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*notwithstanding Anyway, good input!

This is super cool. Made me happy to see what's up in the sky. Bookmarked for when I need a pick-me-up!

I think they were talking about the Flight Wall, which doesn't use Google Earth imagery, only flight data

> generate a web page with diagrams and organized information flow. Sounds like you'd be just as well off link-surfing Wikipedia?

Bet you'd have bought a lot of tulips back in the day

I have racked up some air miles in my time. I am not wealthy, and price is a major criterion, but there are some airlines and airports I avoid at nearly all costs. I wish there wer…

the market can remain irrational longer than I can stay solvent

Also, the indoor park "tour" voiceover refers to "Thinking Machine supercomputers", which I never figured were a brand name until today!

Look, we are shareholders, but I showed how so much of the value generated by increased productivity never reaches listed companies, let alone their dividends. THAT is the key argu…

In the US, public and private pension funds directly hold about US$9.9trn of corporate equities, out of US$83trn of the publicly traded market (ignoring non-public wealth extractio…

The problem is, if you deviate too far from the index, your head is on the chopping block. There is no incentive to outperform the index, and every incentive to not meaningfully un…

fine, strip out the words "surplus value" and "reasonable" if they truly blind you to the point. Let's say, "If we had a tax system that captured a greater share of the increase in…

I'd be in line to buy today!

I was going to be glib and say "a thimbleful" but let's really look at it. Firstly, pension funds hold some share of stocks, but far from all. Second, pension funds hold a share of…

You've been told a lie. Productivity has increased every step of the way even as populations shrink and the elderly cohort grows. Most of those productivity gains, i.e. the added v…

> 7. Index fund managers are not incentivized to exclude a SpaceX from their indexes. (?) Correction: index funds don't have a choice. They must follow the index, and so must buy t…

If they (and the rest of us for that matter) weren't burning so much of it, there'd be more left over for other uses. (with the obvious caveat that less demand means less productio…

I was a dedicated Claude user but in March/April I started using GPT5.5 on a new project that Claude had tried and failed to execute successfully. GPT knocked it out of the park, a…

The only way that'll happen is if deep-pocketed corporate buyers exit the market almost entirely, and therefore stop being the highest-available bidder. Even in a scenario where it…

Maybe it's bad to let people bet on anything, huh

This was news to me. Very sad news indeed. I see now they were bought by Canva. That explains it...

Yes, looking at things from the same angle every time and not really representing the alternative view is indeed a crusade

_Something_ motivates them, though. They have been on a wild anti-solar bend the last year or more. Dozens of articles, all with the same anti-solar NIMBY bent

The Guardian continues its anti-solar crusade. For some inexplicable reason

Roboto Mono, apparently