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by boc 2y ago
Snow Leopard was truly the best. An actual OS release based around performance improvements under-the-hood instead of flashy, half-baked features.
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by boc 2y ago
Watching the tech community waltz into DC and pretend that they know how all the levers of government work is pathetic. Are there inefficiencies? Sure. Are there places to improve? Of course. But pretending that they can understand the intr
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by boc 2y ago
"Calif.-founded EV maker Canoo, once worth $2.4 billion, goes belly-up after moving to Texas" Full title. Another L for the SPAC era.
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by boc 2y ago
Our response to a Chinese drone invasion on CONUS would be some fun spicy RVs from a Trident II.
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by boc 2y ago
Wait until you hear that the US mounted hellfire missiles on a drone in 2001 and shot at trucks/people in Afghanistan. Or it is only "terrorizing" to a population when you use bullets instead of enormous bullets that also kil
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by boc 2y ago
Or they just pay a lot more. If Boeing was paying $500K+ TC for engineers in their early/mid career, you'd see a lot more expertise enter the field. Instead you basically have to go into tech or PE/IB to see that type of comp
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by boc 2y ago
I've heard anecdotal reports that it can accelerate hair loss in males (male pattern baldness). I have no clue if this has been studied but enough people have reported it across the web that it has caused me to avoid creatine personall
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by boc 2y ago
Not from what I've seen - it happens in real-time just like most human drivers. I don't believe that a remote controlled operator is even permitted, but I could be wrong. Waymos drive fairly fast and aggressively in rush hour traf
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by boc 2y ago
You're ignoring the time element of healthcare. If you get hit by a bus, you aren't in a position to shop around or negotiate for care. You can even be incapacitated and unable to respond to questions before your treatment starts.
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by boc 2y ago
Waymos do the same thing in SF where the streets are much denser, traffic is weirder, hills are way steeper, and the roads aren't in perfect shape by any means. The amount of impressive navigation I've seen around delivery trucks,
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by boc 2y ago
The issue is that solar is produced when energy is cheapest during the day, and during the night when everyone returns home energy surges.[1] This means that the grid has to include non-solar backup generation that can exceed the peak gener
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by boc 2y ago
Costco gets at a core American value, but it's not communism. It's the DIY, bootstraps attitude that Americans love. You get a deal but you basically shop from a warehouse that was built for forklifts, not customers. The displays
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by boc 3y ago
LMT is the third largest manufacturer of aircraft in the world, after Boeing and Airbus. They've built commercial aircraft before and are the best positioned to re-enter that market if there is a (government-encouraged) opening from ma
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by boc 3y ago
Sounds great in theory, but in practice we observe the opposite. Turns out having an bigger reward for taking a risk is a better motivator than having a softer cushion to land on if you fail...
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by boc 3y ago
Eh if Boeing dies Lockheed Martin can get back into the commercial aviation business fairly quickly. They made the best passenger plane of its time[1] after all... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_L-1011_TriSt
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by boc 3y ago
It's easy to review entities that all exist in a single database. Consumer electronics products are far harder to find categorized in a single place. You also have to contend with the fact that movies are essentially immutable - if you
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by boc 3y ago
Yeah that's a fair correction. Proof of Work appears to be a much, much better solution from an energy standpoint, although I'm less informed about the nitty-gritty.
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by boc 3y ago
I'll be upfront with you: bitcoin is probably the worst "tech" ever mass-adopted. That's my bias. 1. The banking industry is thousands of times more important that crypto for everyday Americans. It's what literally
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by boc 3y ago
> I'm not a crypto proponent per se Yet you rolled out the standard crypto talking points flawlessly. > Energy consumption is frankly not a phenomenon I give two shits about, as an environmentalist Again, I suspect you aren'
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by boc 3y ago
North Americans are used to more extreme climates... by their standards The Netherlands is very mild.
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by boc 3y ago
IDK, the Waymo cars that drive around SF meet my definition of full self driving. They handle a ton of weird traffic patterns, pedestrians, pickup zones, and very dense urban environments much better than I think you realize. Unless you liv
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by boc 3y ago
If the Marines hadn't insisted on adding STOL/VTOL capabilities wrt the F35B, the project would have been much more straightforward and successful. Even despite that crazy requirement, it's still a success for NATO exports.
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by boc 3y ago
I might be a sucker but I bought YouTube Premium about a year ago and it's definitely been worth it for me. I love watching those 10-20min length YouTube videos instead of watching TV shows, so skipping the ads is really clutch and has
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by boc 3y ago
Trillions of random chances over the course of billions of years.
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by boc 3y ago
We are incredibly far away from AGI and we're only getting there with wetware. LLMs and GenAI are clever parlor tricks compared to the necessary science needed for AGI to actually arrive.
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by boc 3y ago
It started as a reaction to a market distortion during/after WWII. There was a government-imposed salary cap during the war (Stabilization Act of 1942), so private companies had to get creative to attract talent. One thing that stuck w
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by boc 3y ago
It also hopefully opens up the door to responsibly talk about how obesity will shorten your life significantly. There isn't a concept of "healthy obesity" when you look at your body's bloodwork. My buddy lost a friend wh
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by boc 3y ago
I'd urge you to consider that your personal lived experience may not match the experience of the other 332,000,000 Americans. Instead of trying to explain away official statistics by talking about things you see on your drive to work,
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by boc 3y ago
Just curious, do you expect prices to return to pre-pandemic levels? If so, how do you think that will happen? Disinflation is very different from deflation, and nobody should be rooting for deflation.
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by boc 3y ago
Do you even remember 2008? If this is a bad economy for you, imagine actually entering a recession and you lose your job + house.

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