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Some people at my gym wear elastic bands and stuff to lift more weights than they could without them. Very strange!

>Building more houses won’t change this situation until the number of houses is greater than the number of tenants.

That's wrong though. Building more houses eases this situation as it approaches the number of tenants. It gets better! Better is good!

And the (perceived) appreciation of houses is also part of the asset price, not just the rental income.

A "disaster" is a overstatement to the point of falsity. Still an unforced error and a bad idea but let's not exaggerate.

Thank you, I couldn't remember who made it, thought it was Knowing Better for some reason

More than purple not existing, brown really doesn't exist. Brown is just reflected orange-y light in the right context. You can play around with it, by looking at a picture of say, earthy soil, color picking that pixel and painting it on a white canvas in a different way. Or by trying to shine an RGB light with that color code. It will look orange in a direct light.

Also the purple hallucination is because the same cone that mostly detects red also has a small peak futher along the spectrum next to blue. Since it slightly reacts to blue/violet light, you get that purple tickle.

Two things can be true:

1) LLMs are a wonderous technology, capable of doing some really ingenious things

2) The hundreds of billions spent on them will not meet a positive ROI

Bonus 3) they are not good at everything & they are very bad at some things, but they are sold as good at everything.

Make work jobs will keep us all poor.

>I refuse to use them, as the only reason they exist, is to fire cashiers

They are a much faster, more convenient experience than standing in line waiting for a cashier lane, scanning items after picking. It's just great, as the customer.

I'm glad they still have 1-4 cashier lanes for refuseniks, pensioners and people without the loyalty card (etc) who don't want to deal with it. Everyone's happy.

This is my quant

Yes, sipping on the taxes that really belong to 300M+ Americans can afford a very nice life for 6M people. Real shocker that.

I'm sure everything is great in the Green island, which is why I keep encountering their youth working in restaurants and tourism industries abroad.

Lol he suggested a $10k Mac Studio

But you can at least resell that $10k Mac Studio, theoretically.

Yes, the Irish economy is bigger than the British, all you have to do to get that answer is: count all the revenue of famous Irish corporations such as Apple, Microsoft, Intel (and others) as Irish revenue, and divide by the respective populations (6M and 70M).

Definitely do not think any further about these measures, just report them as Ireland ^ and UK v.

Being aware of Alt character codes puts you in the top 1% of computer users for ability.

>It is entirely possible to denser and taller buildings

Yes, but you're not allowed those either.

Sci-fi solutions are not solutions.

Perfectly reasonable trade off, that. And for most people.

In its current iteration, foldable phones are a niche product but I believe that niche is bigger than current market penetration.

>Foldable phones are just flashy status symbols at this point without much use

I have a foldable phone, and the killer use case is watching videos (YouTube, Netflix) on the go, at the breakfast table, on a plane or train.

And better gaming (e.g. I played XCom Enemy Within a couple of years ago, blew my mind. A full PC game from my teenage years, in the palm of my hand). The game was so much more usable in the unfolded state with a pen/stylus.

The third great use case is filming myself lifting weights from anywhere flat e.g. a bench. Without use of a tripod or the waterbottle leaning trick (which requires a mostly full bottle, and a high friction surface and the angle is never right).

Also, for the first time since I was a teenager, strangers will actually ask you about it. It's rare enough that people are even interested in phones anymore. This is definitely YMMV

But I can assure you, it's no status symbol, unless identifying yourself as a tech nerd with slightly too much disposable income is a status you want. Which is what I am, but who aspires to this?

>There is not much need for those trillions in return

Whilst you are correct that big tech cos do not need the return to survive, that's not how public markets work at all, and thus not how the incentives for those in charge of the companies work, and so making you actually wrong.

Building a PC is just the right amount of challenge (for me). It's fun. I'd do it for my friends, if they let me. And wanted to spend one or two grand every other year. It's just challenging enough to be fun but not so challenging it's actually hard.

>Redesigning our cities around cars was one of the big mistakes of the 20th century.

Cities have been designed around Carriages for millenia. You can go and walk in Pompeii and observe pavements for pedestrians, roads for wheeled carriages with crossing spots of elevated stones for pedestrians.

It turns out that cities require a lot of goods to be moved through - more than a pedestrian can carry, and over inclines that human muscle power doesn't like.

The reason why cities are designed around cars is that cars were designed to fit in contemporary cities and they co-evolved over the 20th century. It was the slow kind of evolution, with each step being easier and cheaper than the big redesign.

And a Nobel prize in economics to your name!

This is the crux. A cool thing has been invented, with real usages. Unfortunately, it's cost hundreds of billions of dollars and it has absolutely zero hope of making the trillions needed to justify that.

Now someone will respond about how it's just a stepping stone, and how the billions are justified by _something completely imaginary, and not invented yet, and maybe not ever_ e.g. agents.

The man loves spikey metal walls in European cities, especially with an overhang. He couldn't help himself!

Wait wait wait, milk in before the tea? That's not right.

They are cheap because they are in disrepair, in an area with no jobs (or only subsistence farming) and limited services. In central Tokyo, they are cheap compared to cities in most of the West but too expensive to keep up a good drinking habit without working and on limited out-of-work benefits.

>Why doesn’t Japan have this problem?

Japan has some of these problems. For example: they do not care about homeless people. In Japan, I saw a homeless person sleeping between two car lanes, amongst some bushes. Literally 50cm of space separating cars, and he was lying there with his possessions.

Before Fortnite released its Battle Royale game, it was a PVE survival/crafting shooter. It did the Battle Royale game mode copying the absolute sensation that was PUBG in 2017

But PUBG began as a series of mods for Arma 3, before moving to its own game with its own monetization (and running like absolute crap on release too).

I think there have been versions of PUBG mods for Arma for much longer than when I discovered it.

AMDs driver software is more featureful and better than NVidia's offerings. GeForce Experience + the settings app combo was awful, the Nvidia App is just copying some homework, and integrating MSI Afterburner's freeware.

But the business software stack was, yes, best in class. But it's not so for the consumer!

Bhasin et. al 2001. If you get in many internet fights about bodybuilding, it's an important part of your repertoire :-)

Wow that's pretty interesting. I'm least surprised that deuterated chemistry is what's first mentioned, and I'm sure that there are some other good stuff in the category. I bet heavy gasoline (lol) has a lower octane number, for example.