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by throwaway5752 5mo ago
the newly elected president criticized foundational research saying it doesn't "turn into jobs" and instead "ends up in an expensive book abandoned in a library". That isn't the Dutch Disease, it's anti-
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by throwaway5752 5mo ago
DOGE. It's DOGE. This is just things going according to plan for people that think the US government is too powerful or that there is a fortune to be made in stealing public sector resources and privatizing them. It is a bad plan that
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by throwaway5752 5mo ago
The Gates Foundation has done measurably terrible work harming public education in the US. They do good work on infection disease, vaccines, and childhood mortality in the world but this partnership speaks to the worst of what the foundatio
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by throwaway5752 5mo ago
Blackmailers and protection rackets aren't known for being satisfied after a single payment, after they've established someone is willing to pay. That is why public corruption is such as plague and one of the reasons the US dollar
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by throwaway5752 5mo ago
eGPU cradles, presumably, for people with intense local model execution requirements until it can be made to work in the device? This is exactly like the POS dongles Square had until tap to pay was more widespread?
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by throwaway5752 5mo ago
I picked up a klein bottle at your house and it was a bucket list moment and one of my best memories. I'm glad AI was wrong, and I am also glad it nudged me to tell you this.
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by throwaway5752 5mo ago
Crazy suggestion - maybe there is some space for a more efficient compute software / device combination ecosystem and companies. I don't really need or even want the AI features being pushed on my devices. I don't want to pay
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by throwaway5752 5mo ago
The synergy is "corruption"
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by throwaway5752 5mo ago
As a matter of fact, ESL had bought Kmart and used it as a vehicle to acquire Sears. It was the same person.
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by throwaway5752 5mo ago
The sad thing is it could succeed. This is exactly how Putin put the apparatuses of Russia into the hands of his allies. I'm sure GME will get administration support, any white knights will get Netflix treatment from the FTC. Cohen, as
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by throwaway5752 5mo ago
Yes, this reduces the TAM of companies like Roblox in the near term. Countries should collectively regulate how much big tech can exploit minors. Minors cannot go to casinos, and the underlying gamification techniques for creating addiction
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by throwaway5752 6mo ago
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil" Decades in, this is the worst of all of them. Misused by laziness or malice, and nowhere near specific enough. The graveyard of companies boxed in by past poor decisions is sprawlin
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by throwaway5752 6mo ago
> those capabilities are available to you as well Give him $100 to obtain that capability. Give each open source project maintainer $100. Or internalize the cost if they all decide the hassle of maintaining an open source project is not
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by throwaway5752 6mo ago
50 years from now when those panels produce less than 75% of nameplate capacity they'll really regret not depending on a market where the swing producer is a cartel of theocratic dictatorships.
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by throwaway5752 7mo ago
Actually, you can just look in Iraq, and CNOOC, PetroChina, and Zhongman. Companies will benefit, just not American ones. And the US will clearly have failed to protect allies and project force in the Gulf. If the bulk of OPEC moves to a
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by throwaway5752 7mo ago
There used to be a social contract, but now there are so many people that it's a problem that there is no work for the displaced. The leverage between the very small number of people with vast amounts of capital and a large number of p
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by throwaway5752 7mo ago
Everybody is, not just the pilots. The US ATC system has been in a state of induced crisis since Reagan broke the union's back in the 1980s. Then Trump took office, laid off a bunch of people, cancelled a bunch of hires, and immediatel
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by throwaway5752 7mo ago
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by throwaway5752 7mo ago
This sounds exactly like how IBM sounded 50 years ago, before Microsoft disrupted them.
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by throwaway5752 7mo ago
All the various APM companies are implementing "Assign to agent" flows. The various foundation model providers will be satisfied getting a subscription for 10% of total comp of a developer, instead of pocketing 60% of the total co
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by throwaway5752 7mo ago
No they don't have incentive to cultivate developer goodwill. They are monetizing replacing developers everywhere. That is the trillion-dollar valuation. They have the opposite incentive.
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by throwaway5752 7mo ago
Sometimes criminals are unethical and lie, sometimes they are not smart or empathetic enough to accept they are causing harm to people. This is not some challenge to help them bridge that gap to understand, it is just why police are allowed
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by throwaway5752 7mo ago
And massive oil resources. As a result of this, one of the wealthiest sovereign wealth funds on the planet, which they manage well and for the good of the country. Their hydro energy company is an aluminum company company, they have so much
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Change in Data Sources Led to Lower Inflation Reading(nytimes.com)
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by throwaway5752 7mo ago
It's going to kill the software industry as we know it! We're literally killing our field by making the devices and internet so repulsive that people are actively unplugging. You can't hear about this online because the bot g
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by throwaway5752 7mo ago
That vision is a lie, and it's a distraction. It is taking advantage of the emptiness that they themselves created, and now they are making you angry to distract you while they rob you. I sincerely wish you well in life, don't pic
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by throwaway5752 7mo ago
The US is doing much, much worse. This is no compliment to China. The US * murdered a political leader the were negotiating with in Iran after using the military to kidnap the leader of Venezuela. * is credibly threatening military allies
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by throwaway5752 7mo ago
Conspiracy theories aren't very productive. But the one thing that continues to bother me is how there is no great explanation for why TSLA is still worth much. It's a shrinking car company that is failing to execute at FSD and sa
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by throwaway5752 7mo ago
I agree. For whatever reason, whether it is a change in community sentiment or something else, I get downvotes talking about this. I can't think of a more useless thing to care about. Even if I cared, I couldn't think of a better

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