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They truly are. Star Wars is perfect example of it. Star Wars is now repetitive genre like police procedural or western except Disney owns it. With few exceptions they have successfully frozen the fr…
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https://nitter.net/ezraklein/status/2068479476309151771 Hacker News crowd initial reaction:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48561816 …
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If you eat foie gras even after knowing how it is produced, you are not my friend. It's pure animal cruelty. No surprise that Chinese pick it up. As a culture, they don't seem to care about …
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Page 33. Fine is calculated from annual worldwide revenue from previous year for the company. https://www.datatilsynet.no/contentassets/59addbef9c1b48a28f... …
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That participation list is not especially selective, politically aligned or sinister.
Many are there because they are famous or influential in politics, business, journalism etc. More just connecting…
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You can stay in EU if you don't need large amounts of capital needed to grow. EU is thin in capital, not in innovation. Regulation is not an issue for high-tech. The list of smaller startups US a…
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Threatening Starlink ground station is one thing, but can they target satellites? They don't have good targeted ASAT capability, but they still can cause some problems. Iran has(had) rockets that…
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Peter Watts is PhD marine biologist. Deepwater biology in the Rifters trilogy (Starfish, Maelstrom, βehemoth) is interesting.
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Notice that this is CPU competition, not GPU competition. AMD is ruling this segment and Nvidia is the challenger. They are threatening to eat AMD's lunch. Venice and Nvidias Vera are CPUs. Ver…
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Classic story tellers vs people who can quantify. Story tellers: Full self driving was commonplace already in 2020.
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Terence Tao explains. https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/06/08/modular-arithmetic... …
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I can't believe I had to scroll down to this far to see someone making this point. Also INSERT speed instead of SELECT? Typically most time is spend in SELECT or UPDATE.
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the problem: The Nasdaq 100 and FTSE Russell made a rule change that allows SpaceX to enter index without mormal time for price discovery. Most index funds have rebalance day just 5 days after IPO. S&…
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So is Holographic principle in physics. Describing 3 representing 3 dimensional object in 2 dimensional surface is what holography is.
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Super weird SpaceX future TAM (Total Addressable Market): 79.6% Enterprise applications
8.4% AI infrastructure
5.6% Starlink broadband and mobile
2.7% Consumer subscriptions
2.1% Digit…
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This seems like rhetorical question where you know the answer. Despite corporate propaganda, work is not self-fulfillment, moral quest, or meaning for most people. It's money and future. When yo…
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They raise just enough money to pay back the loans that came with Twitter acquisition it still carries.
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John Carlos Baez: >I support this declaration. I have one small comment: the document notes that "Technologies which affect the way in which mathematics is practiced may disturb the current sy…