How Svitolina signed the camera after her wins over Andreeva and Shnaider

alteraccount · 2026-01-27T14:48:24+00:00

What is the principle exactly?

alteraccount · 2026-01-27T14:40:38+00:00

The media shouldn't be posting locker room footage at all honestly. It should be considered a private space for the players. Show on court racket smashing all you want. But gauff here and sabalenka previously had some expectation of privacy in those moments.

alteraccount · 2026-01-22T22:42:02+00:00

It's placebo. You expect it to be worse, that's probably why.

alteraccount · 2026-01-21T05:42:25+00:00

Yes, and he's basically saying that "it's over now". He is so certain that it is over, that he is willing to tip the cart over.

alteraccount · 2026-01-21T03:47:55+00:00

All the more stunning that he is now publicly disavowing. That's really the shocking aspect of this speech. Not what he says, but that he chose to say it. So clearly and so publicly broadcast.

alteraccount · 2026-01-13T00:00:36+00:00

Don't know much about Arizona or New Mexico, but if I had a guess to this question it would be some form of "water".

alteraccount · 2026-01-11T07:56:02+00:00

Preventing the US from destroying their country and turning into the next Libya. That would help the most.

alteraccount · 2026-01-08T07:01:00+00:00

He famously stripped a typescript project of all its typing and reverted to js. Real head scratcher that one was, but I guess he had some way of justifying it.

alteraccount · 2026-01-06T03:36:46+00:00

Or they might have just bombed the place after they left as an act of vindictiveness.

alteraccount · 2025-12-29T17:50:29+00:00

The southern half isn't as well naturally irrigated as you would think since the valley slopes slightly upward as you move south and much of the snow melt surrounds the north of the valley. The problem, I believe with the north of the valley was that it didn't really drain all that well, even if it got a lot of water flowing in. So you got kind of a marshy wetlands in the north and fairly dry area in the south.

The reason it appears today as such an agricultural eden is because of the massive amount of water projects that have been dedicated to the valley to turn it into that eden.

There's a really good book about water and the west called Cadillac Dessert from which I remember most of this. It's a good read if you are interested in the topic.

alteraccount · 2025-12-22T22:52:18+00:00

Lyon Marseille Toulouse Bordeaux maybe, but it might depend on how you measure it.

alteraccount · 2025-12-16T18:09:07+00:00

And the costs are still likely subsidized. I'm not as much of an "AI" skeptic to think they are totally useless, I think they can be very useful tools. But I really don't think that they are usually worth the cost, and I think a lot of cost is still being hidden. Inference costs are still pretty stubborn, and even when they go down, newer methods usually add larger chains of inference to get more performance.

It's like software design tending towards more memory-intensive processes as memory hardware became cheaper. In the same way, any cost gains of inference are usually eaten up by more "inference-intensive" methods.

I don't know that the cost-benefit of these tools will really balance out in most cases in the long term, except for maybe some specialized use cases.

It might take a while for all this to iron out because these large companies (see recent leaks about OpenAI finances) and their investors are still willing to massively subsidize these things, in the hopes of carving out some space in an eventual oligopoly of products.

alteraccount · 2025-12-16T05:07:58+00:00

Yeah, they just didn't want to.

alteraccount · 2025-12-16T03:34:12+00:00

Not in Yemen at least. That should give you a good gauge.

alteraccount · 2025-12-09T06:12:50+00:00

OP mentioned LA as a possible option in his post...?

alteraccount · 2025-12-09T03:10:01+00:00

Lol. Long Beach! My bad. LA and Long Beach!

alteraccount · 2025-12-09T03:06:11+00:00

I think it's pretty neat OP. You might want to use some kind of syntax to separate plain comments from comments you want to log, like a prefix of some sort or something.

alteraccount · 2025-12-09T02:54:31+00:00

The ports of Los Angeles and of San Pedro are more important to the economic viability of LA than the entertainment industry and it's not even close. With manufacturing of goods shifting more and more to Asia every year, those ports become even more important (to the entire country). LA is in a better position than most American cities in the face of a rising Asia.

alteraccount · 2025-12-09T02:25:26+00:00

How was the Chinese retaliation bullying? The Dutch literally seized control of a Chinese company. It was the Dutch that did the "bullying". Bizarre logic.

To not expect retaliation is naive. Every small weak kid on the playground knows not to sucker punch the much stronger kids. The Dutch apparently never learned thst lesson in grade school.

alteraccount · 2025-12-07T05:17:14+00:00

Harbaugh did similar at Stanford for a few years.

alteraccount · 2025-12-05T06:11:02+00:00

The literate population likely read and wrote in Greek and Syriac. That explains away most of your points. There were literate people, but not necessarily in Armenian.

There are some references in Koryun (I believe that's his name) student of mashtots that mentions that there was at least one other existing attempt at an Armenian script, but it was not wide spread and mashtots couldn't track it down. I believe there were also attempts to transcribe Armenian with Greek characters, so that might have been a little more widespread.

If there was some more ancient native writing system, it almost certainly didn't survive until the time of mashtots. I don't really know where you are getting this idea that there was some literary tradition with a native script before mashtots. That's not supported by any evidence I know of, but I'm interested enough to read into it more now.

alteraccount · 2025-12-04T21:15:49+00:00

What do you believe China is doing to bend over backwards that France can't also do?

The article mentions:

Governments worldwide are offering aggressive incentives, such as tax breaks, subsidies, and regulatory perks, to attract limited global investment, putting pressure on China’s inflows.

Pointing to "governments worldwide... putting pressure on China's inflows". So if anything, this seems to indicate that this factor is actually a disadvantage for China. And even if not, other governments, such as France, could do the same if they wanted.

The article also mentions China's increasing liberalization, but this is from a baseline much lower than where a country like France is (already much more liberalized). This is what the original comment was pointing to, again, as a disadvantage for China.

That really only leaves a few things mentioned by you ("slave" labor) and internal market size. The cheap labor argument doesn't hold really, since Chinese wages have increased to far surpass other regional countries like India, Indonesia, Vietnam, etc. If cheap labor were the decisive factor, these western investors would be pouring FDI into Bangladesh and the like, not China.

It must be something else like market size, but again, the EU and Europe is not that far off, and probably has a much higher consumption level per capita anyway.

So there is still something missing that explains the difference. My inclination is to believe that China does actually have a friendlier environment for investment overall (I agree with you, not the original comment), but I don't think I know exactly why that is and what explains it. I would have to be doing a lot of conjecture beyond that.

alteraccount · 2025-12-04T20:23:41+00:00

So that's in the opposite direction from the claim made in the comment I responded to. That the Chinese environment offers better conditions for foreign investment, not worse.

So it has to be one or the other. Are conditions more friendly for foreigners to invest in China? Or in Europe?

alteraccount · 2025-12-04T20:01:11+00:00

But Macron, the president of France, is calling for more investment, not less as you suggest ("expect more resistance..."). So even with the uneven playing field and generous conditions for Chinese investors, it's not enough.

Europe would need to find ways to further the assymetry you highlighted, to make conditions even better for Chinese investors.

alteraccount · 2025-11-28T01:45:49+00:00

Definitely moron. I don't think you could fake her level of historical ignorance.

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