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He was a cuck anyway.

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Here is the latest interview with Martin Armstrong on Alex Jones show InfoWars…

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How do you account for the serial killer curve? It seems to track with the glut of baby-boomers in their prime.

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To say that AST competes with Starlink when the latter already launched 5,000 (five thousand) LEO satellites is a bit much, no?

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Half account for 97 percent of health care spending.

The other half is 3 percent.

Interesting

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You are correct

I recently learned about AST.

I have used neither.

Apparently Victor Davis Hanson uses Starlink in his rural home town

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There have been analyses showing that about half of the average individual’s lifetime health treatment expenses occur in the last 6 months of life, i.e often extending low quality end-of-life period.

Perhaps once people decide there is no after-life, and once they can pass on the costs of treatment to other suckers, the sky is the limit. Giving a teenager a tetanus shot so he can spend years paying taxes is a good deal for a government. Giving an old guy like me expensive cardiac surgery is not such a good deal – for the government.

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State of startups:


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Some nice visualizations of H-1B cheating:

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From perplexity ai…

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has surpassed the U.S. Federal Reserve in its holdings of Treasury bills, amassing $234.6 billion in short-term Treasury bill investments by the end of the second quarter. This is compared to the Federal Reserve’s $195.3 billion in T-bills as of July 31. Berkshire Hathaway also holds over $42 billion in cash and cash equivalents, including T-bills maturing in three months or less. This strategic move comes as Buffett, at 93, has been selling off significant portions of his stock investments, including a large stake in Apple, amid a global market downturn. This has led to speculation that Buffett may have a bearish outlook on the economy.

Buffett’s decision to invest heavily in Treasury bills is seen as a cautious approach, especially given the increase in Treasury yields over the past two years. For instance, a $200 billion investment in three-month Treasury bills at a yield of approximately 5% could generate around $10 billion annually. Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve has been reducing its asset holdings since June 2022 through quantitative tightening, following its significant purchases during the Covid-19 pandemic to support the economy[1].

Citations:
[1] Warren Buffett now owns more T-bills than the Federal Reserve

Edit: CNBC article was locked so I used perplexity to ‘unlock’ it

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Wikipedia’s political bias illustrated:
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More here:

The money quote:

Given that Wikipedia content is routinely used to train Large Language Models (LLMs)—the engines driving many cutting-edge AI systems such as ChatGPT—the biases observed in Wikipedia could infiltrate into the parameters of AI models, thereby propagating said biases further through AI generated content.

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LLM models and chat bots are extremely left wing in my experience

Edit: I proved in the thread about Trump being shot. ChatGPT has a left wing anti Trump bias to put it mildly

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I first heard about this story today but it’s an old story (from 2019) about Amazon:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/1838cm0/my_name_is_amy_nelson_amazon_has_spent_years_tens/

I don’t know, but I’d be concerned that the definition has changed (perhaps deliberately) to make an inconvenient problem fade away. Kind of like the situation now with official crime stats. You knew crime is down, right?

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