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the YIMBY stuff and attack on Naderite lawyer brained nonprofits is fine as far as it goes. but not if it’s a Trojan horse for union busting
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same thing is true of Yggy and transphobia btw. as Stancil says if we throw one member of the coalition over the side to appease the right they’ll carve us all up like turducken one by one
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I’m not bothered by the YIMBYs, lot of good work being done as you say. just specifically these people
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yeah, it’s basically like when a poor country does a currency peg to the dollar or euro. it can work but if there’s a loss of confidence, splat
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could have been better, sure. but if the US had had a New Zealand type response there would be like a million more people alive today
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preview here! prospect.org/podcasts/202...
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pretty clear that these people are deliberately choosing complicated design features to harvest more subsidies
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too contagious. even China couldn't manage it with a totalitarian police state
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yeah China fumbled the bag at the finish line, they couldn't vaccinate their old people, I'm told from cultural suspicion of vaccines and lack of that particular state capacity bsky.app/profile/bobs...
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yeah, I heard a lot of complaints about that visiting there in 2023. but from the US point of view, it was about as good as you could have hoped for, dodged like 80-90 percent of the death toll
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ironically, the only way to get back to something like normal pre-vaccine was with ultra-aggressive control schemes in New Zealand, Vietnam, Australia, China, Taiwan, etc. they didn't work after Omicron but they bought time for mass vaccination and saved millions of lives
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yep, we saw this in the US too. mass fear of infection created largely the same economic disruptions as lockdowns except without the necessary aggressiveness to actually stamp out transmission bsky.app/profile/timp...
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oh and *148 times* worse than New Zealand, which had dramatically more aggressive Zero Covid measures than any Nordic (a lot easier to do on an island, but still)
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by the end of 2021, Sweden was 2.6 times worse than Denmark, 4 times worse than Finland, and 5.6 times worse than Norway
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ha whoops, yeah sure
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my take is these guys got insanely lucky being the first in line during the internet land rush, but normal business does not work at all like that, and they keep trying to recreate a situation that is long gone
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he gets into that in detail in the longer version andymasley.substack.com/p/individual...
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yes, I agree! but it's still tremendously important, and undermines his general point that economic growth is doomed prospect.org/environment/...
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half the super hyped up "tech" crap of late isn't even really tech at all. food delivery, taxis, Theranos, etc. crypto is just unregulated finance
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lol that's good
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Tammany Hall in its day was MUCH more competent and frankly less corrupt than the NY Dem party today. it's basically a conspiracy against the public
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that isn't the point. the point, if his figures are correct, is that chatbot queries use so little resources that they effectively round to zero. if prompting one uses as much as streaming video for like 5 minutes it's not worth worrying about *on those grounds*. of course there are other issues
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lol bsky.app/profile/atta...
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curious if this person would apply this logic to like, Lend-Lease
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I don't follow. his figures take into account both the training costs and operating costs? and the network is not idle most of the time, it gets millions of prompts an hour
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what is he wrong about specifically
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here's one, seems about right www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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the more the merrier imo
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well I dunno, how people end up is so dependent on historical context. I kinda doubt a guy like Murphy would end up in politics at all today, it's such a dead end. he'd be in business or finance
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I mean it's an exaggeration, but people did fear to cross him for a reason lol
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they don't even have any partisan instinct. Cuomo LITERALLY CONSPIRED WITH REPUBLICANS to give them control of the state Senate. in Charlie Murphy's day a Dem elected who pulled that kind of shit would have woken up at the bottom of the Hudson