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The Anthropic Mythos release does not appear near the top of the homepage on any major news site today.
The NYT is closest, but it's still pretty far down. The Guardian thinks a Vogue cover with Anna Wintour and Meryl Streep is more important. The Washington Post is prioritizing yet another "we tried to get into Berghain" story.
The media is not adequately covering the insane moment we are in.
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@mr_james_c (btw no one thinks batteries will cover two weeks demand, at least not without big new chemistries with good cost curves)
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@mr_james_c i'm pro nuclear (never gonna happen cos people hate it, alas), but bridging with gas is cheaper again. 20-40x cheaper than batteries, including storage costs and CCGT from scratch just for fun
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The battery capacity to provide Britain with 2 weeks of electricity during winter would cost more than £2tn. Which is 20x the cost of building enough nuclear power stations to provide all the UK's electricity needs.
William Oakley@WillTatton
@Jimmyrinse1 @MorganE07969703 @7Kiwi Batteries are a really cheap way to benefit the grid, but I'm just talking about being able to move power efficiently so we don't have to turn off perfectly good wind farms. Did you really expect our grid built in the 60s to last forever?
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@Brad_Setser @jayoreilly1183 @Padraiccleary @Aidan_Regan yes, agreed on that point in a subsequent tweet. mine was that the Irish offices of Apple and Microsoft do normal valuable work. it's the balance of work/tax that you question, I think, not the amount of work
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@halhod @jayoreilly1183 @Padraiccleary @Aidan_Regan point is that customer services and accounting don't provide the substantive basis for claiming Apple Ireland generates 50-60% of Apple's global profit. that's straight up profit shifting tied to the owership of the IP rights by one of Apple ireland's subs. Same for microsoft
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On the eve of St. Paddy's day I raise a glass to my Irish friends -- offer a toast their international tax wizardry. Every international tax initiative, and every US tax reform, somehow ends up increasing the Irish corporate tax take ... 1/
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@Brad_Setser @jayoreilly1183 @Padraiccleary @Aidan_Regan but your basic point, that the tax revenue is wildly disproportionate to headcount (~$1m per head in ireland, ~$100k in US), is of course totally valid. it's just that the headcount is not directly related to the tax play
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@Brad_Setser @jayoreilly1183 @Padraiccleary @Aidan_Regan you could just google it, Brad. Apple's Ireland operation is mostly EMEA customer service, supply chain and ops, with a bit of hardware testing. Microsoft is EMEA sales and some cloud dev. IP booking is low headcount, and in any case why would those jobs need to be in ireland?
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At last, Haiti has some hope.
Aggressive policing is weakening gangsters' control.
THE KIDNAPPING was to take place in the busy middle-class neighbourhood of Delmas in Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital.
#haiti
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"Kristi Noem, the secretary of homeland security, and Greg Bovino, who commanded in Minneapolis, have blatantly lied. They should be fired."
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Carney's Davos speech really cut through domestically
David Coletto@DavidColetto
With just over 1,800 interviews complete (Jan 22-25), we see a big jump in favourables for @MarkJCarney. HIghest we have measured since we started tracking. Survey finishes tomorrow likely and results out later this week. #cdnpoli
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