B1 German is about 1 year of intensive studying from zero. With immersion and part-time commitment, I'd say ~3 years is a comfortable timeline to learn B1 German. I am basing this off my personal experience of going…
Ah yes, the nation's most influential sex-trafficker/pimp was a Mossad asset and the $100b budget CIA knew anything about it. They set up the world's most advanced domestic spying system, and the NSA did not flag…
It's hilarious listening to CIA insiders talk about spying. John Kiriakou [1] will spend 3 hours talking about the CIA's torture program (illegal) and NSA spying on Americans (illegal). In the same conversation, he will…
How can a vassal state with 1/60th your GDP 'influence' your nation into a war ? It's a rhetorical question. It can't. Makes the MAGA military look incompetent. The US has a history of botched wars around the globe,…
Nations do not apply a standard of 'total freedom' for most other vices. It is known that grown consenting adults can't compete against an algorithmic assault on their self-control systems. Nations have established…
Aren't we ignoring the elephant in the room ? Garry Tan has been the primary crusader for AI driven decision making. I'm sure his position is more nuanced, but his twitter driven communication makes him appear like a…
Google makes money on ads, because its products span the entire internet. Youtube, Gmail, Search, Maps, Android, Devices, Photos and Drive are how they get the data to make money on ads. Cloud, Android & Youtube would…
Meta has 4 identical products, most of which have reached feature complete. They do few things, and make absurd amounts of money from it. Google, MSFT and Apple do a lot more and most of their products have large…
If AI winning means that data center companies win out, then the wins for Azure will more than make up for the death of Office. I am surprised that Microsoft's own copilot product is so far behind though.
I can only describe it being overcome with a sense of love and harmony. I was giggling ear-to-ear the whole time I was there. Great works of art are meant to be religious experiences. At Falling water, every part of the…
TBPN, OpenClaw and Astral - that's 3 high profile acquisitions in a month. I smell a PR push to be seen as the 'good guys'. I don't buy it. The leaked emails and actions of OpenAI's leadership point to a cynical growth…
UV is arguably this decade's most important addition to the python ecosystem. They are a small, but they are important.
What core capabilities of a car need to be improved anyway ?
It's the reverse. Every Waymo on the road saves more lives. The average driver is a bufoon
> The narrative/life of the artist becomes a lot more important We are 50 years into post-modernism. Can't imagine it can get any more important. I predict emergent design will be the next big thing. Czinger[1] is a…
Yep. Especially when one of the brands is Tesla. Once Elon put himself at the epicenter of American political life, Tesla stopped being treated as a brand, and more a placeholder for Elon himself. Waymo has excellent…
Surprised Canadians would pick the US as a tourist destination to begin with. Europe is cheaper and more fun. America's one advantage: nature, is matched and at times exceeded by Canada. Flights to warm places like…
2 reasons Electronics and code ruined replaced pure mechanics. Components aren't physically maintainable or hot-swappable, because they aren't just physically connected. Second is that maintenance is how dealerships…
NYC's city budget is larger than every state apart from California, Texas, NY. At $115B, it equals Florida. By numbers alone, he's very influential. Now NYC is a over-regulated mess that faces gridlock from both unions…
It's important in these cases to preserve the lineage of where they came from. There's a tendency to start calling them 'western medicine' and crediting it to the person who formalized it in the west rather than the…
It's been a bizarre watch. The automotive industry (and nations that rely on it) has sabotaged itself for a good decade. Unsurprisingly, China has caught up. Classic case of 'we've tried nothing and we're all out of…
This is out of date by about 15 years. Top engineering grads are excellent and are being paid high wages. Work culture is cut-throat, but talent is comparable to the US. India's target universities (IITs, IIITs & NITs)…
Not quite. Chinese rivers are fed by the eastern tibetan plateau while South Asia is fed by the western glaciers by the tallest mountains. Bangladesh would be at risk because the Bramhaphtra sees upstream fresh water…
The world will become unevenly greener. Population density and recent population rise is inversely correlated with places that will get greener. Polar and Continental regions will get greener at the expense of the…
Not sure if 'aware' is the right word. More like anxious. Kidnappings and murders are exceedingly rare, even more so by strangers. Abuse primarily occurs at home, with acquaintances and at places of education. Moving a…
