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This is all a function of the dollar as a reserve currency. The US is optimized to be the place to own things. The rest of the world is where people make things.

Addendum: I think this is bad.

So take the cost of electricity + compute and add 3% markup for the US and 0.3% for everywhere else, and there you have the actual cost of AI.

I think your contemporary "Western" bias is what is jarring you. In fact, the prevalence of these traditional medicine practices gives them credence in my mind.

Most people probably don't have my same view, but I don't see these practices as having 'credibility' in the same way as a pharmaceutical with a phase 3 trial and decades of follow ups. But they DO have credibility in the sense that there's a long history of people following this advice and feeling a little better. Maybe it's just placebo or a coincidence, but if it works it doesn't matter.

Similarly, contemporary western medicine has all sorts of blind spots, is vulnerable to lobbying/agendas/money, and doesn't offer much in the way of a holistic guide towards the feeling that your diet is aligning with your health goals.

This is similar to my view of religion. Any given doctrine isn't factual, but people long for a way to spiritually understand the world, and they aren't wrong for doing so. Science can't and shouldn't provide that.

I do the same. Just a single card for most spending, but has a bunch of handy features. I pay $50 a year for that, the convenience in case it gets stolen etc. I will say though that it's a little annoying to constantly transfer to the brokerage and then to the bank, but not too bad.

I had never considered the demand destruction effect of EVs on fuel like that. It makes sense though, because the biggest users will justify switching to electric faster because the payoff time is quicker.

Great. Maybe all US digital communications could go through some kind of filter before publishing, to ensure that the speech is "free".

Don't give them any ideas...

The empty land doesn't produce power, wind does, and offshore it's stronger and more reliable, and it's in a location near big demand. All of the environmental issues are considerations for any power plant. Offshore wind would have been better in many aspects than alternatives, and profitable.

And eventually that arbitrage will be big enough to justify a pumped hydro/gravity/iron-air storage.

Also need to make sure you increase the speed going past floors 4 and 13 to avoid bad luck.

If the thing is going to blow up anyway, does it need to be light? Wouldn't you rather have more cheaper drones?

They should sell an add-on to your subscription so that if Claude is down it routes the queries to OpenAI. Then OpenAI can do the reverse for their subscriptions, and if both are down, Grok will invest your portfolio into Nvidia.

The author outlines problem after problem with private health insurance, then concludes somehow that they benefit the American public.

Nowhere in this article is any reference to the solution that works everywhere else in the world.

The benefits of insurance come from collective bargaining, but the author does not address that the ultimate bargaining position for the public is to pool our risk entirely.

The conclusion that private insurance keeps cost down is absurd. Private health insurance customers' costs increase every year, and the companies ONLY have to provide for the people who are CHEAPEST to insure. We as the public pay THEM for the privilege of taking profits on the only category of people that could reasonably generate profits, when that money should be used towards the risk pool paid by the public.

Not examining the public universal insurance option is like intellectual malpractice.

According to AI, an equivalent would be roughly when Google maps shows you 10mi/20km reference scale.

Turning off the labels, aliens would probably assume that the world is naturally full of green stuff that is dealing with some strange grey infestation.