This seems much easier to clean? A gigantic flat slab is pretty easy to automate something vs disconnected racks.
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Interesting to see the scams play out in real time. To be clear it looks like bots on his channel not something he is actually promoting. His content seemed not that bad? Extremely clickbaity for sure.
I see they have a business at 500/mo. Wonder what the breakdown is.
Judging from their land coverage they are still a bit off doing container/oil/bulk/cruise/yatchs. With better coverage it seems like yachts/boating could run pretty high margin given the current options.
It will be interesting to see the induced demand starlink has. With remote work it makes stuff like rural housing and long term cruising a viable living option for a lot more people.
The way pricing is going on solar/batteries off grid is becoming pretty reasonable if you are willing to not mcmansion.
https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/what-is-an-ecu-an-ec2-com...
Not trying to save money or anything. Genuinely 78 + ceiling fan on low is most comfortable for me. Maybe it's the low humidity?
Algorithms shove skinny, tan and pretty in our faces while advertising things to make us skinny, tan and pretty.
Unconstrained by morals would you rather try to sell to someone of good or poor mental health?
And, what constraints have we placed?
Be interesting to see how remote work shakes out in the long run. I think people are hesitant to buy and be stuck somewhere with no jobs.
For touch to me it seems impossible? Like I could never remember what touch feels like. I would be genuinely more baffled than visualization if someone could tell me they could remember what it felt like to be touched.
My dreams I think I can visualize? It's sort of hard to say?
THC nothing notable.
To solve these I develop a set of rules about the relationship between sides. Like if there is an X on one side then there must be a T adjacent to it and so on. Then I try to eliminate as many answers as possible and then when I'm down to 2 just look for something that is "wrong" (i.e X side cannot be next to V side)
Like I'm not seeing anything. I'm just sort of writing a novel where I'm the main character if that makes sense?
It's similar to how I remember things.
One interesting thing I noticed is when I actually got into math at the university level and engaged with professors there were multiple times where I got the feedback along the lines of "Well yes that is right but kind of weird way to think about or answer the question."
I think for higher dimensional problems it's actually an advantage? Like I have no idea how to visualize something in r^n. Not sure how much people "visualize" functions in r2/r3? To me the difference between r3->r4 is similar to the difference for r2->r3. It's more complex but the way I'd "visualize" something is largely the same.
Even if there are 6-20-100 companies if they are all using similar metrics, ad clicks, retention and so on in terms of what to recommend people it seems likely there will be a high degree of convergence.
What does society look like when most of what we consume is optimized for these metrics? It also changes what content is even created. There is a lot of talk about politics/elections but I think the changes are even more far reaching.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgmpJIyYY1Y
Weirdly I think this video is one of the most disturbing. Makes you really question to what degree our collective culture is being shaped by these recommendation systems.
The algorithmic construction of reality.
Designed to drip feed us dopamine in high definition. How many people are going to be on their deathbed wishing they had scrolled just a little further?
Big businesses/very wealthy can access very low rates by 1. pledging collateral and borrowing-> buy assets-> pushes asset prices up-> collateral worth more-> back to step 1.
With houses they know the average person(who is a homeowner) will fight tooth and nail to keep prices high. Especially people who have bought recently. The higher prices are the more incentive people have to keep them high as it becomes a greater % of their net worth. Tyranny of the majority.
Feels like in Canada we are basically seeing the emergence of some sort of neo-serfdom where the majority of young people(and older renters) who don't have significant family support are spending so much on rent they will never be able to own and year after year rent takes up a greater and greater amount of their salary. It's not at all uncommon to hear about people living in hallways or many people to a room in the GTA/GVA.
I had to go through PA for 2 generic drugs that cost ~10-15 each a month from Costco (according to GoodRX). Cost Plus is actually a bit more expensive with shipping. If its $5 shipping total and not per drug its a small saving but wouldn't count towards my deductible. Was a huge hassle. I'm pretty sure if you were to take the time*wage my pharmacist, my doctor and myself spent on getting it done it would have paid for the prescriptions for at least a decade.
Oh and I'm on a high deductible plan so it will probably never cost them anything because I probably won't hit my coinsurance/out of pocket max.
It's not entirely an unfair point in the sense clearly a modern car with modern safety and electronics costs more to produce (hence the cost basis). But as far as I know the BLS is basically given free reign to invent the cost basis.
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edit: Not that I love the AEI I think this is one of the most important pictures of the 21st century: https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/cpichart2019....