B1 German is about 1 year of intensive studying from zero. With immersion and part-time commitment, I'd say ~3 years is a comfortable timeline to learn B1 German. I am basing this off my personal experience of going…
Ah yes, the nation's most influential sex-trafficker/pimp was a Mossad asset and the $100b budget CIA knew anything about it. They set up the world's most advanced domestic spying system, and the NSA did not flag…
It's hilarious listening to CIA insiders talk about spying. John Kiriakou [1] will spend 3 hours talking about the CIA's torture program (illegal) and NSA spying on Americans (illegal). In the same conversation, he will…
How can a vassal state with 1/60th your GDP 'influence' your nation into a war ? It's a rhetorical question. It can't. Makes the MAGA military look incompetent. The US has a history of botched wars around the globe,…
Nations do not apply a standard of 'total freedom' for most other vices. It is known that grown consenting adults can't compete against an algorithmic assault on their self-control systems. Nations have established…
Aren't we ignoring the elephant in the room ? Garry Tan has been the primary crusader for AI driven decision making. I'm sure his position is more nuanced, but his twitter driven communication makes him appear like a…
Google makes money on ads, because its products span the entire internet. Youtube, Gmail, Search, Maps, Android, Devices, Photos and Drive are how they get the data to make money on ads. Cloud, Android & Youtube would…
Meta has 4 identical products, most of which have reached feature complete. They do few things, and make absurd amounts of money from it. Google, MSFT and Apple do a lot more and most of their products have large…
If AI winning means that data center companies win out, then the wins for Azure will more than make up for the death of Office. I am surprised that Microsoft's own copilot product is so far behind though.
I can only describe it being overcome with a sense of love and harmony. I was giggling ear-to-ear the whole time I was there. Great works of art are meant to be religious experiences. At Falling water, every part of the…
TBPN, OpenClaw and Astral - that's 3 high profile acquisitions in a month. I smell a PR push to be seen as the 'good guys'. I don't buy it. The leaked emails and actions of OpenAI's leadership point to a cynical growth…
UV is arguably this decade's most important addition to the python ecosystem. They are a small, but they are important.
What core capabilities of a car need to be improved anyway ?
It's the reverse. Every Waymo on the road saves more lives. The average driver is a bufoon
> The narrative/life of the artist becomes a lot more important We are 50 years into post-modernism. Can't imagine it can get any more important. I predict emergent design will be the next big thing. Czinger[1] is a…
Yep. Especially when one of the brands is Tesla. Once Elon put himself at the epicenter of American political life, Tesla stopped being treated as a brand, and more a placeholder for Elon himself. Waymo has excellent…
Surprised Canadians would pick the US as a tourist destination to begin with. Europe is cheaper and more fun. America's one advantage: nature, is matched and at times exceeded by Canada. Flights to warm places like…
2 reasons Electronics and code ruined replaced pure mechanics. Components aren't physically maintainable or hot-swappable, because they aren't just physically connected. Second is that maintenance is how dealerships…
NYC's city budget is larger than every state apart from California, Texas, NY. At $115B, it equals Florida. By numbers alone, he's very influential. Now NYC is a over-regulated mess that faces gridlock from both unions…
It's important in these cases to preserve the lineage of where they came from. There's a tendency to start calling them 'western medicine' and crediting it to the person who formalized it in the west rather than the…
It's been a bizarre watch. The automotive industry (and nations that rely on it) has sabotaged itself for a good decade. Unsurprisingly, China has caught up. Classic case of 'we've tried nothing and we're all out of…
This is out of date by about 15 years. Top engineering grads are excellent and are being paid high wages. Work culture is cut-throat, but talent is comparable to the US. India's target universities (IITs, IIITs & NITs)…
Not quite. Chinese rivers are fed by the eastern tibetan plateau while South Asia is fed by the western glaciers by the tallest mountains. Bangladesh would be at risk because the Bramhaphtra sees upstream fresh water…
The world will become unevenly greener. Population density and recent population rise is inversely correlated with places that will get greener. Polar and Continental regions will get greener at the expense of the…
Not sure if 'aware' is the right word. More like anxious. Kidnappings and murders are exceedingly rare, even more so by strangers. Abuse primarily occurs at home, with acquaintances and at places of education. Moving a…