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Man, and not one mention of the color of the cars on the road.

https://www.motor1.com/news/226932/turkmenistan-president-ba...

I don't think data centers need much water, just cooling.

I guess that means the universe is infinite in extent?

Machinists work at a machine shop.

What was their previous month's spend? How long can this remain a mystery? How many companies are big enough that this wouldn't stick out in a quarterly report? I wonder how the purchasing agreements work at larger scales. Obviously they aren't just signing up with the company credit card (right??). Are there sales people at Anthropic? (and are they commissioned?) Do companies just send over a blanket PO?

Has anyone tried to study how much NYC housing demand is due to having a large foreign-born population (something like 37%)?

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/new-york-city-immigrants_n_44...

We'll they could also send your terminal a 0x07. And let me introduce you to ASCII art:

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

Kibicorn has a nicer ring to it ($1,024 billion).

What about this front page story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48313048

>Why's there an obsession with the $1m cutoff?

I think this is because the term "millionaire" is a catchy term. And that caught on in the 1800s.

People inappropriately using AI go generate comments in places like HN, or to create blog posts (to get ad revenue). If I want to get ChatGPT's opinion on something, we all know where to go to get it. Please don't waste our time. Plus, people making all sorts of excuses why they should be allowed to use LLMs to post crap. I don't want to read meta-posts about how you need to use an LLM because you are an autistic quadriplegic homeless soul who doesn't speak English and Claude is your only way of communicating with the world.

>a subset of people that don't want immigrants at all.

Does anyone have data on what this percentage is? Seems like it could be 55%:

https://news.gallup.com/poll/647123/sharply-americans-curb-i...

Maybe tax rates should be based on government spending? So that as government spending goes up, taxes go up, giving people incentive to try and reduce government spending.

You probably mean that incomes taxes should be subtracted from wealth taxes? (I don't know that "deduction" is right technical term). That sounds like a good idea, and should probably also include subtracting out capital gains taxes as well. So if you had a $500,000 calculated income tax liability, and a $600,000 calculated wealth tax liability, you would only end up paying $600,000 in taxes (instead of $1,100,000).

  $tax_paid = max($income_tax_liability + $capital_gain_tax_liability, $wealth_tax_liability)

...that does seem like it would seem to alleviate PG's concerns about adding "a mere 20%" to the income tax rate.

Man, that first scenario is so bizarre. If Peter is with Maria, and they both aren't at the party, then why would Peter ask Maria if Tom is at the party? Is Peter thinking that Maria is checking on the Ring cameras? Texting someone currently at the party?

Which "volunteers" are you referring to? Bun? yt-dlp?

Interesting. Thanks for the example.

https://arlingtonnetwork.com/arlington-mass-transit-rideshar...

>In the US even multi hundred thousand people cities have literally nothing other than cars as an option.

I'd be interested in hearing an example or two of cities in the U.S. with populations greater than 200,000 that don't have a bus system.

"prove"

How far along the curve do you think TikTok is to replacing YouTube?

Looks like $6.46 per person in the U.S.

>The scope of the OECD Inventory is therefore broader than conventional conceptions of “subsidy”.

https://fossilfuelsubsidytracker.org/methodology/

...so I guess we should be ganging up on the Netherlands ($1,760 per capita) and Sweden ($924 per person).

>Zeihan

Why is he even a thing? A guy wrote a couple of books with some failed predictions? Only thing I can think of is that he mostly tells people what they want to hear, with some minor bit of contrarianism to have the semblance of telling truth to power. Add in self-promotion, and I guess that is the recipe for success (or at least being internet quotable)?

>subsidize fossil fuels at around US$800 B/year direct

I would like to see a source for that. Usually this is from someone who thinks corporate taxes should be on gross revenue instead of profit.

Here is one source (with 2022 data):

https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/federal/latest-federal-in...

  - The top 1% of income earners pay 40.4% of the total U.S. Federal Income Tax receipts
  - Top 5% pays 61.0%
  - Top 10% pays 72.0%
  - Top 25% pays 87.2%
  - Top 50% pays 97.0%

...of course that doesn't include payroll taxes (Social Security).