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fjordofnorwayon Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon

> I dont think AI even factors in to this.

I think another way to look at the expansion of the capitalist economy is the onboarding of people into entry day jobs and transitions of economies upward..

AI may have relatively little to do with the US' tantrums yet I think it has a lot to do with the end of expansion and a fast contraction of the availability of top jobs as the last economies enter the middle of the funnel can't be good.

fjordofnorwayon Is the RAM shortage killing small VPS hosts?

The market seems to stay strange because few believe it can stay strange, but looking back at the netbook industry I feel like a few losers at keeping up for the AI level will realize they may as well make the products that people prefer old prices for and start resuming anything that can bring total system costs down.

fjordofnorwayon Vitamin D supplements cut heart attack risk by 52%. Why?

Probably yet I don't see much direct connection. People were not having less heart attacks or heart attacks later in life. I suppose testing a vitamin D theory to significance may not have been easy before ~1980 because of many other causes of heart attack having higher frequency.

fjordofnorwayon Vitamin D supplements cut heart attack risk by 52%. Why?

People in particular groups with higher risk of deficiency will be tested every year by many doctors. That practice obviously can't amount to testing every year being the average though.

fjordofnorwayon Silver plunges 30% in worst day since 1980, gold tumbles

Given that the gold and the dollar are not productive I think one is betting that society is less productive than inflation when one invests in gold and that one will need to pay a ransom over a long weekend when one holds dollars.

fjordofnorwayon Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants

That's an odd argument. If we are talking about a organ safe uncombined dosage of Tylenol or Ibuprofen being 0.4 then I think we are talking about the point just above placebo and bias where something barely has a real effect that should be hard to measure without a high power study. That's saying nothing useful with so few significant figures.

If antidepressants cost less than $4/1000 and acted as an antiinflammatory as their only common side effect then sure I'd consider replacing Ibuprofen as my pain placebo of choice.

fjordofnorwayon The Sovereign Tech Fund invests in Scala

Good PR review isn't really enough unless the organization is only large enough to handle around one PR at a time.

With languages like Scala I think its a clearer necessity that someone or some small group in an organization maintains a dominance of expertise or you have different groups that are only using the same language in name or facing overhead to keep in agreement where a lot of the best developers might be basically doing ambassador work.