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by 1024core 2y ago
I wonder what the number would be assuming you own your own home. I thought it would make a real difference, but instead of $60K/year you spend on renting a house (in his calculation), you'd spend $30K/year on property taxes
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by 1024core 2y ago
Democrats will dangle the possibility of marijuana legalization to entice voters to turn out for the election. But I doubt legalization will actually happen; I'd be delighted to be proven wrong. I'm just too jaded, I guess.
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by 1024core 2y ago
They'll just write it off as cost of doing business. Increase the fines by 2 orders of magnitude, that will get their attention.
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by 1024core 2y ago
Dang. 41 in Afghanistan itself!!
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by 1024core 2y ago
> Sometimes acronyms means multiple things Exactly. Like WiFi: from ancient times it has meant "Wife's Fidelity".
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by 1024core 2y ago
por que no los dos....?
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by 1024core 2y ago
I'd like that on my tombstone....
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by 1024core 2y ago
I think they're confused. It was Zimbra.
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by 1024core 2y ago
> When it’s completed, the train will travel at 186 miles per hour If China can push 286 mph in Shanghai, which means the tech exists, then why isn't this comparable? This is not snark; I am just curious what makes the Chinese train
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by 1024core 2y ago
Until Kagi becomes popular. Then the same "SEO" bullshit that plagues Google will bite Kagi too. Right now Kagi is too small to make it worthwhile to spend resources "optimizing" for it.
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by 1024core 2y ago
> most engineers are drawn to complexity like moth to fire Unfortunately, Google evaluates employees by the complexity of their work. "Demonstrates complexity" is a checkbox on promo packets, from what I've heard. Natural
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by 1024core 2y ago
> There are a number of regional liquors across India, but most are looked down upon as the drivel of the poor or the working class. Definitely not these liquors from Rajasthan. I have Kesar Kasturi, Royal Jagmohan, etc. and you can tell
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by 1024core 2y ago
I was visiting Jaipur in the early 2000s and recalled the new law allowing heritage liquors had passed. So I went to a local "wine shop" (which sell spirits, etc.) and asked for some "local liquor". The man handed me an
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by 1024core 2y ago
About time. NVIDIA needs some serious competition.
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by 1024core 2y ago
You can make "national headlines" by doing stupid shit too. Just go out and shoot a bunch of people. Boom! National headlines.
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by 1024core 2y ago
Good! Check your political beliefs at the gate when you walk in. If you don't like what your employer is doing, you are free to quit. It's a 2-way street. Every 2 weeks your employer settles their debt to you. This is a transactio
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by 1024core 2y ago
I don't know why they concentrated on college alone. For a lot of people, learning a trade like welding, carpentry, plumbing, auto maintenance, etc. is worth a lot more than going to college. They _can_ make a good living learning a tr
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by 1024core 2y ago
> Tech companies in general are deeply unpopular here Which is such a shame, as Univ of Hawaii was one of the pioneers of the Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALOHAnet
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by 1024core 2y ago
> 30 years ago, your only choices for a car were a Maruti Suzuki 800 or an Ambassador. Don't forget the Fiat!! I grew up in an India where even phones were a luxury, so I do have some background. I live in a medium-sized (Tier-2) ci
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by 1024core 3y ago
> Cars are the future. People prefer cars. They just can't afford them. You just answered your own question: most people can't afford cars. And even if they could afford a car, where would you park them?
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by 1024core 3y ago
I didn't read the paper (just skimmed it), but no mention of Gemini 1.5 Pro? It is supposed to have the longest context window (1M available, 10M claimed in lab tests).
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by 1024core 3y ago
> The charging network in India just doesn't exist. Would battery swapping be a viable alternative? Obviously not swapping random batteries; but those made and mainatined by the manufacturer.
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by 1024core 3y ago
> I don't think you've ever been to California, or at least haven't had to commute recently. I live in California, chief. You know what they say about making ASSumptions? And I was using round numbers to make the calculati
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by 1024core 3y ago
> The money spent on that long distance alternate transport can be better spent enhancing existing short distance transport. > There is a finite pool of money that can be spent on infrastructure. Exactly. The metric should be passeng
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by 1024core 3y ago
> Memory Boost for LLM Capacity Requirements: 128 gigabytes (GB) of HBMe2 memory capacity, 3.7 terabytes (TB) of memory bandwidth ... I didn't know "terabytes (TB)" was a unit of memory bandwidth...
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by 1024core 3y ago
You missed a great opportunity to rephrase it like this: > It is worth noting that before chatGPT I'd see the words "it's worth noting.." maybe five times in my entire life (39 years old). :-D
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by 1024core 3y ago
Funnily, this is how Google improved their voice recognition. Remember a decade or so ago, you could call a 1-800 number and look up phone numbers using your voice? It was backed by Google and once Google was done collecting the data, they
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by 1024core 3y ago
Companies like Quest Diagnostics (a lab testing firm) are sitting on a goldmine of clean data. It's only a matter of time before a firm like Amazon (who already bought One Medical) gobbles them up. Disclaimer: Long on $DGX
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by 1024core 3y ago
I am reminded of the infamous Sendmail worm from 1989(?). If this compromised OpenSSHd had become the default across millions of systems all over the world, could a worm-like thing have brought a major chunk of the Internet down? Imagine mi
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by 1024core 3y ago
We should set up a GoFundMe to reward Andres Freund.

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