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by piva00 1y ago
I didn't know it was in the liberal agenda to give automanufacturers protectionist mechanisms against competitors making products more aligned with customer demand to artificially prop up a major industry sector. What kind of liberal a
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by piva00 1y ago
Agreed, Fastmail works so much better than GMail/Google Workspaces, moved my personal domains to Fastmail a while ago, and it's painful to use my work GMail during my day job...
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by piva00 1y ago
Spotify needs to pay ~70% of the revenue as royalties, Netflix started their own productions to not have to disburse in royalties (and the quality suffered). Netflix was the first ever streaming service I canceled the subscription without f
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by piva00 1y ago
What do you mean? I can search for an artist, get to the artist page and see all their albums listed by type (album, single, EP, compilations, etc.). I don't see what is not intuitive about it, how could it be better?
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by piva00 1y ago
Spotify's profit is not being funneled into arms manufacturing though, only by stretching that the money Daniel Ek made by being the founder of Spotify is "Spotify's profits" which he then used to make an investment into
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by piva00 1y ago
It's imprecise because modeling the whole climate is a humongous task. A friend's whole PhD as a physicist was to improve modeling cloud formation at a molecular level to be used in a model which was then part of an ensemble, th
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by piva00 1y ago
The US had the knowledge in the workforce to do the retooling 80 years ago, why do you think that still exists? You can believe that all you want, it's a comforting thought but I don't see 2025 USA having at all the same capacity.
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by piva00 1y ago
I asked specifically about forecasts from analysts. I know the financials of Nvidia, I own the stock...
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by piva00 1y ago
What is the track record of these analysts? I don't know of any analysts doing these forecasts which have hold against reality at all in the span of 10 years, if anyone knows of one analyst whose forecasts have held 50% of the time the
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by piva00 1y ago
I can't find the article right now because the keywords for searching just bring a lot of noise around OpenAI articles, pure slop most of the time, but Sam Altman said in an interview something around the lines "real innovation
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by piva00 1y ago
> My 2c is that most tech is actually good and 90% of public disdain comes from social media and phone addiction That's a huge part of it but not only. Tech is being used to remove humans from the loop of interactions, people feel d
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by piva00 1y ago
Printing money will help paying debt in nominal terms but can scare buying bonds without a premium, why would investors hold bonds paying 4% if the USA government might just devalue it by 3%/year through inflation by the end of the bon
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by piva00 1y ago
20% of the immense USA budget is used to just pay interests. The gap between revenue, and debt only keeps growing, it's growing at a rate of 4% relative to GDP per year (revenues at ~18%, debt at ~22%), and the lines are diverging with
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by piva00 1y ago
One of the reasons to force slower speeds in city streets, more time for reacting to adverse events, less damage in case you hit a pedestrian at 30km/h than 60km/h.
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by piva00 1y ago
Surely, those existed since ancient times, there's a reason why Romans had inns and waystations. There was some expectation to host strangers traveling as an act to please the gods, etc. but for any mass events there would be lodging a
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by piva00 1y ago
In my experience it's been great to have LLMs for narrowly-scoped tasks, things I know how I'd implement (or at least start implementing) but that would be tedious to manually do, prompting it with increasingly higher complexity d
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by piva00 1y ago
The only travelers at that time arriving by the thousands would be armies, it's not comparable when scale matters.
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by piva00 1y ago
I didn't mention non-consumer items because OP was complaining about only buying items "made in China". For non-consumer items there's a whole laundry list of high-tech stuff where Europe has a big presence: high-end che
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by piva00 1y ago
Selling medicines, and biotech is quite a productive industry where European companies are leaders. The same for high-precision machinery used by the "actual productive industries" that depend on European machines to be able to ev
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by piva00 1y ago
Everyone in the world buys things made in China everyday, it's the largest manufacturing country in the world, that's a non-sequitur. At the same time there are plenty of everyday items still made in the EU, and not necessarily lu
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by piva00 1y ago
You mean with the licencing of the EUV tech? If push comes to shove, to the point where the USA tries to strangle ASML, the EU could create pathways to not recognise the licence agreement anymore, and remove copyright protections from it. A
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by piva00 1y ago
Politico.eu is owned by Axel Springer, the same Axel Springer SE which received US$ 7m from the CIA back in the early 2000s [0]. It's the closest to a Fox News-esque entity in Western Europe, I believe. They also own BILD, a tabloid, a
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by piva00 1y ago
I was looking into a self-contained NAS to keep my local archive of almost 20 years of photos, Synology was always the most recommended solution but this policy was definitely the reason I did not purchase one. Unfortunately for Synology I
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by piva00 1y ago
That was exactly what UML wanted to do, and it almost never worked out in practice. Seems to be just a rehashing of the same idea but instead of XML, and diagrams, it's now some free-text to be interpreted by LLMs, so much less determi
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by piva00 1y ago
Completely agree, the American government has become incompetent in delivering any real big project to its citizenry, it went through a whole ideological process of gutting its abilities to do so. It was designed to lose this ability, and t
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by piva00 1y ago
People like LLMs, will they pay for LLMs to offset the investments? Will they pay enough so these companies can stay afloat when the slush funds inevitably run dry? Will LLMs create a significant shift in productivity where its usage will c
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by piva00 1y ago
Isn't the core issue that this deluge of spending on the hype inflates away adjacent companies valuation (Meta, Google, Tesla, Nvidia, etc.) where people's pensions and savings get directed towards since they become the growth sto
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by piva00 1y ago
While also rhyming with the obsession for futurism from past fascism, the intertwining of calling back to a romanticised past with an inhuman futurism is very much a pillar of the ideology.
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by piva00 1y ago
> You can say the numbers don't matter, but then you've adopted essentially an unfalsifiable position. Numbers do matter, just not the cherry-picked narrow ones such as "median wage" with disregard for any context, an
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by piva00 1y ago
Because of another adage: "markets can stay irrational for longer than you can remain solvent".

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