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New comment by einszwei in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

einszwei — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:21:52 +0000

I have been using it to learn Chinese along with other standard resources. My reading comprehension has improved a lot after I started to use LLMs to understand sentence structures and grammar.

New comment by einszwei in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

einszwei — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:24:17 +0000

> And so the paradox is, the LLMs are only useful† if you're Schwartz, and you can't become Schwartz by using LLMs.

I have gained a lot of benefit using LLMs in conjunction with textbooks for studying. So, I think LLMs could help you become Schwartz.

New comment by einszwei in "Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai"

einszwei — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:06:39 +0000

Data centers can run on closed loop cooling systems which doesn't need continuous water supply. Only bottleneck is Energy supply which the MEA area doesn't lack.

New comment by einszwei in "Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia"

einszwei — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 20:13:07 +0000

Thanks for correction. I looked up the news and could find reporting that some fragments of a missile did hit kindergarten. Thankfully no kids were there.

I'd edit my previous comment but I can't.

New comment by einszwei in "Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia"

einszwei — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:48:02 +0000

Your comment made me realise that while Iran has attacked a dozen countries, they have yet to attack a school or a hospital.

Not condoning anyone but shows the priority of both sides.

New comment by einszwei in "Cubans rendered powerless as outages persist and tensions with US escalate"

einszwei — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 01:13:51 +0000

The fact that percentage of older population increased is a dead giveaway that most young people are migrating (to US most likely) and more akin to exodus.

A very similar pattern to Venezuela which saw a similar exodus.

New comment by einszwei in "UN declares that the world has entered an era of 'global water bankruptcy'"

einszwei — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 16:00:42 +0000

I'd also add that it is easy to underestimate the water usage.

Desalination could be viable if it was only for subsistence/drinking. But water use is extensive in every single product/service we use and thing we cconsume. Cost of water going up across the board will have effects that shouldn't be underestimated.

New comment by einszwei in "Amazon braces for another major round of layoffs, 14,000 jobs at risk"

einszwei — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 23:29:28 +0000

This is real. I work at one of the big tech and have access to their internal head count breakdowns. The overall headcount is mostly stagnant but the US headcount is decreasing with a corresponding increase in Europe and mostly India based HC.

New comment by einszwei in "Switzerland: Data Protection Officers Impose Broad Cloud Ban for Authorities"

einszwei — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 14:37:02 +0000

My first thought was that the sanctions are due to investigations into US presidents (like role of Bush in Second Gulf War or Obama/Clinton's role in Libyan Civil war) but it is due to Israel's PM. It's amazing how US admin is making their displeasure known in most destructive way (for their own and allies soft power) possible.

New comment by einszwei in "Over $70T of inherited wealth over next decade will widen inequality, economists"

einszwei — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 13:53:44 +0000

> Hypothetical scenario: we have 100 houses, and 200 young families looking for one. Your solution in effect is: let's give 100 houses to the 100 young people with an inheritance

This assumes that each family only gets a single house. With enough wealth you can buy out all the houses (not considering other factors)

New comment by einszwei in "Over $70T of inherited wealth over next decade will widen inequality, economists"

einszwei — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 13:43:17 +0000

Your analogy is plain wrong. To start with people with inheritances can and do own multiple homes.

New comment by einszwei in "Over $70T of inherited wealth over next decade will widen inequality, economists"

einszwei — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 13:37:06 +0000

Where do you think the money that is accrued by the most wealthy will be spent/invested/parked? What will its effects be on the broader economy?

Assuming that the money is all used for altruistic purpose, I could agree with your point. But we know that this money is often used for not so altruistic purposes like investing in PE which asset strip the productive parts of economy or use the money to influence politics and elected representatives via lobbying.

New comment by einszwei in "Nvidia to invest up to $1B in AI startup Poolside"

einszwei — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 12:06:41 +0000

> Poolside partnered with CoreWeave to build one of the largest data centres

Nvidia has a backstop deal with Coreweave [1]. I am sure this is all above board but seeing how these giants all have incestuous relationship with each other makes me uneasy about putting money in the markets.

[1]:https://www.reuters.com/business/coreweave-nvidia-sign-63-bi...

New comment by einszwei in "Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead with Ads in Maps App"

einszwei — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 14:52:27 +0000

Things like these make me more skeptical of any claims that Apple values privacy. Ad tech business is fundamentally at odds with Privacy.

New comment by einszwei in "Sequoia COO quit over Shaun Maguire's comments about Mamdani"

einszwei — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 16:49:49 +0000

Looked at Shaun Maguire's twitter page and I find it appalling. Maybe I was naive about people in tech being more tolerant (as they both work with and build for diverse people).

New comment by einszwei in "Microsoft has urged its employees on H-1B and H-4 visas to return immediately"

einszwei — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 14:22:07 +0000

As someone who previously worked in US with H1Bs who were making well over half a million, I doubt your statement. I have moved out of the US a few years back though.

But regardless, I sincerely hope this policy sticks without any loopholes. This policy will only incentivise companies to move more of their operations to other countries and only keep the bare minimum in US to keep their US business thriving.

New comment by einszwei in "How can England possibly be running out of water?"

einszwei — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 07:28:34 +0000

Thatcher era privatization has been proven to be epitome of "short term gains for long term pain". Water, Power, Gas and Rail all privatized in a short span of decade and now the future generations will be footing the bill.

New comment by einszwei in "They're Killing the Humanities on Purpose"

einszwei — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 18:15:50 +0000

Its disingenuous to discard the contribution of humanities. To name a few of the top of my mind:

Chomsky hierarchy is an important concept in programming languages and could be considered as originating from linguistics

Philosophy (which is counted in humanities) has had massive contributions to Logic and formal methods in computer science.

There's even more examples of humanities contribution in HCI and AI safety.

New comment by einszwei in "Meta's Vision for Superintelligence"

einszwei — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 14:58:38 +0000

> the big-tech worker is closer to the robber baron Zuckerberg

A big tech worker earning 200k is closer to a minimum wage worker earning 20k per year than Zuckerberg earning 20M per year with net worth of 200B

New comment by einszwei in "Open letter accuses BBC board member of having a conflict of interest on Gaza"

einszwei — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 11:54:43 +0000

BBC had a report from 2006[1] which admitted that its coverage was biased towards Israel on top all the recent coverage.

> - that a disparity (in favour of Israelis) existed in BBC coverage taken as a whole in the amount of talk time given to Israelis and Palestinians;

Do you have any credible source that shows the opposite?

[1]: https://downloads.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/assets/files/pdf/our_wo...