grunder_advice

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by grunder_advice 1mo ago
That is true, however beef was always somewhat of a luxury in many European regions, simpily due to geography and population density. We don't have a lot of cheap grazing land to raise cattle on. And if you have cattle it's typica
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by grunder_advice 1mo ago
Yes, it's one of the few EU countries that is suitable for cattle.
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by grunder_advice 1mo ago
Beef is already too expensive for most people. Americans are probably the exception but I can assure you that most Europeans do not have beef heavy diets. Even culturally, pork (and now chicken) were the proteins of choice.
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by grunder_advice 1mo ago
I find your framing somewhat historically inaccurate. China did not make an "autocratic bargain" with its people. Democracy and Liberalism are offshoots of Christian culture that originated in Europe and spread to the former Europ
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by grunder_advice 4mo ago
I feel the need to correct the record. The only reason, there is this racist stereotype in some western countries that such and such ethnicities are not working, is because those countries make it exceedingly hard for those ethnicities to g
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by grunder_advice 4mo ago
IMHO, Google, Meta and Microsoft are best positioned to be the last ones standing because they have alternative cashflows. The danger with OpenAI and Anthropic is that they might end up being the Sun Microsystems of the AI era. It will only
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by grunder_advice 5mo ago
I feel, like a lot of 21st century life is trying to do things artificially. Going to the gym, talking to strangers at the gym, ... these are both artifical replacements for human activity that is missing. You go to the gym because your dai
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by grunder_advice 5mo ago
Thanks for the correction, I guess I was mistaken. I always had this mistaken belief that moving data is less energy intensive.
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by grunder_advice 5mo ago
The trick we use at work is to take note of the instantenous power consumed. The more it's consuming the more compute it is doing. As far as macro indicators, I'm not sure you can do better than that, without profiling.
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by grunder_advice 5mo ago
I've held green tech stocks in the past but never made a dime out of them. There was a pattern to them. First there'd be demand, then the factories in China will turn on and suddenly there's a glut so the price goes back down
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by grunder_advice 5mo ago
Exactly. At some point, the specification becomes so complex, it's easier to just write the code yourself. It's why famously, programmers always say, the code is the documentation, because writing detailed docs is very tedious and
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by grunder_advice 6mo ago
I guess I'm pro-natalist. I do agree with you on the goal of eradicating poverty, although to me that's a goal in itself that does not need to be justified. But I don't agree that all people on earth are fungible, and a birth
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by grunder_advice 7mo ago
I mean, they need to wrap the statistics in a narrative. That's the medium of delivery. But the statistics don't lie: birthrates are well below replacement levels. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j
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by grunder_advice 7mo ago
Yeah, I don't think you're going to have much luck with that mentality. Personally, I cannot think of a worst hell than having to be married to somebody who was forced to be with me. Yikes.
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by grunder_advice 7mo ago
I think dating apps are a flawed concept irrespective of profit motives. They reduce men to their appearance and the most overt displays of wealth. Then they line them up against the wall, and they ask women to pick who they like best... Fo
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by grunder_advice 7mo ago
Yeah, in particular now that index funds are well known and very common one wonders what risk one is exposed to when one is dumping everything into broad market index funds.
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by grunder_advice 7mo ago
It's not like relations between China and the West aren't already as hostile as the West can tolerate.
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by grunder_advice 7mo ago
If I've learned something during my early adulthood it's that, it's impossible to not be in conflict with at least some people, because even if you're the most fair and considerate person on the planet, other people will
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by grunder_advice 8mo ago
What makes Grok special compared to random "AI gf generator 9001" which is hosted specifically with the intent of generating NSFW content?
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by grunder_advice 8mo ago
That's only because you're using broad strokes. If you look at the top 0.1% and the top 0.01% and the top 0.001% you'll see that as you go to the extreme end the share of the total household wealth does tend upwards. Please s
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by grunder_advice 8mo ago
I think this is just because wealth distribution is a powerlaw with extreme concentration at the far end. For example in this graph you can see a trend, the closer to the top, the steeper the line. https://imgur.com/a/6
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by grunder_advice 8mo ago
Exactly. Most propaganda is about embellishment and fear mongering that completely destroys the ability of the individual to accurately access the topic at hand.
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by grunder_advice 8mo ago
I don't discount that people have different values and interests. I said that propaganda compounds on those divisions. I think aligning values is also something that is actionable, but that's another topic altogether. My general f
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by grunder_advice 8mo ago
Thanks for making this point. I 100% agree. I think previously the way politics worked, there was an element of people keeping each other in check. Now everyone can become as radicalized as their individual limits allow them to become becau
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by grunder_advice 8mo ago
Propaganda always builds on real greviences that the electorate has. It's good that you bring up housing. There are, to my knowledge no political parties that have made housing their top agenda item. They only use housing as a talking
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by grunder_advice 8mo ago
Pretty much all western countries are experiencing a crisis of democracy. It seems to me that the biggest contributor to this is the vulnerability of the electorate. It seems to me that it has become possible to hijack the minds of individu
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by grunder_advice 8mo ago
Yep, in all EU countries, this would lead to country wide protests with the usual result being the fall of the government and new elections. Seems like the US is missing this element of democracy.
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by grunder_advice 8mo ago
SV was always full of limp wristed callous nerds who hate those they consider to be beneath them. Back them they called themselves libertarians or ancaps or something along those lines, but fundamentally nothing has changed.
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by grunder_advice 8mo ago
The fear was widespread across the whole European continent at the time. I don't think you can put the blame on any one person. I think it's entirely natural to be afraid of an invisible undetactable danger that will give you canc
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by grunder_advice 8mo ago
Fukushima sure, but a lot of women were traumatized by Chernobyl and the news of a cloud of radioactive dust that was going to give them all cancer. I think Fukushima just reingnited those fears.

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