That's where I got an immediate migraine.
No, Carmack is actually an incredibly smart and talented engineer.
Iran will clearly end up much richer and thus stronger than before, with fewer international trade impediments. So Iran having a nuke is objectively much closer and more likely than before.
The bad actors were killed, and the children of the bad actors took over. Same regime, now more firmly in control. While before, Iran's assets worldwide were frozen, they're now receiving back $25 billion of it. Also,…
This is very charitable assumption.
For a second I was excited that someone had built a space station in Earth's orbit secretly. Perhaps a military station by a world power, perhaps a minor power's attempt to achieve a continuous presence in space,…
Will Ferguson wrote a book named _Bastards and Boneheads_ [0] that told the history of Canada's prime ministers as one or the other. The bastards made history, the boneheads are remembered for their folly. Mulroney and…
The longer term of continuing to buy businesses, load them with debt, strip them of value, and move on to the next, promises much better ROI than focussing on a single business.
I don't follow this example. Isn't stripping screw heads a skills issue? How does a tool help/hurt with that?
Perfect. The dirty little secret of this strategy is that most people's uses just aren't that demanding, so the cheap stuff is more than sufficient. Additionally, breaking a cheap tool is a great indicator of where your…
Honestly, Ryobi is fine for just about anything a non-professional will need. Buy it, use it until it breaks (if it does), and then consider whether a more expensive one will be necessary. I started with Ryobi and…
True, the Metaverse was a practical product failure, rather than an impossible-in-principle failure. Regardless, a lot of smart people worked a long time trying to make it work, and it was pretty obvious it wouldn't…
How many smart people worked quietly on Zuck's metaverse for years? How many knew it was never going to work at some point on the line to $70 billion wasted, but thought "hey, maybe I'm wrong, and it's an interesting…
They're hucksters who know that adding "in space!" to a sales pitch is a free booster for tech enthusiasts. It's the same way that Sam Altman talks about the risks of AI deciding to kill humanity: because that's…
Sy Hersh hasn't been credible for a long time. We know Israel has a variety of nuclear weapons, but don't trust anything Hersh asserts without credible independent support. Agree with the rest of your point.
I know, this makes me crazy. The response should have been "... and?! You mean the intelligence community has a worldwide network for raking local information that also accrues goodwill to the US, and you want to end…
Are you this patronizing and condescending in the rest of your life?
Your link is 5 years old. This one is 3 days old: "IMF sees Canada's fiscal position as strongest in G7" [0] [0] https://financialpost.com/news/economy/imf-sees-canadas-fina...
I would love to read a more detailed article on this device. I came back from reading the article with this exact question.
The price is set by how much providers can extract, not by their costs to provide. It's not at all obvious that a vast reduction in their cost of labour would translate to price reductions. It's worth keeping in mind…
$2m is the current toll that Iran has already successfully charged any ships it allows. It amounts to an extra $1/barrel, so it's a trivial tax in comparison to what the supply shock is causing in fluctuations. China…
If Iran's 10 points become the basis of the peace, it ratifies Iran's sovereignty over the strait, at which point they can raise the price. It will be years before alternative routes devalue control of the strait,…
$2MM per tanker for safe passage is an extra $100 billion a year in revenue, which is peanuts next to the world's de facto acknowledgement that Iran now has sovereign control of the Strait of Hormuz and can charge…
I met someone a couple years ago who was a U2 pilot (which are still in active service). He'd flown F-16s until he reached the point in the promotion ladder where flying stopped, then switched to U2s to keep being a…
There's a basic loop that goes on regardless: 1. define a requirement 2. implement the requirement 3. verify that the requirement was implemented TDD was built around the idea that 1 and 3 could be unified in automated…
That's where I got an immediate migraine.
No, Carmack is actually an incredibly smart and talented engineer.
Iran will clearly end up much richer and thus stronger than before, with fewer international trade impediments. So Iran having a nuke is objectively much closer and more likely than before.
The bad actors were killed, and the children of the bad actors took over. Same regime, now more firmly in control. While before, Iran's assets worldwide were frozen, they're now receiving back $25 billion of it. Also,…
This is very charitable assumption.
For a second I was excited that someone had built a space station in Earth's orbit secretly. Perhaps a military station by a world power, perhaps a minor power's attempt to achieve a continuous presence in space,…
Will Ferguson wrote a book named _Bastards and Boneheads_ [0] that told the history of Canada's prime ministers as one or the other. The bastards made history, the boneheads are remembered for their folly. Mulroney and…
The longer term of continuing to buy businesses, load them with debt, strip them of value, and move on to the next, promises much better ROI than focussing on a single business.
I don't follow this example. Isn't stripping screw heads a skills issue? How does a tool help/hurt with that?
Perfect. The dirty little secret of this strategy is that most people's uses just aren't that demanding, so the cheap stuff is more than sufficient. Additionally, breaking a cheap tool is a great indicator of where your…
Honestly, Ryobi is fine for just about anything a non-professional will need. Buy it, use it until it breaks (if it does), and then consider whether a more expensive one will be necessary. I started with Ryobi and…
True, the Metaverse was a practical product failure, rather than an impossible-in-principle failure. Regardless, a lot of smart people worked a long time trying to make it work, and it was pretty obvious it wouldn't…
How many smart people worked quietly on Zuck's metaverse for years? How many knew it was never going to work at some point on the line to $70 billion wasted, but thought "hey, maybe I'm wrong, and it's an interesting…
They're hucksters who know that adding "in space!" to a sales pitch is a free booster for tech enthusiasts. It's the same way that Sam Altman talks about the risks of AI deciding to kill humanity: because that's…
Sy Hersh hasn't been credible for a long time. We know Israel has a variety of nuclear weapons, but don't trust anything Hersh asserts without credible independent support. Agree with the rest of your point.
I know, this makes me crazy. The response should have been "... and?! You mean the intelligence community has a worldwide network for raking local information that also accrues goodwill to the US, and you want to end…
Are you this patronizing and condescending in the rest of your life?
Your link is 5 years old. This one is 3 days old: "IMF sees Canada's fiscal position as strongest in G7" [0] [0] https://financialpost.com/news/economy/imf-sees-canadas-fina...
I would love to read a more detailed article on this device. I came back from reading the article with this exact question.
The price is set by how much providers can extract, not by their costs to provide. It's not at all obvious that a vast reduction in their cost of labour would translate to price reductions. It's worth keeping in mind…
$2m is the current toll that Iran has already successfully charged any ships it allows. It amounts to an extra $1/barrel, so it's a trivial tax in comparison to what the supply shock is causing in fluctuations. China…
If Iran's 10 points become the basis of the peace, it ratifies Iran's sovereignty over the strait, at which point they can raise the price. It will be years before alternative routes devalue control of the strait,…
$2MM per tanker for safe passage is an extra $100 billion a year in revenue, which is peanuts next to the world's de facto acknowledgement that Iran now has sovereign control of the Strait of Hormuz and can charge…
I met someone a couple years ago who was a U2 pilot (which are still in active service). He'd flown F-16s until he reached the point in the promotion ladder where flying stopped, then switched to U2s to keep being a…
There's a basic loop that goes on regardless: 1. define a requirement 2. implement the requirement 3. verify that the requirement was implemented TDD was built around the idea that 1 and 3 could be unified in automated…