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DaedalusIIon Native Americans had dice 12k years ago

yeah man these boys were definitely doing bayesian probability and gaussian distributions to operate their sea shell based barter economy

DaedalusIIon Slightly safer vibecoding by adopting old hacker habits

your kernel is not isolate and if you accidentally run the wrong command in sudo you will nuke your computer lol

or just have a linux vps and ssh in for $5 a month

DaedalusIIon France pulls last gold held in US for $15B gain

price of gold dropped from $5500 to $4600 in the last few weeks then came back. all is possible

DaedalusIIon Peter Thiel's big bet on solar-powered cow collars

there is mild irony founder is wearing a Casio F-91W while installing solar powered smart collar on cow

DaedalusIIon My Google Workspace account suspension

google is worst because normal people with no tech experience can accidentally get banned from the only email account they ever had since 2005 which has all their insurance tax resumes family photo etc , never even understand how it happened , or fix it

DaedalusIIon Delve removed from Y Combinator

yes obvious but this is not a secret, its the whole point of yc

yc is explicitly an imitation of harvard , right down to calling people 'alumni'

this is how to find supertalent. much like american idol it works well but not for everyone

DaedalusIIon Delve removed from Y Combinator

zenefits didnt commit fraud in the social sense they allowed people to sell real financial products without having a broker licence. its more like not wearing seatbelts than scamming people

the car was real, but there was no drivers licence. 'licence fraud' -> fraud

delve is an actual scam

DaedalusIIon NHS staff refusing to use FDP over Palantir ethical concerns

https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/apparently-the-nhs-is-the-wor...

https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/removi...

nhs is famous dumb and has spent years trying to stop using fax machine. £330 million is nothing over a few years.. NHS budget for 2024/25 is circa £242 billion.

the entire annual intake from capital gains tax is £20 million or so

DaedalusIIon European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox and 120 US apps

he clearly meant that all the servers and computers were manufactured in his non-EU village in Bulgaria

I for one want Pravetz cloud

DaedalusIIon European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox and 120 US apps

this looks like it was vibe coded using an american llm

also, why not chinese or indian alternatives? they're cheaper and oftentime work better

DaedalusIIon Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz

"Iran has 90,000,000 people. More than 2x Ukraine. More than 2x Germany. " >Germany's population is approximately 83.5 to 84.1 million as of early 2026

agree with analysis of iran industry etc, cant see cuba happening. usmil could roll over cuba in a few months and the local population probably wouldnt be hostile

DaedalusIIon I wanted to build vertical SaaS for pest control, so I took a technician job

fumigating houses, pest control at commercial food facilities, commercial premises etc is a big dirty difficult job and involves expensive equipment and hazardous chemicals etc plus as OP noted requires exams before you can do it for 3rd parties

DaedalusIIon France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app

I have to call out this disingenuous mob like language which is basically saying "because this person served in the military of a UN Security Council member, it is justifiable to murder them in the street years into their retirement"

how is a submarine commander committing war crimes?

by the same way of thinking, it would be completely justified for people from many countries to show up at random US service members houses and shoot them in the street , or perhaps attack their embassies, commit suicide bombings...

DaedalusIIon Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence

what do you think of theory that denuclearisation movement in west europe was funded by CCCP? it makes sense to think CCCP/Putin would finance subversive movements to remove nuclear and coal and make the region dependent on russian energy exports

DaedalusIIon Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?

its literally cheaper to create a low earth orbit satellite constellation than deal with bureaucracy

DaedalusIIon OpenAI Has New Focus (On the IPO)

nasdaq listings can be rough, not sure if anyone remember fb ipo

but how else will they own spacex, openai, anthropic, nvidia, in such concentration

DaedalusIIon OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)

there arent enough retail investors in the world to buy this ipo

but they will get a lot of flow from sovereign wealth fund and pensions

you might wonder why anthropic spend time in australia, a country with less economy than canada and almost no industry at all? likely because it has very big pension fund pool to buy their ipo

DaedalusIIon OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)

simple, just have a private bank relationship

jpm and gs will let you open an account in the us if you have $50m cash

DaedalusIIon Enhancing gut-brain communication reversed cognitive decline in aging mice

Heraclitus — 'For the best men choose one thing above all—immortal glory among mortals; but the masses stuff themselves like cattle.'

