bwhiting2356

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by bwhiting2356 4mo ago
If you prefer to live in a low density exurb, you have many options for affordable housing, there's just a lack of good paying jobs and services in those areas.
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by bwhiting2356 4mo ago
It affects their ability to hire and retain talent.
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by bwhiting2356 4mo ago
they have a healthy datacenter business. Does that justify their valuation?
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by bwhiting2356 4mo ago
what's the point of being vertically integrated if they're just going to rent out their compute ( https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/ai-startup-re... ). This signals to me they don't have
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by bwhiting2356 4mo ago
> without needing to download everything how does your agent run tests or click around the UI to verify changes if it doesn't have the full code?
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by bwhiting2356 4mo ago
re: concerns at a societal level. More people are making software than before. People who have been coding for a long time have moved up an abstraction layer and are further from the code. But many people are actually closer to the code tha
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by bwhiting2356 4mo ago
The number of people now involved in software development has now increased because of a lower barrier to entry. I know many people who would previously use a no-code tool or hire offshore devs, or simply not have their problem solved, who
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by bwhiting2356 4mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Democrats rightward shift
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by bwhiting2356 4mo ago
If the value of MSFT tanked after he was no longer managing it, people would have said he didn't do a good job setting up effective systems.
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by bwhiting2356 4mo ago
they keep moving goal posts. Show me an entrepreneur making 10M AOC says fairly earned it.
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by bwhiting2356 4mo ago
It's about efficiency not just corruption. When you call taxi dispatch a human answers and coordinates with other humans. Takes longer and they sometimes drop the ball.
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by bwhiting2356 4mo ago
anti-trust
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by bwhiting2356 4mo ago
AI should be used for all the bullshit tasks that no one wants to do. There are garbage dumps full of stuff that can be reused and recycled. But it's not high enough ROI to pay someone $25/h to sort trash, so it isn't happeni
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by bwhiting2356 4mo ago
not a question just a comment - I read The Lean Startup years ago, still think about it about once a week. I regularly give away copies to people starting companies who I see going down a bad path with no tight feedback loop.
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by bwhiting2356 4mo ago
not to be a shill, but isn't it good for the non-profit to own a big piece of a successful company?
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by bwhiting2356 4mo ago
It's hard to convince kids why they should learn advanced abstract math, beyond what is necessary to calculate the tip on a restaurant bill. The number of high school students who will use advanced math beyond high school is very small
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by bwhiting2356 4mo ago
Amazon was founded in 1994
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by bwhiting2356 5mo ago
the churn is... a version bump to the same api? If you want to compare you can write some evals.
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by bwhiting2356 5mo ago
I see this as a bunch of unsolved game theory problems. USA vs Soviet Union I just see as a battle of competing empires. There have been competing empires for all of history, we haven’t figure out how not to do that yet. At the smaller scal
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by bwhiting2356 5mo ago
> Musicians can't do their performance over zoom and the job can't be outsourced to another country. Recording is increasingly outsourced, unfortunately. There are great orchestras in Eastern Europe.
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by bwhiting2356 5mo ago
Jevons paradox. Cheaper tokens does not mean we will spend less.
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by bwhiting2356 5mo ago
> 5% of every knowledge workers salary to go into tokens. 20% if you're a developer. When you break it down like that it seems reasonable. I'm spending about $5k/mo on tokens, seems more and more normal.
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by bwhiting2356 5mo ago
Maybe i’m a cynical capitalist, but I expect everyone to be operating in their own self interest. There are few true saints. Startups are high risk high reward. 9/10 fail. If a VC gets less upside when it works, the successes wouldn’t
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by bwhiting2356 5mo ago
Big layoffs so far have been at legacy companies. Hiring at startups is strong, and the unemployment rate is steady at 4%.
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by bwhiting2356 5mo ago
Valid. That's also what I would call a bubble. But if this prediction is true, that not enough people will buy their tokens to meet their projections, then it also won't be automating away everyone's jobs. That's the con
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by bwhiting2356 5mo ago
Buying prepared food is not a bad thing, it's cheaper than eating out and many people are busy. I live with a lot of roommates and this is what most people are doing. I'm just saying this is not the same division of labor we had b
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by bwhiting2356 5mo ago
I was in the musician's union for 12 years before I got into tech. There were some silly rules, like someone couldn't be both a musician and and orchestrator on the same show, because it's "doing 2 jobs". It's
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by bwhiting2356 5mo ago
When you work for a startup, or a zero-to-one project, it's hard to say you're even paid for your output. You're paid for probabilistic/expected future value output.
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by bwhiting2356 5mo ago
More household work was done in this era, before grocery stores sold prepared food, before washing machines. And more people lived in less square footage, with grandparents living in the home, less privacy and autonomy. I don't know if
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by bwhiting2356 5mo ago
What's preventing you from advertising your services as a contractor for 4 days a week?

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