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by dehrmann 2y ago
SF tried to build a $1.7M toilet. https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/san-francisco-publ...
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by dehrmann 2y ago
> Bafflingly, many of the new clinic’s young patients are in good shape, exercise regularly and eat healthily. That is prompting a hunt for environmental carcinogens capable of affecting entire generations
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by dehrmann 2y ago
Since a gross receipts tax hits anything other than small, local stores inconsistently, I'm not sure what behavior it's trying to drive. It also taxes revenue rather than income, so yes, it makes anything ulta-low margin like a pa
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by dehrmann 2y ago
I worked in mid-market/the TL from 2014 until 2017. The tech companies sort of helped. A handful of hip restaurants and bars sprung up, but the city never really dealt with the homeless. There are a lot of non-profits serving the homel
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by dehrmann 2y ago
When I was at Spotify in the Warfield building, something similar happened, and we dropped behind the windows. Later that day, a can of pre-made Starbucks coffee someone left on their desk exploded from baking in the sun. Caused quite a sca
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by dehrmann 2y ago
It's both easier and harder. The scale part is easy (the index is <1TB), but there's almost no training data for feedback.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
> Its not uncommon to search for product X, only to find product Z being ranked above the official store of X. I'm surprised there hasn't been a class action racketeering charge brought. And this is exactly how a protection rac
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by dehrmann 2y ago
> it doesn’t cut it to be marginally better than Google Search when they’re the default search engine. You have to completely blow them out of the water. More than that, it's the de facto default for anyone who can be bothered to ch
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by dehrmann 2y ago
> [Apple] already have search engines for App Store, Maps, Apple TV and News and Spotlight. This is completely different than a general-purpose search engine.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
I always like to point out Wordle for nailing the timing. Some version of it has been viable since 2000, mass smart phone adoption helped with how it spread, but it could have been viable in 2010. What it did was landed at the right moment.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
He didn't have to complete it, and he didn't have to rush it.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
> He also was president to Russia invading Ukraine leading to a Europe wide conflict. Hamas invading Israel. I put some of the blame on Biden because the botched Afghanistan withdrawal sent the message that the US doesn't want to ge
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by dehrmann 2y ago
> many of the bills are just spending money And continuing the trade war. Then people act surprised when inflation is high. Recently, I think Jay Powell has even called out congress and the president for continuing to spend.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
> "Network effects"? You mean like... In the case of airports, losing ATC at just a few major US airports would effectively paralyze the network. Or yes, the case you mentioned where you depend on four SaaS offerings, and odds
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by dehrmann 2y ago
They chose a major vendor and it checks off a compliance requirement.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
Not necessarily. CrowdStrike isn't even the #1 player in this space, but this still happened because of network effects. The number of platforms you'd need for this much safety is impractically high.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
I wonder how feasible it would be to do massively distributed training, a la Folding@home or SETI@home.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
> It didn’t consider the schedule of matches This dynamic makes fantasy sports a second-order game, and predicting regular sports outcomes is hard enough. You're not just trying to pick the best players for the best price, you also
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by dehrmann 2y ago
I doubt it would have changed much. An Inconvenient Truth came out almost 20 years ago, and traditional ICE cars (excluding hybrids) still have 80% market share. It's fairly well-known at this point that going vegetarian (or vegan) cut
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by dehrmann 2y ago
Depending on the age of the landfill, you can find refined aluminum or iron at higher rates than are in ore.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
And people wonder why you need a college degree for most jobs; all a high school diploma shows is you mostly showed up.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
The fact that PG&E, in a much more regulated and liberal California, also has power problems is interesting and valid, but Newsom's only been governor since 2019 (the Camp Fire was 2018), so you can't put that much blame on hi
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by dehrmann 2y ago
> climate-change induced typhoons here (near the SF Bay Area), and hurricane-force gusts What the Bay Area has seen is nothing like actual hurricanes.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
I've "lost" files on a Mac because Finder wasn't showing a scrollbar, and there was no indicator there were more files than were shown in the window. After that, I went and turned them on by default.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
Nit: it's still right. Lambdas are just functor sugar.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
No idea what your background is, but since you just bought four books, make sure you're spending more time reading and writing code than reading books. Some people fall into the theory trap and don't spend enough time making use o
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by dehrmann 2y ago
NVDA's moat is over-stated. There are several deep-pocketed players with pretty good AI chips. The big players are training models at such a large scale that they can afford to back them by different architectures. Smaller players use
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by dehrmann 2y ago
I find this interesting because the NYT is saying it's work is original and copyrightable, and OpenAI is saying "ok, prove it."
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by dehrmann 2y ago
It'd be cheaper to pay people to summarize articles and train on the summaries.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
That's only half of it. They also have to justify their jobs. Anyone can manage a 60/40 portfolio with index funds, but pensions are complicated, so they need complicated investments.

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