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4y ago
Elon Musk needs to give a very good explanation for this, and it had better involve an actual bug or serious platform engineering issue leading to a massive renewed hiring push to build Twitter 2.0 instead of this bullshit. There are so man
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4y ago
Global pandemic, and then supply chains strained beyond capacity afterwards because of unprecedented demand. The inflation given that context is not that bad all things considered.
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There is huge demand for more of everything. There are productive people eager to innovate and build. We just lack the easy movement of currency to facilitate moving more commodities and establishing more services. We need to be building mo
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4y ago
This is a cool feature, good job Google.
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For the really big infrastructure projects that will have compounding benefits over the next 50 years, yes. Because then they will have paid for themselves in less than that time and then it's just free joy.
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Stock prices leveling out, most common advice nowadays being to wait on car purchases or large purchases, mortgage demand slowing down not because of actual demand issues...but because of supply issues which means the interest rates for new
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It's not a lot of debt. It's actually a small amount of debt, considering the enormity of existing American assets and revenue. America has very strong fundamentals. A rising tide here will lift all boats. They could invest $50 tr
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If it's a wise investment, yes. If it's invested into a bridge that increases a community's throughput such that tax revenue increases because of increases in activity and production as a result of more efficient infrastructu
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They have to because otherwise there's no more fuel for the ground floor of critical operations in every org. There have to be reliable people on the ground floor or all the profit gets lost. Most orgs hold debt, too. A rising tide wou
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Because wages will increase more to account for higher productivity and booming business across the board. America's fundamentals are rock solid still. We are poised for considerable growth. Inflation would cheapen debt. Since wages ha
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I want some. Just waiting for the price to finally adjust so I can buy something before QE inevitably resumes. We're in good shape now to restart QE and invest massively in giant infrastructure projects nationwide. I'm betting the
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4y ago
Thanks for sharing. How slowly is slowly? Do you anticipate that an M2 Max with 96gb of memory would run it noticeably faster?
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Not solving those problems with a fast and correct solution could kill everyone, not to mention that nuclear technology misapplied is already at risk of ending everything a billion or a trillion times faster than the other risks. Including
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Follow-up: I changed my mind on this slightly because of this: https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/4/6/23673339/tesla-camer... It's true that this is not just a Tesla problem - it's a prob
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4y ago
All aboard the rocket ship to Tech Valhalla!
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Um, Sir!... Nuclear war or a supervolcano or a superbug or climate doom are killing the entire planet because our compute just isn't powerful enough yet to run the "fix these problems" script faster than 1,000 years!!!
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4y ago
Move fast and break things.
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GPT-4 will accelerate the enjoyable aspects of every job and reduce the tedious aspects. For everyone. No form of labor is excluded. GPT-4 can be hooked up to Boston Dynamics hardware to create the robots from iRobot. Every form of labor ca
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This is cool, but how can we get Facebook’s fingers out of the pie with open source weights?
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I decided I’m never buying a Tesla because of this.
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This is really cool!
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It may be for the enjoyment of it. If you have a great team or great community, you protect what you have as much as you can with what you can.
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Meta needs its best engineers to be highly motivated in uncertain times. Otherwise innovation will be harder to come by. All the best engineers I ever worked with so far all favor remote work because it increases code quality, throughput, a
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Not sure why you're being downvoted - you're 100% correct. I believe there is good news ahead, though, at least for the United States (and the broader Americas and Europe) because of remote work being good for family. https:/
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I'm glad Steam made hardware. I'm going to go ahead and buy one of these to support the initiativeveven though I barely play games anymore. Maybe 1 every year or two.
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Incorrect assesment. That's what people said about Wikipedia when I was in elementary school. The internet and Wikipedia are amazing. ChatGPT is amazing if you use it properly - if you prompt in ways that exercise understanding of the
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A new era of cloud computing
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The web succeeded in its initial mission and is an amazing innovation. I love the Internet. ChatGPT is a massive innovation. Check again in a year lol.
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My friend, the only thing I can say to that is: Fuck that shit. We're going back to 2011, I have unfinished business back there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg00YEETFzg Everyone back to 2011 hardcore startup mindse
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education is a lot more than the pipeline for getting skills built up. ChatGPT is a massive pipe that will allow for increase in throughput of information into curious brains for almost no cost. With increasingly more valuable answers over
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