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by 0xB31B1B 9mo ago
not quite The oil production there is completely decimated. They have huge reserves but production is low and falling because the regime doesn't do any maintenance or support of anything in the oil production and supply chain. It is ve
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by 0xB31B1B 1y ago
There is a specific group of people, matt stoller being the primary leader in the media, who are the "anti trust left". There is another specific group of people who are "abundance liberals" (dereck thompson and ezra kle
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by 0xB31B1B 1y ago
where is the housing crises in japan?
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by 0xB31B1B 1y ago
there are a ton of build code issues in the US that raise the cost of construction without substantionally improving benefits. As an example, I am in Europe right now, most apartment buildings here have single stair entry and smaller elevat
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by 0xB31B1B 1y ago
My sister went there and her and her friends and their families believe these things.
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by 0xB31B1B 1y ago
Hillsdale college is a fundamentalist Christian college. “Bible is the literal word of god” stuff. Many people there believe the world is 6000 years old and evolution didn’t happen.
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by 0xB31B1B 1y ago
The company oAI is acquiring is owned by Sam Altman and Johnny Iive
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by 0xB31B1B 1y ago
interesting back door way to get sam altman some equity in openAI. I wonder how much of this is downstream from them not being able to convert to a for profit and giving sam a slug of equity
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by 0xB31B1B 2y ago
most of these cars will be charging using L2 overnight charging. If you need to limit the fast charging, you can surge price it so maybe it costs $100 to charge fully instead of 25, etc. There are many possible solutions as long as they can
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by 0xB31B1B 2y ago
Spot on. The productivity gradient is extremely steep, and calling this out has become impolite.
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by 0xB31B1B 2y ago
you are not describing someone who is "carrying water for the team". Someone who is carrying water for the team is, for instance, working on reliability improvements so that the errors or things requiring support occur with less f
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by 0xB31B1B 2y ago
This might be a definitions issue, but my assertion is not that a "great engineer" is someone who can complete leetcode hards in 15 minutes for 8 hours in a row without stopping. My assertion is that about 1 in 5 people have 5-10x
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by 0xB31B1B 2y ago
The reason people aren't motivated to do boring work is because of a poor culture of ownership, it has nothing to do with skill or "10x" stuff. Having a team of only great people allows a much deeper culture of ownership and
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by 0xB31B1B 2y ago
Great teams are made of great individuals. All of the policies and trust and rituals and expectations are based on the performance of the bottom quintile of the team. If the bottom quintile of the team is still the top quintile of "eng
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by 0xB31B1B 2y ago
The skill gradient is steep. Broadly speaking a top quintile dev will have 5-10x the productivity of the median dev, but only 110-150% of their salary. A bottom quintile dev will have zero impact, negative impact, or .1x impact relative to
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by 0xB31B1B 2y ago
Comforting yet false assertions. Great engineers tire of working with “normal” engineers, they want to work with others who they respect. A team of only great engineers can have a completely different culture than a team of “normal engineer
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by 0xB31B1B 2y ago
No, I’m optimizing for making customers happy. I dgaf about your ability to leetcode. I strongly care about the rate and quality of the things you ship to prod. This is what a 10x engineer does 10x of.
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by 0xB31B1B 2y ago
Yes, exactly! And that is good!
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by 0xB31B1B 2y ago
I could not disagree more with nearly everything in this article. Individuals ship software not teams, unless you are pair programming. Nearly all complex technical projects are owned by one super smart person (Ex: linux). You don't ne
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by 0xB31B1B 2y ago
Redundancy is definitely part of it, but 2 people also make things much much easier and reduce accident likelihood when unexpected things start happening and the workload increases. Lets say there is some severe mechanical issue, you want s
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by 0xB31B1B 2y ago
Sort of. There’s like 5 conditions of automation commercial planes can be in. The automation mostly functions to make the pilots workload manageable, not to make their workload non existent. Commercial flights used to have a crew of 3, capt
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by 0xB31B1B 2y ago
"Why don't other highly developed countries have the same issues finding employees?" Baumol effects. Our economy is incredible, extremely high productivity along with full employment. Its why we have ordering kiosks at fast f
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by 0xB31B1B 2y ago
I think you're simplifying the frame far too much here. My wife works in medicine as an ENT surgeon. There is an ENT surgeon position open in a rural hospital outside of fresno CA that pays 1.1M dollars/year, or about 2.5-3x the s
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by 0xB31B1B 2y ago
Didi/Uber was more complicated than just data stuff. At a high level, chinese tech culture is an insane no holds barred cage match with very little legal structure to protect IP or employees or anything and most companies who enter fai
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by 0xB31B1B 2y ago
ACLU has dropped in quality significantly in the past 10 years IMO and this seems par for course for them since 2016.
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by 0xB31B1B 2y ago
> As for who the losers are, the data is quite clear: Mostly corporate profits. Amongst the problems I have with the policy are around reducing profits being presented as something purely beneficial or at no cost, and claiming that we ha
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by 0xB31B1B 2y ago
"Also, what is the relationship, if any, between quantum computing and AI? Are these technologies complementary?" AI is limited in part by the computation available at training and runtime. If your computer is 10^X times faster, t
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by 0xB31B1B 2y ago
Theres a bunch of factors that will mess with your intuition here: 1) ride hail demand as significant spikes in usage during morning and evening rush hours AND it has a fairly strong seasonal trend depending on geo. 2) Insurance is also a b
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by 0xB31B1B 2y ago
Appetite comes back yes
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by 0xB31B1B 2y ago
this mirrors my experience, but it doesn't give much actionable advice and probably only rings true to those who have experienced the same motions. "You only know your project shipped if your leadership acknowledges it". Yes

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