WorkerBee28474
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- Who do you think the article's readers are? Random people? No, it's explicitly for people who are interested in both tech and finance.
- The author is an expert in the field of payments. What you call "being contrarian" is better called "speaking the truth".
- mo·nop·so·ny /məˈnäpsənē/ a market situation in which there is only one buyer.
It seems like the issue we're having is that we are buyers who are competing against OpenAI, who is another buyer. There isn't only 1 buyer or 1 seller of RAM.
- I find it interesting, perhaps ironic, how much the cause of social ownership of businesses/'means of production' will be advanced by ... Trump, via the 530A a.k.a. Trump Account.
$1000 at a 10% return for 65 years is $490,371
- But were any of your classes gender studies?
- > ... most severe of the effects of climate change is going to be massive population migration due to extreme weather and agricultural failures
Perhaps it's not worth mentioning that because there are existing well-tested methods of stopping population migration that are available to be deployed once supported by public opinion. Specifically, fences, warships, and machine guns.
- NASA still had much smaller jumps in capability between flights. Check out the Smarter Every Day NASA talk.
- I'd like to plug the YouTube Video by Jim Lill - "Tested: Where Does The Tone Come From In A Guitar Amplifier?"
- You don't not treat the control group. You give the control group the current standard treatment, and you give the experimental group the new trial treatment.
- > by 1908 the shrew was thought extinct... Brief rediscoveries in 1958 and 1984 brought fleeting hope
So 2025 might be the 4th time the shrew has been declared extinct.
- You seem to link cars and ICEs, while ICEs predated cars by a century.
- Because that's what the headline says, because that's sensational and the truth is not.
- +1 to helmets. In youth, the very similar sport of lacrosse actually has a higher risk of concussion than football [0].
- I don't see any goatees.
- > ...mostly from economic pressures and lack of personal decisions in healthcare for women
I've got some bad news for you about, well, pretty much all of human history...
- > Kirk was bad faith because he tried to distill a complicated, nuanced argument into TikTok clips
Marshall McLuhan would like a word with you
- Yeah, I hardly see anything under SPF15, which lets 1/15th of the light in (6.7%). I'd be interested in using an SPF 5 or so (1/5th or 20% of sunlight gets in).
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0HfmYBlF8g