citrin_ru

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by citrin_ru 5d ago
> There is nothing stopping US refineries from producing more diesel Aren't they already producing as much as they can? Which is not sufficient given that globally a significant fraction of refining capacity is offline.
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by citrin_ru 9d ago
Does it matter? I don't think anyone expects the current LLM generation to be profitable in the next few years. The bet I think is that OpenAI will be the first to develop ASI or at least among the leaders of the race.
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by citrin_ru 12d ago
I would expect that a golf course construction is relatively rare event. And there is definitely no explosion of new golf courses. Total DC power consumption growth is practically exponential for the last 5 years.
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by citrin_ru 19d ago
OpenAI leaked financial data (2025) suggests this - it has $5.7 billion for marketing which 44% of revenue. It’s hard to explain where these billions go other than into subsidised subscription plans and a free tier.
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by citrin_ru 19d ago
Just guessing - companies which not outsource development to likes of infosys will outsource to OpenAI instead.
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by citrin_ru 20d ago
I have an impression that most CxO are driven by FOMO. Having a fixed R&D budget (no cheap credit anymore) to get $$$ for tokens they are laying off developers.
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by citrin_ru 20d ago
Destroying own wells only to import gas does nothing to reduce the carbon footprint (it's actually increases it if you'll account emissions from LNG tankers). Efforts should be directed into non-carbon generation and electrificati
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by citrin_ru 22d ago
> When interest rates are high, companies and investors don't take out loans And yet companies borrowing for AI capex like never before - total amount of debt is staggering. And it’s not only likes of OpenAI/Anthropic, companie
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by citrin_ru 22d ago
> Datacenters do not need water. It is just slightly cheaper for them than cooling with electricity. As long as electricity at least partially produced using fossil fuel I would prefer data-centers to use as little electricity as possibl
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by citrin_ru 23d ago
I would say what we do care about is the number of people who were not able to use the system successfully through no fault of their own. Even 0.001% failure rate is too high when is affects more than a few people per year. Especially so wh
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by citrin_ru 24d ago
AI companies are data hungry, they likely use everything from books to the internet and chat logs.
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by citrin_ru 27d ago
I know it's fashionable to blame capitalism for everything which is wrong with the world but it's the people and governments who don't care about the pollution and think that's it's fine to throw garbage on the grou
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by citrin_ru 28d ago
They dropped a few points in pools but for Conservatives they likely will be the main competitor - among Reform UK voters there are much more former Tory voters than former Labour voters.
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by citrin_ru 28d ago
It's madness but I hope abolishing ULEZ will have little impact at least for London - people who already drive modern cars will not start suddenly replacing them with older more polluting ones.
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by citrin_ru 28d ago
Conservatives flipped on multiple of their policies after Reform's success on local election in 2025 and started to copy Reform UK. Even the Labour shifter right after 2025.
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by citrin_ru 29d ago
It's an optimization problem which could be solved if impact of contrails could be estimated. Making a long detour unlikely is good choice but if a small route / altitude changes could help - why not?
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by citrin_ru 1mo ago
> healthy food isn't as tasty Mediterranean cuisine tasty and healthy. But it’s not as cheap as ultra-processed food.
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by citrin_ru 1mo ago
> We stopped high sulfur when we realized it was causing acid rain Coal AFAIK a bigger source of acid rains and world has not stopped using coal.
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by citrin_ru 1mo ago
We don't see a progress towards UBI even inside individual countries and with AI we will need it on international. What people in Europe or Africa will do when all jobs there will be replaced by American or Chinese AI companies, where
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by citrin_ru 1mo ago
Apple can give employees an iphone which will have an iCloud account in apples’s corp domain and can be used only for work. Many other companies do this.
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by citrin_ru 1mo ago
It's not an evidence but if they do believe the end times prophesy about Imam al-Mahdi they may want to speed-up his arrival by attacking Israel. IMHO people in the west often making a mistake trying to interpret actions of deeply reli
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by citrin_ru 1mo ago
It's a good news and a milestone to celebrate but if we count all energy and not only electricity and not only developed world then the progress is not as fast unfortunately [1]. Not a long time ago I've seen a post arguing based
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by citrin_ru 2mo ago
> The poor don't pay any federal taxes at all so you can't give them a tax cut Even if we exclude poor there are many options how to split taxes between different income brackets, how to tax salaries vs capital gain, how to spl
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by citrin_ru 2mo ago
It's a difficult tradeoff. By taxing more and more it's easy to send the economy into the death spiral so to grow the revenue without killing the economy you need economic growth. Cutting taxes will not give the growth aromaticall
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by citrin_ru 2mo ago
I doubt Russian nuclear ice breakers have naval escort. Until recently they operated within the coverage of on-shore long range SAM systems (but most of these SAM systems were moved elsewhere recently e.g. to protect oil refineries so Nort
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by citrin_ru 2mo ago
If you live in a brick/stone hours you can still go a long way by maximally ventilating house at nigh and during the day keeping sun out (shutters, awning e.t.c) and keep ventilation minimal. It would not help if the nights are warm (s
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by citrin_ru 2mo ago
Modern economy cannot exists without economy of scale. It's unfortunate is that if you want something else than millions of other people the price likely will be prohibitive - small scale production is not viable economically, especial
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by citrin_ru 2mo ago
For a lay person (without background in finances) what AI companies are doing looks very similar in spirit to what Enron did and Enron actions were deemed not legal.
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by citrin_ru 2mo ago
If LLMs is just another technology then low end will eventually win. The bet which I guess many AI investors are making is that LLM will allow recursive self improvement which will lead to development of super-human AGI. The company which w
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by citrin_ru 2mo ago
> The example shows an auto-incrementing user ID. How’s that possible without contention between all shards? Why not divide ID range (63bit?) by the maximum planned number of shards and then set on each shard it's min/max value

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