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Yeah, Jane Street

Your information about ticket sales is out of date. This year is on track to outsell pre Covid years.

My first thought reading this was I wonder if Sony is planning to wind down or spin off Sony DADC, their commercial optical disc manufacturing subsidiary they’ve run since the dawn…

The certificate was issued before the Nightmare Eclipse zero day thing started but I suppose it’s possible there are other certificates expiring around the same time that could be …

Yeah if you have an actual really good idea for a certain kind of under analyzed data that could give you an edge but it would take too much effort or time to compile or analyze th…

But Japanese autoworkers are unionized and have been for a very long time? So there is an example of a unionized group producing a great product!

so there is no data or there are counter examples to the data? because you seem to have shifted to an entirely different assertion... Also to say the counter examples are countless…

Most predictions about the Trump tariffs from Trump and the people railing against them have proven to be hugely incorrect in both directions. If anything this proves my point that…

Except that’s not how it played out at all! Fast Food employment did not go down but wages did go up 11%. Prices of food went up 1.5%, which covered half the wage increase, and the…

An under appreciated part of a truckers job is being in the truck so someone doesn’t rob it.

The problem with US ports being slow isn’t the longshoremen or the lack of automation, it’s the ports themselves. This has been studied and the main takeaway is that automated term…

But based on pure physics alone it seems obvious that moving single truckloads of cargo over several miles of muddy road would be more difficult (and expensive) than moving dozens …

You may need to retake economics 101 perhaps if you think raising a wage floor has a single predictable outcome in every scenario, which seems to be what you are implying. It puts …

he most certainly did not

As mentioned in this very encyclical, nuclear proliferation. (though we seem to be backsliding on this one...)

Yeah the current guidance from US copyright office is that if it were said to be solely authored by copilot it would not be eligible for copyright. If it were said to be solely aut…

It’s certainly an assertion.

I would guess it’s significantly below 1%

Accounting for inflation the 2026 budget is 2 Billion less than the 2016 budget.

yeah I'm sure Jason is just fine with that.

The option is you have to buy another machine. There are mac ec2 instances and several mac cloud hosts that all would abuse this if they could, instead to stay compliant they buy m…

Okay post a really funny LLM joke about potatoes and post a great piece of LLM poetry about lemons. I’ll wait. You should be able to do it quickly though since LLMs are so good at …

AI training

That’s just so you don’t sue the over your lost dog

No the US government does that. He just takes the money taxpayers gave the government to blow people up with, and unlike the other defense contractors, also indirectly finances the…