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by spacebanana7 6mo ago
Oil will only be in demand as a chemical feedstock as long as it's economically competitive with the alternatives. There's a substitute for virtually every petrochemical process if oil becomes scare (or expensive) enough. Substitu
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by spacebanana7 6mo ago
The world will never run out oil supply, demand will likely go first. There are dozens of ways to increase production through world peace, better drilling technology and ideological conversion. Most of African production is well below geolo
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by spacebanana7 6mo ago
> together with a law that says using the data to make personalized decisions affecting those individuals is punishable with life in prison. This works well in theory but is basically unenforceable. It's barely possible, if possible
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by spacebanana7 6mo ago
Apple was wise to get out of the EV business. It's very expensive in terms of factories, regulation etc and not very profitable. They had no first mover advantage, government backing or legacy advantage. What's the best case scena
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by spacebanana7 6mo ago
For example, Tim had the discipline to get out of the EV projects. Which was likely wise given the challenges the sector has faced in profitability, and Apple's long term outside option to accrue vehicular services revenue through CarP
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by spacebanana7 6mo ago
There are very few countries where consumer rights apply to B2B transactions, especially if it’s multiple people operating as a “small team”. A solo dev however might be able to present themselves as a retail consumer, and leverage some tra
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by spacebanana7 7mo ago
Also a key single use case that justifies the cost/friction of purchasing a new device. Meta glasses somewhat justify themselves just for recording hikes/cycles/weddings etc.
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by spacebanana7 7mo ago
Perhaps I should’ve said financial system plus some system that allows you to spend money on things you’d like.
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by spacebanana7 7mo ago
Extreme events are always poorly priced in markets. For example, there's no point in making a trade for the S&P 500 falling by 90% because if it does we'll be in such a catastrophe that money doesn't matter any more. Insu
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by spacebanana7 7mo ago
It can be useful for insurance/hedging purposes. For example if you're a European farmer it might be rational to protect yourself from fertiliser price swings by buying/shorting natural gas futures, derivates or long dated de
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by spacebanana7 7mo ago
No company at the moment has enough money operate with 10x the reasoning tokens of their competitors because they're bottlenecked by GPU capacity (or other physical constraints). Maybe in lab experiments but not for generally available
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by spacebanana7 7mo ago
I fear this is a move towards government control of social media. I'd rather have Mark Zuckerberg control my Facebook feed than OFCOM. If they could, they'd prevent any content they felt harmed their agenda and introduce mandatory
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by spacebanana7 8mo ago
That strategy could really burn you if a Democratic anti-MAGA candidate wins the next election. To the private citizen, silence is usually the best option and we should push for that option to exist. All attempts at digital ID or mandatory
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by spacebanana7 8mo ago
Yeah it requires an act of parliament to scrap the Duke title, neither the King nor voluntary resignation can do that
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by spacebanana7 8mo ago
The last time the Duke of York was arrested was in 1483. And before that, the most recent prior was in 1452 during the War of the Roses.
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by spacebanana7 8mo ago
Defence firms like Raytheon are often happy to pay for stuff like this. What happens afterwards with the exploit is anybody's guess. Source - a vague memory of a Darknet diaries episode.
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by spacebanana7 8mo ago
The headline that PyTorch has full compatibility on all AMD GPUs would increase their stock by > $50 billion overnight. They should do it even if it takes 500 engineers and 2 years.
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by spacebanana7 8mo ago
If you were hiring a childminder for your kids, would you want to know that they had 6 accusations for improper conduct around children in 6 different court cases - even if those were all acquittals?
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by spacebanana7 8mo ago
The political answer is that open justice provides ammunition for their political opponents, and that juries also tend to dislike prosecutions that feel targeted against political opponents. See palestine action as a left wing example and J
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by spacebanana7 8mo ago
The names of minors should never be released in public (with a handful of exceptions). But why shouldn't a 19 year old shoplifter have that on their public record? Would you prevent newspapers from reporting on it, or stop users postin
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by spacebanana7 8mo ago
The movie industry is doing well from AI. Thus far AI has only been used to create fan fiction clips that generate free marketing for legacy IP on TikTok. And the rights holders know that if AI gets good enough to make feature length movies
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by spacebanana7 8mo ago
There were some occasions he replied to questions as "not for email".
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by spacebanana7 8mo ago
If it’s a commodity then it’s even more competitive so the ability for companies to impose safety rules is even weaker. Imagine if Ford had a monopoly on cars, they could unilaterally set an 85mph speed limit on all vehicles to improve safe
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by spacebanana7 8mo ago
Startups fail because of a lack of adoption far more often than by any other reason, including competitive and monetisation factors. If your developer company gets popular you’ll be rich enough anyway. You might need to choose between screw
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by spacebanana7 8mo ago
Especially as most AI safety concerns are essentially political, and uncensored LLMs exist anyway for people who want to do crazy stuff like having a go at building their own nuclear submarine or rewriting their git history with emoji only
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by spacebanana7 8mo ago
It’s a non trivial question. Estimates of criminal activity, for example, are frequently counted as GDP in places like the UK. And even if you’re working in violation of visa rules, the IRS will still expect and enforce taxes.
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by spacebanana7 8mo ago
There’s a big difference between the gospels not being cited by name directly, and not having a name. For example, the Gospels often cite Isaiah without using his name - just lifting direct quotes. And there’re allusions to apostolic naming
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by spacebanana7 8mo ago
There has never been a manuscript of a Gospel with anyone other than the traditional author attributed. And they’ve always been cited by the traditional names - even in Islamic, Jewish or heretical writings. The arguments made in favour of
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by spacebanana7 8mo ago
Historical documents should really have four dates: 1) Oldest full manuscript to be carbon dated (or similarly rigorous scientific dating) 2) Oldest fragments to be carbon dated 3) Oldest citations 4) Estimated date from internal factors w
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by spacebanana7 8mo ago
I feel we should be hesitant about claims like this. It might well be true that Paul was the earliest writer. But it also seems strange that Matthew, a presumably literate tax collector, wrote nothing at all before Paul despite being a disc

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