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The strongest answer to almost all of your questions is "Poverty of the stimulus" (wikipedia). 4 year olds are exposed to an almost microscopically tiny amount of words relative to chatgpt (you can probably contain it in a csv fil
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Thing is inflation isn't 'natural' economic condition, it is mostly a product of economic policy according to a very respected school of thought (monetarism). In other words it is as natural as slapping a wealth tax of 80% on
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how do they track/quantify decline in service quality as in the two scenarios I mentioned (restaurant cleaning less?)
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It is very difficult to measure "true" inflation when most of it is hidden in decline of quality of services or shirnkflation (the latter is a bit easier to track). For example, the restaurant who still offer you the same price fo
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It is amazing to think how wild the nft craze was, definitely history will look back at it as peak zero interest rate phenomena. My favourite stories: - BBC: Twelve-year-old boy makes £290,000 from whale NFTs https://www.bbc.co.u
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Just a guess he is already a few standard deviations above the average tenure of a tech ceo in this era.
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You would imagine he read it at some point. You would also imagine his CEO would have internalised Paul Graham's most important piece of advice about communication (writing clearly).
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This comment comes across as a silly nitpick given the sober content of the post, but I think it is completely fair given Paul Graham's many writings and tweets on the virtues of writing clearly and his hatred of what I call corporates
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The timing can work out nicely for Apple since Tim Cook is on his way out in a year or two anyway, so if it flops or the initial launch goes real bad, they can blame it him and communicate his exit as a "reset" for the product and
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The worst is the bosses of SVB playing a role in lobbying for more relaxed banking regulations.
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I am not a fan of the Fed, but it was created precisely to stabilise the banking system due to a huge number of bank runs (that happened before it was created). I think the only consistent libertarian position on this would be to concede th
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The only comic thing in this entire tragedy is watching the fanatics who have been relentlessly preaching to others such dictums as “move quick and break things” and “only the paranoid survive”, extolling the virtues of “creative destructio
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Ironically, I think the greatest black swan in crypto over the last couple of years is Tether not collapsing. I can't remember a financial entity that has been exposed to such fraudulent behaviour (including very detailed exposes by
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It is a great idea in a 0% interest world, SVB's stock price went from $24 in 2010 to $710 in 2020.
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May I ask you why do you sound so calm and confident that your money will not evaporate permanently (above the FDIC guarantee)? Banks going bust is a totally normal thing in a capitalist system, and bigger more established banks than SVB ha
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Yep, it also makes Chomsky sound bitter because chatgpt "works", but Chomsky's intellectual reputation had very little stake in getting any alternative approach working. A more accurate attack on Chomsky was that his various
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I think comparing Chomsky to Jesuit astronomers declining to look through Galileo’s telescope is an unfair analogy. A better analogy in my opinion would be Einstein's attitude to quantum mechanics, he accepted that it had predictive po
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What is a popular static type system/framework/language for spa backend development that is competitive with the likes of Elixir/Phoenix, Larval/PHP, Python/Django?
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The point is that you don't need tons of research to figure out if alcohol is healthy or what amount of alcohol is net positive, it should be quite clear to anyone who experiences it, that health-wise it is much more inferior to being
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What is interesting with these posts, is that you almost never see someone writing the opposite "I never drank for most of my life, then decided to pick up alcohol and it has the best decision I ever made and regret not making it soone
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It's almost impossible having a decent understanding of the theoretical side of ML without having a decent understanding of linear algebra, multivariable calculus and probability. So you need to start with those if you haven't the
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Marc Andreessen on Pausing Alcohol(twitter.com)
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for those who don't use twitter: "Always carry a flask of whiskey in case of snakebite, and furthermore always carry a small snake." -- W. C. Fields About six months ago, I stopped drinking alcohol. I feel much better, and I’
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I would qualify this as tech/IT management, but you will not need to touch the management team that is running the core business. In fact in most cases even a big chunk of the IT management is outsourced to third-parties.
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Is it really that common to be bought by private equity to see it as an ever present threat?
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This is not supposed to be a scalable model, it depends on deep domain expertise of enterprise IT and also would require some hands-on active management and most importantly recruitment. So it is not your usual private equity play "sla
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I am surprised there are no private equity like entities that are driven by a single thesis which is to buy non-tech public corporations (or as far away from tech as possible: like commodities and real estate) then cancelling all 'digi
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What is the productivity advantage of Elixir/Phoenix over other frameworks when using it for implementing more mundane SaaS (some dashboards, some CRUD,...) rather than the game lobby feature mentioned in the post? I am a developer wit
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you need to think 2nd order effects: VCs need mega exits to make returns, which usually are blockbuster IPOs. Higher rates will crash quite a lot of high-growth stocks making IPOs less appealing for investors, which messes up with A16z busi
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This is a global problem: construction red tape and regulations are one of the most annoying and expensive to adhere to, and with real estate prices sky rocketing around the world the most tempting to cut corners on to dodge costs (they are

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