ozborn

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by ozborn 6d ago
Former Openrouter user, unhappy to report that Openrouter will expire your tokens with very little warning with absolutely no business justification other than they can. If they were a bank and tokens money, their return is -100% interest a
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by ozborn 6mo ago
A couple of issues, first there is a history of price collusion (see DRAM price fixing scandal on Wikipedia) and while it may be "logical" from a seller point of view to prefer large orders, this upsets a lot of people and used to
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by ozborn 1y ago
Agree, but with the caveat that space does allow the possibility of escape from broken political and economic systems. That escape may be temporary, but it is real. Also, add me as another vote for the Expanse, both the books and TV series.
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by ozborn 2y ago
Taiwan has an aboriginal population as well, there are very few countries where the original settlers are recognizable as the current population without squinting. China is one of the worst offenders, with the westward expansion of the Qing
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by ozborn 2y ago
Haven't read the whole paper yet, but what are the possibilities for academic and evaluation use of this model?
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by ozborn 2y ago
Matt Stoller covers this pretty well, it's become a more common tactic now for corporations to go after prosecutors and enforcers personally. Lina Khan is (unfairly in my mind) despised by monopolists for her role in tackling the pro-i
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by ozborn 2y ago
Dividends are taxed directly and generally aren't tied to CEO compensation, unlike buybacks. Buybacks are more a sign of management incentive structure.
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by ozborn 3y ago
I'm surprised SpaceX hasn't put together a proposal for ground-based ICBMs using a Falcon variant, seems right up their alley... I'm guessing the government doesn't want to be any more beholden to Elon and/or it&#x2
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by ozborn 3y ago
It was communist controlled Vietnam which got rid of the Khmer Rouge about 45 years ago ending the genocide in Cambodia, it's entirely unclear what your hypothetical "winning" South Vietnamese government would have done. The
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by ozborn 3y ago
Hearing aids are much better than most earbuds, especially with regard to power consumption. I have tinnitus, mild hearing loss, but wear cheapish Costco hearing aids as earbud replacement and the hope my tinnitus won't progress.
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by ozborn 4y ago
No, that's you reading into the article. Go look at recent global demographics data, it's not restricted to "wealthy white people", it's been an issue in East Asia for decades and countries from in Latin America, to
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by ozborn 4y ago
3rd step also includes political instability in China, an even riskier business environment, demographic headwinds along with rising wages and increased fixed automation costs everywhere. Globalization, once "inevitable", has been
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by ozborn 4y ago
You made race a part of the subject when discussing Albright. You were likely called out for disingenuous "race-baiting" since you don't provide any evidence for her animus against "brown people", a questionable cla
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by ozborn 5y ago
Gobi dessert doesn't produce solar power when it is night in China, but solar power from Chile can supply China at night.
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by ozborn 5y ago
I agree with the gist of what you write, but I think your text below (although correct) is misleading. "But that's not what's happening across the Western democracies." Western democracies do indeed have poor social repr
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by ozborn 5y ago
Yes, I'm worried that until it gets significant traction outside Taiwan, it is vulnerable to the political fortunes there... Wider participation in the project would be very beneficial, now and in any darker future. Would love to see u
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by ozborn 5y ago
The article was about fungal infections, not bacterial infections. In both cases the amount of both antibiotics and anti-fungals used by humans is small relative to their use in agriculture. That may be an easier place to start, although it
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by ozborn 5y ago
"The problem is that the racial distribution of those students who are good at math upsets the blank slate world-view of the teachers" Do you have any evidence that teachers are more likely to hold blank slate world-views? I'
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by ozborn 5y ago
"At the risk of sounding racist, Asian culture respect their commons to a significantly larger degree than non-Asian cultures." Your gross-generalization is so poorly constructed it's hard for it to be wrong, never mind right
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by ozborn 6y ago
"the entire world stopped using dairy and beef, the cow as we know it would quickly go extinct" Lots of animals are not used for meat and dairy and are not extinct. Sure, numbers of cows would be massively reduced but that also f
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by ozborn 6y ago
No credibility. In this poorly written paper the only interesting claim he cites is that some portion of SARS-Cov-2 looks like a "vector" sequence, but it's really just looking like a naturally occurring coronavirus and he co
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by ozborn 6y ago
It's not a foregone conclusion. While I'm sure some in the gilded age or in the 1920s thought that, it didn't last forever.
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by ozborn 6y ago
Is anybody excited about Wi-Fi 6? I'm just not seeing a compelling use case for many residential users to upgrade given the number of legacy devices that don't support this protocol. More importantly, the impending release of WiFi
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by ozborn 6y ago
A country's law can be bypassed by not doing business there, an option that Google is already familiar from its 2010 decision regarding China. Pakistan is a large country, but I don't think it is a big market for Google - certainl
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by ozborn 6y ago
My impression of the US in the pandemic era is that the value of the old is not held in high regard. Even prior, culture was focused on the young. However the value of money (which on average the old may have more of?) and catering to those
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by ozborn 6y ago
I believe plywood has piles/fibers orthogonal to each other, in this video they were laid over diagonal to the underlying concrete.
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by ozborn 6y ago
You may be right and this will lose money (I haven't done the math and don't know enough specifics), but you also need to figure in maintenance and fuel costs which are much lower with electric planes. The trick is picking the cor
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by ozborn 6y ago
The problem is that hydrogen is more likely to be made with steam-methane reforming, not electrolysis using clean energy sources. It is also difficult to store, so I suspect the hydrogen ship has sailed.
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by ozborn 6y ago
"I always wonder why executives earn so much money when there is no responsibility on them when things go wrong." Because they can get away with it, the political, cultural and legal environment they operate under allows it. I als
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by ozborn 6y ago
Everything you list could be supported at the client level with a decentralized IP6 level protocol without a need for a centralized server middleman.

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