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by stymaar 4mo ago
Yes, but not just “immigration”, but open borders with the EU: most immigrants in Switzerland are EU citizens, and it fits in a broader framework of Swiss-European agreement, capping population would almost certainly imply withdrawal from t
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by stymaar 4mo ago
That sounds like nonsense, they don't even speak the same language in Brasil and Paraguay …
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by stymaar 4mo ago
In a beauty contest, being right alone against everyone else just makes you lose. Markets can remain irrational much longer than you can remain solvent.
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by stymaar 4mo ago
> There's no reason to believe that construction companies would accept jobs at prices below the cost of materials and labor. Who's talking about cost of material and labor though? Not only construction companies make good mone
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by stymaar 4mo ago
For token generation, yes: because current-gen LLMs are autoregressive you need to add the inter-node latency for every since token. For prompt processing it would work though, and it could for diffusion LLMs as well.
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by stymaar 4mo ago
> A camera recording is neither smart nor useful IMO. It's very useful for big brother Zuckerberg though.
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by stymaar 4mo ago
> Turns out Frank Herbert was an optimist, and we're literally pinning our survival on robots turning out to naturally have impractically short attention spans. Some people are working as hard as they can to increase it though.
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by stymaar 4mo ago
I've no opinion whatsoever on the topic, but why can't economists refrain from writing opinion pieces in newspaper about topics they have no qualification on? I'm sure there's enough dermatologists and pharmaceutical eng
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by stymaar 4mo ago
> then I'd argue it's also kind of pointless because when the speed most needed (when there is a queue) The thing is: with 5min charging, it reduces the amount of situations where there's a queue at all. > That way you
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by stymaar 4mo ago
> but you unwittingly engage them rather than them engaging you. Directional anti-tank mines are a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARM_1_mine
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by stymaar 4mo ago
If you have full usage of your charger, then batteries are pointless anyway because you have steady usage no matter what. But it's not a realistic assumption, at the very least the driver has to park, get out of their car, plug the car
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by stymaar 4mo ago
I was definitely using simplifying assumptions to get my point straight here. Setting the actual parameters for such systems is an engineering job, I just wanted to illustrate that the goal isn't going to have the charging station off
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by stymaar 4mo ago
> batteries next to these chargers that they charge "off peak" I don't think that's what they'll do. Charging off peak means being able to store the entirety of the energy demand for the power station in a batte
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by stymaar 4mo ago
If you were born before WWII, yes. (The only person I know that still used «briques» in these decades were my grand parents born in the 1920th)
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by stymaar 4mo ago
> Much of the industrialisation and banking industry was driven by immigrants. This. In particular the chemical/pharmaceutical industry (which is still a major Swiss industry today) got bootstrapped in great part by French and Germa
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by stymaar 4mo ago
> This guy is way out of his depth. It's literally Noah Smith, what did you expect?
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by stymaar 5mo ago
That's a tough question, really. AFAIK the causes of the demographic transition in general are heavily debated among specialists and if we cannot exactly pinpoint what's driving the decline of birthrates happening right now, it&#x
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by stymaar 5mo ago
Most of the “money American tech brings in” comes from the magnificent seven. US software engineering salaries are high even outside of those. In fact, it's high even in companies that are merely burning investor's money.
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by stymaar 5mo ago
Don't threaten me with good times.
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by stymaar 5mo ago
> France was historically always focused on Paris, because that was where the Emperor was. So much misconception in such a short sentence… First of all France only had an “Emperor” for a few decades (10 years for Napoléon 1er, 17 for Nap
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by stymaar 5mo ago
It's mostly a matter of when the demographic transition started: https://nitter.net/pic/media%2FGEDBLvOXUAANUlK.png%3Fname%3D... France used to be “the China of Europe” (which is why we kept being at war with the
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by stymaar 5mo ago
Do you know what “lag” means?
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by stymaar 5mo ago
It's a migration cap. There's no provision on sterilizing Swiss women should the threshold be reached through birthrate…
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by stymaar 5mo ago
France is mostly empty by Europe's population density standard though, so even though it was likely not the intent of GP, it kind of works in that context.
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by stymaar 5mo ago
Nobody in Switzerland is worried about the population growing due to birthrate. This referendum is about stopping immigration (even though in Switzerland more than anywhere else, immigration is at the foundation of the country's wealth
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by stymaar 5mo ago
> "folk economics" implies it is by untrained people. The problem is mostly its appropriation by untrained people though. > Milton Friedman's famous quote of "inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomeno
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by stymaar 5mo ago
Where's the hell is the lag on these graphs though!? The money supply grows both before, and after the inflationary spike. (And the fact that it stops increasing when inflation is high is not surprising at all, by the way, high inflati
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by stymaar 5mo ago
The idea that inflation and the money supply are linked is one of the most dumb one in folk economics. Just look at these charts: they were declining when inflation was raging on in 2022-23 …
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by stymaar 5mo ago
Books are forbidden, book readers are prosecuted and their collection is burned down by “firefighters”.
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by stymaar 5mo ago
> Almost 100 years ago he foresaw how the cultural offerings of society get commodified and chopped into bite sized chunks for each individual to receive theirs. He did not forsee us taking it this far, nor the addictive nature of the co

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