ProfessorLayton

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by ProfessorLayton 2mo ago
> should we "cure" homosexuality? Homosexuality is also on a spectrum, and at no point does someone on that spectrum stop functioning in society because they’re gay. Being gay is only an issue because of those around them, th
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by ProfessorLayton 2mo ago
I don't know and it's not the point of my comment? I'm only talking about how it aligns inscentives.
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by ProfessorLayton 2mo ago
> Otherwise it just becomes another way for insurance companies to make money - in this case by charging swingeing fees that will come out of public coffers. I believe doctors pay out of pocket (At least the ones that setup their own pri
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by ProfessorLayton 2mo ago
>The crew that can build a driveway cannot build a parking lot, and they will never be able to break into that market because it requires experience that a driveway cannot give. From a parking lot there is then road building - the previo
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by ProfessorLayton 2mo ago
Apparently RAM and SSD costs have risen so much recently that the bill of materials on the next iPhone could exceed the entire cost of the current one just on RAM/SSD alone [1] [1] https://images.macrumors.com/t/
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by ProfessorLayton 3mo ago
This seems like a terrible idea because deepfakes are getting better and better, even with them mentioning them and handwaving concerns away.
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by ProfessorLayton 3mo ago
Almost everything you said is a typical NIMBY talking point: > Dozens of “luxury” units built cheaply, selling for 4,000$ for a 1 bedroom A nebulous definition of "luxury", and totally ignores the fact that people with money ca
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by ProfessorLayton 3mo ago
> iOS uses way less ram than android, plus has memory compression. That’s why Apple gets away with less ram and much smaller batteries with equal or better performance. Yeah, by aggressively purging all my Safari tabs (and Apps) unexpec
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by ProfessorLayton 3mo ago
Yes, this is solved. Samsung makes rugged IP68 phones with user swappable batteries that are thinner than an iPhone 17 Pro when factoring the camera bump [1]. It's kind of comical how accurate this comment is https://news.
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by ProfessorLayton 3mo ago
Again, solved problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairphone_6
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by ProfessorLayton 3mo ago
Correct. This used to be done before on flip phones, and is still currently being done for dedicated cameras. This is a solved problem and not an issue.
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by ProfessorLayton 3mo ago
I'm not sure what you're trying to say? The replaceable battery is either thicker, or it isn't. There's not much to accommodate. This is already a thing for some [dedicated] cameras like the Canon EOS series.
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by ProfessorLayton 3mo ago
Not only that, but if phone batteries were user replaceable, they could be sold in multiple capacities. So people that want "thin" phones can keep their camera protrusions, and the people that want more battery capacity could get
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by ProfessorLayton 4mo ago
Yes? Read that sentence again: "... how we build infrastructure" Removing onerous parking requirements, like the ones that have resulted in countless strip malls and unwalkable cities with inadequate housing stock. I'm not s
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by ProfessorLayton 4mo ago
It's also proven over and over again that people are okay with "good enough" 99% of the time: - Smartphone cameras > dedicated cameras - "UHD" streaming video > UHD Blueray @3-7x the bitrate - 128kbps music st
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by ProfessorLayton 4mo ago
>After 5 years, you'll have an extra $1M in savings, and you can safely pay yourself 4% or $40k each year in perpetuity without doing any work. The only way this could be remotely true on a 400k salary is by saving +80% of take hom
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by ProfessorLayton 4mo ago
>I sincerely hope you've had your 2.4 kids to support yourself. that's what the boomers managed and it is hard to measure in dollars or debt. Oh you mean the same boomers that pulled the latter up behind them via NIMBYism that
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by ProfessorLayton 5mo ago
>That's a lot of SV-speak. How exactly do people step into an entrepreneurial phase? Almost half of U.S. employment is from small businesses (250 or less employees). That's means there's a lot of entrepreneurship happe
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by ProfessorLayton 5mo ago
800k for 5y taxed at salary rates will not net you 200k/yr in perpetuity. Not even close. And certainly not in real dollars. Assuming you manage to save every penny.
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by ProfessorLayton 5mo ago
>Adults aren’t the target market. Adults are VERY MUCH the target market: See page 10 of Nintendo's investor relations doc. https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2022/221109e.pdf
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by ProfessorLayton 5mo ago
The base mac mini I got has been one of the best tech purchases I've ever made, and of course as soon as I wanted another [loaded] machine for more serious work this happens. It's absolutely wild that Apple's desktop machines
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by ProfessorLayton 5mo ago
Also storage has gotten super expensive lately, and rather than upgrading my machines/consoles I've been offloading games and downloading them as needed and now am routinely downloading dozens of GB just to play a game. My gaming
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by ProfessorLayton 5mo ago
While I agree that there's a lot of fraud in online advertisement (As someone who's spent modestly on it), ultimately what advertisers are looking for is positive ROI , and how it compares to other spend. These AI companies can p
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by ProfessorLayton 6mo ago
Ah yes, Golden Gate Park, famously the only option for building new housing on the west side of SF!
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by ProfessorLayton 6mo ago
>right after you knock down the 100 yro Victorian homes and historic buildings BS, there's ~400K housing units in SF, and only ~10k of those would be considered victorian. These units couldn't (And shouldn't!) be destroye
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by ProfessorLayton 6mo ago
>Yet the rent in Paris is still too high for an average French resident It's obviously not just about more housing, but more housing per capita . 3% of the French population lives in Paris proper, and roughly 20% in the metropoli
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by ProfessorLayton 6mo ago
Aren't they? The last Intel macs were being sold less than 3y ago, and by the time macOS 27 releases they'll be less than 3.5y old. The broader point is that a "Snow Leopard" release has historically resulted in a lot of
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by ProfessorLayton 6mo ago
A major reason Snow Leopard was well received was because of how performant it felt along with the bug fixes. What isn't mentioned anywhere near as much is that it dropped a lot of hardware (PPC). The last G4 Powerbook got about 1.5y
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by ProfessorLayton 6mo ago
This is true until it isn't though. Blackberry was doing great with enterprise users until people refused to give up their iPhones even at work.
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by ProfessorLayton 6mo ago
>I rarely visit the webpages before anymore. And what do you think this'll do for future LLM models that need to train on new content if web page traffic collapses?

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