The level of criminality in today's Western AI industry far surpasses that of Enron & Lehman, casting them in an almost angelic light by comparison.
tag > Economics
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If you are GPU poor, make sure you become data rich.
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The music ownership ouroboros - an interactive diagram to map out the macro ownership structures of the modern music business, with a focus on the growing influence of non-industry-native institutions.
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The value of an (existing) tree🌳
We love planting new trees, but there's NOTHING as precious as an old tree. The word graphic says it all..
Visualise a 100 year old beech, almost 20 metres high and with a treetop diameter of 12 metres. It’s got 600,000 leaves which convert its base of 120 square metres into some 1,200 square metres of leaf-surface.
Due to the physical structure of the leaves themselves, this amounts to a total surface area of 14,000 square metres for gaseous exchange, which equals the area of two football pitches.
On a sunny day, this tree converts 9,400 litres, i.e. 18 kilogrammes, of carbon dioxide. With a carbon dioxide concentration of 0.03% in the air, almost 36,000 cubic metres of air have to flow through these leaves.
The leaves also filter out many airborne particles like bacteria, fungal spores, dust and other harmful substances. At the same time the tree evaporates almost 400 litres of water per day and in doing so it humidifies the air.
Furthermore, through photosynthesis, the tree produces 13 kilograms of oxygen, which equals the needs of 10 people. Moreover, the tree produces 12 kilograms of sugar on a single day, from which it develops all its organic substances.
Some of these substances are accumulated as starch, others are used to build up the tree’s new wood.
If the tree is chopped down, because it must give way for a new road or someone has complained about the shade from the tree or just because the space is needed for a new shed, one would have to plant some 2,000 new trees, each with a tree top volume of one cubic metre in order to compensate fully for the loss of the tree. The cost of this would amount to roughly ÂŁ150,000.
(Credit: @barchams)
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The pre-end period of the end-of-the-world will be filled with unprecedented opportunity for profts
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When reading any news, a neat trick is to ask yourself "What would Michele Sindona have thought about this?" Art by Mark Lombardi: "Inner Sanctum: The Pope and His Bankers"
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The Dutch East India Company was the world’s first publicly-traded multinational company and first to issue stocks. At its peak, it was worth the equivalent of $7.9 trillion in today’s money.
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Today in the fall of civilization: We're gonna need a bigger graph...
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What some call "the economy" is in reality a ponzi scheme, wrapped in mafia operation, wrapped In a war zone, wrapped in a video game, wrapped in a high-speed car crash 🤡. Or as George Carlin once said "It's all bullshit, folks and it's bad for ya."