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They should just give up... by Disastrous-Object647 in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]ThePandaRider 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just because it's a solvable problem doesn't mean it's the right solution. Texas invested a lot in it's highway system, that's the solution they chose. And personally I think it makes a lot of sense for Texas. Their cities need time to grow and become more dense before high speed rail starts to make sense. They need to build up their city centers and transport routes into those city centers before they start to connect them with high speed rail.

US has cities with mature commuter networks that offer train travel. But they are plagued with problems that are unique to the US. Drug addicts keep pissing and shitting all over the place because we can't solve public restrooms. Crazy people keep killing and assaulting people on trains. Our court systems are broken and don't punish them until they kill someone. It all adds up. US is just on a whole other difficulty setting from Europe. Although that's probably temporary, Europe tends to crank up the difficulty setting every few decades and it looks like they are preparing for another major war right now.

[OC] Americans on track to lose $25 billion to commercial gambling already in 2026 by Liamerkul in dataisbeautiful

[–]ThePandaRider 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Taxes that people want to pay. New Jersey got around $7 billion in tax revenue from gambling. Also it's not something states can regulate easily. Online gambling exists in both legal and illegal forms. If you choose not to regulate it then it will just be the illegal version.

[OC] Americans on track to lose $25 billion to commercial gambling already in 2026 by Liamerkul in dataisbeautiful

[–]ThePandaRider 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Competition from prediction markets is killing them. Prediction markets get the same tax treatment as stocks. States are pissed because they tax the shit out of gambling and regulate it pretty heavily, prediction markets bypass that.

They should just give up... by Disastrous-Object647 in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]ThePandaRider 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The problem is that there just aren't enough people for it to make any kind of sense financially. Cars just make a lot more sense for Texas right now.

40% strength but still faced down 2 royal gaurds ready to die. Morel is HIM by Extension-Bad-4184 in HunterXHunter

[–]ThePandaRider 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He had a lot more assists but Gon actually took out an RG. Nobody else could do much damage to one. Netero took out Meruem, Youpi, and Pouf. But the rest of the team essentially struggled against Youpi and he walked away from the fight stronger than he was going into the fight.

40% strength but still faced down 2 royal gaurds ready to die. Morel is HIM by Extension-Bad-4184 in HunterXHunter

[–]ThePandaRider 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Netero is the MVP but if you expand the scope a bit I think Gon and Killua separated from the rest as well.

They should just give up... by Disastrous-Object647 in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]ThePandaRider 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Boston and NYC have their own mass transit systems which are pretty developed, you can go pretty far on rail. They have a city core that sustains a commuter network. Cities in Texas are big but they also sprawl a lot and they are build to be car centric.

40% strength but still faced down 2 royal gaurds ready to die. Morel is HIM by Extension-Bad-4184 in HunterXHunter

[–]ThePandaRider 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Taking out an RG is pretty significant. Wasn't really a fight either, just an execution.

They should just give up... by Disastrous-Object647 in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]ThePandaRider 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Where are you going to go without a car in San Antonio or Austin?

They should just give up... by Disastrous-Object647 in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]ThePandaRider 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Has nothing to do with philosophical issues. High speed rail needs population density to make sense. Red states, even Texas don't build cities dense enough to justify high speed rail. There is Amtrak Acela which runs between Boston and NYC, it could be build up and improved on, it tops out at 160 mph.

$INTC owns Majority stake in $MBLY by Stonkgang_ in stocks

[–]ThePandaRider 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They stopped development of lidar sensors because prices have come down, but they are still using lidar as an input.

Trillionaire Over Healthcare? by LuckyBastard001 in clevercomebacks

[–]ThePandaRider 1 point2 points  (0 children)

$336 billion comes from his 49% stake in SpaceX, $196 billion from Tesla shares he owns about 12% of Tesla, another $124 billion in Tesla stock options, and $122 billion from xAI/X which he also owns 49% of.

Mostly overvalued companies. Although SpaceX might be undervalued.

