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721.
by ericd 2y ago
Right, in an AI class. For example, lecture 5 in 6.034: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-034-artificial-intelligence-fa...
722.
by ericd 2y ago
Hm I wonder why they’re so marked up, any idea? Maybe because the transportation is less efficient because the panels/modules pack less densely than a pile of 2x4s and sheathing?
723.
by ericd 2y ago
All money collected from the taxes is paid back out to the citizens, but on a per-capita basis. Due to how the distribution of wealth/spending/carbon footprint work, the majority of people would get back more than they paid in tax
724.
by ericd 2y ago
I think this is just a convenient excuse, there were plenty of sedentary office workers in the 50s and 60s, and they weren't obese at nearly the same rates. It seems pretty clear from where I'm sitting that it's something die
725.
by ericd 2y ago
I hope someday we'll just enact a revenue-neutral carbon tax/dividend and be done with all the performative nonsense.
726.
by ericd 2y ago
What about the part where factory-constructed housing is more consistent and higher quality than site-constructed? If I ever build custom, I'd love to use prefab panels, at least.
727.
by ericd 2y ago
I really don't think that's a generous multiplier, at all. I'm pretty sure it's not manufacturing doses that's costly, it's probably nearly free on a marginal cost basis, the costly part is trying a huge number
728.
by ericd 2y ago
How do you estimate that that turns into a monopoly for China?
729.
by ericd 2y ago
What about all the $3B shots on goal that don’t yield anything?
730.
by ericd 2y ago
Could you explain your point a bit more? You say you’re worried about them having a monopoly, but then say that’s why you don’t support open source models? Open models mean that no one has a monopoly, what am I not getting here?
731.
by ericd 2y ago
The original works great on dosbox, too, for all of you looking for the original experience.
732.
by ericd 2y ago
Most people can probably answer about some subset of questions better than GPT4 can, but I don't think there's a human alive who could answer nearly as competently on >50% of the questions if gets asked. So I don't know wh
733.
by ericd 2y ago
Right, as they get a bit older, a wholesale screen ban is generally not the answer, we have a ban on consumption-oriented devices, but they have free rein to a raspi 400 with raspbian on it, and kidpix+dosbox/tuxpaint/scratch&#x2F
734.
by ericd 2y ago
Ironically, I think that circumventing lockdowns will teach them far more about technology than the policy to use them for class in the first place.
735.
by ericd 2y ago
From Costco cradle to Costco grave.
736.
by ericd 2y ago
The bulk pack of medical care you’ll need soon might kill the savings.
737.
by ericd 2y ago
Yeah, we've been finding the same, a lot of the middle tier stuff might look nice, but it's usually kind of crap, maybe because they just don't have the same scale. Feels like the fast fashion equivalent of furniture, a lot o
738.
by ericd 2y ago
Even if a company doesn’t pay taxes, its masses of highly paid workers do. Each of those SWEs making $300k+ are paying more in taxes than the entire earnings of the average EU dev.
739.
by ericd 2y ago
And I’m sure they’re not killing themselves to do a great job for you. The people in SV I’m talking about certainly weren’t working for you. Many of them were founders of companies you’ve heard of. Those people in SV seeded the HN community
740.
by ericd 2y ago
The strongly diminishing marginal utility of money after $10M for most people makes that first $500k much more impactful than $5M would be after you have $45M.
741.
by ericd 2y ago
Yeah, can’t raise everyone’s living standards without making human labor relatively expensive in material terms.
742.
by ericd 2y ago
Funny, because iirc it already had the reputation as the cheap option.
743.
by ericd 2y ago
"Linoleum is a floor covering made from materials such as solidified linseed oil (linoxyn), pine resin, ground cork dust, sawdust, and mineral fillers such as calcium carbonate, most commonly on a burlap or canvas backing." Not su
744.
by ericd 2y ago
There’s always the possibility of making smaller houses with higher quality materials. Or idk, tile? Linoleum?
745.
by ericd 2y ago
True, those sounds are somehow less grating, though. I hate two stroke motors with a passion.
746.
by ericd 2y ago
Haha zodiac would be a good fit, though.
747.
by ericd 2y ago
Well, "ocean liner" means a large oceangoing ship, "airliner" means large airplane, so people could be forgiven for thinking a "starliner" was a large spaceship and not a tiny pod.
748.
by ericd 2y ago
Absolutely, they were just making far and away the best laptops for web dev at the time. And that yielded a lot of really useful, really polished software for web devs, creating a sort of virtuous cycle. I don’t think one needs to look much
749.
by ericd 2y ago
No problem, glad you found it interesting, I think it's pretty exciting stuff. This is a more recent paper by the same people, where they tweak slightly to ternary (-1, 0, 1), and they seem to be able to maintain network performance:
750.
by ericd 2y ago
Eh if you looked around silicon valley 5/10/15 years ago, Apple had basically won among the programmers and founders there. So they wouldn't really need astroturfers here.

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