budman1

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by budman1 1mo ago
Exactly what are they doing. Uber has been around for at least a decade. Isn't the product close to being finished? Maybe the money could be better spent on paying the drivers more. Or a stock buyback.
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by budman1 1mo ago
But it might.
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by budman1 1mo ago
The US military does a lot of things right. But not every concept matches over to the world of business. A tremendous amount of time / money is spent on developing talent. There are way too many officers just for supervision; they ar
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by budman1 1mo ago
LORAN can be jammed.
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by budman1 1mo ago
If I kill you over a $2K catalytic converter, my sanity is gone. I could never sleep at night without thinking about what I have done.' A life is worth a lot more than $2k for my sanity.
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by budman1 1mo ago
It ain't murder. (other words apply)
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by budman1 1mo ago
"this stuff should've been automated years ago in frameworks and in libs, or through sane programming langs that dealt with memory and logic flow better." 70 years of working on the 'how do I reuse code?'. And the
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by budman1 1mo ago
Not being a user of agents, my question is 'does the agent always find the root cause and remove the defect'? The way I got good at finding the hard ones was finding hard ones. Without that practice, I would be helpless.
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by budman1 1mo ago
Isn't this something that software developers do everyday?
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by budman1 1mo ago
The CHIPS act was a good attempt at moving some back. Unlike tariffs, which are designed to 'make it hurt', the CHIPS act gave incentives to actually move some plants back to the US. And to make sure there were trained workers a
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by budman1 1mo ago
Although it is not a law of nature, and it is not linear across the hours.. In general if I work M-F more work will be done that if I just work on Monday morning.
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by budman1 1mo ago
Slack is expensive. At least it has a cost that is not always appreciated. Everyone has been optimizing to increase profits for decades. A 1950's US economy would have taken a lot longer to collapse.
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by budman1 1mo ago
Minimal. In the hundreds vs H1b with the tens of thousands.
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by budman1 1mo ago
Dyson Sphere is the end game. Once you capture and use all of the sunlight hitting the earth, what do you do?
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by budman1 1mo ago
Not being from silicon valley, I am not sure of the communities mentioned. But may I suggest we put it right next to Zuck's house? How about in SamA's back yard? They are noisy buildings, designed to turn electricity into heat.
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by budman1 1mo ago
Data Centers is the only time in my memory that Greg Abbott has even thought about listening to citizen concerns. And of course, when the citizens selling THC beverages were concerned about the legislature making the product illegal. Me thi
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by budman1 1mo ago
Elon has been trying, he is not putting in money for the midterms for his health. Tim brought him a statue of gold.... This is not due to bribery. Everyone using H1B have already done the bribing. The Republican base is demanding this. T
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by budman1 1mo ago
He would, except for he has been dead for 20 years.
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by budman1 1mo ago
So, let's make it 25. Social Security says retirement age is 67. 65 leaves a lot of good years unavailable for service in politics. I am sure a reasonable line could be drawn. And it it less than 80...
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by budman1 1mo ago
I agree. The two are different things. My comments were sidetracked from the discussion.
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by budman1 1mo ago
72 ?
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by budman1 2mo ago
Inflation was really solved when Volker raised the interest rates. Nixon, Ford, Carter all struggled with rising prices. Strange enough, I was alive back then and clearly remember my grandmother applauding Nixon's attempt to 'free
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by budman1 2mo ago
Responsible budget from congress. Social Security / Medicare need to reduce benefits and increase taxation. Let's start with the easy one; social security taxes. Make every dollar of income be taxed for social security. If you
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by budman1 2mo ago
It's the payday loan principle. Loan comes due. I pay the interest. And rollover the principle. Problem is, now we are starting to add to the principle, because there isn't enough cash to cover the interest and keep the lights on
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by budman1 2mo ago
In small amounts, say <3 trillion dollars, the smart people are right. If the government needs to run a deficit to fight a war, or get the population through a pandemic, it is not a problem. The problem is it is forever, and it is growin
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by budman1 2mo ago
I think this is a great solution. Raise some revenue. Tax the rich more. (not being sarcastic, we need more tax money coming in) I didn't say 'eat them', just reach into their pocket and extract more (double? sure...) At t
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by budman1 2mo ago
The interest is only part of it ! How about paying back the principle when the bond comes due?
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by budman1 2mo ago
International buyers will cool on the idea of holding US debt. US policy will artificially lower the interest rate to stimulate the economy. Also, the spending of the federal government will continue to increase above the tax receipts. Thi
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by budman1 2mo ago
You folks are in an HN bubble. C++ is still king of the mountain and it will remain so for decades. The billions of lines of existing C++ are not being re-written in rust (by humans or AI's). 100 thousands of lines are being re-writte
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by budman1 2mo ago
How does this have value? Is any and every sentence in an e-mail considered 'fact' and thus to be fed into the AI? 90% of e-mails and Teams communications are inane. Polite banter, "thanks for taking care of that, I appreci

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