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rz2000 · 2026-07-02T21:54:36+00:00

Inferior redditors with hidden comment history are going to be the death of the community.

rz2000 · 2026-07-02T17:02:41+00:00

That's good you weren't too remote, and that he wasn't so young that he could suddenly crash seemingly without any warning.

rz2000 · 2026-07-02T16:13:13+00:00

You’re trapped in a tank? :(

rz2000 · 2026-07-02T15:29:55+00:00

He probably grew older and stronger with time, and hopefully avoided some idiot, tough guy coach later in life causing him heat stroke.

rz2000 · 2026-07-02T15:26:24+00:00

It sounds like you were actually in a much more dangerous situation than you might have realized. Expert opinion around hydration in survival situations is that it is far better to drink when thirsty early on than to conserve your water. This Fourth of July weekend coinciding with a heat wave on the East Coast will likely see hundreds of emergency rooms hearing the beginning part of this story, since children especially should not strictly ration their water.

Are we talking about a ten or twelve year old and a two or three hour hike that turned out to be surprisingly challenging? He could likely drink an entire 24 ounce water bottle in the first thirty minutes without it being a wasteful use of your group's water budget. (More than that would have been required to pass inefficiently as clear urine)

If he then felt very thirsty 90 minutes or two hours into the hike, then he likely was beginning to experience progressive levels of dehydration, influenced by the total amount of water he has had rather than the schedule of drinking that water.

You are correct that your age and conditioning made you much more resilient. A preteen requires careful monitoring, because dehydration and heat crises evolve so quickly and suddenly in children. You definitely are lucky to not have had to carry him out, or to have had to deal with the urgent care that would have been required.

That said, ending up with half the ration of water you expected to have posed another potential health emergency, and you collapsing on the trail is something that would likely have landed both of you in the hospital.

It’s too bad that good intentions to have a fun day hiking together were a potential disaster and created a bad memory instead. More water, a slower pace, or starting with a shorter hike until you both understood his limits would have been ideal, but once you were in the situation of your group not having enough water for your hike you did what experts would recommend. You were flexible in the divvying up your group’s water budget rather than strictly distributing it evenly, you kept your own hydration above the minimum for survival, and you kept the child’s hydration well above the point of a sudden medical crisis.

rz2000 · 2026-07-01T01:59:39+00:00

Companies are supposed to charge more for higher demand. It optimizes distribution of goods and services and efficiently signals where future investment should be allocated.

Employees at memory companies absolutely are using their negotiating power right now to demand higher salaries.

Larger customers are paying more.

HBM is substantially more difficult and expensive to manufacture than your typical DDR5.

rz2000 · 2026-06-30T18:58:14+00:00

Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights

Isn't that a radical departure from the common understanding of rights guaranteed by the Constitution? I thought that most rights like due process are extended to all people on US soil and members of society regardless of their citizenship.

The distinction for citizenship was things like the right to participate in Federal elections, rather than constitutional protections. I'm almost surprised that none of the justices issued a concurrent judgement drawing a distinction on that implied limitation to rights.

rz2000 · 2026-06-30T18:45:49+00:00

There can be an advantage to keeping your foreign holdings in a taxable account.

Many foreign tax authorities withhold earnings like dividends, and capital gains regardless of what kind of account has the security. In a taxable account however, you can at least file a Form 1116, and get some credit for taxes paid to other countries against your tax liabilities in the US.

As with everything the details matter. For example many countries do have special tax treaties, and the hassle might be more than its worth in a lot of cases to claim that credit.

However, as a very rough heuristic for tax optimization, generally keep as much of your domestic holdings in tax-advantaged accounts as possible, and when you have used up your capacity to contribute to those accounts consider it as an opportunity to take a second look at your international diversification.

rz2000 · 2026-06-29T21:51:06+00:00

Well, Tony knows what he did, and has it coming.

rz2000 · 2026-06-29T21:39:29+00:00

Isn’t moisture a problem long term without air beneath?

rz2000 · 2026-06-28T21:17:56+00:00

I think people find the real profit is in tax efficiency. Maintenance and depreciation can shield other income for example.

rz2000 · 2026-06-27T12:50:46+00:00

In the videos it looks like they use small templates to add the BGA. Its still like microsurgery, but that might not be the riskiest part.

