rchaud

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by rchaud 5d ago
As if the endless deluge of AI, Meta Glasses and Flock camera articles are full of friendly banter.
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by rchaud 6d ago
Well before 9/11, US troops were intervening in Somalia, Yugoslavia, Bosnia, Iraq, Haiti, Panama, Libya, Lebanon and Grenada.
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by rchaud 10d ago
2029? By then the pendulum would swing back to it being considered "deep state intervention" and a "waste of taxpayer funds" especially since "the national debt is higher than ever".
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by rchaud 19d ago
If a site has PayPal as a payment method, I'm using PayPal. It's a million times more convenient than punching my CC into yet another site. I don't use mobile wallets. I've had a PP account since the time it was require
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by rchaud 20d ago
They've all had multi-billion bond issues in 2026 so I wouldn't exactly call it "their" money.
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by rchaud 22d ago
35 years ago, the enormously popular animated series Captain Planet taught kids about protecting the ozone layer, using biodegradable materials and renewable energy. Absolutely none of that mattered in the long run because capital markets t
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by rchaud 25d ago
> Where people are arbitrarily jailed if they voice an opinion against the government? I take it this ambitious Canadian grad hasn't had the temerity to protect his privacy before entering the land of the free[0] [0] https:/&#
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by rchaud 29d ago
Considering that the buyer is Google, it's more likely to be a Gemini customer with a Google Cloud plan.
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by rchaud 1mo ago
The US doesn't default on his interest payments. The US consumer on the other hand....
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by rchaud 1mo ago
> Sebastian Mandal, a San Francisco-based startup startup founder who describes himself on LinkedIn as a college dropout and a professional Minecraft player. I see a Sequoia Capital funding round in his future.
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by rchaud 1mo ago
The biggest buyers of ads are not promoting products, they're shilling for politicians. The same way junk mail props up the postal service, political ads keep the lights on at local TV channels. They are unwatchable during election sea
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by rchaud 1mo ago
Tech itself may not be a big employer, but the whole point of paying for AI is to eventually save billions on salaries, payroll taxes and insurance premiums, is it not? What happens to the labor market and consumer confidence then? I agree
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by rchaud 1mo ago
Just because the hardware and inference costs may decrease in the future doesn't mean prices will. The AI vendor market is the furthest thing from a competitive industry where there are limited barriers to entry and new market entran
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by rchaud 1mo ago
In other words, the private equity sales pitch. You left out the bit about jacking up the price and milking customers for every penny until their contracts expire.
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by rchaud 2mo ago
You can't possibly believe Apple had no hand in the Huawei ban.
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by rchaud 2mo ago
Consumer demand is much more price-sensitive than enterprise demand, not least because the latter can issue bonds to pay for RAM and GPUs. Prices for consumers are going up everywhere: food, gas, insurance, you name it. Steam Deck and Ninte
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by rchaud 2mo ago
"Involved in their own healthcare" tends to mean getting second opinions, reading medical articles, joining a support group and talking to other patients. Pretty soon it will mean "I looked it up on ChatGPT and it says I don&
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by rchaud 2mo ago
From this[0] > A lawsuit filed by Scott Winters, a 55-year-old pastor from Florida, claimed ChatGPT told him not to seek medical help after repeatedly asking about symptoms in the build-up to a near-fatal pulmonary embolism. in the same
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by rchaud 2mo ago
> If this makes the PS6 cheaper then great. Yes, I'm sure that was top of mind for Playstation executives when making this decision. /s
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by rchaud 2mo ago
So why not send this out as an email? What purpose does a public proclamation serve?
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by rchaud 2mo ago
Using more Internet at work than at night playing 4K Netflix or downloading 100GB+ games and multi-GB patches? Doubtful.
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by rchaud 2mo ago
"Explain like I'm pitching to TechCrunch Disrupt".
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by rchaud 2mo ago
That's what the entire apparatus of sanctions and blockades are for - to make sure they don't make the wrong choice.
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by rchaud 2mo ago
not to mention hiding all the Twitter losses inside of xAI because AI in general loses lots of money.
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by rchaud 2mo ago
Burton Malkiel's "A Random Walk Down Wall Street" was published in 1973, well before significant changes to financial markets that affect its theoretical randomness. 1. 401Ks were introduced in 1978, making mainstream the con
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by rchaud 2mo ago
They were always the regional hegemon next to Israel. US leaders just happen to love the canard of "they'll welcome us as liberators" because it's the only thing they can attempt to sell to the electorate.
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by rchaud 3mo ago
Gubernatorial run in California.
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by rchaud 3mo ago
All of these examples are Cold War era or before, when defense and aerospace was a much more collectivist venture with far less private sector involvement. After the Cold War, McKinsey and big 4 consultancies are working in every part of go
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by rchaud 3mo ago
A 5% stake in an overvalued private company without public financials and with an indeterminate timeline to profitability is a bailout. Shareholders cash out while the taxpayer is stuck with the bill.
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by rchaud 3mo ago
95% of countries weren't formed by settling on somebody else's land and excluding the original inhabitants from citizenship for several hundred years. The American project is what it is because of millions of migrants who settled

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