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by pqtyw 2y ago
like +-50% or more? That's a very wide region.
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by pqtyw 2y ago
The optimal tactics aren't necessarily that obvious during the first few engagements when you encounter a completely alien force and a way of fighting. And by the time you start figuring these things out the Spanish already have thousa
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by pqtyw 2y ago
> quite clearly X is "clearly" worth only $10 billion less than what Musk paid for Twitter back 2022? Really? Despite its revenue being 50% lower than it was back then? As for xAI, Anthropic has a valuation of ~$60 billion. So
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by pqtyw 2y ago
> they failed due to a lack of record keeping. That wasn't part of the argument? Lack of writing made their administrative systems less effective than it could've been otherwise. However plenty of less organized or centralized
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by pqtyw 2y ago
> but this has no real bearing on their merits as organizers Not having ledger or any complex/efficient system of writing or recording data at all did, though. But it's true that no state in Europe was as centralized however th
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by pqtyw 2y ago
> even if local tax authorities are corrupt Considering that generally taxes in pre-modern stats were primarily used to fund warfare or fund the lifestyle of the local elite that's not necessarily worth much (the Inca empire was not
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by pqtyw 2y ago
Humans aren't fearless automatons though. Shock cavalry is called that for a reason. Also I'm not sure Inca used bows as ranged weapons in warfare that much? It was mainly slingers (probably could be reasonably effective? Note sur
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by pqtyw 2y ago
Very few weapons could cause significant damage to someone wearing plate armour though. Steel swords didn't do much either. Maces, war hammers, pollaxes and such were quite effective because armour doesn't protect you against blun
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by pqtyw 2y ago
> He’s never going to suffer financially Well his wealth can decrease by 200x and no sane person could claim that he's "suffering" financially with what he has left. > somehow go bankrupt .. were also wild That depended
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by pqtyw 2y ago
Presumably that involved actual money unlike this deal?
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by pqtyw 2y ago
Except there is no money involved. xAI has nowhere near that amount of money in cash or in any liquid assets. The valuation hardly means anything, it might be worth $10 billion, it might be worth $100 billion nobody can tell at this point.
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by pqtyw 2y ago
Doesn't mean the company is worth $40 billion though... Or even a quarter of that.
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by pqtyw 2y ago
The are getting xAI stock instead of cash though and it's not really clear how liquid it will be.
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by pqtyw 2y ago
> We closed down the asylums, and so they moved online. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pot_calling_the_kettle_bla...
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by pqtyw 2y ago
Ukraine in the early 90s hardly saw Russia as an adversary. After are all they invaded Moldova together. Also back in the early 90s spending massive amounts of money you can't afford when your country is in an extremely horrible spot e
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by pqtyw 2y ago
In what way was I promoting or justifying anything? I mean it's horrible if you car is destroyed by dumb and violent people (just burning lithium batteries makes it much worse, which IMHO is the greater crime but that's somewhat t
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by pqtyw 2y ago
> firebombing people's private property So any destruction of private property due to political or ideological reasons is inherently "fascist"? Anyway not that this justifies anything but wouldn't insurance pay for th
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by pqtyw 2y ago
You are implying that mainstream centre-left parties were somehow inherently different in the past when it came to issues like this? And then of course actual (or especially far) left adopted authoritarian policies whenever they had any pow
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US Could Join British Commonwealth(newsweek.com)
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by pqtyw 2y ago
The thread is about the $9700 model which is not available in Europe nor was its availability announced publicly.
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by pqtyw 2y ago
Volkswagen began manufacturing ID.4 in the US back in 2022 and even before that AFAIK most of the cars they sold in the US weren't imported from Europe. Of course they might decide that there might not be enough demand for small budget
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by pqtyw 2y ago
Well you can't buy them in Europe either. They are planning to launch a €20k model this year, currently the cheapest car BYD offers seems to be around €30k.
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by pqtyw 2y ago
In what way? Some countries like Denmark etc. have very high sales/registration taxes (then again EVs were mostly exempt from them for quite a while, and maybe still are?). In most other countries you only need to pay VAT (~20%) but th
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by pqtyw 2y ago
Regardless of that you can't buy any of the $10k models in Europe anyway.
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by pqtyw 2y ago
Clearly primarily the European market? Both EU and US has put on pretty high tariffs on Chinese EVs so they should have a much easier time competing with BYD.
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by pqtyw 2y ago
In what way? Console makers wouldn't gain anything by weakening DRM and making devices rootable. It's not like they are making that much money from device sales. Of course then you have MS which basically just turned XBox into a c
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by pqtyw 2y ago
That's a weird attitude. Ignoring real problem and burying one's head into the sand until its too late is what got US into the mess it is in now. Are you implying that nobody should be able to criticize anything before its too lat
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by pqtyw 2y ago
That doesn't work for issues that are of secondary or tertiary importance from the perspective of almost all voters. Especially in horrible electoral systems like the ones in UK you have to pick the least bad out of 2 options (every vo
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by pqtyw 2y ago
> junk food I wanted, I came home losing 10 or 20 pounds. Maybe you caught some bug or something? > The food outside of the US is just fundamentally better. Meh... I'm from Europe and it's about the same, if you are at least
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by pqtyw 2y ago
Isn't it relatively easy to sell anything "naturally occurring" as a supplement? I think there is very little regulation (of course if you want to claim it's a drug and presumably charge much more for it it's anothe

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