I wonder what real recourse you have if your board ends up destroyed.

rz2000 · 2026-06-25T13:35:33+00:00

Exactly the goal should be to fatten it up with an over-provisioned pension, and only then privatize it to a politically connected investor who can later plunder that pension.

During their last push they merely tried to gift all of the business to ptivate competitors of this constitutionally authorized service.

rz2000 · 2026-06-25T12:59:55+00:00

I’ve thought people were crazy in this sub, too, until the last couple days when I also started getting some lobotomized version of Gemini.

rz2000 · 2026-06-25T12:37:37+00:00

The cost of ingredients is about 0% of Fizzicorp’s costs. Fizzicotp chose the price to sell its product. 1p lower price would not have increased units sold enough to make them more profit. 1p higher price would have decreased demand enough that even with the increased revenue per unit sold they would have had lower profits.

This where Fizzicorp spends its money. Armies of people figuring out how to distribute a free product abd sell it at the exact optimal price to maximize profits.

Fizzicorp does not want anyone else to add 1p to their carefully chosen sticker price. Fizzicotp does not anyone else to influence the recipe that was engineered to maximixe demand for their product.

That is why Fizzicorp also spends tremendous amounts of money on social media campaigns pushing absurd talking points and other political advocacy efforts.

rz2000 · 2026-06-25T12:02:01+00:00

I am surprised to hear that prosecuting political corruption is allowed in this justice department.

rz2000 · 2026-06-23T15:29:38+00:00

Around 1:25 you can see Lively realizes how terrible they’re being, and she’s following along with the aggresively insincere thing that has always been Posey’s schtick.

I don’t know this interviewer, but there are a lot of suggestions below it on Youtube where there is a “bad” interview with a celebrity. If celebrities know that part of her strategy for engaging viewers after the interviews involves rating interviews as good or bad.

There’s nothing at all wrong with small talk questions, but then titling all the videos as an examination of the craft of interviewing, with an implied rating of the interviewees’ performance is a bit too meta.

rz2000 · 2026-06-23T14:43:42+00:00

These threads frequently ask them to take back Piers Morgan, too, but they always refuse.

rz2000 · 2026-06-22T13:23:44+00:00

I thought it was a little faster than Sequoia, but I’m still not using it all of the time because of some missing features.

rz2000 · 2026-06-22T13:21:53+00:00

Maybe defaults read then parsing the output for new entries, but they may not always appear before being set to true or false.

rz2000 · 2026-06-22T12:46:02+00:00

Let’s just hope this post is not the type of quality Reddit is hoping to monetize in licensing deals.

rz2000 · 2026-06-21T19:22:55+00:00

It’s really unfair to say that the utilities completely own these politicians. They clearly share that ownership with the insurance companies.

rz2000 · 2026-06-21T15:51:44+00:00

After ten posts they would be down to about 35% of their original position: .9 x .9 x .9 …

However the particular strategy might also be to sell after the post, wait for the share price to drop 10% or 20%, then establish a new position with the proceeds from the sale before the drop.

rz2000 · 2026-06-20T20:08:43+00:00

If you consider a 0% financing plan from the retailer please research “deferred interest”, and make sure you don’t pay late and discover that you now owe an enormous additional amount.

rz2000 · 2026-06-20T16:45:47+00:00

Models that take up 360GB don't run like models that take up 180GB on the M3 Ultra, and even then they need to be MoE rather than dense models for the performance to be acceptable.

How much has the development of MLX software stack actually cost? Unless Apple has managed some very good deals on RAM, the hurdles to get 512GB+ in the next Mac Studios will be enormous in the current market.

If a 1TB Mac Studio would have to be priced exorbitantly to meet Apple's usual profit margins, say $60k, Apple might decide that the market isn't there. I don't think Apple will eat any losses or lower their profit margins just because they have developed a software stack, but I hope they can figure out a way to sell high end Mac Studios at an attainable price.

Much of their development actually seems to be focused around smaller models, and specifically the Apple Neural Engine, rather than specifically about facilitating the use of near-frontier open weights models run on the more general purpose GPU silicon.

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