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by thisisit 1y ago
Government shouldn't bail out anyone. Period. It should enact preferential policies like grants, tax cuts, subsidies etc. for industries they want to promote. It is done all the time. That is what happened with the CHIPS Act. The momen
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Government now has a vested interest in seeing Intel succeed. And as much as RW debate in bad faith about cutting public funding being good and private entities should pick up the slack etc. there is no bigger catalyst than government polic
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“National security” is often used by third world countries to nationalise companies and industries. Often with a bad outcome. Once the money is in, government becomes invested in the success of the company. This leads to preferential polici
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With time military companies need to pay their allegiance money so that they can break sanctions and oh national security. Some will approve because of the same reasons as Nvidia deal, who leaves that money on the table?
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Most of the answers are going to be national security. That is the reason used by third world countries to nationalise companies.
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Lot of companies want to do drive down costs. This often falls on departments which are not "bringing in revenue". That means in this era of AI lot of back office operations are the first on the chopping block. Executives often do
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I found that if you have people with accents and they emphasize certain words then it becomes very difficult to read. One example, I find is "th" is often D because how people pronounce it. Apart from that it is a hit or miss.
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You seem to be unaware of world history or local politics. India US relationship has historically been bad. It turned around only during the Bush administration with the civil nuclear treaty. So, this good relationship has been there for la
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This sounds like what social media mangers are telling their clients - If you are acting stupid/dumb/shameless and attracting people through rage bait, you are being authentic. Lots of prank channels who harass people shamelessly
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There is a reason why sales and marketing is first. It has to do with hallucination. People have figured out that even if you mess up sales/support/marketing, worse case you apologize and give a gift coupon. And then there is also
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More and more companies are focusing on costs and timelines over anything else. That means if they are convinced that AI can move things faster and be cost efficient they are going to use more AI and revise cost and time downwards. AI can w
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If you ask a layperson the answer is - "Yes, and?". If its free, very few people care. Sure you can run a local instance and yes, it might be as simple as downloading Ollama but not many will do it or even have a powerful enough c
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I know it is a cliche at this point but there are clear parallels to what happened in Nazi Germany. Many people don't know is that the Nazi party was voted democratically into the government. They didn't win the majority but got m
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As bad as this is it will only lead to more brigading about how billionaires like Zuckerberg were talking about being repressed under the Dems/Biden. It just seems the party condemning others regarding first amendment rights isn't
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No need for pig butchering scams in terrible English when you have AI like this.
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Just because something is happening for years doesn't mean there cannot be extra incentive to make it worse today. But you just handwaved tariffs away. and did the inflation go up by 0.9% in a month in those years?
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5 years ago I was researching the iOS app ecosystem. As part of that exercise I was looking at the potential revenue figures for some free apps. One developer had a free app to track some child health data. It was long time ago so I don&#x2
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You are right. An entire category of merchants (made in USA) looked at others (importers) who now need to pay increase prices due an import tax and figured it was fine to raise prices. Those greedy businesses who figured that you can raise
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Its been ~8 months in office now. Can we please stop with this whataboutism? Pray do tell what is this guy's plan to reduce the national debt? The BBB seems to be increasing the national debt to unmanageable level.
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There has been convergence of many events: 1. The tax deduction change where costs couldn't be classified as an expense. 2. The saturation in people joining coding. At one point in time everyone wanted to be part of a bootcamp to earn
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You can watch the Big Short. Michael Burry started paying out premiums on CDS in 2005. The premiums were huge. He got into a fight with his biggest investors and then had to freeze withdrawals. So, that he could still pay the premiums on th
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> The global pandemic will tank the stock market - the market did crash and then Fed stepped in. Rates were cut and Fed > War in Ukraine will tank the stock market - Market did go down by -30% between Jan-Oct 2022 and went nowhere for
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This is just a ball park number. Its like the AI dev will cost some what less than a human developer. Enough for AI providers to have huge margins and allow for CTOs to say - "I replaced all devs and saved so much money".
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Is that so hard to believe? My work uses proprietary language. Something like ABAP for SAP [1]. AI has ingested lot of documentation available on the internet. But it cannot tell the difference between versions. So, AI code often has correc
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From corrupt businessman to corrupting the government. Next up - trade with North Korea is okay, if you pay the government 50% of your profits.
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That this blatant corruption. Pay to play. Every time a company needs to do something illegal, say trade with Russia despite the sanctions, pay US government a cut and go ahead and trade.
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Nate Silver has a piece on this: https://www.natesilver.net/p/trumps-jobs-data-denialism-wont... The point being that revisions can be huge. Given the climate created by the TACO-ing over tariffs its not surprising tha
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Really? Is that why Project Warp Speed was both an achievement for Trump and at the same time vaccines were produced too fast and hence unreliable? That is at the same institutions were a friend, when it fit the narrative and enemy, when it
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Well, MAGA supporters have never heard of consumers paying tariffs: https://x.com/dieworkwear/status/1951851958559703117
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Different countries have different considerations. Most of these "deals" aren't deals and rather frameworks. And given the tumultuous nature of bilateral trade where countries might not follow on their promises. Happens all t

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