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New comment by anomaly_ in "As the Japanese countryside empties out, wildlife is disappearing"

anomaly_ — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 03:10:50 +0000

The Romans were deforesting the Mediterranean 2000 years ago. Aboriginal Australians continually burnt the land for 50,000 years creating the desert Australia you see today. Humans have been majorly changing the environment for a very long time.

New comment by anomaly_ in "Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they just underwrote"

anomaly_ — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 04:29:47 +0000

its a different business model? IBs dont generally hold debt to maturity. they underwrite the debt then gradually sell down in the weeks/months following the deal. their business is making money on the spread/underwriting margin.

New comment by anomaly_ in "High Diesel Prices Bankrupted 16 Trucking Companies in Just 30 Days"

anomaly_ — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 04:07:30 +0000

You understand that all business activity in an economy is driven by consumers. Everything is downstream of consumer demand.

New comment by anomaly_ in "On social reality in China"

anomaly_ — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 23:17:54 +0000

It’s extremely good. Chinese, Japanese, Korean. Had multiple instances of confusion because the counterparty thought I was actually a native speaker because we had only communicated over text. Both commercial and social contexts. Translation is now effectively solved.

Edit: I should add like all LLM usage, you need to prompt well. I also like to run the translation back through DeepL for a more traditional technology read on it and to identify any obvious issues.

New comment by anomaly_ in "Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows AI vision, surging costs"

anomaly_ — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 01:30:19 +0000

they don't light it on fire. it circulates in the economy. plenty of working class people doing enormously well from the data centre, chip production build out.

New comment by anomaly_ in "Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos"

anomaly_ — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 06:44:53 +0000

So I assume everyone in your utopia is still writing code onto punch cards?

New comment by anomaly_ in "Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent"

anomaly_ — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:58:07 +0000

Do you think the company that pays your wage thinks the same?

New comment by anomaly_ in "Copyright does more harm than good and should be abolished"

anomaly_ — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 08:41:30 +0000

What’s the issue? They didn’t like your licence terms, and rewrote the library under a permissive licence? You don’t have a right to users or an audience.

New comment by anomaly_ in "Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth"

anomaly_ — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:42:49 +0000

Literally what? Do you understand what is being proposed?

New comment by anomaly_ in "Macron announces 93B euros in 'Choose France' investments"

anomaly_ — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:46:16 +0000

I'm sure all of them will move back to earn 60k euros instead of us$400k+

New comment by anomaly_ in "Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation"

anomaly_ — Fri, 29 May 2026 00:51:30 +0000

Are you trying to be deliberately obtuse? Obviously, you can fudge the number with assumptions around churn rates/etc, but of course an investor would want a view of the rough 12m state of the business.

New comment by anomaly_ in "The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100"

anomaly_ — Sun, 24 May 2026 22:35:22 +0000

You're just going to Galapagos your economy. Consumers won't put up with high prices and inferior goods. Unless you want to restrict internet/information access so your consumers don't know what they are missing out on.

New comment by anomaly_ in "We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot"

anomaly_ — Fri, 22 May 2026 04:31:10 +0000

No meaningful amount of iPhone users use Brave.

New comment by anomaly_ in "Shutterstock to pay $35M over hard-to-cancel subscriptions"

anomaly_ — Tue, 19 May 2026 01:40:25 +0000

Yes? Commercial leases (and residential for that matter) commonly have increase clauses that operate automatically (CPI, 3/4/5%, market review, etc).

New comment by anomaly_ in "Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely"

anomaly_ — Mon, 18 May 2026 08:56:46 +0000

Peak European comment

New comment by anomaly_ in "The Classic American Diner"

anomaly_ — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 03:33:56 +0000

Your imagined past was enabled on the back of exploitation poor people and minorities.

New comment by anomaly_ in "Kyushu Railway Company Train Varieties"

anomaly_ — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 05:50:33 +0000

it also helped that the government stuck the equivalent $1T+ debt for building the highspeed system onto an off balance sheet entity before privatising the JR companies. so investors picked up the (barely) cashflow profitable lines without construction debt.

New comment by anomaly_ in "Father claims Google's AI product fuelled son's delusional spiral"

anomaly_ — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 22:19:19 +0000

>Economic benefits can not justify the deaths of people

This is a absurd standard. Humans wouldn't be able to use power stations, cars, knives, or fire! Everything has inherent risk and we shouldn't limit human progress because tiny fractions of the population have issues.

New comment by anomaly_ in "Thirty years on, Pokémon is still a monster hit"

anomaly_ — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 01:09:00 +0000

What on earth are you talking about? 1) card collecting isn't gambling because there is no expectation of winning money, 2) Baseball and sports cards have been a thing for like 100 years at this point.

New comment by anomaly_ in "Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies"

anomaly_ — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 23:52:31 +0000

Based on OPs location and some of the marketing comments on their site, they probably think the Pope is the Anti-Christ.