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New comment by asdfasgasdgasdg in "Claude Opus 5.5 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (Max)"

asdfasgasdgasdg — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:35:32 +0000

The way to make money in this business right now is to make the absolute best product and convince everyone they need to use your thing, especially considering the training cost is a very large factor in the overall costs and you amortize that by selling inference.

New comment by asdfasgasdgasdg in "What Capital Never Told You About Rent"

asdfasgasdgasdg — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 15:17:25 +0000

I would surmise no such thing! I think the far simpler explanation is either that renters are ignorant of housing economics, or that they have other priorities that override reducing market rents. Having talked with many renters, I think the former explanation carries most of the weight, with a little of the latter mixed in.

New comment by asdfasgasdgasdg in "What Capital Never Told You About Rent"

asdfasgasdgasdg — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 15:08:54 +0000

I'm all in favor of that. But in NYC, wealth or poverty are hardly predictors of YIMBYism. Most of the vocal opponents of building more housing are tenants. Given that renters are a solid majority, if they desired pro-housing policies, they could certainly elect representatives who would enact them.

New comment by asdfasgasdgasdg in "What Capital Never Told You About Rent"

asdfasgasdgasdg — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 15:03:03 +0000

The rich are hoarding the pocket dimensions in the West Village where there is unlimited space for people to live, in order to extract higher rents!

New comment by asdfasgasdgasdg in "Raspberry Pi blocks changing RAM chips"

asdfasgasdgasdg — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:57:41 +0000

"Each chip is programmed with the timing settings and storage size settings of just the RAM we ship it with, and doesn't know how to boot with anything else." I don't know if you could call that "blocking." I mean you could call it that but I don't know if that's legally what it would be.

New comment by asdfasgasdgasdg in "Starlink Signal Leakage Threatens Radio Astronomy's Most Critical Frequencies"

asdfasgasdgasdg — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 02:19:53 +0000

The fact that so many people are paying for starlink suggests that it is adding something important that was missing before.

New comment by asdfasgasdgasdg in "The EU has begun enforcing the AI Act: first RFIs to model providers"

asdfasgasdgasdg — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:24:58 +0000

I doubt it’s the end of AI access in Europe. Even if they do fine them 3% of global turnover, that’s probably a small enough fraction of their European revenue that it’s worth the risk. After all if they drop European traffic it’s not like it’ll change their fixed costs, and the marginal cost to serve Europe is probably relatively small compared to their fixed costs.

I do think it’s most likely that they will end up fining the AI companies quite a bit under this act. It seems like a bit of a pattern with European legislation that disproportionately impacts American tech companies.

New comment by asdfasgasdgasdg in "U.S. Debt Hits $40T as America's Borrowing Binge Continues"

asdfasgasdgasdg — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:42:49 +0000

The “spending floodgates” have not materially changed direction in any of the last four administrations. Social security, Medicare, Medicaid, debt service and the military. Besides those five factors everything else is only a quarter of national spending and I think you will find if you look that those other categories don’t move around from admin to admin as much as you might think either.

New comment by asdfasgasdgasdg in "Study links coffee consumption to metabolic health and sex hormones"

asdfasgasdgasdg — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 22:10:57 +0000

Love coffee, drink it every day. This study is just as useful as other studies that correlate coffee with negative outcomes. Which is to say, it’s a study that just shows some correlations. Causation is not particularly likely. Drink coffee if you like it but don’t expect health benefits or harms.

New comment by asdfasgasdgasdg in "People who grew up with high economic connectedness earn more"

asdfasgasdgasdg — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:20:38 +0000

I don’t know too many unsuccessful people, to be honest, so it’s hard for me to evaluate the contrapositive. The few unsuccessful people I do know definitely show a pattern of not working as hard as the typical successful person I know.

I definitely agree that where you start has a huge impact on what’s possible. I am not saying that a really hard working villager in sub Saharan Africa is going to get better outcomes than the lazy child of an upper middle class family in the US.

New comment by asdfasgasdgasdg in "People who grew up with high economic connectedness earn more"

asdfasgasdgasdg — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:18:41 +0000

Yes, that’s exactly the implication. I.e. the connection is downstream of success/hard work/intellect, not upstream of it.

