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by Zigurd 8mo ago
You will no doubt find some rational sounding arguments in favor of prediction markets here. Lots of useless and harmful things are fascinating. The math behind cryptocurrency, and things like the difference between proof of work and proof
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by Zigurd 8mo ago
In the abstract we have to pick one crisis or the other, but the real world is messy. Global warming has momentum, and so does population despite what look like reliable projections of population decline in many places. In other words we co
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by Zigurd 8mo ago
I haven't heard of such a thing. I guess you could roll your own by buying derivatives that would effectively remove the influence of a particular stock from your index fund investment. Seems like a fintech opportunity doesn't it?
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by Zigurd 8mo ago
A new word is needed. Currently, robotics has two non-overlapping meanings: 1. Industrial robots. These robots do things humans can't do or shouldn't do. They are very strong, and dangerous because of that. We don't let them
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by Zigurd 8mo ago
This is going to be under-capitalized and second rate, just like the robot, the truck, and under other Elon ventures, the LLM, the tunnels, the brain implants, the diner, etc.
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The most SHAMELESS structural manipulation of a index I've ever seen(substack.com)
67 points by Zigurd 8mo ago|8 comments
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by Zigurd 8mo ago
In addition to the suspiciously small float, forcing it down the throats of index funds is a heist, and a particularly nasty one that exploits passive investors. If it was just a play for Elon's retail investor simps, I'd say have
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by Zigurd 8mo ago
I wonder how much of this has to do with the popularity of the MacBook Air and now, potentially, the Neo. My current desktop setup is a MacBook Air and a big 4K monitor. I considered getting an outboard DAC/amp for headphones but the h
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by Zigurd 8mo ago
Actually, no. Starship has deployed zero satellites to orbit. It pushed some dummy satellite simulator things out of its hilariously small satellite slot, which then fell back into the atmosphere. The starship upper stage has not completed
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by Zigurd 8mo ago
I'm also saying that almost all of TSLA's price is roughly the same as all of bitcoin's price, which is to say vibes-based. It's a fandom. A cult.
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by Zigurd 8mo ago
> Elon's enriched pretty much everybody who's ever worked for and invested with him. I'd wager you were saying the same thing about bitcoin until last year.
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by Zigurd 8mo ago
Even if Starlink had more than a few tens of millions of customers, China mobile has 900 million subs and is worth around $250 billion. ULA was recently valued at about 1 billion. SpaceX might be possibly worth 50 times as much or maybe eve
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by Zigurd 8mo ago
Have you ever sat on a jury in a criminal case? A frighteningly high percentage of people will swallow every lie a cop tells, even when thoroughly discredited in cross-examination. There's no shortage of people to guard the concentrati
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by Zigurd 8mo ago
Obviously catching up to others in agent assisted coding is the motivation for this. But it is also an odd decision in the same way that Meta hiring an AI leader from a data labeling company is odd.
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Amid xAI co-founder exits, Elon Musk hires key engineers from AI startup Cursor(businesstoday.in)
4 points by Zigurd 8mo ago|1 comments
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by Zigurd 8mo ago
I was talking to people I know about this topic and looking for obvious big success stories of vibecoding replacing enterprise tools like Atlassian I found they are very hard to find. At this stage I have no doubt that there are IT departme
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by Zigurd 8mo ago
The American system of school funding strongly encourages pulling up the ladder behind you. Real estate values are influenced by school ratings, too. Hence Karen as-a-service.
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by Zigurd 8mo ago
This isn't the Motorola that makes phones. Lenovo owns Motorola Mobility. But America kept the highly profitable business of building a surveillance state. Yay.
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by Zigurd 8mo ago
The sticker price is competitive but the cost per flight hour and the availability factor is pretty horrifying. Factoring in the cost of flying and the availability makes the Grippen about half the cost. I wonder if the flight hour cost of
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by Zigurd 8mo ago
I suppose in the same way that all eating is health and nutrition driven. Good or bad.
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by Zigurd 8mo ago
I suppose the argument is that X-76 could work in environments without roads. But that also implies without fuel or any other support on the ground.
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by Zigurd 8mo ago
Hard to be more expensive than F-35B.
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by Zigurd 8mo ago
They discuss "social impacts" from the point of view that dirtier power is cheaper, supposedly, hypothetically, net of externalities, while ignoring the cost dirty power inflicts on the people living near the dirty power generatio
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by Zigurd 8mo ago
On cold mornings you can see the wood smoke hanging over the town of Taos New Mexico. It's easy to see even a little bit of haze in the otherwise crystal clear air. Taos is in general a very environmentally conscious place. The KTAO ra
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by Zigurd 8mo ago
I'm making alternative client software for Bluesky. In part because I think the default client is a bit messy and embodies a few legacy UX decisions that clean sheet implementation could improve upon. I have a bigger idea, too: I have
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by Zigurd 8mo ago
Kanban boards are fine. But if you load them down with the rules and elaborations they become part of a travesty of agility. Kanban originated as a lightweight shop floor MRP technique. It was meant to be run by the people making stuff.
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by Zigurd 8mo ago
For a long time I've been an agile fundamentalist. I welcome agent assisted coding because it reduces team size and increases autonomy, experimentation, and generally makes self organizing teams a more obvious choice. Highly structured
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by Zigurd 8mo ago
Dirty power generation, and dirty toxic hazardous industry in general, discriminate against the poor and minorities. That carries an enormous social cost that goes uncounted in discussions like the ones on this thread. Nuclear discriminates
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by Zigurd 8mo ago
Coding agents work well enough to be useful because they can check their own work. Nevertheless it is too generous to call that reasoning. If they're right 80% of the time and they rerun a prompt if the project won't build, they m
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by Zigurd 8mo ago
>> But if a vendor makes a pretty believable claim that there are repetitive statistical patterns in LLM output, it's all of sudden treated the same as palm reading. That's what fortunetellers do. The problem isn't gu

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