This alleged "drain" covers most of the operating expenses. Berapa banyak employees Federal vs State dalam Johor? Berapa banyak commitment Federal untuk Johor? Jangan lupa tax exempt status Forest City yg benefit a tiny few
@fushilingshi Most high prices stem from monopoly practices. Medical products aren't expensive because of rare earth materials; it's because companies patent formulas and block others from manufacturing them.
Every China story is like: this capitalist hellhole created the elixir of life and demands people's souls in exchange for it.
But then China ruined that market by making the elixir for $5.
@NSKinsella Heard this one way back in AP Calc. Though with a better punch line. The audience is laughing rather than whispering, and eventually he turns to ask what's so funny, and one yells out "you flipped the limits on the integration!"
A math professor, John, is having problems with his sink so he calls a plumber.
The plumber comes over and quickly fixes the sink. The professor is happy until he gets the bill. He tells the plumber, "How can you charge this much? This is half of my paycheck." But he pays it anyways.
The plumber tells him, "Hey, we are looking for more plumbers. You could become a plumber and triple your salary. Just make sure you say you only made it to 6th grade, they don't like educated people."
The professor takes him up on the offer and becomes a plumber. His salary triples and he doesn't have to work nearly as hard. But the company makes an announcement that all of their plumbers must get a 7th grade education. So they all go to night school.
On the first day of night school they all attend math class. The teacher wants to gauge the class so he asks John, "What is the formula for the area of a circle?"
John walks up to the board and is about to write the formula when he realizes he has forgotten it. So he begins to attempt to derive the formula, filling the board with complicated mathematics. He ends up figuring out it is negative pi times radius squared. He thinks the minus doesn't belong so he starts over, but again he comes up with the same equation. After staring at the board for a minute he looks out at the other plumbers and sees that they are all whispering, "Switch the limits on the integral!"
nb @jeffreytucker@Rerazer@BobMurphyEcon
Friendly reminder that Treasury introduced the sugar tax hoping to increase tax revenues.
In response Coca Cola South Africa quickly changed their formula, reduced the standard can size, and instructed their packagers to use a cheaper tin alloy for their cans at the same time.
Within months, Treasury would never see their projected gains from the sugar tax. To protect and increase revenues, Coca Cola then launched the Cappy brand in South Africa - a product with no added sugars.
I was 28 years old at the time, arguing with government-contracted management consultants who thought they’re smarter than me that the sugar tax was doomed to fail because unlike government, the private sector would quickly respond - and they did, in record time.
The home of Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen was raided by masked police forces after he published his 'two favourite numbers', a 10 digit and a 8 digit number, spelled out in letters; it were the social security and phone number of Mette Frederiksen, the Prime Minister of Denmark, who wants to ban encryption (CSA) and introduce mass surveillance.
"Rules for thee, but not for me..."
Good. The rent seeking will stop.
They’ve already done this to caviar, diamonds, electronics, medicine and AI.
I can’t wait for cheap GPUs. Oh, and life extension technology. Can’t have the elites hoarding that.
Everything shall be affordable to the masses. Everything.
The minimum to run the model is ~$20K in hardware and you get ~20 tok/s out
~$20K gets you around 34.6B tokens at a 12:1 input to output ratio assuming good token caching
If you ran the hardware 24/7, it would take roughly 5.5 years to break even