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that websites estimates are definitely too low - e.g. there are definitely more than 40 Uzbek people in Chicago... I've been to 3 uzbek restaurants in Chicago proper myself.

"There's apparently only ~2000 Uzbek-Americans in all of northern IL" where did you get this number? does that include chicago, because i live in Chicago area ... seems low.

> "A company whose first demo was completely fraudulent" Could you expand on this?

Agree 100%. Costco exemplifies american dream... recent immigrants perusing well-stocked aisles, friendly employees, ample parking, cheap tasty hot dogs, etc.

> it costs >1000% to run inference do you have a source for this claim? i thought LLM providers earn high margins from inference (charged by token). is this no longer the case?

"Our most likely estimate is that replacement costs are approximately $91 billion. Military and strategic assets — nuclear facilities, missile and drone production infrastructure, …

as a math major i had the same confusion; for such that i use "s.t.". but apparently peano used ∋ to mean such that: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/15455/backwards-eps...…

> 8 queries implies 8 tables, which is well under the limit for both Postgres and MySQL where the planner may give up and choose a suboptimal plan. I'm not sure thats true for Post…

why doesnt hackernews count as social media?

compare list of conflicts in europe to those in middle east over past from 1000 AD - 1900AD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conflicts_in_Europe in particular state formation…

Can anyone explain why I would want to use this over an orchestration tool that lives outside the DB? Read through the Readme and some of the examples, I still don't get it.

> Those numbers also show why the “wealth transfer from India” is mostly fake. India and China were both at a subsistence level. There was no meaningful wealth to transfer. Can you…

Not an Elon fan, but markets dictate the value, not analyst reports or "fundamentals". The stock is simply worth whatever people will pay for it. The fact that people are paying an…

nice work! we have handrolled something similar at work. do you have any perf metrics? throughput, end-to-end latency, etc?

only when rhetorically convenient i suspect

> Just because Bangladeshis have the right of self determination doesn't mean we have to or want to live in a country with them. why do you believe you and and your family (parents…

it depends greatly on the majority though. e.g. he believes democracy should be suppressed ("crushed") in Muslim- majority nations, etc.

> People really need to read their history. agreed. but i bet i can make a bunch of confounding factors appear. from 1800 to 1870 gdp per capita growth rate was about 1.1 percent. …

> same progressives that gave us eugenics ray, why are you now cosplaying as someone who doesn't believe in racial hierarchies?

excellent article. > The key correctness insight is this: any two majorities of nodes must overlap in at least one node. So between any two consecutive global state changes — wheth…

yes, there is counterparty risk with both etfs and mutual funds. in general, stick to the well regarded issuers or fund managers. vanguard is the best imo, they do a lot to protect…

100%. i ran a trading desk predicated on this strategy, and know a couple of others who are still successfully running similar strats.

The number of ETFs isn't as relevant as the total % of funds invested in passive funds as opposed to single stocks or active funds. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract…

> I’m not. I have a Bangladeshi sense of the flow of time, I have basically traditional beliefs about family structure, raising children, social obligations to elders, etc. Why don…