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by acdha 6mo ago
Allbirds was a shoe company which was failing due to poor management but saw their stock spike when they said they were pivoting to AI. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/BIRD/ This felt a lot like the various compan
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by acdha 6mo ago
How does that contradict the article? It seems like it supports it if those were the events which helped harm the previously-strong citrus industry - those storms are part of what hit at the peak, starting the decline.
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by acdha 6mo ago
I was around then. This feels similar from the perspective of stock prices just going up for absolutely absurd reasons—Allbirds would have fit right in—but AI in some ways seems even worse because much of what was being hawked in the dotcom
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by acdha 6mo ago
That's not the point being made: the article clearly states that those areas did not previously get hit by storms at this level. Climate change is making hurricanes stronger and wetter, so even though they've been a phenomenon for
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by acdha 6mo ago
The leading theories for the biological underpinnings of same-sex attraction are also physical—some combination of genes, prenatal environment, and biochemistry—so this argument fails both ways. It’s moot in any case because the whole point
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by acdha 6mo ago
Sure, and many of those would be saying it because of something they heard on X. Musk didn’t pour money into political activity because he thought that outcome was highly likely.
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by acdha 6mo ago
Buying Twitter played a key part in getting Trump re-elected, so I think Musk figures he got what he wanted in terms of deregulation, dropped prosecution, and damage to his political opponents. This deal is different: SpaceX is heading for
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by acdha 6mo ago
You raise a fair point but I think you can draw a line between people who actually do progressive things in other areas and those who sometimes use the language but never show up for anything other than preserving the status quo.
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by acdha 6mo ago
This is like saying nobody eats at McDonald’s because they have more competition now. It’s not wrong from a certain perspective but that’s still a huge number of customers.
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by acdha 6mo ago
Those people aren’t progressives: they’re NIMBYs who learned that certain language can make it easier to get the policies they want. We have a ton of them here in DC, and you can tell by seeing what else they support: they’ll talk about aff
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by acdha 6mo ago
California passed a number of laws protecting landowners’ ability to build ADUs, and the San Diego council super-charged those: https://calmatters.org/housing/2023/11/adu-san-diego/ Tons of San Diego hou
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by acdha 6mo ago
It does if you’ve read anything about how much of China’s advantage is colocation and integration: those long supply chains add delay and cost. Apple rather famously had problems manufacturing the MacPro in Texas not because of anything exo
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by acdha 6mo ago
We’re a fading manufacturing power and corporate profit-maximization since the 80s has made things very brittle. The most obvious example for HN is semiconductors but there are many other things which we either don’t make in sufficient quan
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by acdha 6mo ago
Also, there is a 0% chance that China has not been closely observing this and updating their plans in case we end up in a hot war. Unlike Iran, they have the resources to mount serious attacks on supply chains, electronic attacks on support
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by acdha 6mo ago
For servers, yes, but use Safari for like 5 minutes versus Chrome and it’s clear the reverse is true for desktops, especially if you’re not running with 32+GB of RAM. Google Drive, Photos, etc. are not as good as Chrome. This is not to say
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by acdha 6mo ago
There’s some truth to that but I think it’s a huge problem for anything which isn’t isolated to a single team because you’re giving up a shared consensus reality. The article mentions things like copies of specs or datasets becoming stale o
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by acdha 6mo ago
How many times did they need remote assistance? Those teams aren’t driving remotely but Waymo doesn’t pay for entire groups to exist without need.
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by acdha 6mo ago
The tech is good but not as good as advertised: note how Microsoft is simultaneously running ads saying Copilot can run your business and claiming it’s only for entertainment purposes in the EULA? Self-driving vehicles have a similar strugg
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by acdha 6mo ago
Yes, the line between public and private policy is blurry but I think our society would’ve gone down a very different path if car drivers were expected to directly pay for what they use as much as transit riders are.
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by acdha 6mo ago
USB was slooooooow in comparison to SCSI or later FireWire, though, so that took a hardware generations to really catch on. I think the network effect was more a question of who had tons of data: for example, all of the graphic design shops
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by acdha 6mo ago
Sometimes it’s privately subsidized, too, such as when you go out to eat and your meal costs more because the restaurant provides free parking. People who don’t drive often pay higher prices subsidizing the people who do, which is something
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by acdha 6mo ago
Neither of the quibbles you drew are what people usually class as protective or nurturing behavior? At least in the English-speaking world that’s later in a child’s life than birth. I’d also note that the concern about feeding babies has be
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by acdha 6mo ago
I see you have strong emotions about this but really my point was simply that AWS customers are paying for things they value which you do not. It’s fine for you not to share their priorities but any time people are paying billions of dollar
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by acdha 6mo ago
Yes, having done this for decades, it happens often enough that you need to plan for it. You need to have redundancy, spare parts, and staffing or you are basically gambling. All of this has to be tested, too, or you might find that your fa
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by acdha 6mo ago
That’s like saying Mercedes is a scam because you’re fine with a Honda Civic. It’s a totally legitimate preference but not being in the target market doesn’t make something a scam.
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by acdha 6mo ago
They have to operate within the laws of the countries they’re physically located in. Those countries want to know that they’re not hosting illegal content, providing services to crime rings, Russia or North Korea, etc. If Hetzner allows you
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by acdha 6mo ago
Don’t forget that integrity matters as much as availability in many applications. You might not mind if your HOA takes time to bring a server back up but you’d care a lot more if they lost the financial records or weren’t able to recover fr
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by acdha 6mo ago
Replication is not a backup. It helps for migrations or clean single node failures but not human error, corruption, or an attack.
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by acdha 6mo ago
It might also be that you’re just hearing from people in different states. More than half of the states allow surcharges, but that can change: for example, Oklahoma removed the ban just last year: https://legiscan.com/OK&#x
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by acdha 6mo ago
I would worry that it won’t go quickly to 99.999% but instead would grind down different groups of people slowly enough that they’d be able to entrench their power: being a cop will be a growth job, people would be given state-sanctioned au

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