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New comment by joquarky in "How to earn a billion dollars"

joquarky — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 02:36:42 +0000

Reverse lottery.

New comment by joquarky in "How to earn a billion dollars"

joquarky — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 02:28:33 +0000

Is this not an exemplar of the slippery slope fallacy?

New comment by joquarky in "How to earn a billion dollars"

joquarky — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 02:19:53 +0000

The new generation is struggling with self-determinism and individualism.

This should not come as a surprise when they are forced to live with roommates because they can't afford a house or even an apartment to themselves because every cent is being analyzed for optimal extraction from them.

New comment by joquarky in "How to earn a billion dollars"

joquarky — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 02:06:22 +0000

> I hire more employees and I take $50k profit per house but I build 20k houses and make $1B. I earn $1B.

This hypothetical isn't possible. There's no way you can directly manage the construction of 20k houses in a human lifetime.

New comment by joquarky in "How to earn a billion dollars"

joquarky — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:12:14 +0000

> And please cease telling other people what to do and not do!

This is the most ironic comment I've seen in a while.

New comment by joquarky in "Claude Fable 5"

joquarky — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:32:27 +0000

Imagine unironically starting your comment with "Um" in 2026.

New comment by joquarky in "GPT-2: Too Dangerous To Release (2019)"

joquarky — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:20:19 +0000

All of this is moot when the parents complain to the spineless school board when their kid fails the supervised tests.

New comment by joquarky in "GPT-2: Too Dangerous To Release (2019)"

joquarky — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:16:11 +0000

Some will stay even as their reality becomes more and more abstract.

Meanwhile, the Morlocks will stay grounded and develop novel tastes.

New comment by joquarky in "We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued"

joquarky — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:11:56 +0000

It's not that different from an NFT.

New comment by joquarky in "We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued"

joquarky — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:09:40 +0000

Whataboutism isn't an argument.

New comment by joquarky in "We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued"

joquarky — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:06:04 +0000

How about we get our own house in order before messing with other planets?

New comment by joquarky in "Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'"

joquarky — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:41:57 +0000

A more common example is sports stadiums.

New comment by joquarky in "Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'"

joquarky — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:38:19 +0000

It doesn't matter how tone deaf it is, they are so wealthy they don't care.

New comment by joquarky in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

joquarky — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:08:43 +0000

Simple solution: just put them in space!

New comment by joquarky in "Texas grid flags risks as data centers, crypto sites fail voltage tests"

joquarky — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:15:21 +0000

> over how long it delivers that ROI

In the US, this is moot if that time period is more than 3 months.

New comment by joquarky in "Texas grid flags risks as data centers, crypto sites fail voltage tests"

joquarky — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:11:20 +0000

> nuclear plants worth of capacity) that can switch on/off in milliseconds

Nuclear has this little problem getting in the way of switching on/off quickly:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenon-135

New comment by joquarky in "An Ohio Valley 100k-watt FM signal is severed in broad daylight"

joquarky — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 06:56:37 +0000

Putting people in prison has substantial costs.

New comment by joquarky in "The OnlyFans Economy of American AI"

joquarky — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:36:49 +0000

You can act, but the only winner will be the lawyers.

New comment by joquarky in "The OnlyFans Economy of American AI"

joquarky — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:34:23 +0000

Amazon would never do anything nefarious.

New comment by joquarky in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

joquarky — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:40:25 +0000

Suffering comes from desire.

What would a silicon-based consciousness desire to cause suffering?