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by danny_codes 2mo ago
Probably. I mean I don't think anyone would choose Lawyer as the leading profession for leadership. It's a "largely useless" profession outside of it's very narrow context.
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by danny_codes 2mo ago
Is it? Uber has been a net loss for society. It increased overall VMT, especially in urban areas, and drove riders away from transit. On the whole this is both bad for cities and bad for city dwellers. We have more traffic and less transit,
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by danny_codes 2mo ago
Except that's not how it was in 2004 before Citizens United. So.. yes, in your made up hypothetical it doesn't look good. But in reality, where we all live, it worked better than the current rules
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by danny_codes 3mo ago
I mean.. it also sends the message that you can ignore the law if you're rich. $1.5B is like a single failed training run for Anthropic. They burn that in a long weekend because somebody forgot to abort a hyper parameter search. Obviou
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by danny_codes 3mo ago
It released in June..
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by danny_codes 3mo ago
The scale of public spend is probably much higher in the US..
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by danny_codes 3mo ago
We won't know how close we are to takeoff until takeoff. My main critique of AI is that takeoff is dangerous, and we're basically running towards the cliff as fast as we can. Will you grow wings before you fall to your death? That
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by danny_codes 3mo ago
Hetzner has hard usage cutoffs
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by danny_codes 3mo ago
I recall the Boyle video in this claimed the whole affair cost $100B or so and achieved nothing. So, typical Musk outcome.
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by danny_codes 3mo ago
The excess money goes into assets that people need to survive/thrive. In SF/Bay Area a lot of it goes into land appreciation (housing prices). The end effect is rampant homelessness (did you know a full 1% of SF is homeless), dela
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by danny_codes 3mo ago
He's generating a lot more pollution. It's reasonable to want equity around externalities, which is a distinct problem under capitalism.
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by danny_codes 3mo ago
LVT works just as well in space.
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by danny_codes 3mo ago
Is it? I switched to Kiro and it's essentially identical.. well a bit better because you get a better idea of what the harness is doing, but otherwise identical.
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by danny_codes 3mo ago
Sure, but 98% of what you buy is is either in the set of SKUs near you or substitutable for them. Near you only applies if you live among actual density of course.
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by danny_codes 3mo ago
Sounds like you want to have unequal representation. Or rather, you want to keep your privilege by preventing other people from gaining equal footing. You are right that this is a pretty central element of American society. However, I think
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by danny_codes 3mo ago
> The problem I have with the immigration of today is that the levels of cultural distance are much, much higher than Ellis island. Sounds like a good thing to me. More diversity means we can incorporate the best ideas from everyone, ins
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by danny_codes 3mo ago
But his base is largely not people benefiting from birthright citizenship (at least, not recently).. so if anything Trump would be an indicator that we need more immigration to counter the homegrown, um, MAGAts
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by danny_codes 3mo ago
That sounds like a great idea. The more citizens of your country the better. Note that US citizens pay taxes no matter where they live. So it's not a free ride by any means.
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by danny_codes 3mo ago
Birthright citizenship is one of the best things we have going for us. I see no reason why we should treat people differently depending on whether or not they have an imaginary stamp labeling them as special (IE, as citizens). Birthright ci
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by danny_codes 3mo ago
Yeah there's no way that was the reason. I judge it to be a combination of FOMO and the big tech companies needing to pump demand for compute.
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by danny_codes 3mo ago
Damn that's crazy. Guess the take home test is dead now. I never understood this behavior from undergrads though, you're paying so much for an education and then you just skip the education part? Why bother?
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by danny_codes 3mo ago
Why teach kids how to read, they can just take a picture of whatever text they want and have AI say it aloud.
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by danny_codes 3mo ago
Long-term downsides tend not to show up in studies for many years. For example, these drugs might increase cancer rates, but we wouldn't know for a few decades. I imagine though that on-balance they'll be net positive because bein
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by danny_codes 3mo ago
> and thus far everyone has accepted it For now. SC is becoming more partisan, which causes SC's credibility to decline. I assume there's a point where SC loses too much credibility and the existing system of balancing power br
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by danny_codes 3mo ago
I'm surprised they're legal. In fact, it looks like there are strict limits on them in CA
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by danny_codes 3mo ago
Jane Jacobs approves of this comment
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by danny_codes 3mo ago
Good luck finding anyone in SF who wants to replace open space with more density. SF is amazingly lucky that it has so much green space and it's a big reason the city is so desirable. Increasing sprawl into our open spaces seems like a
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by danny_codes 3mo ago
This seems wildly naive. This entire field is like 4 years old. We have quite frankly no idea about what things will look like in 4 more years.
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by danny_codes 3mo ago
Fortunately we have both a democracy and a constitution, making those sorts of things hard for the government to do.
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by danny_codes 3mo ago
How dare they steal what we already stole!

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