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lepus commented on The AI valuation bubble is now getting silly   theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/jakubmazanec
bubblelicious · 5 months ago
> asking where today’s AI bubble – because that’s what it clearly is – fits in a 1990s timeline

Yet evidence is:

- CAPE is high - NVIDIA has a very large market cap - enormous capital investment in AI and relatively few companies

I assume also a chorus of “AI actually doesn’t make you more productive!” And “AI capex and opex vastly outweighs realized profits!”

Seems a little less than “clearly”.

All of these are very much RISK factors, yet you need to assume the market is being irrational and assume that AI is NOT going to have the impact the market thinks it will. Personally for me I don’t understand: pretty clear trend in capabilities without a clear and insurmountable roadblock, so I totally get the “I think it’s a bubble” argument, it’s just that I think people underestimate what’s to come

lepus · 5 months ago
"This time is different"
lepus commented on Seattle, Tech Boomtown, Grapples with a Future of Fewer Tech Jobs   wsj.com/tech/seattle-tech... · Posted by u/mooreds
thesmtsolver · 6 months ago
Seattle residents are happy because other people they deem as "uncultured" are out of jobs?

If that is true, do we really want to save Seattle's "culture" from being hollowed out.

lepus · 6 months ago
If you live in a tech growth region get your truck driver, construction, bar tender friends or neighbors to be truly honest with you about how they view "tech guys" and the impacts of massive tech growth on their cities and the impacts on their personal quality of life and you'll learn a lot about how people feel, especially if they're renters.
lepus commented on A modest proposal for destigmatizing America's favorite bad decisions   mleverything.substack.com... · Posted by u/bko
lepus · a year ago
Their bitter sarcasm won't stop programs like this for alcoholics from finding degrees of success https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ylsw5e8d5g

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lepus commented on Carlos Slim cancels his collaboration with Elon Musk's Starlink   mexicodailypost.com/2025/... · Posted by u/toss1
all2 · a year ago
I got that part. It was the "wants to eliminate my people" part I'm missing. Is Musk talking genocide?
lepus commented on Amazon Makes It Harder for Disabled Employees to Work from Home   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/belter
whaaaaat · a year ago
The New York Times. Washington Post. Seattle Times.

If you take Amazon to court and win a labor lawsuit, your name will be ALL over the papers.

lepus · a year ago
Employees have and will continue to take Amazon to court over issues like this and go completely under the radar. The case would also highly likely be settled out of court to avoid this exact issue because they don't want it in the papers either. For an individual doing a (for Amazon) low stakes lawsuit you're highly sensationalizing the situation.
lepus commented on Amazon Makes It Harder for Disabled Employees to Work from Home   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/belter
harimau777 · a year ago
It seems to me that the payout for the employee would need to be enough that they never have to work again because of the risk that they won't be able to find a new jobs after having a lawsuit on their record.
lepus · a year ago
Which record that most employers would check includes lawsuits against former employers?
lepus commented on Visualizing 13M Bluesky users   joelgustafson.com/posts/2... · Posted by u/joelg
josteink · a year ago
Mastadon has a massive problem with furries, people with loli anime-avatars or people who fit the «purple haired» stereotype.

It’s very off-putting and alienating for normal people.

lepus · a year ago
If you have a problem with too many furry posts I have bad news for you about Bluesky
lepus commented on Taiwan is heading toward an energy crunch?   wired.com/story/taiwan-ma... · Posted by u/vunderba
giardini · a year ago
Taiwan has 4 nuclear plants that IIRC they've chosen to not run *purely for political reasons*. The (imo crazy and crooked-as-hell) "green party" is currently in power).

Once another party takes over, the nukes will likely be fired up. Taiwan can make all the power it needs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Taiwan

lepus · a year ago
One of those "purely political reasons" being the obvious and real risks involved with having nuclear power plants in an area known for large earthquakes which was made especially real in people's minds after Fukushima ( further down in the same page you linked: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Taiwan#Post-F... )
lepus commented on Popular gut probiotic craps out in randomized controlled trial   arstechnica.com/health/20... · Posted by u/zdw
wusher · a year ago
I had the exact opposite experience. when I stopped eating meat I got worse. When I stopped eating vegetables I got better. I’m not saying you shouldn’t eat vegetables, I’m saying your claim isn’t as strong as you think it is and peoples gut issues are different.
lepus · a year ago
A lot of people go all in on increasing dietary fiber and then experience gut issues and think it must be the plants when they didn't work into it slowly enough. It's like going to the gym and and feeling sore all over all the time or even getting injured and then concluding that going to the gym is bad when no one told you that you should start easy. In my opinion there's harm in how people fail to communicate how to get started on plant based diets when they miss important issues like this that can permanently put people off from it.

u/lepus

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