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New comment by myphpgothacked in "There are now 5 inference providers for abliterated DeepSeek"

myphpgothacked — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 09:57:02 +0000

I wanted to scrape a government website with public information... Why this is blocked when I could submit a FOIA or manually get the data is wild.

But DeepSeek did it when chatGPT and Claude wouldn't.

New comment by myphpgothacked in "US designates helium as a critical material"

myphpgothacked — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 20:41:45 +0000

If you ask international relations scholars or people in the state department, they actually support the prevention of nuclear proliferation.

The general population typically are doves because they can't see the consequences 10-50 years out.

My PhD bud, a Bernie supporter, thinks we should have put boots on the ground by now. I generally agree.

I lived through North Korea getting nuclear weapons in my lifetime. Before they were the end of a joke, today we have to care about the opinions of that backwater. (And I read international relations structural realists as much as I drink coffee... The job of the hegemon is to maintain the status quo.)

New comment by myphpgothacked in "US designates helium as a critical material"

myphpgothacked — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 20:36:23 +0000

This over simplifies politics.

If Trump made a gigantic fuss about something that seems inconsequential, there would be more than 2 nay votes.

The Epstein files are the counter example of this.

The position in the United States to make sure people vote aligned is called Whip.

Given the makeup of Congress, and even myself as a chem engineer, I could see this as something easy to pass.

Sometimes I think we need more involvement from the deep state and less from people with nice looking hair.

New comment by myphpgothacked in "Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear"

myphpgothacked — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:58:41 +0000

This makes me want to start a solar company.

AI can't take my job then.

One indicator is that third world countries can seem to afford it.

New comment by myphpgothacked in "Anthropic S-1"

myphpgothacked — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:56:41 +0000

They could return $0.0001 per year with dividends lol

I think you'd be better off with 10 year bond yields in France than SpaceX.

Laugh emojis only.

New comment by myphpgothacked in "Anthropic S-1"

myphpgothacked — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:55:11 +0000

Wat.

I was a libertarian when I was a child.

Biden never gave me back my SALT Deductions. He did CHIPS Act and tried to cancel student loans.. Obama continued war in the middle east in Syria.

I'm definitely independent.

New comment by myphpgothacked in "Anthropic S-1"

myphpgothacked — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:53:12 +0000

I'd like to think I don't just take hype as a reason to buy a stock.

I went to a birthday party for a kid with first generation Indian Americans that thought they could make money off SpaceX. It was extremely showoffy, they had their cleaning lady carrying around drinks like a butler lol

I warned them it was overvalued.

They thought they could make money quick before it collapsed.

I wonder if they did.

New comment by myphpgothacked in "Anthropic S-1"

myphpgothacked — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:06:40 +0000

To be fair, I spent unbelievable amounts of money on Opus tokens for OpenClaw. Easily my biggest expense this year.

The risk is that other models are pretty comparable to Opus since around July.

Unless they have cheaper electricity costs, I can switch models interchangeably.

They don't have a moat.

Gosh I wish it was easier to short stocks. Whatever platform I used made me sell/buy 100, and I wanted to do this short 3 years long, and buy every 6 months.

We know Tesla and SpaceX are going down at some point. But "The Market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvant."

And bear ETFs are not the same as shorting. I learned this the hard way with $80.