Just thinking about a mockable law may keep it in the collective consciousness for more people to independently choose to detox from their phone
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yieldcrv commented on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel cnbc.com/2025/08/22/intel... · Posted by u/givemeethekeys
That's needlessly rude. I just found the sequence of events confusing. If I promise you a cash gift, then some months later demand you to give me something in return for the promised gift, it would be silly to say that I paid absolutely nothing. I don't consider that pedantic.
Okay, you’re right, I’m sorry
I ran into someone recently that derailed every conversation for a needless correction and would opt for arguing about that instead of going back to what the initial conversation was about. This reminded me of that and my tolerance is low for it, for now
yieldcrv commented on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel cnbc.com/2025/08/22/intel... · Posted by u/givemeethekeys
Civil forfeiture existed since 1660s, and was used initially to confiscate smugglers' vessels. Then it was dug out during Prohibition, and turned toxic in 1980s when the agencies doing the forfeiture (e.g. police) were allowed to keep the confiscated property. Ideally it should be used for restitution (e.g. to victims of fraud), but...
I suspect you were growing up when this was in full swing already.
We also have criminal forfeiture, which was leveraged a lot more then. Civil forfeiture use expanded dramatically in recent decades due to profit sharing with DOJ alongside court challenges failing, suggesting the need for constitutional amendment if awareness of the practice improves.
Both should have more reforms.
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yieldcrv commented on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel cnbc.com/2025/08/22/intel... · Posted by u/givemeethekeys
Ironic, Western politicians thought opening up to trade with China would lead to it adopting a Western model of government. Instead it's lead to the USA adopting the Chinese one.
We even have no assurance of keeping private property via civil asset forfeiture!
Private ownership was the adults main point of pride to distinguish from the Chinese when I was growing up.
And now the Chinese private property frameworks are closer to ours and ours are closer to theirs.
Or running molecular simulations, I can keep our whole cluster pegged at 100% CPU for weeks
I've heard generative AI is better at that, or determining configurations and folding patterns
But I figure it is a broad field, so I'm curious what you're doing and if it is the best use of time and energy
I'm also assuming that the generative AI model wouldn't run on your machine well and need to be elsewhere
these days most movies and series already come out with captions, but you know what does not, given the vast amount of it?... ;)
yep, finally the deaf will able to read what people are saying in a porno!
And also pirated releases are super weird and all over the place with subtitles and video player compatibility
This could streamline things
yieldcrv commented on Margin debt surges to record high advisorperspectives.com/d... · Posted by u/pera
Ah, okay. I understand where the "some" was coming from now. Leaving my earlier comment as-is to keep the chain coherent, but I now see that it wasn't conspiratorial.
Let me see if I can put my point a little more politely. There is basically no economic difference between dividends and buybacks, apart from some tax technicalities. When people talk as if dividends are good and pure whereas buybacks are somehow evil and decoupled from reality, it is almost always drivel.
You seem to have a notion that shares, in their untampered state, should be "conduits to return money to shareholders via dividends". But it really makes ~no economic difference whether the shareholders get direct returns via dividends, versus indirect returns via buybacks.
And I really don't understand what connection you see between this minute distinction, and your point about Palantir being a "nearly sovereign entity". Perhaps you could spell that out.
okay, lets reset
I don’t find buybacks to be controversial, I find the Price to Equity metric to be controversial and its relevance up for review because it is based on the idea that there will be future yield in the form of dividends, and people muse about or lament how many years it would take for a shareholder to ROI from dividends at a certain share price.
But since that is not a market reality the PE ratio can be ignored as its not about the time horizon or tolerance of shareholders.
Palantir specifically has government contracts, very large ones, and is in a position to create and be selected for more contracts. Tightly coupled with this administration and the domestic and geopolitical environment.
yieldcrv commented on From GPT-4 to GPT-5: Measuring progress through MedHELM [pdf] fertrevino.com/docs/gpt5_... · Posted by u/fertrevino
GPT-5 feels like cost engineering. The model is incrementally better, but they are optimizing for least amount of compute. I am guessing investors love that.
Yeah look at their open source models and how you get such high parameters in such low vram
Its impressive but a regression for now, in direct comparison to just high parameter model