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by crmd 3y ago
American here. I remember being appalled on a date a few years ago when the guy was explaining how he was a “claims minimization specialist” for a big insurance company. I can’t imagine doing for a living getting in between patients and doc
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by crmd 3y ago
TSMC makes semiconductors used in F-35 fighters and a wide range of “military-grade” devices used by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). https://www.csis.org/analysis/semiconductors-and-national-de...
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by crmd 3y ago
I was really impressed when the cashier at my neighborhood supermarket recently transferred my order in progress over to an empty lane so that I could deal with a credit card issue without delaying the people behind me. Seems like an obviou
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by crmd 3y ago
Same in New York City where I live. A major reason is that the demand curve is effectively vertical - people here who would like to buy a home to live in are not competing just with other residents but with a global investor class who want
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by crmd 3y ago
Property tax represents 72% of Boston's municipal revenue[0], and this initiative provides a property tax reduction of up to 75% for up to 29 years, so unfortunately this initiative will not help with T funding. [0] https://
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by crmd 3y ago
Love multipass but 100% useless for anyone doing data plane development.
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by crmd 3y ago
Wage-price spirals only happen when business owners refuse to adjust down their operating margins and instead pass the increased payroll costs on to their customers. Too much economic value is accruing to capital and not enough to labor. Th
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by crmd 3y ago
When I tried this a few years ago, the unit beeped when it sensed braking or lane changes it didn’t like. It beeped constantly in the course of normal New York City defensive driving. I found myself running more than one red light to avoi
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by crmd 3y ago
>Under the agency’s own rules, issues such as traffic flow and interference with emergency workers can’t be used to deny expansion permits. The resolutions list four “goals” to be considered: inclusion of people with disabilities impro
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by crmd 3y ago
Furniture storage is for commercially zoned property, not for homes that someone could be living in.
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by crmd 3y ago
Rent it out to strangers, let friends live there for free if you want. Do anything other than letting a home sit vacant when there are tons of unhoused people sleeping in the street.
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by crmd 3y ago
The legal system should encourage people moving into unoccupied houses. The hoarding of real estate is bad for society.
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by crmd 3y ago
“We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI” - Google They’re attempting to build a regulatory moat. The best chance humanity has at democratizing the benefits of AI is for these models to be abundant and open source.
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by crmd 3y ago
>For example, some parents think you're talking about TikTok, when (as I'm sure you know) it often starts with Roblox/Minecraft chat and associated Discord servers. US psychologist Jonathan Haidt has said there is an inter
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by crmd 3y ago
>The topic is timely, and important enough not to ignore completely, but it's emphatically not for me. Sums up my feelings about AI. It’s possibly the third and final “big thing in tech” in my career, after the internet and cloud co
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by crmd 3y ago
Computers are the malignant exception. Up to 1975, the enormous value created by the agricultural and industrial revolutions, electrification era, transport and communications revolutions, etc were broadly shared by ordinary citizens and t
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by crmd 3y ago
The essence of this, and every news article I’ve read lately about a specific, tangible economic impact of AI, has the benefits accruing solely to capital (shareholders of a company). If this pattern continues unabated, we are in deep shit
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by crmd 3y ago
In the old days, parents had an unwritten responsibility to steer their kids away from neighborhood kids who are a bad influence. Their kids aren’t running around in the neighborhood any more; the bad influences are social media algorithms.
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by crmd 3y ago
And the 66% of US teens on TikTok are 66% of the next generation of US senators, presidents, cabinet members, military chiefs, etc. Imagine the competitive advantage of having a deep psychological profile for each of these personas of your
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by crmd 3y ago
The infamous Dropbox thread is a good example of old HN culture - shitting on a billion dollar business idea because the tech problem is “so easy to solve I could build it over a weekend”. In this thread people are arguing that the problem
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by crmd 3y ago
I almost went crazy a few months ago trying to find the director’s commentary audio track for the movie Sneakers in my iTunes library. Eventually I realized my memory of it was from the DVD like 15 years ago. Huge bummer, it was was an awes
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by crmd 3y ago
A lot of smart people in my network (infrastructure stuff) lately doing things around data on kubernetes and data / storage orchestration.
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by crmd 3y ago
People in the US seem to be at higher risk than Europeans of catastrophic problem drinking (where alcohol use leads to a loss of employment, housing, marriage / social connections, etc). I have seen this with several European friends w
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by crmd 3y ago
Safety and performance are elements of the cover story not drivers of the product strategy.
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by crmd 3y ago
Very cool technology project, but this all seems like a lot of work and infrastructure attention for a vanishingly small constituency- 113 bikes in this analysis versus over 14000 cars.
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by crmd 4y ago
“Greed is good”, say the capitalists, except in the case of rising workforce salaries which is bad and requires intervention by the Federal Reserve.
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by crmd 4y ago
A year later: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2594698/intel-to-phase...
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by crmd 4y ago
aVe did a great teardown[0] of a Dyson hairdryer. He was contemptuous in the beginning because of the ridiculous price, but totally nerded out over the motor. [0]: https://youtu.be/j-vJxez9UF8
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by crmd 4y ago
I am deeply connected to the trades in the nyc metro area - my father in law is a bridge-building ironworker foreman, I have ~a dozen friends who own carpentry and plumbing companies, and I myself worked in sales for a while at a family ele
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by crmd 4y ago
In my brooklyn neighborhood, our pharmacist is basically the neighborhood “doctor”. He’s so trustworthy and conscientious that neighbors typically check with him before going to urgent care or making a real doctor appointment for anything.

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