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by dboreham 11mo ago
It's a common pattern. If you're in their service area compare both the food served by, and the employment practices of In-n-out Burger (private) vs McDonald's (public).
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by dboreham 11mo ago
Micron had infinite brand awareness in the electronics industry long before they made SSDs. Heck they don't even use their own name for those products. They've been a memory vendor for more than 40 years and they're the only
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by dboreham 11mo ago
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang%E2%80%93Mills_theory
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by dboreham 11mo ago
The apartment was a bunch of 2x4s and plywood in the middle of a big sound stage building on the Warner lot in Burbank. It's still there afaik.
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by dboreham 11mo ago
You can tell this is happening from the fact that all elections seem to end up being a 49/51 result. There's some strange Nash Equilibrium thing going on.
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by dboreham 11mo ago
And is owned by Microsoft. The theory is that by symmetry Anthropic should own a node competitor.
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by dboreham 11mo ago
> This acquisition makes no sense. except this sense: > Investors must be happy because Bun never had to find out how to become profitable.
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by dboreham 11mo ago
My personal experience has been that teams were not in close physical contact since about 1994. Basically since the internet became ubiquitous. In 1999 I was working in an office in Silicon Valley and realized that I never sat across the ta
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by dboreham 11mo ago
There's already many replies, but I'm not sure any of them answers your question directly: You are somewhat correct that contracts take external inputs in some cases, but note that this isn't a given. For example you could ha
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by dboreham 11mo ago
I've had similar experience using LLMs for static analysis of code looking for security vulnerabilities, but I'm not sure it makes sense for me to found a start up around that "product". Reason being that the technology
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by dboreham 11mo ago
Background for the uninitiated: the USA is not quite a real country. It's 50 states that agreed to cooperate in various ways, and share a common army/navy. While the US government issues documents that work for identification ever
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by dboreham 11mo ago
Full disclosure: I've known jg since 1986. I have no insight into the Apple goings on, but the story that "he's the guy that made Siri suck" sounds very very unlikely to me.
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by dboreham 11mo ago
Step on it Jeeves, and go through the park.
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by dboreham 11mo ago
> I might as well run a proper Linux VM or dual boot. Obviously you don't do the thing you're writing about. A "proper" Linux VM would incur more work for you and would be less useful. Dual boot would remove your abil
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by dboreham 11mo ago
WSL2 is fine for JavaScript development. Just don't put the npm files on a Windows host filesystem. Put them in the Linux filesystem.
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by dboreham 11mo ago
> selling equities and buying bonds There's an intermediate option: sell high P/E stocks and buy lower P/E stocks with dividend paying history. There are ETFs designed for this purpose too.
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by dboreham 11mo ago
Having been shafted in three housing boom cycles, I'm somewhat eagerly awaiting the crash this time so I can buy something at a discount.
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by dboreham 11mo ago
Money.
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by dboreham 11mo ago
Quirk? Surely a bug?
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by dboreham 11mo ago
Quick note that this has not been my experience. LLMs have been very useful with codebases as far from crud web apps as you can get.
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by dboreham 11mo ago
Reading this sent me down a bit of an OECD data rabbit hole. They seem to agree. However once you read the fine print I'm not so sure. Many things are much more costly in the US (education, travel, food, vehicles, houses...) and the OE
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by dboreham 11mo ago
See /s flag ?
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by dboreham 11mo ago
You're forced to buy auto insurance.
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by dboreham 11mo ago
"ACA required stuff" is a fox news talking point.
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Both. Also there's a culture of infinite consumption of medical services.
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Corrupt congress people will vote down any such proposals.
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by dboreham 11mo ago
Quick note that for people aged 65 and over the US does have a healthcare system somewhat like other developed nations.
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by dboreham 11mo ago
A common pattern is: people (I supposed I mean: investors) are somewhat worried that markets are over valued. They ponder, think, research, binge-watch Prof G videos... Then they travel to have Thanksgiving dinner with a bunch of in-laws. M
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by dboreham 11mo ago
Durex adhesive tape?
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by dboreham 11mo ago
Why is it absurd? Because believing that would break some deep delusion humans have about themselves?

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