New comment by asdfasgasdgasdg in "People who grew up with high economic connectedness earn more"

asdfasgasdgasdg — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:07:51 +0000

I think we have many very decent measures of intellect. It’s true that none of them are perfect but I think it’s basically propaganda to say we can’t define or measure it at all.

New comment by asdfasgasdgasdg in "People who grew up with high economic connectedness earn more"

asdfasgasdgasdg — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:37:02 +0000

Surprised to be the first person to point this out. The entire premise of the article is dependent on a single study that definitely cannot demonstrate causation. The results of the study could equally well be explained by a third variable that causes both better financial outcomes and a higher likelihood to have more relationships with people who are wealthier.

Beyond that, I just have a lot of trouble accepting the conclusion because of everything I have seen in my career. Hard working people tend to know other hard working people. Hard working people get more done. Getting more done seemed to get you promoted, at least where I worked. Getting promoted had a meaningful, positive effect on income. People who weren’t very productive languished, conversely.

Possible this experience does not generalize to all workplaces!

New comment by asdfasgasdgasdg in "Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's"

asdfasgasdgasdg — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 02:07:21 +0000

Could just be that whatever factor causes certain cabbies to live much longer than their cohort is also protective from Alzheimer’s. I guess they might have accounted for that too — I’ll have to look at the study.

New comment by asdfasgasdgasdg in "Flock – Chilling Effects: Long Island's Emerging Open-Air Prison"

asdfasgasdgasdg — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:37:20 +0000

“ A person, firm, association or corporation having a place of business in a foreign country, state, territory or federal district and owning a motor vehicle, motorcycle or trailer used in connection with and garaged at such place of business which such owner is compelled to register in such foreign jurisdiction shall be deemed a resident of such foreign jurisdiction”

In other words, the car’s owner is only deemed a resident of a foreign jurisdiction if the car is garaged at a place of business in that foreign jurisdiction AND compelled to register in that jurisdiction. It does not matter where the car’s owner is located. If it’s not garaged in that foreign jurisdiction, it is considered to be an NY resident vehicle.

Your workaround does not work according to NY law because your car is not garaged in Wyoming or whatever.

New comment by asdfasgasdgasdg in "Flock – Chilling Effects: Long Island's Emerging Open-Air Prison"

asdfasgasdgasdg — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 05:36:29 +0000

Good luck with that. It’s bad advice. But people will have to read the law and take risks as seems appropriate to them.

New comment by asdfasgasdgasdg in "Flock – Chilling Effects: Long Island's Emerging Open-Air Prison"

asdfasgasdgasdg — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 05:45:39 +0000

I don’t think a shell LLC is gonna help you avoid the requirement to register a car you own as a New York resident. The law in New York requires that for the vehicle to be considered non-resident it be garaged at the out-of-state place of business. Taxes are irrelevant.

New comment by asdfasgasdgasdg in "Flock – Chilling Effects: Long Island's Emerging Open-Air Prison"

asdfasgasdgasdg — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 01:08:20 +0000

NY VTL § 250(1) says otherwise.

New comment by asdfasgasdgasdg in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

asdfasgasdgasdg — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:32:58 +0000

There’s more to it than just not antagonizing the guards. I mean if you make them mad by doing something that is legal that’s probably not ideal for you practically speaking, but it’s not the end of the world. Destroying evidence while they are investigating you is not just going to make them mad though. It is illegal (18 USC section 1519).

Where I think people are a little confused here is not realizing that this would be equally illegal in many other countries. At least in the UK and France, border investigators also have the power to demand your PIN. And it is also illegal to wipe your phone during an investigation in those countries.

New comment by asdfasgasdgasdg in "The whole premise of checking for human writing is daft"

asdfasgasdgasdg — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:30:31 +0000

I dunno man. If you had something worth saying I kinda feel like you would figure out a way to say it with your fingers and a keyboard.

There is SO MUCH STUFF that you could read. You could read all day every day and not keep up with the human-written output in just a single sub-niche of writing within a niche sector. That being the case, you must use some heuristics to determine what should be read. Whether the entity publishing a piece felt it was worth human time to write that piece seems like a fine heuristic.

The privilege argument is so bad! We aren't doing this any more! The tyranny of edge cases is over. It ended some time in 2023. I am not going to feel obligated to read every piece of slop out there because 0.01% of authors have lost the use of their hands. Stephen Hawking somehow managed to write without AI.