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by qcnguy 1y ago
Good example. The CDU is in a coalition with the left wing parties and refuses to work with the AfD in any way, not even winning votes with their votes, on the basis that the AfD is right wing and thus inherently evil. So the CDU is indeed
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by qcnguy 1y ago
Correct. But by "decades" I meant in the 40 years since Thatcher.
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Why do what? Have private water companies? Same reason for having private food supply, private electricity providers, private communication providers, and in most countries private healthcare providers. They run the business better than the
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In the past, yes, the FT was like that. But not for a long time. It's like thinking professional economists all read The Economist. I know professional investors, a few of them read the WSJ but not yet met one who cared about what the
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Their voters obviously don't agree. Not only have they defected to Reform on a massive scale, but Reform recruiting former Tories like Dorries is hugely controversial within the party base, exactly because Tories are viewed as being to
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> They literally had things like "save as Word 95" in their office suite. And what do you think that setting did? Forked execution down an alternative no longer maintained codepath instead of the rewritten version that wasn&#x2
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by qcnguy 1y ago
So? The person I was replying to didn't impose any conditions beyond it being not Google.
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Yes, in theory nationalized companies can set prices rationally and turn a profit. In practice they rarely manage this for long because sooner or later a populist comes along and forces them to lower prices in order to win votes. It's
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by qcnguy 1y ago
The Tories are a centre-left party. That's why they lost the support of conservative voters at the last election and are now in the doldrums, with much of their base having defected to Reform.
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Government bonds are only low risk in economic theory. In real world practice lending to left wing countries can be high risk as they like to accumulate too much debt and then default. That's why the UK government is paying 5.8% on its
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by qcnguy 1y ago
Paying dividends is good. It's how you attract the capital for investment without having to raise it via sale of government bonds or money printing. The problem here is financial illiteracy - the alternative to paying dividends isn&#x2
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We're talking about the industry that just finished Thames Tideway, fully privately financed? A project that will last for at least 100 years and probably longer? A project that was needed for decades but was ignored by government and
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The overhead of having shareholders in this case is minimal. The profits they make are small, but having a goal of making profits does create discipline in resource usage. The water system is like the electricity system. It's perfectly
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Governments don't pay for infrastructure by saving up surplus tax revenue in a piggy bank. They take out loans to pay for it, same as the water companies do. The UK pays around 8% of its spending on interest payments and that's ri
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by qcnguy 1y ago
That's Apple Numbers.
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That stuff happens because Microsoft don't know what the behavior is. It's just a bit which forks Word down some ancient code path that nobody understands and isn't properly documented. Given the huge effort that would have g
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by qcnguy 1y ago
HCR is social media. She posts to Substack, which has a feed, likes, recommendations and commenting.
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by qcnguy 1y ago
The FT isn't objective. It doesn't even pretend it's objective these days. It literally flew the EU flag outside its offices for years after the UK left, and its editorial line was exactly what you'd expect.
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by qcnguy 1y ago
You're assuming the left stays static. The left lost interest in economic issues after 1990 and shifted to cultural issues. The modern Democrats are not more right wing than they used to be unless you ignore all the issues they've
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The problem with this kind of initiative is that people don't agree on what positive news means. Your selection is very ideologically slanted. People on the right could interpret these news stories as negative. For example: 1. 99.7% of
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The ideal is obviously smoothed limits, such that you can absorb a big traffic spike if it still fits within your budget. Nobody seems to offer that.
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That's not comparable. With a VPS there is no monthly maximum, just a max load on a second by second basis. You can be hit with traffic of which 90% bounces because your server is down, get nowhere near your intended monthly maximum, a
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by qcnguy 1y ago
How did you run up a $5000 bill for just testing a project? What kind of project was it that could put so much load on the DB?
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Early Google varied a lot. There were a lot of fires in those days that required long hours by engineers. Jeff Dean received a little statue IIRC for taking part in the "index wars", where due to a pervasive lack of checkpointing
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by qcnguy 1y ago
Er, we're posting this on a website run by a VC firm that routinely gives out investments to huge numbers of tiny teams from around the world. Literally anyone can apply. And we're supposedly in an AI bubble caused by investors pl
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People who work more get more done. Yes, there are limits. It's not obvious 45 hours a week is that limit. Observe that the two places in the world with cutting edge AI startups are America and China. Europe has none. Maybe Mistral if
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by qcnguy 1y ago
It's rational and will become standard. Imagine you had a job doing ordinary database backed web app written in Java, and you found you had a coworker who wrote all their code in Notepad. They also refused to run linters or open code r
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It's not just training. Look at all the other costs in The Information's graph. Salaries, general admin, data licensing - all huge costs.
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Or unless you work for Coinbase, where people who refused to use AI got fired. Think that's rare? Nope. It's coming everywhere. Most companies are at the stage of trying to monitor AI usage and encourage it, but eventually it&#x27
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by qcnguy 1y ago
That's only true if model intelligence is the limiting factor. I don't believe it is. Right now the limiting factor for AI impact is mostly the effort required to wire it up to all the systems we want it to automate.

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