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netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
1d ago
Hell yeah. I got married last month after a similar dating period. Even though I didn’t really expect it to change anything, I keep finding myself grinning like an idiot.
Congratulations!
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
2d ago
Spoken like a true heretic schismatic.
When was the last time that an antipope acquired any real momentum? Nowadays, independent Catholics are just filed alongside the Protestants.
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The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
2d ago
I’m feeling strange deja vu…have we had this argument before?
Both of those articles support the common economic wisdom that, ceteris paribus, competition lowers prices. This is not sufficient to show a quality of life improvement or to demonstrate technological advances. You lose out on specialization of labor. You have to give up coordination problems. There is less economic slack to search for more efficient investments.
China absolutely flooded its labor pool with cheap immigrants. This has been widely regarded as a bad move.
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3d ago
I’m not sure that model would have predicted the initial attack.
Trump does what he thinks is on-brand. If somebody convinces him that breaking the ceasefire will totally get Iran to fold in a week, he’ll do it. Iran will have done something hostile in the meantime, so he’ll even be able to blame them.
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The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
3d ago
How many people are really in that first category?
I have learned to stop betting on a splinter faction of principled dissenters. Most of the people who wanted off the Trump Train got their wish over the last few congressional elections.
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The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
4d ago
You’ve got it backwards, I think.
Glorious Nihon was also made up by people selling comic books. Er, manga. The average weaboo is vastly overconfident in his knowledge of Japan.
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4d ago
I get the impression this was something that played out more on Twitter than in meatspace. I’d have thought people had built an immunity by 2014, but apparently not.
It is interesting that even the “republicans pounce” commentary is subdued by post-2016 standards. Outlets are using this to mock Republicans for having nothing better to do; I could barely find anyone calling it racist.
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4d ago
…but once you have computers in every fridge sold, exponential growth is no longer possible.
A couple weeks ago, someone made analogy to the tractor bubble. Turns out that once you have a rugged, cheap machine on every farm, you can’t keep up the initial growth. But this should apply to every durable good. Why are some slow to reach the flat part of their S-curve?
- Continuous improvement. This describes lots of mid-century consumer goods like televisions where the underlying tech just kept getting revolutionized.
- Untapped markets. Once every American has a tractor, proceed to every NATO member, then to every third-worlder. Companies can keep up this classic capitalist snowball until they outrun their logistics and lose out to a local producer.
- Resource sinks. Postwar Europe had much higher demand for industrial materials, courtesy of a few thousand Allied bombers. Probably not a controllable strategy.
- Synergy. Tractors needed fuel; PCs needed software. Demand grows as other technologies climb their own curves.
- Moat. Lock down tractor repairs, sell subscriptions, etc. and extract what you can. I’m not sure this is extending the curve so much as slowing others so that you can safely slow your own ascent.
Tech companies benefit the most when they’re climbing the curve. If reasons 1-4 aren’t applicable, they’re going to end up trying for 5. Right now, we’re seeing massive buildouts of data centers because AI serves as a synergy for cloud computing. Apple Intelligence and its ilk will remain a gimmick until such a synergy applies to personal computers.
Military access through an extremely weak third party.
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