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You’ve misdiagnosed the problem. Taxing billionaires more is worthwhile, but it’s not causing the deficits and won’t fix them.

That’s kind of funny because Nvidia’s biggest moat is arguably CUDA, the software ecosystem around their chips

Exactly, that’s the low margin part of the market. They don’t care about it.

That's less an issue than the new emissions going forward from Asia and Africa.

We can't very well tell them to stay poor. They're going to increase their energy usage and they're right to do so.

Hopefully renewables and EVs are competitive enough to reduce the impact of the rest of the world developing to Western levels. Which they may well, thanks to China and Elon Musk's Tesla for jump starting that transition.

The population in the US has grown 17%, but emissions have reduced 18%. I think it's doing a good job and merely needs to continue that trajectory. The Trump administration is making some poor decisions there, but won't last much longer, it matters more if that's a long-term Republican position or merely an aberation.

China also built more coal than the US has in total. Don't forget the scale is different there.

But yes, it's sad to see America about face on climate change under Trump.

Per capita is rather pointless when talking about climate change, but yes, it doesn't absolve responsibility.

You'll note that's not what I said, just that the US is doing well at reducing CO2 emissions. The population has grown 17%, but emissions have reduced 18%. That's a good job.

US manufacturing has not decreased either, it has just not increased while offshoring elsewhere. So for the most part that decrease in CO2 is not simply moving the problem elsewhere.

Yes, I think so. I doubt a court would interpret that as being reasonable use of force though. In English common-law it's not just the wording of the laws that matter, one must also look at how the courts have interpreted and applied them.

US emissions have declined 18% since 2005.

Look at Asia.

It also mentions:

> theft during the nighttime, or criminal mischief during the nighttime.

Seems like that qualifies

I thought it was the other way around. Too fine/round is not good for concrete, which is why desert sand is unsuitable.

This is true. But it’s more of a pricing power problem. The US can no more rid itself of the dependency on Canadian heavy oil than Canada could on exporting to the US. We’re bound together on that front, and it’s why oil has been exempt from tariffs.

If Canada had the ability to sell that oil on the global market, we’d get a better price for it (if you only have one customer you can sell to, you have little pricing power). Western Canada Select trades at a discount to WTI.

US refineries are built for a mix of heavy and light oil and that’s not practical to change. The US can’t just replace Canada with its own oil or imports from elsewhere.

What about Venezuela? Another potential source of heavy oil? It would take decades of investment and development to bring that up to the point where it produces an extra 4 million barrels a day for export. With the uncertain political environment there, it’s unclear where that would come from.

Police robots and drones.

You say no plausible path to automating - I beg to differ.

It would get officers out of harms way.

Not imminent but not zero risk either.

Maybe I’m missing the subtler geopolitical point here, but I don’t think it’s about oil. It’s about preventing Iran from getting nuclear weapons and threatening the region via their missiles, drones, and proxies.

Whether they succeed at it or not is an open question, but it seems clear that’s what it was about. Take operation midnight hammer last July. That was clearly only about the nuclear issue.

Meh. No matter which side gets in power it’s almost certainly a narcissistic grifter. Who wasn’t over the last twenty years? The current one is a bit of a long term aberration, that doesn’t have to be the norm going forward.

In fact you could argue he was a response to some of the more extreme positions on the Democrat side.

I’m hoping things move more towards the center. But that may be only a fools hope.

Give it two years more then it changes again.

Agreed, that’s a silly argument.

You should worry more about your daily commute than a little ring.

It’s plastic straws all over again.

It works on planes, ships, and in remote areas with no coverage. I live in Canada where the whole of Europe would fit many times over, nothing else would work in the remote areas at that scale. My parents live in Panama and use starlink to get reliable high speed internet at the beach. Even when the power goes out, their solar panels keep the internet online.

What is Microsoft rust? I’ve never heard of such a thing. Or did I miss the joke?

Waste heat into the atmosphere is hardly pollution. I think you don’t understand the scales involved

Very surprising! Thanks for sharing

It is when you have a billion dollars.

It’s all relative.

That’s crazy. I thought maybe some of the other elements used in modern semiconductors might melt first. The wiring seems like a potential problem. But before that even the elements they use in the transistors themselves could be an issue.

Pure silicon melts at 1400 C

You must be thinking of something else

They can use it at home.

Using it school is likely undermining their learning.

> Pretty humble/modest for a guy like that.

Modest was qualified. The statement is accurate. Your objection doesn’t make sense.

If that were to become reality, and I won’t guess at the odds of that, is because it grew the world economic pie. Thinking about it in terms of the size of the pie today is treating it like a zero sum game. It’s a different game.

Over what period of time?

By 2030? No way

By 2050? Maybe?

Obviously during an IPO you’re trying to make the bull case (unhinged or not). What does it look like in the best case scenario.

That’s way too simplistic.

Not all immigrants are good. Many cost society more than they contribute. The right kind of immigrants are good.

That’s a very simplistic take on a complex problem.

Unrestricted immigration destroys democratic high trust societies.

There is a balance to be found, as in all things. It isn’t simply diversity always good or always bad.