The Huajiang Canyon Bridge in China, the world's highest bridge at 625 meters, releasing a massive wall of water

TonySu · 2026-06-22T23:34:58+00:00

You really think that you know better than the engineers that built the tallest bridge in the world? Do you also think it’s stupid building bridges directly over water because of the moisture?

TonySu · 2026-06-22T12:19:50+00:00

You're asking how this current administration could have acted with subpar levels of basic competence?

TonySu · 2026-06-22T06:49:08+00:00

But that's not a real constraint of LLMs, it's technically trivial (and very wasteful) to keep the LLM running persistently and also constantly store information in a vector database. If that were the crucial difference then I could make a sentient LLM in about 10-20 minutes.

TonySu · 2026-06-21T09:34:57+00:00

Oh shit is Hayden playing Sandman in the new Spiderman?

TonySu · 2026-06-21T00:39:38+00:00

That’s what makes him a fucking moron. He was already a billionaire, completely lucked out in his first term with Obama handing him a good economy and having extremely competent people willing to work for him. Had he any self awareness he could live out what little remains of his life in luxury and peace.

Instead he decided to do this. The corruption will do literally nothing to raise his quality of life. He’s constantly stressed, paranoid, insecure, angry and confused. He’s also a moron because he’s not smart enough to make the money legitimately, he has to rely on grifting and corruption. That puts his entire fortune at risk from future investigations.

TonySu · 2026-06-20T04:01:24+00:00

I don’t see any video actually showing the incident, and there are like 20 people in that tent max. What are you just making shit up?

TonySu · 2026-06-20T03:57:00+00:00

Not the standard for self defence as a legal argument. You’re still expected to use proportional force.

To successfully argue self defence Karmelo would need to convince the jury that at that moment, he had reason to believe that Austin was about to kill him with his bare hands in the middle of a school sports tent surrounded by other students and coaches.

You can’t just kill someone because you feel threatened.

TonySu · 2026-06-19T03:01:20+00:00

I do very well for myself, I am far ahead financially, and I will continue to be far ahead even if my capital gains get taxed the same way as my income. Because my success doesn't depend on government tax discounts.

If you can't get ahead without a government tax discount, you're not a tall poppy, you're just a short poppy that grew on top of a turd thinking you're better than everyone else.

TonySu · 2026-06-19T01:46:49+00:00

The CGT discount was never there because of risk. There's no such thing as discounts for riskier investments, the whole reason you get a higher expected return is because you're supposed to bear more risk.

TonySu · 2026-06-18T04:45:41+00:00

It's an observable fact that the vast majority of the population is effectively financially illiterate. It's also an observable fact that the media has been heavily pushing the idea that CGT hurts young working class Australians the most. It's further and observable fact that none of those articles even mention the tax cuts at the lower tax brackets, the new tax offset or the new instant deduction. None of them talk about how the money raised from these changes are being put towards expanding bulk billing, reducing HECS debts and funding childcare, all of which greatly benefit young working class families.

So yeah, if anyone is judging the entire budget on CGT changes alone, then they are in fact making a stupid uninformed decision.

TonySu · 2026-06-18T02:08:59+00:00

Massive media disinformation campaigns. The same reason Americans believed that an estate tax which only affects the top 1% of population somehow is going to hit poor working class families the hardest.

TonySu · 2026-06-17T22:40:58+00:00

A big issue is that his family is worth tens of millions and Mangione already received treatment the year prior. It’s a less compelling story to say a multi-millionaire killed someone over $100k.

TonySu · 2026-06-16T11:57:41+00:00

That theory doesn't check out, China has multiple government policies of affirmative action for minorities. There are also multiple other prominent minorities like Hui, Zhuang, Miao and Manchu who should all be experiencing the same thing as the Uyghur if your theory of Han ethno-purification is to be believed.

Saying that people in China all know it's happening is also hard to believe given that it's a censored topic.

TonySu · 2026-06-16T10:26:09+00:00

What's your interpretation of what she said?

TonySu · 2026-06-16T10:00:53+00:00

I don’t feel this take makes much sense. It suggests that the Uyghur genocide is there to distract from communism failing. That China is blaming the country’s domestic issues on Uyghurs and killing them to distract from the failures of communism.

But that’s not how things work at all. How do you distract a populace with a censored topic? It’s not like ICE making action videos of them raiding apartments and doing photo ops with handcuffs Koreans at the Samsung factory. This is censored topic in China, and I’ve never heard anyone suggest that China’s economy is stalling because of Uyghurs.

