churchill

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by churchill 6mo ago
With $1.75t valuation & ~$16b in revenues, that's just over 100* revenues. SpaceX recently announced $8b in EBITDA, but I don't think it's a healthy metric for such a hardware-heavy business. Or, like Charlie Munger calls
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by churchill 7mo ago
I'm happy with how the Overton Window on the US being completely subservient to Israel is shifting. A few years ago, this would have gotten you denounced as antisemitic, but now it's a common position even normies hold that no mat
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by churchill 7mo ago
Isn't mass murder of civilians the most Israeli thing ever? For those out of the loop, this isn't an anomaly. It's a societal-level policy: 47% of Israeli Jews want all Palestinians killed; 82% want all Palestinians forcefull
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by churchill 8mo ago
Off topic, but the reason Vietnam played out the way it did was because of China's implicit guarantee that they'd intervene in force if American troops came anywhere close to their borders like during the Korean War. Fresh off WW2
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by churchill 8mo ago
Pretty steep haircut from their $12b peak in 2022. And that's before you factor in their revenue that's grown 2.5* from ~$312M in 2022. If their figures are to be believed, Capital one is getting an asset growing 50% YoY, for just
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by churchill 8mo ago
First, I'll have to say that I noticed 15/19 of the submissions you've made to Hacker News have been on the topics of either the Gaza War or the recent protests in Iran. It's weird, just saying. Secondly, having thousand
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by churchill 8mo ago
The whole episode of foreign interests trying to astroturf Reza Pahlavi will ultimately go nowhere, because there are no significant numbers of young, able-bodied men willing to kill and be killed on his behalf. Or, like Mao said, "the
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by churchill 10mo ago
>Mbah Did you mean to say nah? Mba actually means just that in at least one language I know.
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by churchill 10mo ago
I mean, what other options does he have? FAIR was just gutted in favor of Meta Superintelligence, which is to be led by Alex Wang whose pedigree comes from founding a human-labor-API/ Amazon MTurk for AI. All the veteran researchers st
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by churchill 10mo ago
Haha:) Even if you want to give OpenAI the benefit of the doubt by comparing it to other software primos, they're doing terribly. Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, etc. were profitable almost immediately after their founding. In the cas
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by churchill 11mo ago
Which is, tbh, a bad-faith tactic for wearing down the electorate. It’s similar to how Brexit advocates kept the issue alive until they gained enough momentum to push it through. Nearly a decade later, most of the promised benefits haven’t
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by churchill 11mo ago
You're trying to logically reason people out of a position they didn't reach logically. You'll fail because your target isn't truth-seeking.
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by churchill 11mo ago
>I want to see theocracies gone. How they choose to organize their society is none of your business. Whenever any Arab society becomes democratic, it's almost guaranteed they'll vote in Muslim Brotherhood types that'll be
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by churchill 11mo ago
If I setup a $10b trust fund to buy up Texan land, I can't unilaterally invade Texas and build my ethnostate on it after I've purchased, say, 6-7% of it. That's the percentage of Palestine the Zionists bought before expelling
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by churchill 11mo ago
Do you mean Elon Musk? Bryanston High School and Pretoria Boys High School were all-white, so any beating he received (I'm assuming you're referring to the same savage incident Kimball was) was at the hands of other white boys. So
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by churchill 11mo ago
>China says that, but they put countries into enormous debt and then control them. They also build naval bases in many of those countries. All the third-world countries that have had their debts to China blow out of control have been abl
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by churchill 11mo ago
Here's why I don't apply the same metric/standard to China & Russia. They don't pontificate about their morals. They're mask-off about their Schmittian approach to power. Western countries preach about morals, h
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by churchill 11mo ago
Thanks!
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by churchill 11mo ago
Stop the self-deception. America hates accountability so much that it has laws on the books guaranteeing that it'll invade the Hague (killing thousands of Dutch citizens, inevitably) if US servicemembers are ever detained there for cri
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by churchill 11mo ago
That's a lot of fancy words to say, "America is a rogue regime that believes might makes right despite all the human rights, morals, and God bless America bullshit." I actually don't mind tyranny on some level if I can&#
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by churchill 11mo ago
I can denounce Nazis while admitting an objective point made by Schmitt. Churchill himself was a ghoul who considered Indians, Africans, etc. inferior and while he denounced the Nazis' tactics, he had no problem using similar ones to s
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by churchill 11mo ago
Schmitt is so quotable, haha.
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by churchill 11mo ago
But, on the flip side, coercive power cannot stand on its own without money too. The CCP's Politburo know beyond a doubt that they have coercive power over billionaires like Jack Ma, but they try to accommodate these entrepreneurs who
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by churchill 11mo ago
Targeting their legacy Facebook AI Research (FAIR) team, not the newly formed Meta Superintelligence lab.
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by churchill 11mo ago
That's basically the point the meme is making. It's not arguing that nothing literally happens in spacetime; it just asserts that we rarely, if ever, see events that fundamentally change the world from its slugging baseline.
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by churchill 11mo ago
Basically, the ultimate, "Nothing ever happens" scoreboard [0]. If any of your acquaintances are ever in doubt of anything ever happening, this will be a handy guide for them to consult. [0]: https://knowyourmeme.com&#x
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by churchill 11mo ago
>Since human history is by definition what has been recorded Isn't that just dabbling into semantics? There are numerous societies & cultures we can definitely prove existed, without having further info on specifics such as thei
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by churchill 11mo ago
Can't say for all monarchs through human history (nor is it even possible to), but for the Roman emperors, 70% died violent deaths via assassination (actual and suspected), execution, suicide, or being KIA. You had some particularly co
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by churchill 11mo ago
>Will people still care about “the mission” 5 generations and billions of kilometers from earth? How could you not? At whatever point a crew member become disillusioned, it'll likely be too late to turnaround. There'll be a hig
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by churchill 11mo ago
>There's a reason Plato's Republic looks authoritarian to people, because it models a city in which justice is the highest good, and justice and freedom are ultimately opposed to each other. So, Singapore?

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