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by BenFranklin100 1y ago
High housing costs is a key factor. https://www.npr.org/2025/10/31/nx-s1-5551108/housing-costs-b... The Boomer generation has perpetuated and intensified restrictive zoning. The lack of new homes where w
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The author’s examples are very prominent tech companies during a period of rapid growth in the industry and a single massive retailer (Walmart) with a big online presence. For comparison , I spot checked Target: revenue increased from $85B
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Once AI blows up in a spectacular unprofitable mess (as it will for 90% of the companies in this space), then what though?
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by BenFranklin100 1y ago
People are dunking on this guy, but as a founder I can say that if you’re a CTO at an early to early-mid stage company, you better be getting your hands dirty with your tech base, both the hardware and software.
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by BenFranklin100 1y ago
No need to ask him; ask ChatGPT. That’s what he did: “Please give me a latin phrase that says someone would seem more intelligent if they had remained silent.” ChatGPT has lifted Latin putdowns from the province of Harvard classics major to
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by BenFranklin100 1y ago
What I am describing is something called wisdom.
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“Grow up do something useful with your time”? No further comment is needed.
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by BenFranklin100 1y ago
As people get older, they often come to realize that any job that puts a roof over ones head, food on the table, and allows quality time with friends and family, is meaningful work.
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by BenFranklin100 1y ago
Here we have an article written by a Palestinian that has lived in Palestine his entire life, who has bern imprisoned and tortured by Hamas for simply criticizing the group, who is providing his first hand on-the-ground account that Hamas i
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by BenFranklin100 1y ago
Yep. Right now it’s hard for biomed companies to compete on salary from the AI craze, but if the bubble bursts salaries will come back to down to earth. Deep/machine learning will, imo, prove to have large societal benefits over the ne
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by BenFranklin100 1y ago
All i know is that I’m looking forward to picking up deep learning programmers for biomed applications in about nine months time.
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by BenFranklin100 1y ago
For a while, if a person had COVID within the previous month, any subsequent death counted as COVID. Recover from COVID and jump out of a plane without a parachute? COVID. I believe that doesn’t happen much anymore, at least I hope. I suspe
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by BenFranklin100 1y ago
People are criticizing mouse models of AD. There is understandable given the confusion of the roles of animals models in disease. Let me explain: First, the very name, ‘animal model of disease” is misnomer, and the cause of most of the conf
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by BenFranklin100 1y ago
Current valuations are based on the belief genuine AGI is around the corner. It’s not. LLMs are an interesting technology with many use cases, but they can’t reason in the usual sense of the word and are a dead end for the type of AGI neede
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by BenFranklin100 1y ago
The most pathetic aspect of Microsoft’s Copilot rollout is not Copilot’s poor performance & integration with SharePoint, but that Microsoft actually renamed Microsoft Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot on Windows. You’re a company whose ma
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by BenFranklin100 1y ago
After cooking many pasta dishes over the years, I’ve gotten good enough that I know when it’s done just by feeling it through the stirrer handle. One can even distinguish between al dente vs done.
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by BenFranklin100 1y ago
This guy isn’t even wrong. Sure these models are getting faster, but they are barely getter better at actual reasoning, if at all. Who cares if a model can give me a bullshit answer in five minutes instead of ten? It’s still bullshit.
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by BenFranklin100 1y ago
You might be confident the intended with the substantive. The intended effect is to raise American salaries. The substantive that is the MAGA’s H1-B and larger immigration policies will discourage STEM researchers to come the US. This will
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by BenFranklin100 1y ago
To note, the lead investigator on this is Rama Venkatasubramanian, an Indian: https://www.jhuapl.edu/about/people/rama-venkatasubramanian This is the same sort of person that MAGA and tech workers want to discoura
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by BenFranklin100 1y ago
Oh, that’s just not true. Buy a cookbook or two. It’s not hard to bake a decent cake from ingredients unless you’re grossly incompetent in the kitchen.
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by BenFranklin100 1y ago
A healthy labor pool increase business growth that in turn can push average industry wages higher however. It’s real phenomena too - US developer wages are so high in part due to the business ecosystem which depends on part on recent gradua
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by BenFranklin100 1y ago
Arc had privacy concerns. How will those concerns be addressed by Atlassian, given they handle very sensitive data?
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The United States is far from an anarchy. There are a huge number of regulations governing employer-employee relationships. The topic is flexibility in hiring/ firing decisions and whether this flexibility is a good or bad thing overal
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Absolutely.
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While that may be true in the UK, most US states are employee-at-will states. There doesn’t need to be a reason.
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by BenFranklin100 1y ago
Probability and statistics falls into that category too. It’s one of the more boring undergraduate math courses, but is mind-boggling useful in the real world. (Basic probability / combinatorics is actually pretty cool, but both tend t
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by BenFranklin100 1y ago
That is an issue, but I think attitudes are changing. On the other hand, they want to date unemployed or underemployed men in menial service jobs even less, so there’s that.
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by BenFranklin100 1y ago
What is the practical difference between doing something like this and using a home NAS setup? Commercial solutions like Synology — let’s forget their new hard disk policy for a moment — have some overlap.
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This is good news for society. Too many young men have fallen behind in the last ten years and young women now outpace them in college. It’s great young women are doing well, but if young men don’t have a parallel career path, they may beco
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by BenFranklin100 1y ago
You know, we can just provide critical industries with direct assistance in the form of subsidies. There’s no need for the US government to take an equity stake. Nationalizing companies - and that is essentially what we’re starting with Int

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