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by runako 1mo ago
Every country distorts its markets in different ways. It's still silly to pretend the US is free of these kinds of distortions.
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by runako 1mo ago
> dishonest to say it’s the same. I literally didn't say that it was? In any case, the point is that the US also subsidizes markets, including the auto markets. China is far from unique in this. As you say, free market capitalism is
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by runako 1mo ago
I'm sure even some companies who plan to sell in the EU will have to update their models to address regulations that haven't taken effect yet.
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by runako 1mo ago
> The total subsidies make up half of the market cap of their entire EV industry. Didn't Tesla essentially stay afloat for years via government subsidies (e.g. government-mandated carbon credits)? Didn't the US only recently en
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by runako 1mo ago
This would make sense if the US only had two major coastal cities, but that's not the case. From another of my comments: A realistic HSR network in the US will also involve changing trains in the midwest because there are too many pair
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by runako 1mo ago
> dangerous or polluting IIRC more than half of cars sold in China are EV or PHEV. I am receptive to learn that there are PHEVs that are too polluting to be sold in the west, but I would love to see the data.
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by runako 1mo ago
You're agreeing with me. Mythos was locked down to a few customers. Fable went wide. USG told them to stop selling Fable. They tweaked Fable to appease the USG, but it clearly refuses/downshifts more requests than e.g. Opus 5. (I
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by runako 1mo ago
Whether or not the government chooses to regulate the space, capricious after-the-fact regulation is the worst of all possible worlds. The ~equivalent models from OpenAI did not get the same treatment (favoritism?), and it's not clear
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by runako 1mo ago
The PR from the US frontier labs has been poor to terrible from the beginning. Among other things, "we have stolen the collected works of your culture, now help us grow so that you can all lose your livelihoods and become our serfs&quo
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by runako 2mo ago
The US government basically told them they can't sell "Fable" and so they aren't. That's probably 90% of the story. Once the government stepped in, their 5th generation was effectively killed. They either had to loc
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by runako 2mo ago
Exactly all of this. HSR in the US makes a lot more sense if you look at it as a regional phenomenon. Atlanta<->Miami, DC<->NYC, NYC<->Chicago, Houston<->Dallas, Chicago<->Nashville. Those all fit the prescript
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by runako 2mo ago
> Why? Because (ignoring the middle of the continent for a moment) "LA" is actually a very large area where having a single stop erases many of the advantages cited for trains. LA does not really have the sort of city center of
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by runako 2mo ago
> Beijing to Guangzhou (same as NY to LA!) in 12 hours at an average speed of 180 kmh I don't understand. It looks like the Chinese route is ~1200 miles and the US route is about 2500 miles. At the same 180kmh, wouldn't that im
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by runako 2mo ago
> It already takes 6 hours to fly. Add in security, checked bags, getting to and from the airport and it's close to 10 hours. 10 hours is still significantly faster than a hypothetical HSR. Remember that it would also have to stop a
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by runako 2mo ago
> He’s the elder statesmen of the party. In US politics, that mantle holds until someone else takes the nomination. That role is Biden's. It seems really odd that a former leader other than the most recent would be in charge of the
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by runako 2mo ago
I hear what you're saying, but it is also true that re-splitting the population would probably be more difficult politically than e.g. switching off all the fossil fuel generation plants east of the Mississippi or gently transitioning
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by runako 2mo ago
Obviously a choice, but also at 200mph it's obviously a vastly slower experience in a lot of way for many of the most-trafficked US domestic routes. Even at 300mph, which IIRC is much faster than normal operations on existing system, t
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by runako 2mo ago
> Electrified high speed rail solves this Curious -- what speed are you assuming for such a high speed rail?
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by runako 2mo ago
Yes, this is part of why it was so stupid for Sanders to not actually join and support the party. Had he done that, it's entirely possible he could have won the support of the actual voters he needed to win the presidency. Also, it&#x2
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by runako 2mo ago
> Obama as the patriarch so the buck stops with him to police the party messaging. Sanders is not a member of the party. AOC didn't run for office until Obama had been retired a few years.
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by runako 2mo ago
Just to make sure I'm reading this correctly, are you saying that Perot thought there was a credible threat that a sitting vice president was planning to have him assassinated?
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by runako 2mo ago
The debate thing was clownish, for sure. My recollection of the DNC linkage was that the Clinton campaign agreed to help the DNC in a set of ways (likely raising money for the DNC and helping Democratic candidates) in exchange for some affo
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by runako 2mo ago
> This cost him a lot of votes and the media framed him as unstable This was...an eminently reasonable response to Perot's own actions? > Sanders was on track to win in 2015 Yes, like Clinton was "on track" to win in 20
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by runako 2mo ago
Am I missing something here? Perot was on the ballot in 1992, and he won a bunch of votes. IIRC he was the most successful independent candidate in modern times, by vote count. Sanders ran an insurgent campaign while denigrating the party,
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by runako 2mo ago
I was responding to someone else, not addressing your situation directly.
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by runako 2mo ago
> The plan would have been in effective over 18 years ago This is such an important point. There's been ~40% of cumulative inflation over that period. Also, anyone who was already buying insurance for years before the ACA knew the p
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by runako 2mo ago
This is effectively Medicare for All.
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by runako 2mo ago
I hear your perspective. I am not particularly advocating either position. I am just pointing out that the alternative may be fewer apps available on one's favorite platform. Everything is tradeoffs, and fortunately one can always boot
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by runako 2mo ago
Incorrect. There's a log written about this on the Internet. Suffice to say that Netflix did not allow all of their titles to be viewed on all browsers for years after it was technically feasible.
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by runako 2mo ago
> Yes, and I would say it's a bad thing that the OS tries to prevent this. Another way to look at it is the OS makes certain guarantees to the developer around security. Giving control of this to the user would erode that guarantee

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