Rolf Wilhelm

German-American tech veteran

[Rolf Wilhelm @willibossman]

@pmarca @AOC Woke Microsoft and Google aim a sustainable DCs, but your buddy's Elon's Colossus data center uses a million gallons fresh water per day. But you knew this, right?

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@VitalikButerin Nationstate thinking of the 19th century is roaring back. The same thing which brought us two world wars. Its sad.

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@RichardHanania Only weaklings drive automatics.

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@johnarnold You missing one important point here. If you yourself get your money inherited, so it is not first generation wealth (the majority of such cases), it makes perfectly sense your are required to pass it on to the next generation, and not gamble or gift it away.

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@TedAFischer @pmarca Maybe pick up a history book? Both world wars had zero, nada, nothing to do with Marxism. How bad that one is by its own. Both wars are a direct consequence of the nationalism of the 19th century.

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@antoniogm Compromise: go Southern Switzerland (Lugano), Northern Italy (Lake Como).

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@Brad_Setser No question that Ireland's competitive tax politics plays an important role, but this started now more than 30 years ago, and naturally this has grown infrastructure and talent which you don't find easily elsewhere. But inflated pharma prices in the US are a domestic problem.

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@Brad_Setser But you were replying to someone saying that Ireland is competitive in pharmaceuticals with that is just a "tax avoidance" place, which is misleading. Who cares about the US surplus, its a US problem (US pharma creates this as you well know), not related to EU competitiveness.

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@tszzl Dunno. I have rarely working deeper and harder as with Claude/Codex (I let them cross-review). Months of endless conversations to squeeze out truly exciting results.

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@atrupar They should put Hasset out there on TV as much as possible. The things he is saying, with this grin on his face, is the perfect sales pitch for this admin.

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@GaryMarcus When would the prospect of technical debt ever stopped product management to push things out of the door ASAP.

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@Noahpinion Nudity was mainstream in East Germany, as well as in Nazi Germany (FKK -- Freikoerperkultur).

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@mdelling @Rucas1972 @Noahpinion Yes those mid-range missiles were an issue leading to demonstrations, and I forgot about the rise of the green party and anti-nuclear fission movement. Good point. RAF/Bridgades is more like the 70ties.

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@cremieuxrecueil The real problem is the asymmetry of the spending which is caused by decades of established division of responsibilities at NATO. For example, US does intelligence and logistic, pull it out, it doesn't work whatever you spend, takes many years to replace.

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@Rucas1972 @Noahpinion Seriously, fall of the wall and the soviet empire is a thing of the 89/90ties. Yes the warsaw block navigated itself into this situation but this was a slow process going on for 20 years with many steps, including European/US east politics in the 70ties, not only Reagan.

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@Rucas1972 @Noahpinion Haha. I lived in Berlin in 1980s.

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@AI_EngineerGuy @Noahpinion The first two things are at the end.