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by runako 2mo ago
People here buy natural gas generators[1] and just connect them into the existing gas lines. (I realize natural gas is not part of the utility mix everywhere.) Gas still flows when power is out, and common generators are big enough to power
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by runako 2mo ago
Has Stripe announced they were the top payment provider in the world? That seems like something they would have prominently on their homepage.
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by runako 2mo ago
Try this aspect of the analogy: Anthropic/OpenAI -> Oracle Gemini -> SQL Server DeepSeek -> MongoDB Qwen -> PostgreSQL Llama -> MySQL (These are approximate, just as food for thought about broad segments of the markets.)
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by runako 2mo ago
Appreciate your thoughts. re: the Amazon transitions, the first shareholder letter lays out the plan to go beyond books. As I remember it, books were always only supposed to be the entry point. AWS transition was more around building the pl
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by runako 2mo ago
I hear your argument, I do. I think the "money instead of tokens" is the important part. Money and tokens are fundamentally different was part of my argument (that I did not make well). It's not clear that it is a good thing
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by runako 2mo ago
> Tokens are simply a lightweight valuable asset (Not picking on you here, you just provided a well-written peg for a popular narrative. I'm aiming to sharpen my own thinking here & perhaps learn something.) This seems like a st
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by runako 2mo ago
No. Revenue is a generally accepted business metric. It is normal to discuss revenue without being also compelled to discuss profits at the same time. You don't have to like the common way of discussing business, but that doesn't
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by runako 2mo ago
No. Look at what I wrote: > b) the specific response was not preordained (for ex: it is not part of the Constitution that rich people must pay lower tax rates than they did in 1982, that invariant is a policy choice). We did not have to
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by runako 2mo ago
The tax code was changed to discourage large cash comp, and companies switched most comp to stock. Not particularly germane to the deficit.
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by runako 2mo ago
> last pre-GFC Bush II > last pre-Covid Trump I Sure, if you exclude the big increases, you can draw different conclusions. GFC was not an exogenous shock, and even if it was, a) Bush was in office setting policy the prior 6 years and
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by runako 2mo ago
Except Clinton.
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by runako 2mo ago
The bill[1], which is named in the video, is available on the public Internet. 1 - https://legistar.council.nyc.gov/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=7...
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by runako 2mo ago
The bill[1], which is named in the video, is available on the public Internet. 1 - https://legistar.council.nyc.gov/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=7...
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by runako 2mo ago
The bill[1], which is named in the video, is available on the public Internet. 1 - https://legistar.council.nyc.gov/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=7...
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by runako 2mo ago
Is that because he's filling potholes, or because rich NYC residents are paying slightly less in tax than they did in 1994?
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by runako 2mo ago
As the xAI debacle in Memphis showed, once construction begins the locality may lose the ability to enforce existing laws around e.g. noise, pollution, etc. that normally serve to contain negative externalities. (This is a side effect of t
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by runako 2mo ago
>…how are you missing this. Yeah, you added that in a later comment because your original comment did read as "ignore stupid laws." Yes, I agree state governments should be responsive to the citizens. Corruption is bad. Ignorin
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by runako 2mo ago
In context, your comment reads as a defense of companies ignoring laws: >> that big companies are (sometimes) bound by the same laws that bind the rest of us > Not if they’re stupid laws! States won't adapt to new technologies
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by runako 2mo ago
> these products and investments are accruing disproportionately to red cities and states Is this true at the city level? > Sinking together isn't a great pitch. Surely it's a worse pitch to suggest that companies can ignore
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by runako 2mo ago
State law requires a human driver to operate vehicles at all times. This is not coming from NYC.
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by runako 2mo ago
The Holmes example is off-base as you had quite obviously been exposed to Holmes (e.g. it was in your training data). Pangram is asserting they don't need that to identify an individual. An individual who may still be learning and deve
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by runako 2mo ago
Boston, according to Waymo[1], is dependent on the legislature making autonomous vehicles legal. Apparently NY state laws also require a human driver at the wheel. The only surprising thing about this is that other states did not require ch
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by runako 2mo ago
Divide this differently: - states where the major cities commonly have snow for > 3 months - states where the major cities commonly have snow for < 1 month Inclement weather is likely the differentiator. Blue state California gets Way
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by runako 2mo ago
The very rich have forgotten the lessons of the past. They have forgotten that they also live in the very same physical world as the poor. Most of them don't even live that far from the poor. Perhaps they don't consider the implic
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by runako 2mo ago
Votes are equal because the belief system is that all people are equal. If you win the lottery, you don't instantly become a more valuable person. Prior generations understood more clearly that the physical security that underwrites gr
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by runako 2mo ago
Correct -- it can identify one of your (current) voices, written with your knowledge that the text will be used for the purpose of having an LLM determine whether you wrote it. This is a mentalist setup. Expanding on that...you are fully ca
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by runako 2mo ago
> Claude, a general-purpose model, can identify me, personally It cannot. this is a misconception. A human being is fully capable of writing 200 words that Claude will identify as not being written by them, because human beings are far m
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by runako 2mo ago
This product does not even have a plausible theory of how it could work. LLM-generated text does not carry a watermark or other identifying marks. The "theory" is that an LLM trained on human writing, to mimic human writing, can b
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by runako 3mo ago
> It is common in business strategy, far less so in nation-state governance. It is not clear why this is bad for Alibaba or China, could you expand on that? > it’s bad to run a country like a business The "Chinese miracle" r
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by runako 3mo ago
> China is giving them for free despite not making financial sense because they want to weaken US's tech firms ability to compete - because China sees AI dominance as critical for their national security. Nobody is making this argum

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