Pro-Deflation-Guy

@RealDianeYap The correct position is women only immigration to USA. Save all H1Bs for hottie Latinas and Asian girls. The Right gets their state mandated filipino GFs and the Left gets closing of the gender wage gap. Everyone wins.

If you're against non-white immigration, just be honest and say so. There's no need to make up reasons about personalities or traits or competition for your children. You don't like people who aren't white, and that's your prerogative. No need to lie about it.

@tszzl My I’m a cybersecurity consultant with access to the latest models and they can barely do 20% of my work. When using it to make presentations or reports their output looks passable at first but falls apart upon deeper examination. Too much fluff not enough substance.

after introducing an elite lawyer friend to 5.5 pro the models do not sell themselves and one of Claude’s great successes has been packaging them up and marketing usecases for many verticals

@bryanrbeal LOL the continent that refuses to use air conditioning

The craziest statistic you will hear all year: more Europeans die from summer heat than Americans die from guns

@isnit0 We’ve come full circle back to crypto mining lol

My brother-in-law runs his own data center/GPU farm at home. Currently makes him ~$3k/month profit. 30% solar powered. Aiming to get to 60% by end of this summer which will increase profits significantly (mostly down to adding batteries, not panels), then will buy more GPUs. He sells the compute via some 3rd party service that takes a cut. Apparently a lot of ML/rendering workloads. You can just do stuff!

@romanhelmetguy If you’d like I can give you access to a locally hosted uncensored AI model I’m running on my home server. It has web search/RAG functionality. Gemini is the most over censored of the publicly available models.

It’s very cool that I can’t use AI to locate quotes from ancient historians because Google doesn’t like the content of those quotes. Look at the thinking process. It finds the quote perfectly fine, but then pretends it can’t. AI is censoring Roman history.

@CEBKCEBKCEBK There’s a reason why Michael Saylor lives in DC and now SV. When you’re a rich tech billionaire you’ll get way more smart, hot girls on your yacht in DC than on the West Coast. They even tolerate autism!

The most male-skewed dating market in the US is SV (~1.5-3 eligible men per woman depending on definitions), & the most female-skewed is DC (~1.5-2 eligible women per man). One place makes all the productive disruptive tech (but simps for commies), & the other makes all the regs.

@CEBKCEBKCEBK I’m an Asian tech bro living in DC and honestly it’s a dating paradise for guys like me. The girls here are smart, hot, interesting, and work underpaid government jobs so they think my 250K TC is actually impressive lmao.

@reddit_lies Walmart is actually a huge tech employer, if he had the gumption he would apply internally for a corporate job and use his experience as a plus.

> Graduates with a 4.0 in Computer science > Couldn't get a single interview > Ends up working for 14$ an hour at Walmart Guy did not deserve this.

@cremieuxrecueil My hot take is that unless you’re a dev AI wont replace you. I work at a tech company as an IC. I’m using AI daily but my workload has if anything increased. It doesn’t seem to save me or anyone else time. Maybe increases work quality?

8 out of 10 businesses in the U.S. now uses AI, and 69% of businesses across the U.S., U.K., Germany, and Australia report some AI use. The modal firm reports AI did nothing to employment over the past three years, and also thinks it'll do nothing over the next three. Odd, no?

@BaldingsWorld We kinda have this but it starts later. Every HS in Texas gives you a class rank based on GPA. To improve your class rank there is a GPA multiplier for AP classes. So all the highest ranked students sit in AP/pre-AP classrooms

Unless you have experience with Chinese schools you don't understand this sea change if implemented. My daughter's Chinese private school, students sat in class based upon their ranking in that class. My daughter would come home happy because she got seat boosted. In an odd way, China breeds competition from a very young age in ways the US does not

@avidseries I don’t really believe crime statistics after realizing how much cops lie. I was put down as “white” in an accident report I requested from police in Texas. (I’m full Chinese)

@Xaraphim The bigger picture is that the USAF often fights against weak enemies. While they have much more advanced, stealth bombers like the B-2 and B-1B, they are more expensive to maintain. Why use smart weapon when dumb weapon do trick?

