michaelscott

3 trillion is just the top 5 or 6

It's telling that my first reaction to this was fear. We watch the same shows

I can believe this. I've spoken to many European entrepreneurial types that are really struggling with the red tape handcuffs in their countries, and those are people who actually have EU citizenship and for whom the red tape is as lightweight as possible. Being a non-EU in EU is a whole other ball game.

It's sad, because Europe really has a lot going for it. It also doesn't HAVE to go the US/China route of course, but if it does it will need to make some very serious changes that go beyond just preaching about doing it from the political pulpit

There is plenty of capital (eye watering amounts in most family offices in fact) and world leading expertise in many fields across Europe. The only factor here is more risk appetite and a culture for that risk in an effort to push industry forward. Europe is incredibly risk averse and is more interested in capital preservation than growth

They can, but OP's point is that a ban on US tech on its own will do nothing to produce a local Silicon Valley. It needs to go hand in hand with a massive push toward local entrepreneurial support, especially in places like Europe where the government exercises more control through legislation

I've been in exactly this position and it's honestly insane, assuming Europe is actually interested in promoting startup growth. It's simply not set up from a legislative position to be able to compete with the US or China

Article claims all cash but sounds like probably with vesting for retention

For applications doing extremely high rates of inserts and reads, lock free is definitely superior. In extreme latency sensitive applications like trading platforms (events processing sub 100ms) it's a requirement; locked structures cause bottlenecks at high throughput

Store owners just make out paper receipts in this case, like businesses used to do back in the day

In some isolated and probably anomalous societies sure, but greed-fueled expansion and growth is a hallmark of humanity across every single continent and at every stratum of civilizational development stretching back 10,000s of years

Agreed, this seemed inevitable. And as a bull, I don't even think we're close to the bottom for the year

That's the premise yeah, but it makes sense to buy more on red days

"After the 25% YoY of the last 2 years, the bubble has to burst this year", I thought to myself in Jan. It looks like keeping some cash in the wings waiting was the right move. I think we'll see a nastier crash still though

Yeah this is exactly my impression as well

The American right has (always?) been anti-government overreach traditionally. I don't actually think Trump or Musk are particularly conservative or right wing (they'll say and do what gets them the support) but on this topic they are actually very much in line with political tradition.

I think they're overshooting here and will need to correct, but I get the impression as an outsider that the American people who voted Trump in are sick and tired of a social structure that isn't benefiting them and seems to give them no "out" or way forward. They will take the wild and crazy antics/experiments because hey, it wasn't exactly working before anyway, was it?

NVidia's not selling LLM subscriptions, they're selling shovels in the goldrush. I don't think 3 trillion is a reasonable valuation either, but NVidia's applications extend way beyond consumer and they've effectively become the chokepoint for any application of AI

Only the distilled models can run on everyday machines, not the full model

To be fair, Greenlanders didn't have a lot of choice back then. You don't take extensive time to process food that's naturally toxic unless you really have to

It's hard to imagine just how much the height of Everest affects the feasibility of any "normal" infrastructure as a tourist spot. The air density is exceptionally thin (so thin that even helicopters cannot climb past a certain point), and the lack of oxygen is literally killing you at a cellular level the longer you're there. I can't even fathom getting building equipment up there to set anything up, and no one could man any of the infrastructure on a long term basis.

True, I started as I began thinning and luckily caught it early enough. It hasn't solved the pre-existing thinning completely, but it's prevented any further loss and resurrected enough follicles that were on the verge of death that if you were to look at me on the street, you wouldn't say I'm thinning/balding.

The problem with doing anything after "full" balding has progressed is that the follicles have just completely died off, which is way more difficult to solve than preserving or stimulating existing growth

Completely ancedotal, but I've taken minoxidil and finasteride for a little over a year. I took a break from minoxidil only for a few months and found my hair grew considerably slower than when I was on both. I think this makes sense given what minoxidil is supposed to do, which is not "save the hair" but, as I understand it, accelerate the hair growth cycle

Nah this doesn't work. Codebase is set up in this way already but VS Code just isn't having it :-\

Having multiple Cargo.toml files across workspaces wreaks absolute havoc with editors like VS Code, which perform builds automatically while you work. Makes the debug cycle waaay slower, which is a tradeoff for the faster compile times I suppose?

Unless someone has a way of handling workspaces in VS Code, in which case please let me know

Fwiw my own experience in France, even in Paris, was mixed. A number of people refused to speak French with me (although my French was terrible, it's true), while others were either highly encouraging and complimentary, or were content to at least try and speak with me. I've never encountered anyone overtly rude.

I realised the "refusing to understand" attitude in French is not out of malice, but simply because the structure of French as a language is highly dependent on pronunciation. So pronouncing words slightly incorrectly either changes the meaning completely, or creates a situation where multiple different interpretations are possible.

You can get a loan without any collateral in some countries and under certain conditions. Banks in the countries I've lived in, across 2 continents, would all still perform checks on you before handing you any money and this process has nothing to do with whether the transaction happens in fiat, crypto or a new car.

Services exist to do what you want, but like in fiat institutions the checking process has to be performed "off-chain" in lieu of collateral. If your follow up question is "well then what's the point of crypto?", consider that getting a fiat loan at a bank with collateral still requires human checks in order to ensure that, for example, the collateral exists. In crypto, the collateral check is performed automatically and autonomously, and is therefore immediately more efficient.

I'm not sure I understand what you want; you want to get crypto through a loan to buy a car, but you want to post eg. fiat as collateral?

If you have a solution on mobile, please do DM me :) I've tried multiple workarounds and none of them seem to permanently fix the problem

Vanced has essentially been disabled recently, unable to play anything. I don't know if YouTube is going on a murdering spree of everything that threatens ads on the platform.

> The same crazy idea might not resurface, but someone in the distant future will maybe (likely?) find some of our own, present-day convictions and schemes equally harebrained (like - cough - a renewed all out arms race involving multiple types of WMDs ...).

I don't think we need to wait for the future, I think most normal people living now would already consider this entire situation crazy. The situation and context is obviously complex, but I doubt there are many people outside governments who think a WMD arms race is a good idea.

At what point does abstraction and reasoning turn into "sentient understanding"? How do you express that as the thing doing the abstracting? Even humans struggle at that kind of task because there's a metaphysical assumption of first principles that these models seem to be challenging (or else this thread would not have started).

Processes such as back propagation are still not understood very well in the human brain. The brain certainly uses electrical impulses in order to transfer signals, much like the 1s and 0s in your computer or phone. The gap between us and intelligent machines is probably not as well understood or clear as most people in the software industry think it is.