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by ccorcos 1y ago
No, I'm saying that we all have our opinions and we need to be careful about who gets the power to tell others what to do. You might think that we are collectively responsible for solving climate change, and someone else might think th
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by ccorcos 1y ago
No. It’s possible env[?].get returns a promise though
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by ccorcos 1y ago
It’s also possible that all of these gains fixing bugs are simply improving infrastructure and stability rather than finding new customers and opening up new markets. Having worked on software infrastructure, it’s a thankless job. You’re mo
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by ccorcos 1y ago
It’s possible that both are true. “Why” questions tend to be mathematically overdetermined. There are many correct explanations (equations) and fewer variables than equations.
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by ccorcos 1y ago
I guess I don’t buy into the premise. Aren’t there some things you’d prefer to pay a human for than a robot? I don’t think this 3 year timeline is realistic and pondering what we’re going to do in 20 years is unpredictable.
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by ccorcos 1y ago
If you work 15 hours/week then presumably someone who chose to work 45 hours/week would make 3x more money. This creates supply-demand pressure for goods and services. Anything with limited supply such as living in the nice part o
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by ccorcos 1y ago
People have freedom to choose their responsibilities. Some choose to work on solving society’s problems, others don’t. What’s a better alternative?
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by ccorcos 1y ago
You’re supposed to learn skills that others are willing to pay you for.
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by ccorcos 1y ago
Yes, I believe individuals should take responsibility for themselves and their future prosperity. We all know what happens when you don’t… History has shown us quite clearly what happens if governments, and not individuals, are responsible
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by ccorcos 1y ago
Assuming a well functioning business, yes.
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by ccorcos 1y ago
What makes you so concerned about rapid onset of we haven’t seen any significant change in the (USA) unemployment rate? And there are some laws of nature that are relevant such as supply-demand economics. Technology often makes things cheap
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by ccorcos 1y ago
> do you really think it’s a great idea to have no backup plan What makes you think people haven’t made back up plans? Or are you saying government needs to do it for us?
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by ccorcos 1y ago
AI tools seem to be most useful for little things. Fixing a little bug, making a little change. But those things aren’t always very visible or really move the needle. It may help you build a real product feature quicker, but AI is not neces
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by ccorcos 1y ago
Can we talk about how many tiny/hidden x’s I had to find to read this article?!
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by ccorcos 1y ago
Synthetic identities, probably
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by ccorcos 1y ago
The most recent Veritasium video touched on this — Emmy Noether worked under Hilbert and made significant contributions to general relativity, worked at University of Göttingen (Jewish, and first woman professor) until 1933. https:/&#
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by ccorcos 1y ago
I wish YouTube allowed a filter for minimum video length. I don’t want my kid watching anything under 5 minutes, ideally 10 minutes long. My biggest concern is the attention thrashing. If they’re going to watch some garbage, at least be stu
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by ccorcos 2y ago
Let's consider something like Notion or Slack. It's sort of document-based but not entirely -- you can mention other users and other channels names. Some users have access to some channels and not others. And in Notion's case
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by ccorcos 2y ago
Not necessarily, if there's adequate competition and no collusion. I think of Costco's Kirkland products which have a capped profit margin, for example.
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by ccorcos 2y ago
Exactly. Sowell lists many examples too in his book "Visions of the Annointed".
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by ccorcos 2y ago
Yeah, I think all of the arguments made for and against tariffs are only partly true depending on the context. Interestingly, Lua came out of Brazil for these reasons...
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by ccorcos 2y ago
I asked ChatGPT to explain the arguments of Sowell and Piketty. https://chatgpt.com/share/67eebae2-df3c-800b-aba9-6e36c04810... I liked Sowell's book, "Wealth, Poverty and Politics". Can you recommend on
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by ccorcos 2y ago
Weighted average is an interesting metric, but I'm not sure of its value in this context. I can imagine that perhaps 2-3% is more of an equilibrium and any amount of tariffs will still trend towards some market equlibrium. I believe th
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by ccorcos 2y ago
Thomas Sowell makes a good argument that the government does a terrible job at redistributing wealth to lift the poor, based on their track record. And so taxing the rich more doesnt actually solve that problem — it just makes politicians a
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by ccorcos 2y ago
I really want to read a good response to this comment. I have the same questions, and I’ll add one more thought. Lots of people talk about how the US should be more like Europe. People say the average European has a better quality of life,
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by ccorcos 2y ago
Separate Volume per user makes sense... but to build an application where users can collaborate, I would need some way of fanning out writes to other users' databases. Any thoughts on how to do that in the context of Graft?
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by ccorcos 2y ago
How are permissions supposed to work? Suppose a page has data that I need to see and also has data I can’t see. Does this mean I need to demoralize my entire data model?
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by ccorcos 2y ago
exactly my thought! his talk "humane representation of thought" as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K89W4WyiRFI If you like this article, you should definitely check out Bret Victor's work on this.
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by ccorcos 2y ago
Wow, $99 is a great price. Makes sense though, it’s just a battery… Oh wait, that’s $99 to reserve. $999 to purchase! Ouch
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by ccorcos 2y ago
I’m just quoting the article… I don’t think they’re saying that animal welfare didn’t improve, but that the purpose of the program was an excuse to raise profit margins. It’s not exactly greenwashing but it is used as a political tool never

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