes off certain kind of electricity production. But of course, good for them that they used their mountains / rivers ! All all power to them to electrify their economies if they have surplus ! A
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by phtrivier 6mo ago
> Albania, Bhutan, Nepal, Paraguay, Iceland, Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo produced more than 99.7 per cent of the electricity they consumed using geothermal, hydro, solar or wind power. Let's head to electricitymaps
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by phtrivier 6mo ago
Will people buy more American / Venezuelian / Russian oil now that the ME is going to be perpetually under the threat of another Iranian squeeze ? Will pipelines with creative routing make a comeback ? Or will people, you know, tr
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by phtrivier 6mo ago
And also, just because crass shows exists, it does not mean they are the only or dominant thing. People still enjoy quality, even for entertainment. Sure, teenagers will rot their brain, but the most watched shows in the US are The Bridgert
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by phtrivier 6mo ago
https://theconversation.com/scientists-may-be-overestimating... > It’s important to note that even if the microplastic abundance in the environment is lower than researchers originally thought, any amount of microplastic

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