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“Dark” matter and energy are placeholder names. “Dark” means “we don’t know” which either means we can’t see or detect it or there is an alternate explanation for the effect. It’s like a comment in your code like \\ TODO… I don’t see why th
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The most exciting idea to me that JWST has bolstered is primordial black holes. Many models already predict them but JWST has provided the first good indirect evidence in the form of too-early galaxies. The models that predict PBHs predict
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"Housing cannot simultaneously be affordable and a good investment."
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Housing inflation cascades down into everything else too, since people require higher wages to afford housing... which drives up housing costs... which requires higher wages to afford housing... Basically real estate is the thirsty sponge t
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That means buyers have basically purchased options. If the price falls, they're underwater a little, but if the price spikes it protects them. People do that all the time, and sometimes it doesn't pay off.
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It'll probably take a few years. There's many fabs under construction. One thing holding back capacity expansion is that a lot of people are concerned this is a bubble. They're worried it'll pop and leave them with orpha
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by api 3mo ago
Apple M series chips deserve a mention as another option, especially since you get a whole Mac laptop or desktop workstation too. They have unified memory and respectable inference performance, and for some variations can be cheaper than vi
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by api 3mo ago
If markets were perfectly efficient, entrepreneurship would not exist. An entrepreneur is, at this level, someone who looks for an arbitrage opportunity in correcting a market inefficiency, usually of the form "there is a market for X,
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by api 3mo ago
In the last few years I keep seeing interviews with these guys and they are obviously on speed. Too much speed. I’ve seen a tweaker before. Not gonna name names but look them up. It’s not hard to tell.
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Just like with writing, any kind of AI detection is going to be inaccurate to the point of snake oil. LLM detection in writing is basically today's polygraph test pseudoscience. There was a blog a while ago where someone fed classic li
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by api 3mo ago
Oh boy. This edgelord. Where to start. Everything he says about AI companies charging a subscription and then possibly extracting value from customer data is true for every single cloud hosted SaaS since the dawn of that model. If you put y
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by api 3mo ago
“I won’t put chemicals from big pharma in my body!” Proceeds to raw dog a bunch of “research chemicals” cause some roided up bro talked about it on a podcast… https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U7gbFMWZWlo They’re not vaccines
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The potential for the technology in cancer treatment is what I find most exciting.
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The biggest single success from Trump’s first term is the thing his base hates to the point that they booed him over it.
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People think I’m AI! Yay! It’s hopeless. You won’t be able to tell at all. Probably can’t already.
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People no longer believe in the possibility of reforming institutions or good governance. Most people believe all politicians -- all of them -- are con men, liars, degenerates, or incompetents, and that nothing good can be achieved throug
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by api 3mo ago
Street crime is tangible, visceral, and visible. When someone physically accosts you or physically invades your space, you feel it. Incestuous "robber baron" state-capitalism that privatizes gains and socializes losses, or outrigh
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> 2012: When Everything Started Changing I have independently dated it to that same year. Two things happened at least near that time: (1) mobile phones began to eclipse desktops as the primary devices for interaction online, and (2) soc
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by api 3mo ago
Depends. If we get explosive inertial confinement fusion to work you could build a pure fusion version of a nuclear pulse rocket. Look up Project Orion. Orion (in its fission bomb form) is impractical and would be insane to launch from Eart
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$10/kg isn’t fantasy land if we have fusion rockets, but then we don’t need fission power anymore. :)
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Economically absurd, much more expensive than reprocessing or fast waste burning reactors.
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Is anyone working in the US on a waste solution that isn’t a big hole with a straight out of cyberpunk sci-fi warning plaque? The French reprocess and recycle fissile material but that’s kind of a gnarly industrial process. Still they do it
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China is also still building coal and has passed Europe and will (if they don’t change course) soon pass the US and Canada and the other big ones on a per capita emitter basis. They already passed everyone as top emitter in an absolute se
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Both. We should be investing in all non carbon emitting sources and we should have been doing it since the 1970s when we figured out pretty conclusively that this would be a problem. Instead we had right wing fossil fuel shills on one shoul
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Have you tried them recently? They absolutely 100% produce usable results for large classes of problems. Usually problems on the more "boring" side, but that's most code. Even local ones are getting "usable." As an
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> other quests we may not know about. Back then an interface between terrestrial computer systems and a Zeta Reticulan spacecraft required a small supercomputer on our side.
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I wonder if people said this about compilers. Some day they’ll replace all that compiler generated junk with hand crafted ASM. This reminds me of that. The spec is the new high level language. Code is ASM. ASM is like CPU microcode.
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It's largely a wealth inequality issue. Rich parents can have nannies, expensive software, or a parent who stays home from work. Poorer parents do not have time or energy to police this stuff or supervise their kids. They're too b
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Personally I find everything you listed here safer than letting a kid have unfiltered unlimited access to TikTok. You know a gun or a bomb is dangerous, so you'll probably be careful with it. The gun and the bomb are not engineered on
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I'm telling you why ordinary people support this, and I can tell you they overwhelmingly do... at least those with children. I'm also aware of what you're talking about. That's called regulatory capture. They know this k

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