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Not being AI focused might mean fewer competitors.

My point is: Blocking withdrawal of financial assets from the US would be wall street ending.

No foreign investors would put money into US stonks.

It's not impossible, sure, but probably worse than the great depression.

> is an impotent threat of attacking ships?

All the ships stuck in the Gulf probably didn't consider the threat impotent.

On the other side: what more can the US do? Target civilian infrastructure? There is no appetite for getting stuck with boots on the ground, and everyone (including Iran) knows this.

You're probably right that it won't a win for anyone. If some of the points includes removing sanctions from Iran, it might be a huge win -- for Iran, or at-least it's population.

> Their mercenary IDF

Lol, under what definition?

Personally, I have a hard time seeing any good actors here.

But of all the actors, I kind of doubt Israel is in it for the money.

Window is not closing.. the stonk market would go to zero. Any doubt about being able to move assets out of the US would cause a run on US stonks.

Also the US has fairly strong private property rights.

Of course, why not? Imagine anything blocking it would crash wall street.

Do you think Europeans are going to have a problem buying/selling US stonks any time soon?

Add cheap labor to the equation.

In developed countries 20-50% of the cost of roof top solar is labor.

That is cheap..

But there is are lots of people buying a used car for 10k

Regardless, I do a agree, EV is absolutely the way to go.

If the life cycle is 25 years we crunch to find a new supplier (should it be necessary) won't come as urgently :)

In Denmark fuel is so expensive they sell it by litre :)

> Sanctions could be lifted on Russian oil

I'd rather freeze.

The initial car is more expensive. You'll typically make it up, but it depends on how much you drive.

And you have to pay interest on larger car loan.

But in practice, yes, when charging at home EVs are dirty cheap to charge.

The total cost of ownership (toc) for an EV is much lower. But you are paying it all upfront.

Subsidizing gas is an expensive temporary bandaid solution.

Higher prices will drive EV adoption and busses.

In the EU, EVs or public transit is the only long term solutions we have.

Lots of claims on cost, very little data.

Currently conflict is a really good sales pitch for buying more interceptors.

You could expect order books to get so thick that production increases.

I mean looking from the side lines, I could see why many countries might want to have a few interceptors on hand. Just in case, it's certainly a nice way to buy some time.

The outcomes is very different from 2010, how so?

Even if you find a safe resin.

Might there be microscopic layer lines? Or other unknowns you're not familiar with? Making 3d prints that can be cleaned is non-trivial, maybe there is a surface finish involved, etc.

Also how do you know your design is correct? Won't cause your teeth to move? A 3d scan doesn't mean you know what a mouth guard should look like.

All of a sudden, having a product that's made with a vetted process is pretty attractive -- and 600 USD seems like a bargain.

What's the cost of having your teeth fixed, if they accidentally move? (Not to mention the discomfort, which can be considerable)

> it's all about managing upwards

That might not work with the current administration. Which probably a/the problem.

Do you think launching a dumb ICBM at New York would make the US put boots on the ground.

I kind of doubt it's enough. This wouldn't be another 9/11, it would be merely be retaliation.

Well, someone operating a business refusing to pay fines in the UK might want to avoid traveling to the UK.

Not a big loss, but something to keep in mind. There is a risk the UK has long memory.

That will change.

And it must, environmental concerns aside nobody wants to be beholden to oil prices ;)

> I'd like to think that we have captured most of (english speaking) personal blogs

I think that's naive.

But maybe thats just because my blog wasn't on the list :)

> It's also very likely that Cloudflare and the like are sharing what they see as they MITM 80% of your connections.

Maybe, I suspect not, but even so if we reduce the number of men in the middle that's pretty nice.

Good sites do exist. It's just that they drown.

Yeah, communicating what you want can be hard.

I'm doing a simple single line text editor, and designing some frame options. Which has a start end markers.

This was really hard to get the LLM to do right.. until just took a pen and paper, drew what I wanted, took a photo and gave it to the llm

It's hard to imagine chip supply chain could be commercially viable without globalization.

One could probably argue that giving up globalization means fewer and less capable products.

> but then you cut the potential revenues too and have the same problem.

How many starlink clones are there really customers for?

Many people have fiber, and in an urban area you'll probably prefer 5G, if you can't get fiber or wired internet.

Starlink is great if you live in the middle of nowhere, but few people do.

Even if you could do a competitive launch cost, the number of customers is limited.

I think people sometimes forget how backwards the US is, when lived in SF 7 years ago, you couldn't do wire transfers online. Maybe some banks, maybe some people.

But I constantly had issues with debit cards being rejected, wire transfers having to be done on a branch, etc. I doubt there is a modern bill payment system yet.

Where as in Denmark, I've bought house, mortgage, wired >100k, bought stonks, none of it required me going to a branch.

I pay a manual bill maybe once or twice per year. I do it online or in an app, I hate the process. But automatic bill payment takes care of 99% of my bills!

> AI gets everyone out of every job and into nothing.

Why is mechanized thinking going to do that? When mechanized labor didn't?

I love it when gitignore prevents the LLM from reading an file. And it the promptly asks for permission to cat the file :)

Edit was rejected: cat - << EOF.. > file