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by burlesona 4y ago
I’ll second that Community Impact is an excellent paper and a real service to the community. Wish it was typical instead of such an outlier.
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by burlesona 4y ago
This is saying this chemical is used to decaffeinate coffee. So what level of it is left in the resulting coffee beans?
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by burlesona 4y ago
I agree with your take, but will emphasize that the recent wave of AI progress has me questioning how much of human intelligence just reduces to pattern matching. There's certainly a lot of things, like painting, that most people would
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by burlesona 4y ago
I mean YC and all the VCs killed SVB by causing a run on the bank. This is not the only business that VCs have harmed by spreading FUD (in many cases unfounded or even fabricated with dubious motives), and then acting as a herd. I have trem
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by burlesona 4y ago
I’m surprised that such a thoughtful and civil conversation came out of this after the precipitating screed against Clean Code. Kudos to both sides for engaging constructively!
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by burlesona 4y ago
I appreciate you expanding your thoughts. You are certainly free to feel how you feel, but I want to offer you one different angle: For the sake of my career, I have moved a lot, six times as an adult. The first time I moved, I was able to
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by burlesona 4y ago
I think many of these ideas are sound but IMO your hostility towards “landlords” is misplaced. This isn’t the right forum to get into all the nuance, but the fact is we have an extremely non-competitive “landlord” and “developer” market, an
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by burlesona 4y ago
I feel like the fact that this plant coming online will raise the rates for Georgia electricity is basically the death-knell of nuclear power, at least in it's current form of large central power plants[1]. By comparison, solar and w
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by burlesona 4y ago
Yes, but, the actual math matters. There are a lot of banal public infrastructure projects that cost much more than the value they create, and there are also theoretically productive public investments that are double-dipping into the same
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by burlesona 4y ago
Matthew Yglesias wrote about this today as well, and his take was interesting. Paywall though :/ https://www.slowboring.com/p/why-are-young-liberals-so-depre...
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by burlesona 4y ago
The more populated parts of Texas get plenty of rain. For example, Austin averages 35 inches of rain per year and Houston gets 50 inches (compare to Seattle at 38 inches). If it came to it, Texas also is on the coast and unlike California t
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by burlesona 4y ago
From your link: > Another minor disadvantage can be the time needed to adapt which is valid for any reform. But as it was also already mentioned, the availability of modern day software can diminish these difficulties. Lol. I think the i
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by burlesona 4y ago
This is something that I'm working on and hope my next startup will be about, I know there are others interested in it. The problem is generally the regulatory environment, it's a surprisingly difficult thing to do in any habitabl
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by burlesona 4y ago
My high school in Texas started at 9:05 am. Sample size of 1, but my experience was: (a) It still felt “early” to me at the time, but not “difficult” to be up for. (b) I don’t remember anyone complaining about school starting early or peopl
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by burlesona 4y ago
Would not recommend. It's a great city if you like paying almost as much as SF for housing and getting: - High heat and humidity for 8 months out of the year - Mosquitos that make the few nice days out much less nice - Surprising ice&#
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by burlesona 4y ago
Yawn. This has been the case forever as different construction methods and architectural styles come and go. With a small bit of architectural education you can walk around just about any city and guess the decade any building was built at
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by burlesona 4y ago
SF Housing is already dropping, but unfortunately it's so expensive that even a substantial drop of 10-20% would still leave it as one of the most expensive markets in the country. The supply shortage is so severe that it would take a
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by burlesona 4y ago
Interesting topic but there’s not much in the article beyond the headline. The only given rationale is that the BoE might need to issue a digital currency or else “Big Tech” might end up “controlling money.” Perhaps there’s a better article
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by burlesona 4y ago
The post titles are a bit repetitive, but I find the conversation with HN folks dissecting the applicability and limitations of LLMs pretty interesting.
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by burlesona 4y ago
In practice this is how social networks already work - and it turns out that most people treat "like" and "trust" as equivalent. So you get information filter bubbles where people are basically living in separate realiti
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by burlesona 4y ago
I’ve noticed that DF articles rarely appear on HN as well. In addition to the title issue mentioned by others, I wonder if this is because the linked-list posts with his comments (ie most posts) aren’t favored on HN (recommendation is to li
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by burlesona 4y ago
I share your frustration. I found a workaround that solves it for me: When I want to talk to my phone or my watch I don’t say “Hey Siri” anymore, I just hold down the lock button (aka use it the old way). That activates Siri on the device w
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by burlesona 4y ago
Descript already does this.
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by burlesona 4y ago
The regulatory impulse seems to be going the opposite direction so far, China recently banned deepfakes etc.
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by burlesona 4y ago
From what I've seen first-hand, the market dropped a bit in August, September, and October, but it got worse in November and December. I expect that we'll see a more significant correction in the months ahead. It's also worth
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by burlesona 4y ago
As we've seen so many layoffs a common refrain is that CEOs say "they take responsibility" but it means nothing. I thought it was interesting that at least in this case the CEO laid herself off too.
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Stitch Fix lays off 20% of staff, CEO steps down(cnn.com)
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by burlesona 4y ago
FWIW Southwest is refunding fares and covering lodging, meals, and rebookings on other airlines. Not sure how much more we could ask for except the impossible “go back in time and don’t screw up.”
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by burlesona 4y ago
It’s fascinating that the same hopscotch travel pattern that allows SWA to offer better service to more places is also what caused the network to suffer cascading failure. Once a critical mass of pieces (planes/crew) were out of positi
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by burlesona 4y ago
There are two core insights here that are actually pretty obvious: 1. 20% of 1200 is more than 20% of 800. Duh! But the practical insight is simply that people with more wealth can afford bigger bets and expect bigger payouts. 2. Many syste

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