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> As long as fossil fuels remain one of the cheapest easiest to scale ways to make power, there’s a similar incentive to cheat. If everyone else cuts emissions and you don’t, your margins are higher and you can undercut them. Global reductions require an all-cooperate scenario.

IMO economics always wins. You're never going to see an all-cooperate scenario.

You will see an all-compete scenario, so constantly reducing costs for alternatives is key but you also have to find a way to ensure that the producers can win economically too. This is the conundrum.

If solar panels get cheap enough to create high demand, then that demand has to carry through the process of manufacturing, installing and maintenance. Every time I read that solar has gotten even cheaper, I start calling for quotes to install them at my house and the prices are borderline obscene. Same for geothermal last time I needed to update my HVAC.

I want solar and geothermal to work but the economics are a challenge.

Posted this above, but will repost here because it's relevant.

There are numerous studies that show glyphosate binds with aluminum and other metals, having negative impacts on public health.

"Aluminum and Glyphosate Can Synergistically Induce Pineal Gland Pathology: Connection to Gut Dysbiosis and Neurological Disease"

https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation?paperid=53106

"Glyphosate, a chelating agent—relevant for ecological risk assessment?"

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5823954/

"Glyphosate complexation to aluminium(III). An equilibrium and structural study in solution using potentiometry, multinuclear NMR, ATR–FTIR, ESI-MS and DFT calculations"

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01620...

There are numerous studies that show glyphosate binds with aluminum and other metals, having negative impacts on public health.

"Aluminum and Glyphosate Can Synergistically Induce Pineal Gland Pathology: Connection to Gut Dysbiosis and Neurological Disease"

https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation?paperid=53106

"Glyphosate, a chelating agent—relevant for ecological risk assessment?"

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5823954/

"Glyphosate complexation to aluminium(III). An equilibrium and structural study in solution using potentiometry, multinuclear NMR, ATR–FTIR, ESI-MS and DFT calculations"

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01620...

Omarchy introduced a per-workspace toggle to scrollable mode like this. Press Win/Cmd + L and it switches from tiling to scrolling and back. I use it all the time now.

I occasionally remember to post to the substack feed and I'm typically surprised by the interaction. Substack in general is great just to build the email list though.

The ability to click the Grok button and have it privately research a claim in a post to see if there's anything else backing it up in realtime is extremely helpful.

That and the real time translation aspect leading to true global conversations right now is absolutely awesome.

It's probably still Twitter.

With the real time translations that they just introduced where people are interacting in all different languages now, it's the best it's ever been. The conversations that people are getting to have across Japan, France, Spain, South Korea, etc are really incredible.

Man, I am sorry.

Nobody is a Marxian economics expert if it helps

The US can’t build bullet trains because property rights and local regulations make it prohibitively expensive. Not due to capability.

Marketing?

There are so many studies showing that if you just get off of social media, everything about your life gets better. Anxiety, depression too.

There’s money in creating the perception of problems that don’t exist or creating the idea that small problems are much larger than they really are.

Exactly. Same principle of passkeys, Yubikeys and FIDO2. Much harder to phish because the domains have to match.

The problem is that the UX with a browser extension is so much better.

UPDATE's are also a challenge. It's very efficient for mass inserts/append workloads but updating columnar data can be an efficiency challenge.

I have. Never really got anywhere.

Since none of them are actual migraines, most advice was the standard: drink more water, get enough sleep, are you stressed at work, etc.

I won't move back to my hometown because of it and it hasn't been as much of a problem. My grandmother said that I had a distant cousin who would get sick whenever he came to our hometown from Chicago as well. Said that his doctor thought it might have to do with the swampy air around the area. Pee Dee region of South Carolina, where Francis "Swamp Fox" Marion operated during the Revolutionary War.

I've taken so much Advil/Ibuprofen in my life it would be impossible to count at this point.

I always got headaches when I was younger and it didn't really stop until I went to college at a higher altitude. When I go back to my hometown, after a couple of days they come back. Some headaches will go away on their own with water or rest, but others that seem to go from one side of my forehead all the way down the same side of my neck seem to only go away with medicine.

I used to have to take Advil what seemed like every other day to get them to go away. Tylenol never seemed to help at all. Aleve actually works better than anything for me.

I feel like people are underestimating the market share of Cursor.

The value in acquisitions for investors typically comes from how much money is locked into multi-year deals. A lot of tech folks in leadership positions that I talk to are very aware that the best option in this space changes every 2 months. Right now it's Claude. Next month it might be Codex. A couple months after that it could be Gemini/Qwen/Composor/Kimi/xAI.

Locking in with Cursor where quick swapping your team between the changing options is the point is a better choice than locking in even a 1 year deal with any single option where you're still going to be paying for token cost on top of it.

Between launches alone, Starlink and Starshield, SpaceX will likely be a money printing machine for a long time.

What sold you on Zed?

Part of the reason is that you can’t buy it on Coinbase.

The threshold for "worth building" is much lower than that for a lot of people.

Running a network of old school BBS's over radio would be great

Thank you for that, it's very interesting. I keep wanting to find time to try out a local only setup with an NVIDIA 4090 and 64gb of RAM. It seems like it may be time try it out.

Obligatory https://xkcd.com/927/

This is the primary reason I won’t sign up for an annual plan.

Thank goodness for capitalism for providing multiple competitors to multibillion dollar companies

What’s your setup?

I talked to a big Grateful Dead fan the other day and he told me that they had special areas setup for anybody who wanted to record. They were happy to let people share.

Iran has repeatedly stated their intent to use them.

Why would the US be desperate for a ceasefire?