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Down is much harder than up. Loved the ending.

You're completely wrong. There's nothing ballistic about laminar flow.

Unfortunately, I think this is a human failing being exposed rather than anything else. We like to build conceptual models of how things work, but they are often tinged with should. Reality doesn't care how things should work. It only cares about how things do work. It's always jarring when the should turns out to be false.

Philosophers for millenia believed that human beings had meaning, purpose and set out to explore what that could be. It was a noble profession for a long time. Once we realized that there was no hidden spark, ergo no purpose, the study of and the prestige associated with philosophy took a nosedive. Yes it is still studied but it carries nowhere near the respect it once did. Mathematics seems to be suffering the same fate.

An appreciating asset is an investment by definition. Land has been an appreciating asset over the long term for the history of humanity.

Yeah sure, except that benefits the consumer. Amazon offers three things that are incredibly convenient for the consumer:

(1) Same day or next day shipping (2) No hassle returns for a full refund (3) No cost for return shipping. In some cases, the shipper will come to my door (!) to pick up the return package at no cost.

What was it like before Amazon? An internet filled with every possible storefront someone threw together with a CGI script, sketchy payment processes and dark patterns that hide information or trick you into extras. Getting something actually delivered was a crapshoot at best unless one went with a known vendor (ex. Best Buy).

What's the next credible alternative for merchants without Amazon? There's Shopify. I hold my breath every time I order from a website using Shop Pay. There's no clarity on when it will ship, sometimes details are excellent, other times the merchant forgets to add a tracking number. Return policies are merchant specific (read: very inconsistent), and Shopify takes zero liability if a package goes missing. They leave it up to me to sort it out with the merchant, as a result, ordering anything above $100 feels risky.

Access to battery terminals enables power side-channel attacks such as DPA and CPA.

Hongdian's primary retail front in the west is through Amazon.

> Almost every single major purchase I go directly to the manufacturer website or a specialized store.

Let's take an example: If a Brother printer is full price from Staples, Best Buy and the Brother website, but $50 off on Amazon, why would I not order on Amazon and save myself $50? As it is, Best Buy and Staples are also operating marketplaces when buying online.

> Almost everyone today offer free or inexpensive quick shipping and easy returns. They also have better customer service.

I beg to differ. I bought a GPU from a local store that turned out not to be compatible with my workstation. Returning it was a huge hassle, I paid a 15% restocking fee. The next time I ordered a GPU, I went through Amazon. When it too didn't work, they took it back, no questions asked, full funds returned.

It's nice that you would like the world to be this way but it's time to put this tired old canard to bed. It's not individuals but the financial system that treats houses as assets. They do so by extending mortgages. Try getting one for your car.

Neither party owns their agents though. Is it simply then a matter of "my subscription is better than your subscription"?

Sounds like Github is optional at that point. Why not just use Medium or WordPress?

> Apparently they overstated revenue in an attempt to try to provide a direct comparison with Anthropic's reported metrics.

I'm confident both companies are lying about their revenues.

Okay, so the dad built the table. A table is a bit more work than just cutting the top. The farmer legs need a skirt to anchor and all four legs need to be the same length for the top to sit level.

Wait, so who built the table?

The legal framework was a big part of the puzzle. Britain's lawyers and legal system were head and shoulders above their peers. Colonies and companies in charge were controlled by complex legal contracts guaranteeing profits to those in charge, from the Crown down.

In most cases, the indigenous populations signed their rights away first through clever negotiation and the companies subsequently used force to enforce their contractual rights. Over time, the companies themselves could not muster sufficient force to maintain status quo as they relied mainly on mecenaries who could only be sourced from the local populations and were notoriously fickle, so the Crown inevitably took charge.

Perhaps consider switching to a more applied field. Experiments in the physical realm hold value, especially if you document the process.

It could be old but still not be part of the training set.

It will be the exact opposite: In a short period of time, many people will be able to prove or disprove a theorem. The mastery that used to require a decade of extensive study can now be had just by grabbing and applying an llm to the problem.

If that's what academia has become, then maybe the forces trying to tear it down are right in doing so. We're wasting a tremendous amount of money just to stroke a few egos.

I'm not a big fan of gravity either, but it will happily kill me if I make a wrong move, whether I like it or not.

As a thpught experiment, consider that if only one person has all of the assets then those assets are not worth anything. Furthermore, as a lone person, they cannot prevent other people from using their assets without their permission.

Yup it's not perfect, but in the filesystem model, the file continues to exist until an alternative solution emerges. In the app model, the file (and associated data) may be locked away forever.

It doesn't help that Qwen3.8 27B is an excellent model.

> Is the core the database(the filesystem) and the apps roam around in it, or is the core the apps each with their own database.

The first option is evidently better for the user. The filesystem is a neutral entity with a well-defined interface, whereas each app is on its own journey. For a period of time that journey may align with the user's workflow, and both are happy. But there inevitably comes a time where the app and the user diverge, and for the user, it is imperative that they be able to switch to another app without losing access to their data.

To a user, the data matters most, and the filesystem, because of its neutrality, is the best model for access.

How to detect them?

Appeal to authority is a logical fallacy. Each paper will need to be judged on its own merits, irrespective of the source.

> The Fifth Amendment protects against self-incrimination.

You can still be held in custody for obstruction of justice:

https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/third-circuit/man-held-in...

It took four years before he could secure his release:

https://www.sophos.com/en-us/blog/suspect-who-refused-to-dec...

The future is starting to resemble smartphones that use predominantly RAM for local compute and inference while all persistent storage is managed by the cloud.

I'm speaking on a millenia timescale. A millenium ago, raising families in America or Australia would sound crazy to the common person.

It is, it's just happening slowly. We went from having a campsite to building a permanent base. Food water and energy sustainability are the major barriers right now. Once the base can produce its own food reliably, we will see people start to live there persistently.