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This is all a function of the dollar as a reserve currency. The US is optimized to be the place to own things. The rest of the world is where people make things.

Addendum: I think this is bad.

So take the cost of electricity + compute and add 3% markup for the US and 0.3% for everywhere else, and there you have the actual cost of AI.

I think your contemporary "Western" bias is what is jarring you. In fact, the prevalence of these traditional medicine practices gives them credence in my mind.

Most people probably don't have my same view, but I don't see these practices as having 'credibility' in the same way as a pharmaceutical with a phase 3 trial and decades of follow ups. But they DO have credibility in the sense that there's a long history of people following this advice and feeling a little better. Maybe it's just placebo or a coincidence, but if it works it doesn't matter.

Similarly, contemporary western medicine has all sorts of blind spots, is vulnerable to lobbying/agendas/money, and doesn't offer much in the way of a holistic guide towards the feeling that your diet is aligning with your health goals.

This is similar to my view of religion. Any given doctrine isn't factual, but people long for a way to spiritually understand the world, and they aren't wrong for doing so. Science can't and shouldn't provide that.

I do the same. Just a single card for most spending, but has a bunch of handy features. I pay $50 a year for that, the convenience in case it gets stolen etc. I will say though that it's a little annoying to constantly transfer to the brokerage and then to the bank, but not too bad.

I had never considered the demand destruction effect of EVs on fuel like that. It makes sense though, because the biggest users will justify switching to electric faster because the payoff time is quicker.

Great. Maybe all US digital communications could go through some kind of filter before publishing, to ensure that the speech is "free".

Don't give them any ideas...

The empty land doesn't produce power, wind does, and offshore it's stronger and more reliable, and it's in a location near big demand. All of the environmental issues are considerations for any power plant. Offshore wind would have been better in many aspects than alternatives, and profitable.

And eventually that arbitrage will be big enough to justify a pumped hydro/gravity/iron-air storage.

Also need to make sure you increase the speed going past floors 4 and 13 to avoid bad luck.

If the thing is going to blow up anyway, does it need to be light? Wouldn't you rather have more cheaper drones?

They should sell an add-on to your subscription so that if Claude is down it routes the queries to OpenAI. Then OpenAI can do the reverse for their subscriptions, and if both are down, Grok will invest your portfolio into Nvidia.

The author outlines problem after problem with private health insurance, then concludes somehow that they benefit the American public.

Nowhere in this article is any reference to the solution that works everywhere else in the world.

The benefits of insurance come from collective bargaining, but the author does not address that the ultimate bargaining position for the public is to pool our risk entirely.

The conclusion that private insurance keeps cost down is absurd. Private health insurance customers' costs increase every year, and the companies ONLY have to provide for the people who are CHEAPEST to insure. We as the public pay THEM for the privilege of taking profits on the only category of people that could reasonably generate profits, when that money should be used towards the risk pool paid by the public.

Not examining the public universal insurance option is like intellectual malpractice.

According to AI, an equivalent would be roughly when Google maps shows you 10mi/20km reference scale.

Turning off the labels, aliens would probably assume that the world is naturally full of green stuff that is dealing with some strange grey infestation.

We should build a solar lens telescope. By the time we're ready to use it, we'll have a bunch of candidates to point it at.

You're being sarcastic, but literally every other developed country invests in trains and tens of millions of people drive EV's daily with no issues.

If you want to argue that LLMs are 100x more useful than a functioning railroad system I've a bridge for you to subscribe to.

I agree with this. Tools are good, betting the farm on a single tool is bad.

Example, cars are good. Betting the farm on cars to the detriment of bikes, buses, and trains is clearly bad. The tool of an llm is clearly handy. Betting trillions of dollars and linking the future of the nation and globe to this tool is clearly bad.

I hope that becomes more common so long as privacy is respected. Fortunately my neighborhood is fairly quiet.

I don't understand either, but I don't have a problem with people doing what they want. If municipalities can regulate speed limits for safety and other reasons they should be able to.

So if you want to be loud live out in the country where there is space.

We could call the 13th month "Undecember"

I hadn't considered that aspect. Maybe sodium will see applications for hybrid diesel trains, medium haul trucks.

That's competing against LFP chemistry, so 33% penalty on a chemistry that itself has a penalty versus NMC.

My understanding about sodium though is that the performance in cold and heat is excellent. So even if you pay a penalty for weight, you can drop the thermal management, which saves quite a bit.

For grid storage, this chemistry will be a game changer. For vehicle, I think it has a ways to go before being preferred over LFP, but that's a guess.

In my experience, the cycling and native-plant gardening types of Minneapolis are the ones ready to throw the tear gas cans back, and the fireworks-loving Texans are salivating over the boots.

Very cool finding. If it holds up even at a reduced factor when applied for to a whole pack, it could still result in a big improvement in cell life. That would make BESS more attractive and possibly the TCO of high milage applications like trucks.

I wonder if you even retrofit a battery storage installation with something around the pack to up the pressure and get a benefit.

I disagree fundamentally. No, the president should not cut the "line".

> especially if it doesn't hurt anyone else That's exactly the problem. Cutting the line DOES hurt other people. You could quibble over each case to determine if it actually does, but that is a waste of time. The only democratic, humane, and reasonable approach is to not allow this type of thing.

And I am aware that it happens all the time, but there's a difference between accepting that it will happen and endorsing it.

If there was a drug that makes people smarter, I would want it to go to people who need it, just like everything else.

The Japanese Kei trucks have a cult following, so if this hits the right niche, it might be viable. I think these might have a slow start, but as long as the company can survive and the trucks last, I think they could have a winner.

This logic doesn't hold up. Should members of congress also get preferential access to experimental treatments? What about governors? We should not give any preferential access based on the status or public office of the patient.

If the president, as a citizen, requests an experimental treatment for compassionate use, that should be considered the same as anyone else.

The difference here is that the president would clearly be abusing his office to get the treatment, and this should be disclosed in his medical evaluations.

The fact that governments might not be able to stop people from using stablecoins affects the laws, though.

WONIBDFI (whether or not it's broke, don't fix it)

I'm still at step one. It's just unbearable. And the rage I feel at people who are apathetic or "there's nothing we can do" is so strong.

Would this be enough range for a typical bit of driving in CDMX? Seems like a painful road trip car, but you don't need so much range for a city car.