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whall6··on I went to Mexico to test-drive the cars Americans can’t buy
This response is half a decade old. I use FSD every day and it drives much much safer than I would. I've owned my Tesla for less than 2 years and it improves further with every update.
whall6··on H.264 Is Magic (2016)
Socrates was certainly a pioneer of conveying information efficiently
whall6··on Mexico is a showroom for electric vehicles you can't buy in the U.S.
The appeal is that it will drive you itself.
whall6··on Anthropic S-1
It’s a great question. It’s a rational line of thought. However, the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent (if you were planning to go the opposite way).
whall6··on Scam American companies are using to manipulate ingredient lists
How about: just eat whole foods
whall6··on Venice’s failed war against Constantinople led to the first bond market
Saying debt is crap is kind of a bold statement considering it has worked for thousands of years and most debt arrangements are entered into voluntarily
whall6··on Pirating the Pirates
Books are a signal
whall6··on Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock
Well in reality it’s not that big of a mistake because he probably would have sold these shares when he sold the first 62.5%……which I assume was not recently
whall6··on Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock
I am not a lawyer. If you are, then I will consider this response null and void… but if you’re not, just go to your LLM du jour and ask it why this case might have ground. If it is even 1% convincing then imagine what sort of case a real attorney could come up. Then multiply the odds of winning against a billion dollars. A >0.01% chance EV would probably catalyze at least one of these firms.
whall6··on Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock
Probably sold them a long time ago.
whall6··on Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock
Plethora of reasons, but right to title is not as black and white as anyone assumes. There is no govt ledger that keeps track of who owns what, everything is always subject to interpretation. If you own a home, you likely had to purchase title insurance. If you don’t know what that’s for, look it up. It will give you the same answer to this question.
whall6··on Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock
Just commented the same thing and agree 100%.
whall6··on Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock
You should sell your right to litigate this. There are hundreds of firms that would pay you to take this on. Would involve near zero effort for you and would also check the box of being “about the principle”.
whall6··on When did Google get so weird?
If tech companies are being held responsible for our feelings (Meta’s constant fines and legal trouble) then this seems much more like a legal CYA than Google trying to present itself as a friend.
whall6··on CEO of Mistral: AI is software. It can be controlled
All it takes is one Harrison Bergeron…
whall6··on Patrick Boyle: The Copy-Paste Professor
Here’s a useful rule of thumb: if they’re spending all their time making YouTube videos they’re not running a successful hedge fund.
whall6··on Meta VR Glasses
I’d really like to use it as an extended monitor for work. The problem with previous versions has been inability for me to see my own keyboard or even inability to easily mirror laptop screens. This looks like it could do that.
whall6··on What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals
…and massive subsidies for the developers at the federal level…
whall6··on The Contract on America
America is committing suicide because funding for extracurriculars is being pulled? Seems dramatic…

Also, if you want to talk about dismantling democracy, how about the dismantling of the constitution that occurred on Pres. Biden’s watch during COVID? Freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, no unreasonable searches and seizures, etc.

whall6··on Google will buy half the electricity of a nuclear power plant
Agree with this. Natural gas is effectively free there. Maybe it’s the fiber connectivity that prevents them from being built? I genuinely don’t know.
whall6··on Google will buy half the electricity of a nuclear power plant
New Gen data centers are closed loop and don’t use water at nearly the same rate as previous generations
whall6··on Google will buy half the electricity of a nuclear power plant
1. Cheap natural resource 2. Fiber connectivity 3. Low population density 4. Favorable regulatory environment

Depending on how far north you mean, you lose all or all but one of the above.

whall6··on Being ambitious and being a dad
Twins is a different league entirely. Hats off
whall6··on Being ambitious and being a dad
I agree with this. Especially as you gain experience and your work becomes less day to day grunt work and more high level strategic thinking, having constraints on time actually has been beneficial for me.

Taking work problems into other spheres of my life, especially parenting, gives me distance and a new lens to view them through.

whall6··on Being Ambitious and Being a Dad
I like it. Great points made.

I would only add that if increasing general family cohesion is one of your goals, I think having lots of kids accomplishes that. Having a large family and multiple automatic life long best friends brings me so much joy.

whall6··on The Amazon Tax
Is this not the direct result of consumers being too lazy to price match and price discover? Amazon still has the ability to sort price: low to high. You also still have the ability to ask your friends and family what air fryer they purchased. If the average consumer just implicitly trusts Amazon such that they buy whatever shows up first, that’s not Amazon’s fault, that’s the consumer’s fault.

I am worried that we have become so bubble wrapped that even our shopping will need to be done by regulators.

whall6··on Degrees of Wealth
Unless there is a moral hazard to distributing wealth evenly!
whall6··on AI's debt binge can't last, hidden borrowing reaches $1.65T
first FIFA water break
whall6··on The Fabled Flatbreads of Uzbekistan (2015)
I immediately googled “Uzbek population centers in United States”
whall6··on Cornell's Interactive Wall of Birds
Highly highly recommend. I use it at least once a week and have done so for several years. My daughter loves scrolling through all the local birds and playing the sounds they make.
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