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Here's my thinking: Cloud: - You cannot directly execute a remotely-hosted program. - You cannot run inference on an API-served model. --- Closed-source: - You can execute a progra…

You can make parallel arguments for binary executables.

I associate that phrase with Dr. Henry Killinger https://youtu.be/9FUik3QotBQ?si=27AcY47wLNov0Vzw

I believe this is due to a surge in imports in response to looming tariffs - supply chains are trying to stockpile before they hit. I am skeptical that this stockpiling is signific…

> Anyone who can pay this, can run private tests and compare scores. Yes, by uploading the tests to a server controlled by OpenAI/Anthropic/etc

Companies with actual profits can, and do, simply buy back their own stock. Inflating market expectation of future cashflows is not the only way to realize asset appreciation.

> i'm the one who set the password You, personally, set the password to a public internet-facing database to 'abc123'? And if you really did, how much do you estimate that increase…

> the comment I was replying to only mentioned as a benefit that Mars could be a second home The first and second sentences of that comment literally say > A Mars mission would ben…

No, he clearly said that a "second home for humanity" is of dubious (but potentially nonzero) value. Rather, the main benefit would lie in the technological advances made in order …

As of 1/1/2025 the residential average rate paid for the municipal utility of Santa Clara, CA is $0.175/kWh vs a residential average of $0.425/kWh for PG&E https://www.siliconvalle…

If you come into contact with a harvester, it should be clear that it's a harvester, correct. If you come into contact with a dough mixer, it should be clear that it's a dough mixe…

No, in other words, states and local governments are also bound by the Constitution in many of the the same ways that the federal government is. The major difference is the Tenth A…

> * Having written all that, I will add that "government" above means the US Federal government, not all the other ones. State, local, have a lot of latitude to make whatever laws …

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> A single house is exposed on five sides. Six. The most heat escapes through the roof, but thermal loss through the floor is generally about 10-15% of the total.

> It’s too late. It was too late 18 months ago. Nvidia is over 30x bigger. Qualcomm is 2x, AMD is 2x. AMD came back from odds much longer than this. At its nadir, AMD's market cap …

Because it drives inequality. We're proposing a policy that explicitly benefits large owners of capital over small ones. Inequality is a natural outcome of capitalism, and critical…

My argument is 1) that something that takes in 500m in its useful lifetime should not be subject to a lower tax rate than something that takes in only 100k in its useful lifetime (…

Small owners of IP get to enjoy less value from their creations due to weaker IP protections. That's backward. Moreover the amount of tax paid as a fraction of total value realized…

This clearly benefits wealthy owners of IP (disney, movie studios, game publishers, etc) over small-time artists (self-published authors, small bands, etc) since the period of time…

> It realistically affects practically nobody alive Do people in the Global South not use GPS or consume weather forecasts?

> A coding standard that assumes a 10 point font size would violate the Americans with Disabilities Act's 'reasonable accommodation' mandate. Would it? You can still set the size t…

Once physical hardware is involved, the problem gets a lot more complicated. If you're talking about $2M worth of 4090s you have to concern yourself not only with putting them in h…

While I'm sympathetic to democratizing access to simple fabrication technology, I have serious misgivings about hobbyists getting involved. There's the obvious stuff: you can't avo…