DaedalusIIon Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures

nassim taleb is primarily a philosopher who pretends to be a hedge fund guy, jordan peterson, robert kiyosaki, tim ferriss maybe, sam bankman fried, the tech lead yt

archetype is people who sell their success as a model for you to follow while having none themselves, wrapped up as some kind of philosophical position, so they can make money

lots of self help authors, failed vc funds, podcasts

DaedalusIIon Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures

the old saying goes that every entrepreneur wishes they were a philosopher, and every philosopher wishes they were an entrepreneur

generally holds true soros marc rich bill gates musk thiel nassim taleb epstein etc

DaedalusIIon Nvidia backs AI data center startup Nscale as it hits $14.6B valuation

bad grid, bad fibre, #146 in the world in electricity production per capita. less power output than many US states, rule of law risk, civil unrest risk, and data sovereignty (gdpr), must get expat engineers (and get them visas)

large scale offshore wind in norway could generate 50-75% of the entire US production with 80% uptime and then DCs built in norway or EU area

DaedalusIIon Nvidia backs AI data center startup Nscale as it hits $14.6B valuation

cant fund infrastructure because that is when the bad governance results in money and asset being stolen

rule of law why country like singapore and finland end up being richer than brazil or argentina

DaedalusIIon Nvidia backs AI data center startup Nscale as it hits $14.6B valuation

you have never worked in africa. its cheaper to build a data centre in low earth orbit than most of africa

1 physical security is a problem, and in some countries like equatorial guinea or south africa foreigners arent allowed to own assets outright

2 cheap labour cant actually do anything. they are nice people but they cant read instruction manuals. cant set up data centres

3 no infrastructure. why zambia and kenya etc are 99% cellphones, is because there is no grid and no landlines because people steal all the copper wires

https://iol.co.za/the-star/news/2026-02-18-r23-billion-lost-...

stories engineers have told me about building things in africa: - i was working on an oil rig and one day the local employees started playing hide and seek and trying to kill us until a ransom was paid. for 48 hours we hid in a ventilation area until the ransom was organised, then had to go straight back to work with the people who were trying to murder us with power tools the day before for a month - the person who gave my company a contract was chainsawed to death on a beach

DaedalusIIon Nvidia backs AI data center startup Nscale as it hits $14.6B valuation

singapore/malaysia/indonesia one of the best places in the world for datacentres. just have to build absurd cooling systems and use coal power plants

the bottleneck is they keep running out of water for cooling

DaedalusIIon Nvidia backs AI data center startup Nscale as it hits $14.6B valuation

good question, but there is a rational answer. remember if youre going to tie up a few billion in a project you want strong laws around ownership

singapore ran out of land. malaysia ran out of water and electricity

indonesia is unstable politically and just started confiscating foreign owned farms

india is too politically risky. people will just steal your shit

middle east - israel/iran chabad trump war etc. all within ballistic missile range, unstable

africa is africa

latin america no infrastructure (highways, power grid, etc)

labor is other bottleneck. it actually borderline impossible to bring in skilled engineers and technical specialist to remote energy rich areas

DaedalusIIon Why New Zealand is seeing an exodus of over-30s

i made a mistake. i meant e3 visa

https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/temporary...

a nz cit can live in au for 4 years then become au citizen then move to the US

if they go to college in au then most likely on graduation they can move directly to the us

DaedalusIIon Why New Zealand is seeing an exodus of over-30s

the capital gains tax system in nz is complicated and inconsistent compared to most countries, bright line tests

the way that nz taxes foreign sourced income is also very complex with 'deeming rules' etc

it results that rich people probably pay 10% total tax and normal people pay 20%+ income tax, and then normal people cant afford real estate and move to australia.

DaedalusIIon Why New Zealand is seeing an exodus of over-30s

nz has no meaningful economy. they have a real estate market and agriculture which has maxed out its productivity, because they have completely run out of land. they have cheap, generally low quality colleges, and attract middle class/rich asians to live there for a few years and get a strong passport.

they also have a big problem with alcoholism and domestic violence, and an absurdly complicated tax system. 15% first nations and 15% asian immigrants, the 70% euro population is skewed elderly and contributes most of the tax receipts, and that includes a lot of brit retirees

the problem is they run the country like canada/norway/australia/alaska, except those places all have enormous resource exports that pay for the welfare state. nz just has milk farms

the median salary is less than USD $50k, and these people can get the EB3 greencard or just move to EU/ Australia

DaedalusIIon Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’

my point is the government/DoD/DoW/state can set conditions that it wants, and do what they want. DOD can literally invoke DPA with trump and force anthropic to sell them the product

"On October 30, 2023, President Biden invoked the Defense Production Act to "require that developers of the most powerful AI systems share their safety test results and other critical information with the U.S. government" when "developing any foundation model that poses a serious risk to national security, national economic security, or national public health."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Production_Act_of_1950