I wonder if there’d be enough fiber communications to get by.

We want to hold the owners of Amazon or oil companies accountable, and what makes them the owners of they hold a lot of stocks. Holding fewer stocks seems like you’re enabling the companies, just at a much much lower amount.

Russell 2000 is the top 3000 companies minus the top 1000 companies. So it doesn’t invest in the really big ones.

I don’t like investing in the S&P 500 because it’s supporting the biggest most monopolistic companies out there. Russell 2000 helps, but it has CO2/sustainability concerns. But since big companies usually get bigger because the US has laughable anti trust/monopoly legislature, betting on the big ones is pretty safe.

As for sustainable in the long run, it lets those companies effectively have really low interest rates. It benefits big struggling companies like Boeing so they can borrow at low rates to prop up their business for a while. But with too much investment, you’d give even more leeway and safety nets to the biggest companies.

80% of people watching YouTube in Russia are now using a VPN.

I wonder what the maxout score on a TI83 would be

I’ve found Kahn pretty good, but do they use AI? As in LLMs, or just nural nets? And what does it tweak?

Maximum profit would be achieved by charging the most for the least stuff. And minimizing the cost of that bare minimum. You can do that by eliminating competition so that your prices are the only option. You’d end up with something like feudalism.

But it also depends if you target maximum profits as compared to the population, or maximum profits over all. If maximum profits over all, you’d want to grow the work force as much as possible, maybe colonizing other planets or inhospitable regions of earth.

But maximizing the value of those profits to you requires development to get you more value for less resources. Being a king hundreds of years ago still didn’t get you decent plumbing. So you’d want effecent ways to maximize your pleasure for the lowest cost. Some brain computer interface could be useful there, so that you can create full planets more cheaply.

What happens after all of humanity are enslaved as software devs for the god kings personal virtual reality, I couldn’t guess.

But what is taking advantage of them? If someone owns a house outright, isn’t charging any rent charging more than you need to? At that point, they’re not contributing anything. I agree that’s not what most people are talking about, but I don’t see how it’s categorically different.

But you would be the one getting ownership from the mortgage, so I’d think charging less than the share of the mortgage would be fair. But that ratio depends on your and their particular time value of money, which is hard to pin down. And once you paid off the house, the rent should go to zero?

If you rent to house mates, is that stealing? Do you need to have joint ownership with everyone?

For the first one, were to looking towards Cape Canaveral? Sounds kinda like a falcon 9 booster return to launch sight. The sun will illuminate the rocket stage as it gets higher.

Friends and I have had a good laugh writing rap battles or poems about strangely specific topics, but that’s about it.

I’m familiar with the BBC, but I don’t know about their Russian service. Is it the same coverage, or an independent branch? I’ve seen articles by the investigator I think, but same thing, is this their Russian branch? I’ve never heard of the first one.

So which ones are those two? I’m not familiar with them.

Meaning one’s that didn’t agree with Russia’s official stance, or ones claiming to be independent but still funded by Russia? Those would be very different things.

I thought it was pretty fun to play around with making limericks and rap battles with friends, but I haven’t found a particularly usefull use case for LLMs.

Okay, that’s resistive heating. So it’ll be the same efficiency as a oil heater or any space heater. So heating less space with it will save money.

Most all forms of heating are near 100% efficient, since it’s the waste heat you want. Unless the central heating is using a heat pump instead. Does your central heating use gas heating? If so, using it will probably be cheaper. If it uses resistive heating, the individual unit might be cheaper. But if it uses a heat pump, it might be cheaper to use central again. There are a lot of variables it’s hard to know.

Same, thought they were talking about preping a dnd encounter.

Yeah, space Force bought the launches? With star shield, the DOD bought space on starlink sats.