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by beambot 4y ago
Who said Carta was performing poorly? A more apt analogy is that the franchise's budget just got slashed by 10%, so now they need to rearrange the talent budget... This happens all the time in sports teams too.
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by beambot 4y ago
It's entirely feasible to do battery swapping if high uptime is a requirement -- e.g. see Monarch Tractors.
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by beambot 4y ago
Weather... or Chris Johnson. https://twitter.com/AtSouthwest/status/1606543397996855296
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by beambot 4y ago
I don't want them to print the advertising, so I guess that makes all of it news?
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by beambot 4y ago
If you are going to be hit every day at the same intersection, the I'd rather the car be decelerating rather than accelerating.
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by beambot 4y ago
I always felt like Hypercard was one small step from owning the www & modern browsing experience. It was earth shattering in its time for the ability to rapidly build multimedia experiences & applications...
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by beambot 4y ago
This reminds me of the NYTimes article showing that cumulative stock returns from 1993-2018 were flat if you only looked at daytime trading hours. Most of the stock gains actually occurred when markets were closed, and the alpha is sucke
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by beambot 4y ago
(1) If you want to learn AI / ML, there are ample resources online that do not require a costly, multi-year academic stint. The field is also maturing rapidly, so you'll need to stay up-to-date with online materials anwyay. (2) I
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by beambot 4y ago
Very off topic, but... Most presidential speeches are written by a speech writer & displayed on the teleprompter, not ad libbed on the spot. The "uuuuhs" were an intentional mannerism.
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by beambot 4y ago
Ironically, I did work at FAANG. I was a delusional youngster who was a perfectionist & workaholic like many of my peers. The people I'm referencing who stuck around: they're now in their late-30s and early-40s. They eventuall
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by beambot 4y ago
The OpenCV OAK series of cameras are fun to play with: https://store.opencv.ai/
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by beambot 4y ago
> I feel sorry for those FAANG engineers... Imagine that you're paid 2-3x, the work is confined to 9-5, gourmet meals on the 2x days you're not wfh, generous vacation policy, world-class benefits, and ample time to pursue side
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by beambot 4y ago
1930 GDP was (at the time) $100B with NewDeal actual expenditure of $42B (42%), compared with 2019 $19T GDP and $6T COVID (~30%). There's this weird historical effect represented by "Real GDP" that has the 1930s number being
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by beambot 4y ago
> What has changed really, though? Macro: We had exceptionally low interest rates creating a debt bubble coupled with unprecedented Fed printing. To put it into perspective: we printed $6-Trillion USD on COVID stimulus compared to FDR&#x
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by beambot 4y ago
s/era/cycle/ The period of exuberance will return wearing different clothes.
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by beambot 4y ago
Always thought the old mechanical bimetallic strip solution was particularly elegant. In effect, two strips of metal were bonded together forming a coiled "spring." Because each metal had different coefficient of thermal expansion
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by beambot 4y ago
Circuit Lab ( https://www.circuitlab.com/ ) has been my go-to for a while...
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by beambot 4y ago
It should go without saying: voter preferences seldomly condense down to a single issue. A party gaining or retaining power doesn't mean broad support or opposition on a single issue. Again: technology or science experts deal with fact
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by beambot 4y ago
> They trust technocratic experts to know what's best for people. And implement. I think reasonable people could object to Australia's internet censorship laws, COVID response, climate activities, etc. There's a big differ
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by beambot 4y ago
If Congress issued a subpoena, why would any judge reasonably withhold a willing detainee? Also, it what universe would bail make sense for such an obvious flight risk?
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by beambot 4y ago
Unless you're a senior executive, it's unlikely you'll get whole percentage points for a post-PMF startup... Just looked on OptionImpact: Senior-most individual contributor (SWE 6) at a post-SeriesA startup indicates a 50th p
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by beambot 4y ago
Actually, it's entirely possible. I have friends out in California who still have Spanish land grants that predate the US and California statehood. They have successfully prosecuted their rights (eg water) again & again. For exampl
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by beambot 4y ago
It's all fun & games until you piss off the gatekeeper and now you're forbidden from traveling or pursuing gainful employment. Double-plus bad if they obtain extradition powers and can effectively confine you to poverty status
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by beambot 4y ago
And yet, the entire cost of FDRs New Deal was $1-Trillion (2022 dollars) compared to $5-6 Trillion in COVID stimulus...
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by beambot 4y ago
I feel like we are living in a StarTrek future... It's just unevenly distributed, and the advances aren't always in the places we expect.
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by beambot 4y ago
YC is creating venture-backed startups, where the nature of power-law returns necessitates aiming for "grand slams" (i.e. 100x outcomes following SeriesA funding). If successful, this creates billionaires. So in a sense (though
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by beambot 4y ago
> Something I've noticed about chat ais vs direct search is that because a chat ai is a blackbox, I can't dig into an answer's source at all. Did you try asking it for a source?
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by beambot 4y ago
4x giant geostationary assets have a drastically different adversarial profile compared to 10,000 mini assets.
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by beambot 4y ago
If anything, the war in Ukraine has demonstrated how useful something like starlink can be. It makes sense that the DoD would gladly pay up to create a dedicated, hardened network for its own utility with specialized tweaks...
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by beambot 4y ago
> HN has it. @dang is the GOAT.

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