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New comment by WoahNoun in ""Tinyboxes finally have a buy it now button""

WoahNoun — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 12:10:14 +0000

Most US homes have at least one 220v split phase line for major appliances like stoves or AC.

New comment by WoahNoun in "The economics of the Birkin handbag"

WoahNoun — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 21:47:40 +0000

I've bought many leather wallets in the US even from seemingly upscale places like Nordstrom's. They all kinda fell apart after a few years. I bought a leather wallet in Italy near the Trevi Fountain for roughly the same price almost decade ago and it's by far the best wallet I've ever owned. It's even aged in a nice way.

https://lasellaroma.it/product/wallet-cod-5026/

New comment by WoahNoun in "A breakthrough towards the Riemann hypothesis"

WoahNoun — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 04:30:58 +0000

Prime Obsession by John Derbyshire

New comment by WoahNoun in "Quantum mechanics is the operating system other physical theories run on (2007)"

WoahNoun — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 12:53:08 +0000

[2006]

New comment by WoahNoun in "NPR suspends veteran editor as it grapples with his public criticism"

WoahNoun — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 21:02:56 +0000

The policy doesn't say all outside works is banned. It says approval must be sought. Do you have any evidence Inskeep didn't have approval to post on Substack?

New comment by WoahNoun in "Amazon HQ2 was supposed to add jobs last year. It shed them instead"

WoahNoun — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 17:38:24 +0000

>Its application last April said the company had hired 6,939 employees for qualifying jobs, out of 8,000 total positions in Arlington. Amazon’s report this year said it had filled 6,644 qualifying jobs and had 7,791 total employees assigned to HQ2.

>Virginia’s incentives for the company are supposed to reward its progress toward a goal of bringing 25,000 new jobs to Arlington by 2030. They are also structured to ensure that the company maintains those new jobs for at least five years.

They have 6 years to fill ~20,000 jobs. Seems pretty doable once they scale up hiring again.

New comment by WoahNoun in "Why are there suddenly so many car washes?"

WoahNoun — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 23:35:18 +0000

US manufacturing output is at an all time high. It just requires less employees to produce due to automation.

New comment by WoahNoun in "Intel puts 1nm process (10A) on the roadmap for 2027"

WoahNoun — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 20:13:01 +0000

Boeing's previous CEO was an engineer.

New comment by WoahNoun in "SymPy: Symbolic Mathematics in Python"

WoahNoun — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 16:22:56 +0000

It's a running joke that Wolfram is a jobs program for math PhD's. The difference isn't necessarily technical, but the sheer amount of labor that has gone into adding more edge cases and niche use cases. Sympy is great but like most open source, it's created by volunteer maintainers supported by donations.

I imagine the difference is even bigger in things like solving ODE's/PDE's.

New comment by WoahNoun in "Is it insider trading if I bought Boeing puts while inside the wrecked airplane?"

WoahNoun — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 21:53:54 +0000

There's an ongoing insider trading case where an executive at Company A learned that Company A by might acquired. He then bought call options on his closest competitor assuming that the news of Company A being acquired would cause the value of the competitor to also increase.

https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2023/12/17/sec-defeats-summa...

New comment by WoahNoun in "US agency will not reinstate $900M subsidy for Starlink"

WoahNoun — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 18:27:44 +0000

Where does that dissent say 40% disagreed? It only uses the term majority.

New comment by WoahNoun in "Alibaba releases 72B LLM with 32k context length"

WoahNoun — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 17:58:17 +0000

The testimony and article was about the removal of a nypost story about Hunter's laptop. Not that they are never in contact with government officials.

New comment by WoahNoun in "Alibaba releases 72B LLM with 32k context length"

WoahNoun — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 17:36:45 +0000

If there was any actual evidence, they'd be in jail for lying to congress.

New comment by WoahNoun in "Alibaba releases 72B LLM with 32k context length"

WoahNoun — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 17:33:59 +0000

No, they fear that enterprises won't buy their product.

New comment by WoahNoun in "Alibaba releases 72B LLM with 32k context length"

WoahNoun — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 17:31:53 +0000

From your own link:

>[Twitter] officials emphasized there was no government involvement in the decision.

>“I am aware of no unlawful collusion with, or direction from, any government agency or political campaign on how Twitter should have handled the Hunter Biden laptop situation,” Baker said in his opening statement. “Even though many disagree with how Twitter handled the Hunter Biden matter, I believe that the public record reveals that my client acted in a manner that was fully consistent with the First Amendment.”

New comment by WoahNoun in "Alibaba releases 72B LLM with 32k context length"

WoahNoun — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 17:21:21 +0000

One is a company freely deciding what it's product should and shouldn't do and the other is forced by the government.

New comment by WoahNoun in "SEC charges Kraken for operating as an unregistered securities exchange"

WoahNoun — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 00:34:35 +0000

They created a new enforcement division and doubled the number of positions working on crypto enforcement last year.

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2022-78

New comment by WoahNoun in "Big landlords used software to collude on rent prices, DC lawsuit says"

WoahNoun — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 16:52:12 +0000

The difference is the software/forums encouraged the landlords to all leave more units empty then they normally would to raise prices.

New comment by WoahNoun in "Living in privately rented homes linked to faster biological ageing, study finds"

WoahNoun — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 17:56:26 +0000

I don't see where in the article they imply causation. They use the words "linked" and "associated." In fact, they specifically call out they don't have a causal explanation.

>As an observational study, the research was not able to determine what is causing the link between housing tenure and biological ageing, and the DNA samples analysed so far were only from white, European householders.

New comment by WoahNoun in "Synthetic opioids deadlier than fentanyl are showing up in overdose cases"

WoahNoun — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 18:40:01 +0000

Law enforcement is a broad term. 15 years ago oxycodone pills were everywhere. With the crackdown on "pill mill" doctors/pharmacies and prescription monitoring, it's almost impossible to find those pills and the alternative is the fentanyl currently flooding the market.