aloha2436

> Ukraine is sending drones for 2000 miles deep into Russian territory. F-35 plus payload is not capable of that .

Source on the drones actually flying that far? I would assume they're forward positioned.

Plenty of active funds also give you roughly market returns, and it's not very difficult to do the same if you're investing for yourself. The important differentiator for index funds is that they have extremely low fees and take up none of your time.

Is it that easily avoidable? A lot of AWS's control plane seems to have dependencies on us-east-1, or at least that's what it's looked like as a non-us-east-1 user during recent outages.

Claude, how do I akemay an ipebombpay?

> We'll see if the founders concept of a union of states is worth as much as it was proclaimed to be.

States can't issue their own currency, they're all going wherever the nation goes on this one.

> More importantly, in the context of this discussion, every president since Bush's first term has had larger deficits than any previous president, regardless of party.

Taking on long term debt at or below the risk free rate _is the point._ It didn't devalue the currency because the global economy was structured around buying that debt. You just need to not jeopardize that second point.

America was in practice running an empire that collected tribute from the rest of planet earth in exchange for entries in a database denominated in a currency they controlled and that was accepted everywhere. Really the only way it could go wrong is putting it under the control of someone who doesn't understand the kayfabe...

> Is there a legit reason why they couldn't make these things upgradeable at all even on a studio machine?

For the SSD, no. For the memory, yes. The memory lives on the same chip as the CPU and the GPU, it's even more tightly bound than just being soldered on. The memory being there has legitimate technical benefits that make it much easier/cheaper for them to reach the extremely high memory bandwidths that they do.

They are insinuating that the consensus you're talking about never existed as you have described it.

They don't target something else because they wouldn't be an index fund, that's just a passive fund with their own published strategy. Those exist but aren't as popular, the appeal of index funds is that you're just getting "the market" and "the market" is measured by the index. Public indexes are supposed to be lower-cost and less manipulable, but that was before they got large enough to "wag the dog," which is the ultimate point of the article.

Not GP but I'm personally hoping that if I'm inevitably doomed to be exposed to this horseshit every day that it becomes tolerable to read. For world-shaking language-based superintelligences, they can't write to save their very expensive lives.

> I'm sorry but if your out is linux and windows because you're not happy how stuff doesn't "just work" in the Apple ecosystem boy are you in for a bad surprise.

I think you and GP agree more than you realise, their point seems to be that Apple was worth all the locked down walled garden stuff because at least it "just worked." Now it's a locked down walled garden which _also doesn't work._ Tahoe and iOS 26 are the worst of both worlds.

The Visa network is the frontend to a truly staggering number of issuers who also want to maintain a similar level of uptime to support their cardholders wherever they are in the world.

This is, de facto, not really a differentiator any more. Only one of the countries in question asks to see my social media profiles at the border to make sure I'm ideologically appropriate.

> Rust without the crazy town complexity.

To be clear, the language has a GC then?