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by runeks 5mo ago
I wanted to see how well Akademikerpension has done wrt. returns. This graph shows average yearly return from the financial crisis 2009 until 2021 and they are actually the best performing among other Danish pension funds [1]. [1] https:&#
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by runeks 5mo ago
Why does everyone seem to assume that there is a finite amount of work available? If all of the sudden it becomes possible to build a B2B company at 10x less cost which can save its customer, say, $1m per year and before this company cost $
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by runeks 5mo ago
> [...] instead encourage a wealth tax on hoarding that directly transfers charity from the wealthiest to the poorest (tithe or zakaat). Hoarding of what? Commodities? Should I be taxed for hoarding firewood before winter? Money? Only po
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by runeks 5mo ago
> The total amount due on the bill is $83.89. Please verify this amount with your utility provider or by using Text Detection before making a payment. 1. Use AI to determine how much a bill is for 2. Call up the people who billed you and
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by runeks 5mo ago
> No-one is sitting around going "you know what I need? More software" I disagree. Every company goes "I need more software — iff its TCO is less than the savings it produces". So if the cost of producing a piece of
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by runeks 5mo ago
> What Jevons paradox actually describes is the situation where usage of a resource becomes more efficient (which means less of it is needed for a given task), but still the total usage of that resource increases. Why is this stated as a
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by runeks 6mo ago
It was bad legislation because it didn't achieve anything except make visiting websites more annoying. I don't care what the politicians intended. The outcome is no improvement in privacy but more annoying banners.
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by runeks 6mo ago
https://archive.ph/2026.04.18-122152/https://www.economist.c...
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America wakes up to AI's dangerous power(economist.com)
2 points by runeks 6mo ago|1 comments
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by runeks 6mo ago
This article is subscription-only for me. Anyone have a link?
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by runeks 6mo ago
> It’s market cap today is $1.4T. That’s a gigantic reward for any state actor or entity with the resources and budget to break it. The market cap of a cryptocurrency — or any commodity, really — is not its market value. If you have all
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by runeks 7mo ago
> I think most people are just going to fly out of the nearest/most convenient airport and hope for the best. There are many cities in the world with more than a single airport at relatively close distance. Just to name the few I&#x
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by runeks 7mo ago
https://archive.ph/2026.03.18-021106/https://www.economist.c...
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The Iran war is roiling commodities far beyond oil(economist.com)
5 points by runeks 7mo ago|1 comments
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by runeks 8mo ago
Wouldn't the compiler take care of producing the correct machine code?
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by runeks 8mo ago
> Taalas’ silicon Llama achieves 17K tokens/sec per user, nearly 10X faster than the current state of the art, while costing 20X less to build, and consuming 10X less power. Am I reading this right: 10x faster and 10x less power,
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by runeks 8mo ago
> It's 2.5kW so it likely won't sit in your computer (quite beyond what a desktop could provide in power alone to a single card, let alone cool). It's 8.5cm^2 which is a beast of a single die. I wonder how you cool a 3x3cm
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by runeks 8mo ago
> Companies don't need "more work" half the "features"/"products" that companies produce is already just extra. At my company we have a huge backlog where only the top of that iceberg is pulled eve
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by runeks 8mo ago
> Sounds like you were just reviewing bad code. Software engineering in a nutshell
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by runeks 9mo ago
You should lobby for this
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by runeks 9mo ago
I find APL very difficult to read. Incidentally, I am told (by stack overflow) that the APL expression "A B C" can have at least four different meanings depending on context[1]. I suspect there's a connection here. [1] https
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by runeks 10mo ago
> The conclusion? AI is a world-changing technology, just like the railroads were, and it is going to soon explode in a huge bubble - just like the railroads did. Why "soon"? All your arguments may be correct, but none of them
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by runeks 10mo ago
> When correctly applied it can be an effective tool to encourage certain sorts of intellectual endeavors by making them monetarily favorable. I agree, but the only worth candidate I see is the medical industry. And given that drug devel
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by runeks 10mo ago
I was going to say that. That definitely would be a solution (and ought to be the way it works).
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by runeks 10mo ago
> As the verification process itself becomes automated, the challenge will move to correctly defining the specification: that is, how do you know that the properties that were proved are actually the properties that you cared about? Read
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by runeks 11mo ago
> US-centric thinking about invoicing, which makes invoicing unusable (I issue invoices only after a successful payment, because I owe tax on all invoices including unpaid) This sounds strange. I don't think there's anything US
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by runeks 11mo ago
> Talking about “thousands of tonnes” of nuclear waste is comically misleading when you realise how tiny the volume is. What is the actual volume?
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Mortgage lending in America is seizing up(economist.com)
2 points by runeks 11mo ago|0 comments
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by runeks 11mo ago
https://archive.ph/2024.10.31-222910/https://www.economist.c...
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by runeks 11mo ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46012710 (from 2024) > hbm chips are now emerging as another bottleneck in the development of those models. Both sk Hynix and Micron, an American chipmaker, have already pre-

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