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> Also, in practice the EU has its deepseek equivalent model in Mistral.

In practice, European companies don’t use Mistral.

First acknowledge the reality, then we can propose solutions.

Re:I Became a Citizen of Japan on Sunday October 18, 2026 @01:36AM (#50138199)
> Why is allowing creation of a new culture, a mixture of multiple cultures, such a bad that thing? Particularly when a country is facing serious popular decline.

“You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”

And yes, every country on earth has another culture/country they absolutely hate and consider them the villain. America included.

Re:I Became a Citizen of Japan on Sunday October 18, 2026 @01:16AM (#50138119)
> Japan is probably not the best choice if your goal is a second or third passport, as others mentioned above.

Japan is a good option for a first passport.

Why do you assume everyone wants to keep their American, Canadian, or British passport. You can still invest in the S&P500 as a non-American, and still visit the national parks.

Why exactly is the US passport the “first” passport? Is it so the US can evacuate you if things go to shit while you’re abroad?

Re:I Became a Citizen of Japan on Saturday October 17, 2026 @11:52PM (#50137767)
> How do you get proof of renunciation before becoming a japanese citizen? You would be stateless in between?

Usually they say:

“Here’s your new passport. You have X months to provide proof you renounced all your prior nationalities, otherwise we will revoke your citizenship. If you lie and we find out later, we will revoke you then.”

Re:Tesla Roadster on Friday October 16, 2026 @09:44PM (#50127046)
> When SpaceX IPO'd he was valued at over a trillion USD.

If you offer 0.0000001% of your LLC for sale and I purchase one share for $1, the value of your company becomes $1 billion dollars.

That’s exactly what SpaceX did. But with 5% shares for sale.

Re:Tesla Roadster on Friday October 16, 2026 @06:56PM (#50125880)
> "No one is allowed to build anything that I'm not allowed to buy immediately." --cheonic4040

How’s that FSD from 2017?

Has it been delivered yet?

Rideshare on Tesla Network making money for you while you sleep? Oh, “concept”. Right.

Re:Tesla Roadster on Friday October 16, 2026 @05:39PM (#50125111)
> you can make cars fly and people will still complain

Until everyone who wants to buy a flying car can buy it and have it delivered next week, yes, we have every right to complain.

Until then, this Tesla demo is no different than an AI generated video. Can’t buy the car yet.

Re:Redesigning Source Control at Anthropic on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @06:52PM (#50080073)
> I mean, there isn't any evidence other than heresay

3x leverage on VTI/VOO yields 20% annual return over the past 30 years.

Even you, a passive index fund investor, can do this in your Schwab/Fidelity account.

Now consider algorithmic prop trading firms with 10x, 20x leverage. You do the math.

For reference, most people take 5x leverage on their house (20% down payment).

Re:Redesigning Source Control at Anthropic on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @05:11PM (#50078838)
> If investment managers are so good at investing why don’t they just make money for themselves instead of trying to get people to invest with them?

The good ones do.

Citadel Securities, Renaissance, Jane Street, HRT, Jump, consistently do 50%+ annual returns over the past 15-20 years. They obviously don’t accept outside investor money.

Now, hedge funds that accept outside money like DE Shaw, Bridgewater and shit, yeah, they barely outperform S&P500 after their fees.

Then at the bottom, you have financial advisors who underperform S&P500 after their fees, but these advisors provide emotional support, so that’s what you’re paying for.

> It just seems weird for Karpathy to throw around these numbers calculating percentage against the entire global population.

Just another Anthropic employee trying to spread hype about Anthropic IPO

Revenue must be stagnating.

Re:Governments are mishandling the affordability crisis on Sunday October 11, 2026 @08:46PM (#50049850)
> The majority of the affordability crisis stems from car dependency and excessive need for infrastructure due to bad zoning policy.

New York City is one of the most expensive places in the world. Housing is more expensive than SF.

No cars needed in NYC, yet expensive as hell.

Re:I'm in a Meeting on Friday October 09, 2026 @09:07AM (#50019960)
> People take offense.

Sounds like something people low on the corporate ladder say

Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft on Thursday October 08, 2026 @12:35PM (#50008013)
> Now, you're going to continue attracting LESS of the top tier talent as you make it clearer and clearer that you don't want them. This is the talent we want most.

No. It’s not.

> other companies that would be suspended […] included Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp., Infosys Ltd., Tata, Wipro Ltd., HCL Technologies Ltd., and Capgemini SE.

These companies are D tier talent, at best.

Re:DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows on Friday October 02, 2026 @01:20PM (#49936062)
> That's the compromise: Deepseek gets our data and the CCP gets our data. You get very cheap tokens. BUYER BEWARE!

Anthropic also shares your personal data with the US government.

At least DeepSeek provides 95% of the performance for 10% of the cost.

Re:DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows on Friday October 02, 2026 @01:58AM (#49930236)
> The chinese will go and suck in all of your laptop and everything else from your network when you install this ;)

So will western countries.

At least chinese offers 95% of the quality at 10% of the price.

> The reason that I am not killing people left and right is not because it is illegal to so but because it is immoral.

Evolution and natural selection does not care about morality.

Why should humans?

“because humans are better than apes” …? Weak argument.

Re:When oil prices spike, where does the money go? on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @11:17AM (#49910111)
> The stock market does not benefit all people uniformly

Do you prefer it benefit everyone uniformly?

Everyone gets the exact same $ dividend whether $100 invested or $100k invested?

Re:Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows AI vision, surging costs on Monday September 28, 2026 @08:27PM (#49886354)
Meta is one