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clearly you have never been a floor nurse at a hospital...

would it be situational re economies, though?

i.e. if you have a lot of financial resources and can buy 1000 ships cheaply for the cost of propping up your steel industry to build 100 ships, should you buy 1000 ships (or the steel needed to build them quickly) to instead?

Is this the Indian equivalent of Allen Brain institute?

maybe not nut jobs, but I think the argument that the inherent structure that they put in place to maintain power is poor at optimizing human capital and expertise, such that they will aways make lousier decisions because they are surrounded by yes men

Granted, there is what is China is "openly saying" in terms of official warnings and such, and what they are "openly saying" in terms of what they are actually spending money on in terms of material, equipment and capability (of which there is at least some degree of logical, non-nut job type thinking behind):

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/china/mirage-chinas-military-...

I think they already have that, they want to make sure it stays that way

alternatively, there's a Dennis Ross piece out pointing out that China's procurement patterns over the years suggests they are not seriously thinking of invading Taiwan, they just want everyone to think that way...

Wasn't there something in statistics to describe something like this? i.e. gaussian distributions vs something that's modeled on sparse occurrences, etc?

The Costco buyers are all really quite good; whatever they are doing, they manage to fine really good suppliers for most things they carry in the store. The SoCal locations all carry really good mangoes when in season, rivaling one well known heirloom producer (Wong's...or maybe they buy from Wong's...). A local chef tried all sorts of strawberries from various farms for his line of ice cream, and concluded the Kirkland ones were the best bang for the buck...

this is how Sekiguchi Genetics got started. Or maybe Weyland Yutani Corporation

Better job titles than any AI CEO could come up with!

unless they also come w/ rooftop solar?

new mini splits are way more efficient than older systems as well.

insulation in older homes/buildings might be an issue though

With new inexpensive mini splits that do not require ducts, one would think adoption would go up?

between this and their mucking around with game studios (no new PC versions of marquee titles like ghost of yotei etc, unceremoniously shutting down bungie and laying off artists/game devs prior to vestment etc), Playstation management is a disaster at the moment

I also feel like there should be FTC or other antitrust actions against OpenAI and other hyperscalers, with nvidia being complicit, if they are cornering the market that badly on consumer RAM, SSD and other components, especially if these volume purchases are for projected datacenter that haven't even broken ground (or have been paid for) for many months.

Furthermore, I think there should be a tax on algorithmic inefficiency, in that if a LLM, frontier or not, consumes more than a certain amount of KWH per token, it should be taxed such as to put emphasis on models than can run locally, on a normal PC

The bigger sign to me is that this is a pressure against democratized personal computing; there is a push from who-knows-who to shift the balance of power back to (essentially) mainframes and corporate computing.

Need another up and coming person to flip the proverbial "IBM" the bird

although, just because we can, is it something we should?

so the black market selling illicit Kuang grade Mark 11s really is our dark future...

Gen Z calls this "side questing" now...

this reminds me of Ian Goodfellow's adversarial CNN training talk a few years back.

..in Mice

or....was that a convenient cover story?

https://medium.com/@owenthomas/gawker-peter-thiel-and-me-f80...

granted, I think the intended or unintended effect of being stripped down creates a lot of unexpected "perfect apps".

See Michael Tsai's (I think?) professed love for TextEdit

or how pretty much every celebrity/creative with an iPhone posts letters to their fans/followers on Notes app screenshots

not at all, that is another valid joke!

"What do you mean, an Aluminum Falcon?!"

in soviet Russia, trump <fill in blank>

the konbini company also handles tickets?

How did they push this through? Trumpian regulators?

at this point, considering ppl have gotten classic MacOS to run in the browser, maybe that will be the future at some point...

it kind of vaguely reminds me of the OpenDoc concept although tbh I didn't really understand what Apple was describing at the time

Maybe they should have paid more attention to what's happening in Ukraine... (targeting of Russian troops posting selfies on social media...)