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As for paying people to stay out of the market: there are examples of this already, for instance it might be more beneficial for countries to pay coal miners not to work and spend …

Sure it is, as already explained multiple times.

Because they already have a cash cow in the Champions League. European teams on both the club and national team level dominate world football, they're not about to let a fox into t…

It will be difficult since they acquired it for less than a billion 10 years ago. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jan/20/spacex-fundi...

It's still an interesting parallel, but that might be not be of interest if you're trying hard to be the middle guy from the bell curve meme.

But I think there's anyway a point there. I watched a talk once and it was humorously said that the amount of time spent discussing whether solution A is better than B is more than…

You try to speed up work by parallelizing, either by adding more machines or more humans. Seems pretty similar.

Amdahl's law states diminishing returns are because some processes cannot be parallelized, thus eventually they become the bottleneck. For Brooks the communication between people s…

"Explains" why people "call" it genocide. It's obvious baloney and beating around the bush because it was trained on media that does the same, and it was likely instructed to do so…

Amdahl's law says something similar, adding more processors to a problem eventually gives almost no speedup because parts of the problem cannot be parallelized and need to be done …

Use it or lose it, but the problem is very old. The introduction of the alphabet/literacy almost certainly made people's memories worse -- up to that point they had to hold a lot m…

I disagree with the analogy, where the fish can develop eyes again and see, if placed in another environment because the genes are still there. I don't think that companies that we…

To be honest, Apple's pricing has been up to a point pretty user friendly the last few years. Two years ago I bought an iPad for around 400 because everyone thought they'll announc…

I'm not sure that's true, although I don't know which SUVs you mean. I don't know all regulations in all countries in Europe, but think in principle they're all the same. So with t…

They're not building anything. The French are building it and doing a terrible job for the third time straight. Flamanville at home, Olkiluoto in Finland and now Hinkley.

Germany was a net importer of around 20TWh of electricity in 2025. If you want to tack that on be my guest, but coal use is still 2/3 down since 2000. It was in the 300TWh range th…

Germany replaced 2/3 of its coal use in 25 years while simultaneously inventing a whole new industry and a new way of thinking (some people still fail to understand it). This way o…

I think you need to stop overthinking. Yes it can make you sick, but the only thing you can do is be on the lookout for it and be smart about avoiding it. I've had around 4-5 ticks…

I have a better list: * every dollar spent on building new nuclear will be put to use so late it effectively increases CO2 emissions * A country like Poland is the biggest emission…

Did someone mention Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy yet? It's not one organization, but there's just so much money in tech and it's so mainstream, that it just attracts more pe…

I imagine it could be done like thus, but it is not, there's no infrastructure like this, so it's a moot point. Balcony solar was allowed so it's a hassle free DIY solution. You al…

It can't be more or much more than the 800W as currently done in Germany because it would not be safe with the way electricity is delivered to a home. The reason is: when you pull …

I don't want to pretend I can explain LLMs, but the same "math" can be applied for visual and non visual things. The dot product of two vectors gives you the angle between them. Th…

"Understanding"

There could be many alternatives, but not valid. Polymarket and Kalshi have banned insider betting.