Arn_Thor

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by Arn_Thor 28d ago
You can optimize work. But you can't optimize AWAY work. If you depend on human attention, expertise and judgement, as we do in medicine, you need that trained doctor to have the time to look at the transcript and think carefully about
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by Arn_Thor 1mo ago
*notwithstanding Anyway, good input!
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by Arn_Thor 1mo ago
This is super cool. Made me happy to see what's up in the sky. Bookmarked for when I need a pick-me-up!
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by Arn_Thor 1mo ago
I think they were talking about the Flight Wall, which doesn't use Google Earth imagery, only flight data
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by Arn_Thor 1mo ago
> generate a web page with diagrams and organized information flow. Sounds like you'd be just as well off link-surfing Wikipedia?
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by Arn_Thor 2mo ago
Bet you'd have bought a lot of tulips back in the day
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by Arn_Thor 2mo ago
I have racked up some air miles in my time. I am not wealthy, and price is a major criterion, but there are some airlines and airports I avoid at nearly all costs. I wish there were enough like me to put pressure on airlines to do better, b
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by Arn_Thor 2mo ago
the market can remain irrational longer than I can stay solvent
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by Arn_Thor 2mo ago
Also, the indoor park "tour" voiceover refers to "Thinking Machine supercomputers", which I never figured were a brand name until today!
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by Arn_Thor 3mo ago
Look, we are shareholders, but I showed how so much of the value generated by increased productivity never reaches listed companies, let alone their dividends. THAT is the key argument
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by Arn_Thor 4mo ago
In the US, public and private pension funds directly hold about US$9.9trn of corporate equities, out of US$83trn of the publicly traded market (ignoring non-public wealth extraction which I also mentioned). That is about 12%. After allowing
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by Arn_Thor 4mo ago
The problem is, if you deviate too far from the index, your head is on the chopping block. There is no incentive to outperform the index, and every incentive to not meaningfully underperform it. Anyone bought into an index fund expects exac
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by Arn_Thor 4mo ago
fine, strip out the words "surplus value" and "reasonable" if they truly blind you to the point. Let's say, "If we had a tax system that captured a greater share of the increase in profits resulting from higher
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by Arn_Thor 4mo ago
I'd be in line to buy today!
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by Arn_Thor 4mo ago
I was going to be glib and say "a thimbleful" but let's really look at it. Firstly, pension funds hold some share of stocks, but far from all. Second, pension funds hold a share of a pie that's not all that came out of t
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by Arn_Thor 4mo ago
You've been told a lie. Productivity has increased every step of the way even as populations shrink and the elderly cohort grows. Most of those productivity gains, i.e. the added value produced by each worker, has gone to shareholders&
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by Arn_Thor 4mo ago
> 7. Index fund managers are not incentivized to exclude a SpaceX from their indexes. (?) Correction: index funds don't have a choice. They must follow the index, and so must buy the stock. side effect: they'll have to sell oth
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by Arn_Thor 4mo ago
If they (and the rest of us for that matter) weren't burning so much of it, there'd be more left over for other uses. (with the obvious caveat that less demand means less production, which would mean there wouldn't be a lot o
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by Arn_Thor 4mo ago
I was a dedicated Claude user but in March/April I started using GPT5.5 on a new project that Claude had tried and failed to execute successfully. GPT knocked it out of the park, and was able to do it within my subscription allocation
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by Arn_Thor 4mo ago
The only way that'll happen is if deep-pocketed corporate buyers exit the market almost entirely, and therefore stop being the highest-available bidder. Even in a scenario where it's obvious to everyone that consumer-side hardware
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by Arn_Thor 5mo ago
Maybe it's bad to let people bet on anything, huh
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by Arn_Thor 5mo ago
This was news to me. Very sad news indeed. I see now they were bought by Canva. That explains it...
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by Arn_Thor 5mo ago
Yes, looking at things from the same angle every time and not really representing the alternative view is indeed a crusade
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by Arn_Thor 5mo ago
_Something_ motivates them, though. They have been on a wild anti-solar bend the last year or more. Dozens of articles, all with the same anti-solar NIMBY bent
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by Arn_Thor 5mo ago
The Guardian continues its anti-solar crusade. For some inexplicable reason
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by Arn_Thor 6mo ago
Roboto Mono, apparently
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by Arn_Thor 6mo ago
I'm using the drives, not hoarding them, so normal wear and tear is likely to be a problem before helium depletion enters the picture
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by Arn_Thor 6mo ago
Considering my helium-filled hard drives a strategic reserve now
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by Arn_Thor 6mo ago
For this particular person, the inordinate factor is not the frequency of flights, but the distance: 40 flights in 2019, mostly from the US to Austria via Frankfurt. Now, there are some jobs that really do require such travel (though the bu
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by Arn_Thor 6mo ago
Understand this is both an individual and systemic critique. We have the internet. Much of the travel you describe can and should be done remotely. The top 1% of flyers account for 50% of emissions. I would argue most of that probably is un

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