Can someone tell me how the economics on the B-52 actually works out? This is a legendary aircraft, but what does it do so much better than other bombers in our fleet What are the main reasons that they continuously upgrade this old air frame?

@BoringBiz_ They make money charging for ads not charging for search. So the 2 levers of revenue is increase click rate and increase click cost.

How is Google search still growing 19% year over year with nearly monopoly like market share in the category? Legitimately might be the greatest business ever created in the history of capitalism

@ThinkInPeach Think of how difficult it would be to coordinate cooking dinner

Client had date 5 last night. He's 26, golfer, hunts 2-3x a year with his buddies. "She's perfect" -- Christian, wants a family, super sweet. Only problem? She's vegetarian. When he mentioned his hunting trip she went deathly silent. Date 6 is Friday. Stay or walk?

@varunram Many finance jobs are lifestyle jobs. The corp finance/accountants in big tech work even less than the engineers.

Its somewhat interesting that Investment Banking and PE never turned into a lifestyle business when its somewhat obvious that Tech is fast turning into one, wonder how New York bankers prevented that from happening

@Mark_J_Perry Asian men make even more!

Narrative Destabilizing Fact: For the last 10 quarters, Asian women outearned their White male counterparts, see chart. In Q1 this year, the median weekly earnings of White men ($1,400) were 3.4% lower than those of Asian women ($1,449). Over the last 10 quarters, White men earned only 94 cents for every $1 earned by Asian women. That means that White men had to work an extra three weeks into January this year to earn the same as Asian females earned last year. According to feminists/leftists/progressives, those differences in earnings can only result from labor market discrimination against (a) Whites and (b) Men. #EqualPay for White Men.

@gak_pdx @slatestarcodex It's an interesting phenomenon I see at most companies. Only 10-20% of the people know how to solve the hardest problems. The rest of the company is there as essentially support for these 10-20%.

One of my favorite things on the internet was @slatestarcodex writing about Cost Disease; basically, how the costs to do anything have basically tripled, completely disconnected from labor costs, material inputs, or inflation. No economists have an explanation for why costs have gone up so much, it seems like some dark force is acting on the US economy so that - while the Europeans can build lavish infrastructure, the US is stuck at 5-6x costs to build literally everything... and this underpins our fundamental debates about everything. The Interstate Bridge is an excellent example. Back when this was killed the 2nd or 3rd time (I forgot which), the *studies* performed to explore the new bridge cost ~$200 Million. I did the back of the napkin math and those studies cost 3x, inflation adjusted, what the original entire bridge cost to build. I think the dark force economists cannot detect is a combination of things, primarily though? Grift. You need to pay off the environmentalists, you need to pay off the labor unions, you need to pay off local interest groups. Those are the grifts that use social concerns as a cover... But the real grift is the Professional Managerial Class. All the various technical entities involved in the production of anything are 3 people who know anything about the subject encased in small to large organizations where 80% of the headcount has nothing to do with the task at hand. It is a baked-in, structural grift that underpins almost the entirety of the American economy. Vast swaths of the white collar economy are basically riding the coattails of a small - eroding - segment of SMEs who do actual work.

@Aella_Girl Crypto is the solution!

Payment processors are the companies that govern our free speech. We live in a world where lots of forms of speech that are supposed to be legally protected, are actually not. The government is often the one pressuring these companies (Operation Choke Point)!

@thechosenberg All low-trust societies are like this. The locals are just used to it and you are not. For example in the US you never call ambulance, you only call uber. Locals know this but a foreigner would not.

Is this is a racism bait post or is India really like this

@nick_ally1986 Japan is obviously a vassal state of USA. All the losers of WW2 are American vassals which is why they can't have nukes. Competing for them is almost the same as competing for USA.

Why wasn’t Naomi Osaka targeted by the Americans when she decided to represent Japan instead of USA like Eileen Gu despite “training in the USA for years”