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by brycesbeard 7y ago
Your comment is in violation of HN guidelines. All I saw is a marketing piece designed to tell me about the product line of a company I’d never heard of. No context as to things I could relate to, mostly just information and excitement abou
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by brycesbeard 7y ago
I was in a public school district that made public the funding received by each school. Because it was a large metro district, we had wealthy areas and impoverished ones. The schools in worse areas were getting about 30% more money from the
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by brycesbeard 7y ago
What’s the context for this? Seems like it’s a marketing piece to get people to sign up for their fake scarcity early access program. Very little interesting in the article.
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by brycesbeard 7y ago
It means I don’t see renewables getting us to a point where people can consume 100x the energy they currently do. Fusion could get us there. OOM increases in energy tend to correspond with huge improvements in quality of life. I don’t see r
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by brycesbeard 7y ago
It’s such an interesting debate, because while I think we have solved the technological safety issues (which is what us engineers think of), we have not solved the human issues. I’m reading Midnight in Chernobyl, and while the reactor desig
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by brycesbeard 7y ago
A third option - raising capital from a public market may be cheaper holistically. Perhaps the private money is heavy into competition, and you’re worries about onerous terms. I’m sure we could think of other options if we tried really har
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by brycesbeard 7y ago
Plus you get people are less interested in “work life balance”, and generally don’t have as high of salary expectations. I’ve been involved in hiring decisions where HR brought up the healthcare costs to complain, then stated clearly we can
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by brycesbeard 7y ago
the relevant question is whether it influences on a scale we want to stop. Treating it as a binary isn’t very useful.
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by brycesbeard 7y ago
Which is a very different question than whether or not it worked. After all, people pay billions every year on useless nutritional supplements which have a lot of evidence to suggest they don’t work as people think. Yet they still pay. Peop
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by brycesbeard 7y ago
Strongly disagree. If they were all combined, we would likely have the same level as any given Company’s progress, but no more due to the mythical man month factor. Instead we have multiple moonshots, bringing diverse approaches, and constr
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by brycesbeard 7y ago
Maybe you actually like heavy metal but won’t admit it to yourself ;). (Just kidding, but this kind of thing will be more common in the future, especially as we learn more about how little the brain knows about its own desires and motivatio
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by brycesbeard 7y ago
What’s interesting is that these algos are trained on human feedback. What does that say about our revealed preferences in music?
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by brycesbeard 8y ago
Or they realize the problem isn’t fixed if they give away their money. It’s structural — why give up what you’ve gotten if it won’t fix anything? IMO, calling for higher taxes is the same thing to do, rather than performing some sort of emp
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by brycesbeard 8y ago
So it’s fear of the unknown? I’m genuinely curious why people are so bothered by this. I don’t use Facebook, and use privacy extensions to prevent my agents from using Facebook. It’s like they’re a non existent entity in my world. I simply
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by brycesbeard 8y ago
They’re bits about you, but what makes you think you own them?
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by brycesbeard 8y ago
I’d say it’s the revealed preferences of FB users that decide which content to surface. Facebooks algorithms are just enabling that. At what point do we accept that polarization (in a tribal sense) is a featurebug in human psychology? Maybe
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by brycesbeard 8y ago
If you quit using Facebook, what does it matter if they have some bits about you?