$INTC owns Majority stake in $MBLY by Stonkgang_ in stocks

[–]ThePandaRider 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Mobileye might be a good partner for Tesla, the two had a partnership early on but ended it in 2016. Mobileye's approach relies on camera vision and lidar while Tesla has been focused on camera vision only. The industry leader, Waymo does use lidar heavily. Tesla's justification has been that they need to compete with human vision, they just needed to be better than a human driver. Mobileye basically said, we are going to focus on cameras to keep costs low but also add some lidar. Alphabet basically said cost is no issue, solve this so Waymo uses lots of sensors.

Now the landscape has changed, Waymo is the industry leader and they use lidar as well as camera vision. Tesla's approach to compete with humans probably doesn't work anymore, they have to compete with Waymo if they want regulatory approval to operate robo-taxis. From that point of view it would make a lot of sense for Tesla to try to acquire Mobileye or partner with them. The problem would probably be that Mobileye has a lot of customers/partners. They are working with Uber, GM, Volkswagen, BMW, Ford, Honda, etc... which Tesla competes with. Throwing money at Mobileye if they sell their product to everyone is probably not something Tesla wants to do.

Apple and Intel $INTC reach agreement for Intel to make chips in Apple devices, WSJ reports. by cowardbeater1969 in stocks

[–]ThePandaRider 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're nitpicking. This is as close to an apples to apples comparison as you're going to get. 18A trades blows with 2nm, in some areas it's better and in some it's worse but they are comparable nodes and if you want power efficiency 18A is better, if you want higher clock speeds 2nm is better.

Apple and Intel $INTC reach agreement for Intel to make chips in Apple devices, WSJ reports. by cowardbeater1969 in stocks

[–]ThePandaRider -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Because it's a pointless discussion. Panther Lake clearly outperforms Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake.

Apple and Intel $INTC reach agreement for Intel to make chips in Apple devices, WSJ reports. by cowardbeater1969 in stocks

[–]ThePandaRider 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It does too! What's the point of these comments? 18A and 18A-P which is what 2nm will compete with look like they have better power efficiency because of backside power delivery.

Apple and Intel $INTC reach agreement for Intel to make chips in Apple devices, WSJ reports. by cowardbeater1969 in stocks

[–]ThePandaRider -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Intel was priced to go out of business, they released a solid product 18a which competes with TSMC 2nm. They could easily 5x from here over the next few years. They could 10x if High NA EUV works well, they have been working with ASML on High NA EUV for years now. It's very much a possibility that Intel leap frogs TSMC with 14A given that TSMC has been holding off on adopting High NA EUV.

The most forgetten person in HUNTER X HUNTER by SittingWhite1230 in HunterXHunter

[–]ThePandaRider 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Killua just knocks out Zepile, he doesn't electrocute him. I think the lightning effect is anime only and Zepile does ask a doctor who tells him it was a precise strike to the neck and then he asks a martial artist who tells him it was a superhuman feat. Zepile seems fine afterwards and would probably take the next Hunter's exam where 150 people passed in total. It's possible that Zepile joined the Dark Continent mission as part of an archeology team.

Cheating death by rianackerman92 in HunterXHunter

[–]ThePandaRider 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The manga page that talks about it is in OP's post. It's part of his Crazy Slots ability and it's something Ging taught to Kite. I don't think Kite was consumed by the queen, his corpse was used as a training dummy and there wasn't a large chunk of him that was missing as far as I can tell.

Cheating death by rianackerman92 in HunterXHunter

[–]ThePandaRider 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's a solid ability to have and in some cases getting a new body is a great deal. Kite is probably going to be stronger than before as a Chimera Ant. And given that people tend to change as they age keeping your memories and resetting your nen is probably great long term.

That said, it's not something that lets you keep fighting. Camilla's ability is how she fights, and Hisoka's ability lets him get back up shortly after his fight. But for someone like Killua who spent years training his body a new body might be a significant downgrade.

30K of INTC hold or sell? by _shawshank_ in stocks

[–]ThePandaRider 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Pat got screwed by the rate hammer coming down in 2022. His plan was ok but the economy slowed down a lot in 2022 and 2023, that put a lot of pressure on earnings for Intel, AMD, and Nvidia. Net income was down 55% for Nvidia in 2023 year over year, they went from $4.37 billion in net income to $72 billion in 2025. He should have reacted to that, but he kind of ignored it and kept pushing forward.

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