dragontamer

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by dragontamer 3d ago
Everyone in Sengoku Era Japan had access and knowledge of guns and cannons. The key for Nobunaga is "Ashigaru". Nobunaga gave the guns to the peasants. That also means that Nobunaga mass produced the guns to a level that no one el
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by dragontamer 14d ago
The President doesn't have an ability to officially change the names of these locations. They have the ability to change name services in some database somewhere. But it's not actually an official name change. So all this hand wri
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by dragontamer 14d ago
Yeah it's meaningless to fight. Except not really. If the powers that be are corrupt we can simply keep calling it Lake Ontario across the board, and use the difference to find who is or isn't on my side on that issue. The only pe
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by dragontamer 14d ago
Unless you have a hybrid vehicle, like the Prius. Which basically switches to electric during idle stops and barely has any downside.
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by dragontamer 22d ago
More specifically, tragedy of the commons is inevitable in a purely capitalist society. It's a pro-regulation argument.
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by dragontamer 23d ago
Focus??? These bands have names. The 2.4 to 2.5 GHz band (100MHz bandwidth) is named the 2.4 GHz band. The 5.4 to 5.7 GHz band is called the 5GHz band. The 5.9 to 7GHz band is called the 6GHz band. Anyone discussing the bands should know th
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by dragontamer 24d ago
Higher frequencies support higher bandwidths though. I don't think the 2.4GHz band even has 160MHz free, for example. Literally impossible to support because 2.4GHz to 2.5GHz is all you get (100MHz or so). 5GHz isn't much larger t
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by dragontamer 24d ago
And furthermore, the unlicensed spectrum problem is complex. "Anyone transmitting" includes Bluetooth devices, and Zigbee, and many other protocols that will never even try to follow the 802.11 spec.
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by dragontamer 24d ago
Supply and demand. The Hyperion Datacenter alone is estimated to eat 5GW of power from the grid. In contrast, all of Texas just reached a peak of 91GW a few weeks ago. A singular datacenter uses electricity that's comparable to small s
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by dragontamer 25d ago
The electricity usage is off the charts. Every place that gets a data center has their electricity prices go up. Consumers are now fighting to stop data centers from coming into their hometowns. It's not like Data centers have lots of
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by dragontamer 25d ago
We still have the venerable 8051 for anyone who likes old architectures!!
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by dragontamer 1mo ago
Bring it up in a bar or otherwise off work. There's a reason 3rd places exists. There's a social construct that off-work discussion (even when on-work) stays off work. If your coworker is professional and cares about keeping chann
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by dragontamer 1mo ago
The Keely Engine continued to get investors until Keely died. Sometimes, a conman outruns the con. They just die of old age before it falls apart. It's the 1880s all over again. Conmen can outrun the press and overall information space
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by dragontamer 1mo ago
Video games remain underserved. Video gamers do want movies, even if it's just slop. In a few years probably not. Pokemon Pikachu and the Sonic movies were way better than Mario. And I think Zelda needs to be WAY better than Mario to g
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by dragontamer 1mo ago
The precious powerful empire (before Britain) was undoubtedly the Spanish Empire. The Spanish-American war was closer to the USA opportunistically feasting upon the remains of the fallen empire (The British already overtook the Spanish in t
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by dragontamer 1mo ago
Rich _people_ yes. But corporations were an act of Congress in 1776. Early America was decidedly anti-corporate (the Boston Tea Party was about a tax break to a corporation). Early Americans (and early thinkers who influenced Americans) wer
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by dragontamer 1mo ago
Maybe when played at a high level. But too many games are too casual without much mental effort. I mean, they should be. Games are for fun, not for work.
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by dragontamer 2mo ago
Cash/dollars with respect to 10Y Bonds, Stocks, or other instruments. When Cash becomes king, for whatever reason, it behooves the economy to sell of all other assets and buy Cash. The closer to cash you get (1Y high grade commercial p
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by dragontamer 2mo ago
A recession is a cash/dollar bubble. First cash/dollars are considered bad so they collapse in price. When the psychology shifts, suddenly the dollar climbs in value and itself bubbles over, causing a recession.
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by dragontamer 2mo ago
Matt Levine doesn't talk about what's good in finance. Matt Levine talks about what's bad in finance. Very consistently. If you think that Matt Levine is making something sound sensible, you probably are falling for his dry s
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by dragontamer 2mo ago
> someone else. > Cite better skeptics! You are welcome to share any that you know.
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by dragontamer 2mo ago
For all of Zitrons faults, he has workable numbers that a can be used and cited in arguments.
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by dragontamer 2mo ago
And I'm sure Galileo didn't like the idea of geocentrinism either for irrational reasons. Seriously, good enough telescopes havent been made yet and he's all confident etc. etc. But Galileo was still had a useful framework fo
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by dragontamer 2mo ago
It all comes down to the fact that Zitron thinks these AI companies are over levered and have significant chances of collapsing industry wide. Yeah he uses more words to say it and bad arguments as part of it. But so did Galileo's &quo
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by dragontamer 2mo ago
I thought Ed Zitrons argument was just corroborated by Nikkei last Friday with the new report that 1.6 Trillion in SPVs accounts for off-books debt, on top of the $1.4 Trillion of on-books debt that's in these AI companies? The main ar
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by dragontamer 2mo ago
In practice? To Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. Who have crafted companies who have virtually no voting rights but get purchased up by the masses through passive index funds.
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by dragontamer 2mo ago
Reread what I wrote. More money is in passive now than active. On a dollar basis, there are fewer votes purchased dollar for dollar. Even then, active funds don't always offer proxy vote services so I'm not sure wtf active has to
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by dragontamer 2mo ago
You do realize that passive funds have more money than active funds today, right? https://finance.yahoo.com/news/passive-etfs-hit-tipping-poin... Sometime last year, passive funds overtook active funds.
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by dragontamer 2mo ago
What 401k program do you or your peers have that allows you to buy funds outside of the few, selected by the 401k manager? I certainly can't buy individual shares in my 401k program. And very, very few programs I'm aware of ever o
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by dragontamer 2mo ago
I'm not saying I like this turn of events. I'm saying it's how the world works. The majority of pension funds (public or private) and 401k plans are simply passive index funds with nearly no direct voting rights (and at best

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