Sorry to hear. That is a very young age to get that type of cancer. Must have been incredibly difficult and traumatic.
When my wife was diagnosed with stage 3 bowel cancer earlier this year, she was essentially prepared to die. She didn't even cry once. Her father had died from the same cancer at around the same age as her (early 40s),…
We can never know who won any election because it's physically impossible to count millions of votes accurately. This is an unsolved problem. The risk of double-counting or missing votes is close to 100%. Anyone who…
I wouldn't be surprised. A lot of people don't even rinse off the soap.
>> Where did that wealth come from? Clearly, the money printers. How else could there be such an enormous gap between those last two bars?
Yes but I'm thinking about just the yield on that last bar. Given that the Shiller P/E ratio is now 40 (under 3% of the value of the assets), the yield is actually a pretty small fraction of that last bar... but even…
With this kind of wealth distribution, there's no point doing any job which services regular people. Everyone should become an informant or bodyguard for a rich person. That's going to be the only kind of job that pays…
Actually my current machine is 5.5 GHZ with 28 cores but core count only really matters if you have a lot of parallel workloads. Most of my CPUs are idle the vast majority of the time. Raspberry Pi 5's 2.4GHz Quad core…
This is true but I don't see that alternative approaches prevent an owner class from developing. It just creates a different kind of owner; a more politically-oriented one, with an incentive to manipulate the political…
The idea of investing my hard earned money to build on land I don't own sounds incredibly foolish. You're completely at the mercy of the counter-party. You don't own it, they own you!
It's kind of insane how the higher end Raspberry PIs are almost as powerful as my PC tower. The price is quite low and developer friendly too. Really great products. The lower end products are awesome too. It's one of…
Maybe, but at least they're not depleting my access to opportunities like platform rents do! Without platform rents, I can still find opportunities to earn money to cover the rents. Platform rents are worse because they…
In its essence, Geoism is about rents, not about land specifically. Of course they couldn't have known about tech platform monopolies back then, but they are very much about rent extraction and a far greater concern…
They probably did it on purpose so that the professors would sue Anthropic later and make a lot of money. How about all the copyright MIT licensed open source software? When does it become discovered that they were…
I avoid participating in any market unless I have to, these days. Crypto is a scam within a scam. It was created to act as a 'good cop' to the 'bad cop' which is the mainstream system. But they are two sides of the same…
What sucks about these situations is that the middle managers want arbitrary things. Their imagination is tainted by existing inefficient processes and systems; they cannot see past these flawed abstractions. So when…
This is why I think communism would make sense in our current reality. If everyone got paid the same, then it would be fairer than what we have now where everyone gets paid a random amount with no correlation with skill…
It's quite amazing technology. I wonder how they managed to make ink which dries fast on paper but doesn't dry and clog up the print head.
I doubt you can prevent this using laws. In unequal societies where the politics is controlled by the majority, laws tend to make things worse, not better. Americans are already beginning to find out what happens when…
These big tech companies aren't meritocratic at any level from hiring to promotion. It's all nepotism and funny business going on behind the scenes. One time I interviewed for a job at a big tech company during…
What about if the worker crashes whilst in the middle of copying over some rows from a number of large Excel spreadsheets? Then when you restart, you need a way to derive the ID from file name + tab name + unique row…
You obviously haven't lived in a country where labor strikes are a frequent occurrence. They block the roads for weeks, sometimes months at a time and products disappear from the shelves. Often, the police do nothing.…
> And most of the world is not zero-sum... That is a strange thing to say, especially now. Clearly, there is a reason Von Neumann spent so much time on this 'zero-sum' formulation of the problem, specifically in…
Surely it will also free people up to apply their intelligence (or stupidity) towards other things. It's concerning because there is already way too much 'intelligence' in this society and most of it is used to…
No it doesn't. People can still protest, block roads, boycott etc... If they get UBI/UHI, they will have more time to engage politically too (in a productive way).