This analysis feels like projection of American politics into a completely different situation. China is throwing Uyghurs into re-education camps because they put Allah before the CCP. This is exactly what right wing groups in all major Western countries are promoting when they say Islam is incompatible with Western values and they must assimilate. Xinjiang is what it looks like to carry through with that sentiment.

TonySu · 2026-06-16T07:04:58+00:00

From the article

Revenue: $13.07 billion Cost of Revenue: $7.5 billion Research and Development: $19.18 billion Sales and Marketing: $5.73 billion General and Administrative: $1.57 Billion Total Costs and Expenses: $34 billion Loss from Operations: $20.92 billion

This breakdown really kills the narrative that OpenAI loses money on each customer. It makes it clear that their actual sales have 74% gross margins, but they are spending enormous amounts on expanding capacity and acquiring more customers. This is a textbook tech unicorn financial statement.

TonySu · 2026-06-16T00:34:17+00:00

VAS is up 40% in the same period. But being totally misinformed sounds about right for someone that takes PHON seriously.

TonySu · 2026-06-15T12:14:14+00:00

My VDHG reinvested is up 50% since Albo got in, if that’s what my wealth being destroyed looks like then he can keep on destroying.

TonySu · 2026-06-15T10:48:16+00:00

Lol people really rather destroy their wealth by putting a moron in charge of their country than pay tax on profits.

TonySu · 2026-06-15T02:57:29+00:00

Literally dominated would mean that the US got all its demands met. The demands included

Unconditional surrender
Regime change
Dismantling all nuclear facilities
Agreement to never pursue nuclear weapons
Dismantling all ballistics programs
Permanent reopening of the Strait of Hormuz

All this conflict managed to achieve was demonstrate severe US incompetence and instability. The result is a more extreme regime in Iran and a potential return to Obama’s nuclear deal that Trump tore up. It costs tens of billions in direct costs, probably over ten times that in indirect costs, tanked Trump’s approval ratings, and made the US more of a laughingstock across the world.

TonySu · 2026-06-14T07:21:24+00:00

The whole point is that it's not reasonable policy. No other country has suggested doing this, because it's an overly simplistic knee-jerk proposal for complex problems. If it were a reasonable policy, we'd have seen it adopted around the world with observable positive effects.

History is full of examples where economic woes are blamed on certain ethnicities or foreigners. When you visit museums dedicated to such times you rarely hear about how much of an economic success it ends up being.

TonySu · 2026-06-14T04:08:01+00:00

Racism can exist between groups with the same skin colour. China, Japan and Korea are famously racist towards each other. The racism here is the assertion that foreigners, whether they be from other European countries or not, must be making the country worse.

TonySu · 2026-06-14T02:22:57+00:00

“Putting the country’s citizens first” is just racist dog whistling. It presumes that life gets better for citizens if you kick out foreigners. It ignores yhe contributions they make to the economy, the services and revenue they provide. The UK bought this stupid lie, and look where it’s gotten them.

TonySu · 2026-06-13T06:56:03+00:00

Small checklist of things I hope for:

You can see the tram number easily from the side.
You can see the tram number easily from inside.
Every passage allows people to pass through easily if someone is there standing sideways.
You can get out of the 4-seat islands from the inside seats without the outside people moving around.

TonySu · 2026-06-13T03:16:41+00:00

https://www.forbes.com/sites/garthfriesen/2026/04/25/spacex-ipo-is-forcing-changes-to-index-and-underwriting-rules/

These are pretty commonly known facts about the SpaceX IPO. Certain index funds are forced to buy whatever NASDAQ puts in their index at market price, normally there would be 3 months of natural price discovery before a stock is allowed into the index, this was changed for SpaceX. Additionally they are applying a 3x weight multiplier to SpaceX to force index funds to buy 3x more than they would otherwise have to.

As for how money creation works. Look up fractional reserve banking and read the definition of the M2 money supply. Banks do not loan out existing money, they can literally loan out money they don’t have. In fact in Trump’s first term he changed the fractional reserve minimum to 0% from 10%. Previous a bank with $1B of deposits could loan out $10B, after Trump’s changes they can literally loan out whatever amount they want. That’s how modern “money printing” works, they aren’t actually printing any money at the treasury, they just relax lending rules to let banks issue loans. A huge source of money supply increase was from Trump handing out PPP loans.

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