FloorEgg

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   by FloorEgg 2y ago

   In this video Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger talk about how the US system is heading towards a cliff, and the video was recorded in 2005. They articulate it well, although the video has a couple glitches in it. If you are actually interes
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   by FloorEgg 2y ago

   Are you basing your opinion on your own personal experience using twitter, or on what you've read or heard about it on other media platforms?
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   by FloorEgg 2y ago

   This seems accurate to me. They are destroying many US institutions, and what replaces them may be better or may be worse. I am not sure anyone can tell right now. This wouldn't be happening if everyone was happy with the status quo, i
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   by FloorEgg 2y ago

   I think that the most appropriate strategy depends on the specifics of the situation. For some types of problems the best course of action is to do nothing, some times the best course of action is to make small adjustments, sometimes do les
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   by FloorEgg 2y ago

   Mr Stuck, I went through this and have strong feelings about it. I think the most important answer is to a question you aren't asking. *How to predict market demand for a new product.* It sounds like neither you or your co-founder know
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   by FloorEgg 2y ago

   I agree, but what was fair and effective in 1970 might not be anymore, right? Do you agree that these processes need to evolve over time? And if so, what if they haven't been evolving as fast as the rest of the world and have fallen be
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   by FloorEgg 2y ago

   That's all true. Process and bureaucracy are guard rails, and guard rails limit change. So when the whole system is barrelling towards a cliff (default, hyperinflation, kinetic war), what should the leaders try and do? It probably seem
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   by FloorEgg 2y ago

   I'm not paying close attention to all the noise, so forgive me if I am way off base. But aren't they effectively doing a values purge/refinement/reset? Similar to what Elon did with twitter and what few companies have ma
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   by FloorEgg 2y ago

   When a country controls the world reserve currency they need to net export dollars, which means they need to import more goods than they export, satisfying the world's demand for dollars. When a country doesn't control the world r
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    by FloorEgg 2y ago

    Except when search engines bury the thing you're obviously looking for under an entire page of sponsored ads, then that convenience argument starts to not hold up as well...
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    by FloorEgg 2y ago

    Edit: Sort of, but not in the way you are thinking about it. People want help with this yes, but they shouldn't be outsourcing it. The founder needs to ask literally thousands of questions to the market (can vary depending on how simpl
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    by FloorEgg 2y ago

    Also, the model you're suggesting is really common for well established products with product market fit. Insurance sales, Tupperware, Cutco, lots of other examples... If you're really drawn to this model, just beware the MLM ones
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    by FloorEgg 2y ago

    You are missing something really really important. Most startups don't have product market fit. Further, most startups make things no one wants. The product might sound good to you and you will think "oh I can sell this", but
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    by FloorEgg 2y ago

    I've been observing this for years. They predetermine the "because of Y" as it usually has to do with some narrative they are being paid to propagate. At best the link between x and y is tenuous, and at worst it makes no sens
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    by FloorEgg 2y ago

    With more time to think about this, and after rereading your comment I'm providing a new answer. Every example you listed I would consider building. You only listed examples that relate to creating software. I'm sure the PG essay
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    by FloorEgg 2y ago

    I suspect the majority of our disagreement boils down to different perspectives on what we consider fraud.
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    by FloorEgg 2y ago

    I agree that there are roles with lots of maintenance and building in them, and you shared a lot of good examples. I also know of roles where a person does almost entirely maintenance type work or entirely building type work. To me the dist
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    by FloorEgg 2y ago

    It's a hard question to answer but not impossible. Here's a bit of an oversimplification: - is what you made useful to anyone? If it's not, no one will use it so it doesn't matter. - does what you made help people be mor
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    by FloorEgg 2y ago

    I've found many of pg's essays very illuminating, but a few of the more recent ones seem less well thought out. Maybe I've just learned a lot over the last decade and it's me who has changed, or maybe his process has cha
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    by FloorEgg 2y ago

    Things can be good or bad when put in a value system context. There is tremendous overlap between everyone's value system, it just doesn't feel this way because the majority of most people's attention is on where they don&#x2
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    by FloorEgg 2y ago

    Can you point me to where Musk made this argument?
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    by FloorEgg 2y ago

    The paper doesn't mention giant cylinders under the pyramid, or did I miss it? extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence
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    by FloorEgg 2y ago

    I'm not arguing that because there has always been fraud we shouldn't fight it. I'm arguing that I don't think there's substantially more fraud now than there always has been.
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    by FloorEgg 2y ago

    I wasn't talking about risk, I was talking about fraud. There's a lot of fraud going on, and probably always has been and always will be. It becomes obvious when the pie is shrinking, and it's hard to notice when the pie is g
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    by FloorEgg 2y ago

    You say that as if it hasn't been going on for at least decades. I'd wager that there's some perspective that could argue it's a default mode of society and financial systems, that occasionally is hard to notice during r
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    by FloorEgg 2y ago

    Can someone make an assistant for firestore security rules, and another for shadcn with the latest tailwindcss version? Like, yesterday? These are the two cases where Claude 3.7/windsurf shits in my bed. :(
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    by FloorEgg 2y ago

    Yes
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    by FloorEgg 2y ago

    I noticed this too, I have used both o1 and o3 mini extensively, and I have ran many tests on my own problems and o1 solves one of my hardest prompts quite reliably but o3 is very inconsistent. So from my anecdotal experience o1 is a superi
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    by FloorEgg 2y ago

    I'm not qualified to offer an accurate eli5, just a hand-wavy explanation... Category theory can be leveraged to make faster theorem provers (making complex symbolic reasoning practical at larger scales). Don't ask me how, hopeful
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    by FloorEgg 2y ago

    When you take a non-zero-sum game and insist it's zero sum, you get subjective winners and losers.