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Economics & Investing / The mother of all bubbles?
« on: December 10, 2024, 12:04:01 AM »
"U.S. companies now account for 70% of the leading global stock index, up from 30% in the 1980s, while the U.S. economy's share of global GDP is just 27%"
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/the-mother-of-all-bubbles-in-the-us-is-sucking-money-away-from-the-rest-of-the-world-market-expert-says/ar-AA1vuv1a


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Meanwhile, "black swan" investor Mark Spitznagel, cofounder and chief investment officer of the hedge fund Universa Investments, has been warning about a bubble for a while now.

Last year, he said the "greatest credit bubble in human history" was set to pop, and said again in June that the bubble was about to burst. In September, he said markets had already entered black swan territory.

The problem with people like Spitznagel, is they predict a crash every six months and then, when one happens, they market themselves as the visionary who saw it coming. Peter Schiff is another one of these.

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Hardware & Technology / Re: Structural batteries
« on: December 10, 2024, 12:00:53 AM »
PS, the batteries are the least of it. Bubba won't know how to repair automotive panels built from bananas either

Researchers find promising potential in banana trees as replacement for synthetic automotive parts: 'You just wouldn't think of it'
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/researchers-find-promising-potential-in-banana-trees-as-replacement-for-synthetic-automotive-parts-you-just-wouldn-t-think-of-it/ar-AA1oYiPp

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Water Cooler / Re: EV tidbits
« on: December 09, 2024, 11:58:36 PM »
Honda claims it's EV will go 620 miles (aka 1000km) by the end of the decade and 776 miles (1250km) around 2040

https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/game-changer-honda-solid-state-evs-with-620-miles-of-range-coming-this-decade/ar-AA1vnIkX?

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Hardware & Technology / Re: Structural batteries
« on: December 09, 2024, 11:56:57 PM »
>> Backyard

Yesterday I was talking to a 24yo who recently completed all his hours to be a journeyman electrician. He said he had debated between electrician and mechanic.

I told him he had made the right choice. With the new cars and the diagnostic tools needed and all that, as a mechanic he would almost be guaranteed to spend his life working for someone else, but as an electrician he can be his own boss (and indeed, he was freelancing at my friend's house when we had the convo)

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Water Cooler / Next level construction
« on: December 09, 2024, 11:50:57 PM »
The food vendor video reminded me that I keep getting served up construction porn like this

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/revolutionary-construction-tech-changing-the-game-forever/vi-AA1v6npQ

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/revolutionary-construction-tech-changing-the-game-forever/vi-AA1v6npQ#details

If you watch the first one, you'll see the painter bot that was previously posted here.

One observation: when there's a "holy shit!" video with some insane worker bot, if there a clues to location (writing, people), it seems overwhelmingly Asian, probably Chinese.

It reminds me of something Derek Sivers said recently. He went to China (PRC) and Taiwan 15-20 years ago and China was hard travel and Taiwan felt like this gleaming city on the hill. He went back and it was flipped. He said going to China today is like "traveling to the future."

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Hardware & Technology / Structural batteries
« on: December 09, 2024, 11:29:20 PM »
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/world-s-most-powerful-battery-paves-way-for-light-energy-efficient-vehicles/ar-AA1uRSD9

The short version: batteries integrated into structural materials opens the possibility of credit-card thick phones and much much lighter cars

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Water Cooler / Re: Terminator Scenario
« on: December 09, 2024, 11:27:46 PM »
Tesla robot catches balls.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/motorsports/tesla-optimus-bot-catching-a-tennis-ball/vi-AA1v9goI?


Next step: catching John Connor's hand grenades and throwing them back

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Water Cooler / Re: Terminator Scenario
« on: December 06, 2024, 08:10:42 PM »
I think it's better to read Shakeel's post on his blog. Sorry, but this is the who-shot-John version, not the version with just bullets.

https://www.transformernews.ai/p/openais-new-model-tried-to-avoid

And this article covers it.
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/technology-uk/article/chatgpt-o1-openai-prevents-own-deletion-tmvgbb7ls

That's why I like to know who shot John

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Web Development / Re: Offloading domains
« on: December 04, 2024, 10:20:50 PM »
Last I looked into this a few years ago, I listed a few that seemed promising - better than a domain with no obvious commercial intent that I sold for $1000 ten years earlier - and got no bites even at a $35 minimum bid. Crickets.

Then I looked through auction results and realized that most domains that get listed go unsold or are genuinely high value. Sports betting domains might get bids.

I think opening up all the new TLDs pulled the rug out from anything but genuinely premium domains with strong commercial intent. If you want $1000 for a domain, they just look for the same word on a .io or a .whatever

I just turned off auto-renew and let them go.

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I'm pretty sure it's because there are only so many ways to make a car look new and exciting and big fins had already been tried.

Seriously, I think a lot of the designs are meant to highlight the lack of a grill and thus the lack of a radiator and thus the lack of explosions under the hood.

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Hardware & Technology / Re: Hydrogen tidbits
« on: December 02, 2024, 01:56:07 AM »
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Designed to operate on hydrogen fuel, it offers 60% efficiency, far surpassing traditional internal combustion engines that operate at only 20–40%. Even more astonishingly, it does so while emitting mainly water vapor, a stark departure from the carbon-heavy byproducts of conventional gasoline engines.

Astron's H2 Starfire is compact, powerful, and low-maintenance. Built with fewer than 100 parts, it eliminates much of the friction that hampers traditional engines, requiring fewer repairs and boasting an operational lifespan exceeding 100,000 hours between overhauls. With nearly instantaneous throttle response, this engine promises a future where performance meets sustainability.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/new-engine-beats-ford-general-motors-and-tesla-by-a-mile-with-200-more-efficiency-100-more-power-and-50-of-the-cost/ar-AA1uSeaC

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Hardware & Technology / Ultrafast camera captures light in motion
« on: December 01, 2024, 11:04:20 PM »
10 trillion frames per second in Version 1

Version 2 brings that down to a mere 1 trillion frames per second, but it works on transparent objects

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/groundbreaking-new-camera-can-capture-light-waves-at-an-incredible-1-trillion-frames-per-second/ar-AA1v4gWP

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Thats not a small heat pump

Compared to what?

World’s largest CO2 heat pump with 70MW capacity begins operation to power 25,000 homes
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/world-s-largest-co2-heat-pump-with-70mw-capacity-begins-operation-to-power-25-000-homes/ar-AA1v3Szb

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RC - Just to clarify... the free version of InoReader doesn't allow filtering and such, but you use Tampermonkey to do the filtering client side?

I wouldn't be bothered by the 150 feed limit.

I'm still on Feedly despite limitations. My needs, generally, are really basic.

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