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Good to see info on how critical domain expertise is for success. I've seen AI used well in a few support situations, and it is great - faster to get to the answer vs a human (usua…

Paying more would not help you when there is no more supply. It is a zero sum game. Maybe you could pay someone else who is less desperate to part with some, but that does not incr…

Exactly this! They should say more clearly up front what is the definition of efficiency. If they want people to think of a particular metaphor, but there are critical differences,…

>> 98% of trips are under 50 miles. Only 0.8% of the trips are over 100 miles! Sure, ubiquitous charging will be enormously helpful to adoption, and universal rapid charging also. …

Yes, underselling a bit for sure! I didn't even want to get into the optimizations available if cars were really designed for lightweight when the entire motors+battery is only 100…

It should be relatively straightforward to imagine — we already have that in gasoline-powered internal combustion engines. The Watt-hours per kilogram of good Lithium Ion batteries…

Good distinction! Varying service tiers are different from surveillance price discrimination. It is not a difference for each person; it is a difference for a different category or…

Not usually, but the same standard framing and drywall techniques work using the more modern steel stud systems. Here are a few that came up at the top of a DDG search you can peru…

Simple There are two ways to legally "earn" money. The first is to provide a product or service that is sufficiently valuable the buyer willingly parts with the money for the price…

I'm not a customer of those routing systems, but I quite often use different Claude models for different tasks. While most tasks were Opus 4.8, I often used 4.8 to make a plan, pro…

Ah, yes, he does seem to belabor the existential crisis more than that cause. I think that is the part where he talks about "do I still have economic value?", and more generally, i…

Yup, up 7.9% on that year. And until this week, they would release numbers every six months. Now they are NOT releasing numbers. If the numbers were up, they would post them. This …

It seems he is describing normalcy bias. This is the bias where people's brains try to fit new data into existing normal frameworks An all-too-frequent real-life example is "that s…

The article actually cites the opposite - reported users going down at many media sites, including Facebook for the first quarter ever, and Netflix now refusing to report user coun…

Yup, at least a table of the on-books and off-books debt of the top 5 AI-building companies would be nice

If seems this should make obsolete the setup of having a separate computer (e.g., old laptop) to isolate Facebook properties, or am I missing something where a separate machine wou…

Health insurers tripled their profits while covering 80,000 fewer people 2015-2025 [0] What is the difference between the 32 developed countries who successfully deliver healthcare…

And you are saying overcharging an insurance company is on the same level as an insurance company denying medical care and directly killing the patient because they don't want to p…

NO The insurance companies are running the system more than any of the others — it is the finance "wizards" there who put the constraints on the rest of the system. I'll agree some…

Right, because in an actual free market where DHI was not heavily subsidized, DJI drones would cost MUCH more, and the other drones would be competitive. Same for BYD vs Tesla and …

It was a person free-running in a cave. Here's one article about it [0] to get you started, and here's another [1] of multiple 9-day studies showing the fairly immediate shift to 2…

You are not alone. Recalling from college neuroscience classes and subsequent reading of research, the studies show the ordinary human sleep cycle when unrestrained adds about a ha…

How huge is it on a continuous basis? Ii's low earth orbit, so only available for a few hours after sunset, AND requires a new satellite in position every 15 min. So for two hours …