Sorry to hear. That is a very young age to get that type of cancer. Must have been incredibly difficult and traumatic.
When my wife was diagnosed with stage 3 bowel cancer earlier this year, she was essentially prepared to die. She didn't even cry once. Her father had died from the same cancer at around the same age as her (early 40s),…
We can never know who won any election because it's physically impossible to count millions of votes accurately. This is an unsolved problem. The risk of double-counting or missing votes is close to 100%. Anyone who…
I wouldn't be surprised. A lot of people don't even rinse off the soap.
>> Where did that wealth come from? Clearly, the money printers. How else could there be such an enormous gap between those last two bars?
Yes but I'm thinking about just the yield on that last bar. Given that the Shiller P/E ratio is now 40 (under 3% of the value of the assets), the yield is actually a pretty small fraction of that last bar... but even…
With this kind of wealth distribution, there's no point doing any job which services regular people. Everyone should become an informant or bodyguard for a rich person. That's going to be the only kind of job that pays…
Actually my current machine is 5.5 GHZ with 28 cores but core count only really matters if you have a lot of parallel workloads. Most of my CPUs are idle the vast majority of the time. Raspberry Pi 5's 2.4GHz Quad core…
This is true but I don't see that alternative approaches prevent an owner class from developing. It just creates a different kind of owner; a more politically-oriented one, with an incentive to manipulate the political…
The idea of investing my hard earned money to build on land I don't own sounds incredibly foolish. You're completely at the mercy of the counter-party. You don't own it, they own you!
It's kind of insane how the higher end Raspberry PIs are almost as powerful as my PC tower. The price is quite low and developer friendly too. Really great products. The lower end products are awesome too. It's one of…
Maybe, but at least they're not depleting my access to opportunities like platform rents do! Without platform rents, I can still find opportunities to earn money to cover the rents. Platform rents are worse because they…
In its essence, Geoism is about rents, not about land specifically. Of course they couldn't have known about tech platform monopolies back then, but they are very much about rent extraction and a far greater concern…
They probably did it on purpose so that the professors would sue Anthropic later and make a lot of money. How about all the copyright MIT licensed open source software? When does it become discovered that they were…
I avoid participating in any market unless I have to, these days. Crypto is a scam within a scam. It was created to act as a 'good cop' to the 'bad cop' which is the mainstream system. But they are two sides of the same…
What sucks about these situations is that the middle managers want arbitrary things. Their imagination is tainted by existing inefficient processes and systems; they cannot see past these flawed abstractions. So when…
This is why I think communism would make sense in our current reality. If everyone got paid the same, then it would be fairer than what we have now where everyone gets paid a random amount with no correlation with skill…
It's quite amazing technology. I wonder how they managed to make ink which dries fast on paper but doesn't dry and clog up the print head.
I doubt you can prevent this using laws. In unequal societies where the politics is controlled by the majority, laws tend to make things worse, not better. Americans are already beginning to find out what happens when…
These big tech companies aren't meritocratic at any level from hiring to promotion. It's all nepotism and funny business going on behind the scenes. One time I interviewed for a job at a big tech company during…
What about if the worker crashes whilst in the middle of copying over some rows from a number of large Excel spreadsheets? Then when you restart, you need a way to derive the ID from file name + tab name + unique row…
You obviously haven't lived in a country where labor strikes are a frequent occurrence. They block the roads for weeks, sometimes months at a time and products disappear from the shelves. Often, the police do nothing.…
> And most of the world is not zero-sum... That is a strange thing to say, especially now. Clearly, there is a reason Von Neumann spent so much time on this 'zero-sum' formulation of the problem, specifically in…
Surely it will also free people up to apply their intelligence (or stupidity) towards other things. It's concerning because there is already way too much 'intelligence' in this society and most of it is used to…
No it doesn't. People can still protest, block roads, boycott etc... If they get UBI/UHI, they will have more time to engage politically too (in a productive way).