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New comment by bluecalm in "Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'"

bluecalm — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:12:42 +0000

The issue is raised a lot but there is less and less time and I don't think it will hit mainstream before IPO is done and pension funds/passive investors will be forced to buy it.

It really does look bad: low float multiplier rule (that will overweight SpaceX) introduced very recently, fast inclusion mechanism, insiders being allowed to sell faster than usual etc.

It all looks like an orchestrated dump into passive investors/pension funds/other ETF holders.

Investing in IPOs is a terrible strategy historically. Here we have several mega IPOs incoming with rules being re-designed just for them to be included faster in your "passive" portfolio.

New comment by bluecalm in "Zig: Build System Reworked"

bluecalm — Sat, 30 May 2026 12:59:21 +0000

Andrew's take is "it's ready when it's ready but we hope it's good enough before it's fully ready that you want to use it anyway".

It's different and I like it. You get one shot at it and may just as well get it right in as many areas as possible.

New comment by bluecalm in "Zig: Build System Reworked"

bluecalm — Sat, 30 May 2026 12:48:21 +0000

Only if you doing something thousands of people has done before. Anything new, even very simple and you are on your own and Python is 100x slower than naive C implementation on many tasks.

Last little project I remember is writing a solver for a puzzle game my friend published. Python just doesn't work at all for such tasks.

I think you are wrong about speed of those libraries as well. In my experience naive code designed for a specific task beats highly sophisticated general code and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to get huge speed-ups over some well established fast library.

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

bluecalm — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:28:35 +0000

For me ads on Instagram are often spot-on, same with Facebook although I don't check that too often. Google search always seemed completely off, I don't remember seeing one helpful ad here (helpful being defined as an ad of something I might be interested in buying).

New comment by bluecalm in "SpaceX S-1"

bluecalm — Thu, 21 May 2026 07:07:20 +0000

Yeah one of them but the costs in the calculation are for two of them.

New comment by bluecalm in "SpaceX S-1"

bluecalm — Thu, 21 May 2026 02:18:23 +0000

That assumes they are renting out the whole capacity. Have you seen anything suggesting that's the case?

New comment by bluecalm in "AI slop is killing online communities"

bluecalm — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:10:04 +0000

On the other hand I think you need reputation mechanism. The biggest problem of online communities is that every moron (or a bot) has equal voice. Clearly democratic upvotes/downvotes don't work very well though. Someone who solves it is going to be the next billionaire.

New comment by bluecalm in "Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race"

bluecalm — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:14:17 +0000

It's much easier when cycling and there is much more freedom with your breakfast choice and timing. You are stable on the bike. When running there are constant vibrations and up and down movement that can easily upset your stomach/intestines.

New comment by bluecalm in "Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race"

bluecalm — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:13:42 +0000

Race day super shoes certainly help a lot but another difference is that super shoes allow them to train a lot more. Running training is limited by tendons. This is the reason even elite runners often train only 9-11 hours a week while many dedicated amateurs can easily spend 20+ hours per week cycling. This is also the main reason runners "double" that is they run 2 times a day. The body absorbs 2x45 minute session much better than one 1x90 minutes session.

Super shoes are changing the game here allowing for more volume for months without injuries. When you look at Sawe's training his volume is insane. His easy/endurance days are 20km in the morning and 10km in the evening. This is some 100-110 minutes of running on "easy" days. His total time on feet must be around 14-15 hours per week - approaching cycling volume territory (especially when you consider that cyclists do significant % of their volume cruising/descending without putting almost any power at all which inflates the time).

New comment by bluecalm in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"

bluecalm — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:11:55 +0000

I find it crazy that Google considers Anthropic to be worth almost 10% of Google itself (350B valuation mentioned in the article). Anthropic gets traction but has no moat, no infrastructure and relatively small team working for it. I feel for 40B you can get a lot of very smart people and a lot of very good hardware to outcompete it.

New comment by bluecalm in "Prediction markets are breaking the news and becoming their own beat"

bluecalm — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:14:10 +0000

I was responding to this argument:

>>the real danger of insider trading are company insiders being incentivised to damage the company to make a quick buck.

Damaging the company is illegal as well. Making things illegal doesn't magically stop people from doing what they have incentives to do.

New comment by bluecalm in "Prediction markets are breaking the news and becoming their own beat"

bluecalm — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:14:35 +0000

How is it different than shorting or buying put options and then damaging the company? The tools are already there.

New comment by bluecalm in "Sauna effect on heart rate"

bluecalm — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:58:40 +0000

For endurance training the main benefit of heat training is raising blood volume. Lungs are not a limiter. Developing stroke volume I imagine requires much higher intensity but that's just a wild guess based on my limited understanding of physiology.

If heat training is better than another interval session remains to be seen but it seems a lot of smart people believe it's worth it nowadays.

New comment by bluecalm in "Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times"

bluecalm — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:53:20 +0000

Thank you for your perspective. As the beginnings were tough (sleeping outside) can you briefly describe how Spain helped you along the way? From your description it sounds you got there mainly by your own resolve so I am curious why you are praising Spain.

New comment by bluecalm in "Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times"

bluecalm — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:50:12 +0000

Imo USA is much better than EU (and especially countries like Spain) on this one. I live in EU, my family (both immigrants from different countries) live in USA. I don't think it's comparable. In USA if you are somewhat smart and somewhat hard working you will do very well vast majority of the time. There are significantly more opportunities there for people who want to take them.

New comment by bluecalm in "Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war"

bluecalm — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:45:28 +0000

Same goes for sport betting and yet here we are. People like to bet. They willingly bet on things they have guaranteed disadvantage on (casino games like roulette, slots etc.). People also drink pure poison (alcohol), smoke pure poison (cigarettes) and engage in brain dead activities like speeding and street racing.

Gambling should be judged as any other vice - people get something out of it (rush, hope, whatever) not by rational money allocation standards.

New comment by bluecalm in "We reproduced Anthropic's Mythos findings with public models"

bluecalm — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:29:55 +0000

As Antropic is actively using it for marketing campaign and lobbying for regulations that favor them showing they don't have anything special is very valuable.

New comment by bluecalm in "Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times"

bluecalm — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:14:25 +0000

I don't think Spain has such amazing quality of life if you are not already set. It's very tough for young people. It doesn't reward hard work and education. If you have your nice house in a nice place and a good government job it's a happy place but from what I see around people, especially young productive people are not in good place here.

Spain is lucky that it gets around 20% of its economy because of nice weather (tourism + foreign real estate buyers) but I don't think it's enough to sustain the quality of life if there are no reforms.

New comment by bluecalm in "Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times"

bluecalm — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:59:18 +0000

I spend a lot of time every year in Spain. VPNs work but sometimes you are forget about those Internet outages and are wondering why some services suddenly stop working. Some of them stop working in mysterious ways as well (for example if they host just some resources on Cloudflare).

It's frankly ridiculous because it's very easy to use a VPN and stream w/e anyway. I don't watch football, tennis or golf but I use VPN regularly to watch Australian TV.

New comment by bluecalm in "Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times"

bluecalm — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:52:29 +0000

Yup, there is a lot of value in having universal language and English is the only one with a chance (in Western world anyway). Imo EU should mandate English as 2nd official language for all business dealings and bureaucracy. Having many languages and obligatory translations is a huge disadvantage we have in comparison to USA (or China).