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by bruce511 2y ago
My personal belief is that once you end up in court, you're both lovers. There would need to be significant amounts on the table before I'd start a court proceeding against a business. I have had to use the court gor an eviction
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by bruce511 2y ago
>> My fear is if I am accepted but choose to stay, but my name is listed on the YC website I don't know who you work for, but frankly it sounds to me like you're over-thinking this. You're suggesting that BigCo routinel
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by bruce511 2y ago
We are so far away from living independently underwater that I'd say we're hundreds of years away, if it's possible at all. Energy production. Food, water, air. Resources. Mining. Industry. The harsh environment (salt water,
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by bruce511 2y ago
>> Who made any claims of self-sustaining? No one in the article. But it has come up in the comments of previous articles (and I see in this thread as well.) Life on land is self sustaining. Not in the "we don't need oceans&
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by bruce511 2y ago
I agree with this. I'll add the following; Understand that this venture is risky, to both of you. There are possible upsides and downsides. Assuming you're both operating in good faith, both sides want it to work. As a startup you
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by bruce511 2y ago
This article supports spending money quickly to do things right. I am fully on board with this. I've been in a small constant all my life, and we can spend money quickly, effectively, and in some cases wasteful. Now obviously it'l
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by bruce511 2y ago
This past year or so I've had ChatGPT open a lot. It's been super useful as a explore a "new" [1] field in a lot more depth. Interestingly though I don't get it to write code. It's no good at the language I wri
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by bruce511 2y ago
There's been a spate of underwater-living articles lately, and there's no doubt the ocean is an area ripe for research. But to be clear, these facilities require surface support - they are not self-sustaining. Which is perfectly f
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by bruce511 2y ago
Running your own business is rewarding. It comes with freedoms to choose what to work on, what projects to do, and there are no meetings. It also comes with stress because if stuff doesn't sell you don't get paid. And if you have
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by bruce511 2y ago
>> I've completely lost the urge to "change the world" Changing the world sounds like a lofty goal, but in practice is just a cop out. I too started out with that in mind, but looking back with more maturity I see it di
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by bruce511 2y ago
Part of the problem with this whole thread is that there are lots of colleges out there, and lots of students, and they all have different goals, and expectations. I went to university in the 90s and got degree in comp science. Their stance
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by bruce511 2y ago
You miss the point. why the low view exists is irrelevant. Frankly, while I acknowledge their necessity, I have a poor (default) view of both bankers and lawyers. I don't see them as bad people, but people in their professions do ma
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by bruce511 2y ago
Billionaires hold very little legal tender. The term "Billionaire" refers to a person who has total assets over a billion. In most cases those assets are shares in some company (or companies). It's not like they have a billio
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by bruce511 2y ago
My only connection to Amazon support has been for AWS. Perhaps though this should be an example of good customer service where talking to a human is easy, and not lumped in with the likes of Google where its impossible. Perhaps your experie
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by bruce511 2y ago
While it's unlikely this really moves the needle in terms of other life in the solar system (which seems like a pretty hard "no" to me as a lay person), it perhaps does have an impact on "rest if the galaxy". Of cou
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by bruce511 2y ago
I'll add in that it's a buyer's market. There are plenty of post docs with no work (who want to work in the academic space) so if you don't want the post there are plenty in line who do. There's no post-doc-research
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by bruce511 2y ago
I read a fair amount of sarcasm in the parent comment ;)
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by bruce511 2y ago
(I didn't downvote you.) I agree that the predictions of a tanked economy are primarily coming from the same places that predicted a Kamala win. And who knows, maybe it won't tank. Objectively though it's fair to say that tar
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by bruce511 2y ago
I'm sure past presidents have acted less like kings, but certainly past presidents have acted as party leaders. JFK, Reagan, Clinton, Bush even Obama certainly "lead" their party, in practice if not in title.
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by bruce511 2y ago
If Trumps orders, and by extension the CDC orders are unlawful, then a court will decide that. I don't think a CDC employee should break the law, equally I don't think CDC employees should be lawyers interpreting the law. So the p
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by bruce511 2y ago
The constitution is a complex document that seems (to me) to say whatever you want it to say. Even people who have spent their entire lives in that space (aka Supreme Court judges) have trouble agreeing what it says. To fall back on the &qu
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by bruce511 2y ago
>> Not every person who voted for Trump wants the crazy Crazy is literally his brand. Voters can choose to rationalize this if they like, but voting and hoping doesn't seem like a good strategy to me. >> just want better pa
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by bruce511 2y ago
I completely agree with all of this. But at the same time your whole argument applies both ways. I'm not sure it's fair to place the burden of constitutional interpretation on every federal employee. Understanding the constitution
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by bruce511 2y ago
That's my instinctual reaction too. But then the whole federal work force becomes politicized. I mean, if I stand up for what's right, then I can't complain when a right-wing worker does the same when say Obama is in power. I
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>> It's Congress' job to set policy. I'm not a political scholar, and certainly congress writes laws, but I would expect the party leader to have the most say in policy. Certainly that's how it has been done since
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by bruce511 2y ago
This speaks to the psychology of it all. Over my life I've been "trained" that humans are unreliable and subject-to-change while computers are deterministic and will give the same output every time (given the same input.) LLM
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by bruce511 2y ago
>> For example, almost everyone can agree that health care is too expensive, corporations have too much power, housing is unaffordable I would argue that most people don't agree on this. Firstly housing; For decades Americans wer
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by bruce511 2y ago
You get what you measure. Measure what you want to get. So first be really sure what it is you want to get. What you want to get will be hard to measure. Accept that as truth. However accept no proxy measures. Measure only the specific
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by bruce511 2y ago
It's a nice anecdotes, and maybe that works in some places, but in my experience selling to Enterprise, software quality is pretty low on their check list. Generally speaking, they're more concerned with the supplier than the prod
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by bruce511 2y ago
Obsession is not a bad trait, until you're obsessed by the wrong thing. Be careful of survivor bias here, there are lots of very obsessed entrepreneurs who have failed.

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