runako

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by runako 3mo ago
> something incriminating How would one even define that in 2026?
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by runako 3mo ago
> Aren't consumers benefiting from cheap chinese batteries, EVs, and drones? Yes? Not remembering my economic theory here, but it is likely more efficient/expensive to simply have the federal government cut checks to our moribu
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by runako 3mo ago
It's a rational position to care about the law, but insist on a queue when related parties are involved. In this case: resolve the theft claims against the US frontier labs, and only then let them make claims against third parties. It
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by runako 3mo ago
If it's costing $650+ per sqft to build, it sounds like there may be some externalities about the site(s) that might be relevant here? For scale, in much of the country it is possible to build a new home for well under $200/sf. Ne
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by runako 3mo ago
Where are you seeing inflation numbers showing health insurance falling?
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by runako 3mo ago
> Companies posting ranges of $100K-$900K. Yes, this is extremely Netflix. The "fix" for this is to mandate that they can no longer post an ad for engineers, but rather they have to post separate ads for each engineering role.
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by runako 3mo ago
Caveat: I am pro more transparency in compensation data. But it's hard to do right. > mean(), median(), and std() play this out a bit, and you'll quickly realize that there are infinite ways to game this. Something like levels.
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by runako 3mo ago
Popular open-source projects: Google: Chromium, Kubernetes, Android, TensorFlow Meta: React, PyTorch, Llama Microsoft: VS Code, TypeScript, .NET Core LinkedIn: Kafka Slotted in along these, an analogous explanation is that Alibaba needs Qwe
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by runako 3mo ago
People are forgetting that the kind of conduct alleged is also likely illegal. In the not-so-distant past, Uber's head of self-driving was indicted and sentenced to jail time for similar conduct. The criminal case didn't start unt
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by runako 3mo ago
Those are solid points. They also describe Starlink as a niche service with a structurally low TAM.
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by runako 3mo ago
That's great, they still are bound by physics to spend ~70% of their time over the ocean. I would guess ~80%+ of their time is spent where there are effectively no people.
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by runako 3mo ago
My understanding is that Starlink can only service ~6-7 houses per square mile today. The US is ~95/sq. mile on average. 80% of Americans live in "cities." Anchorage metro is ~15/sq. mile; Yuma, AZ is ~36. The Nashville
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by runako 3mo ago
This idea that putting $500m+ of assets in the water, but thinking that even one person on the boat is too many has got to be one of the silliest things in modern capitalism (obviously the crown goes to orbital AI data centers). The same bo
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by runako 3mo ago
This reads like there are enough alleged serious federal felonies that DOJ needs to get involved immediately. People do this kind of stuff because people rarely go to jail for white-collar crime.
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by runako 3mo ago
Drag out a legal battle? Surely, Apple would never do something like that[1]. 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Micros... .
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by runako 3mo ago
I will go out on a limb and say that's not going to be an Apple product, period. It doesn't fit anywhere in the value envelope. The relevant questions here are: will the person using this machine also conceivably be wearing a pair
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by runako 3mo ago
They had Xserve, it didn't sell well enough to survive.
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by runako 3mo ago
Per the spec of the last 25 years, they will let it run until the party in control of the White House changes. The new party will be responsible for the exit & cleanup phase.
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by runako 3mo ago
> And the proposed "defense" budget for 2027 is $1.5T, a roughly 50% increase Yeah, this is mind-boggling. The requested increase is roughly the size of the entire 2004 military budget. 2004, when we were fighting two separate
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by runako 3mo ago
I'm not quite that old, but didn't people look down on cassettes due to their lower audio quality? Weren't most home systems (hi-fis) still vinyl or 8-track for a while longer?
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by runako 3mo ago
If Microsoft didn't want to use IP of existing studios, they should not have bought those studios. Why buy id if not to get more id? Disney + Marvel offers a roadmap for extending existing IP. (Keep in mind that the Marvel acquisition
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by runako 3mo ago
> ... prevent access to information. ... or find countless video reviews which contain its ideas Popping in to point out that novels are not "information" in the sense of being lists of facts or ideas. The medium is part of the
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by runako 3mo ago
Whether that person is talking their book or not, there absolutely has been an app explosion. Github & the app stores have all reported as much over the last year. I also have repeatedly experienced the phenomenon of nontechnical people
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by runako 3mo ago
> impossibility of enforcing fireworks bans Because fireworks are not usually homemade, enforcing bans is pretty easily done by cracking down on retailers who illegally sell them. They are easy to find (have to advertise) and have a lot
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by runako 3mo ago
I laid out a set of scenarios, and it's impossible to know what would have happened had US laws been enforced. Bankruptcy is a legitimate option -- many companies with productive assets survive and thrive after restructuring. Even a li
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by runako 3mo ago
Even so, mergers foreclose options to promote competitiveness. For example: no well-capitalized companies from outside the immediate industry could buy MDD to enter the space (as RocketLab bought Iridium). A failing MDD could have limped al
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by runako 3mo ago
> The free market fundamentally doesn't have a good response to this problem The market may not for the most capital-intensive businesses, but US laws at least attempt to address the situation. In Boeing's case, for example, th
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by runako 3mo ago
A $1m machine with (say) $100k of annual operating costs with a 10-year lifespan. Assume low cost of capital, call it $200k/year for those 10 years. The machine itself covers its cost at only ~84 monthly scans @ $200 each. That says to
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by runako 4mo ago
> we have observational evidence to answer the question. Isn't the point that the observational evidence amounts to the companies in question steer clear of illegal behavior? There are anti-money laundering laws, so banks institute
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by runako 4mo ago
> discriminating on the basis of some factor it found that was correlated with race, like SAT scores Hypothetical SAT score: 1060 How does that help you predict the race of an individual applicant? It's been a while since I took the

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