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by ethbr1 11mo ago
Because it's not, all other things equal. Valve can be Valve because HL + Steam, in the same way that Google ~2010 could not be evil because search + ad revenue. The difference is that Google IPO'd and took market capital, and Val
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by ethbr1 11mo ago
I had a VP of a revenue cycle team tell me that his expectation was that they could fling their spreadsheets and Word docs on how to do calculations at an AI powered vendor, and AI would be able to (and I direct quote) "just figure it
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by ethbr1 11mo ago
My internal mnemonic for targeting AI correctly is 'It's easier to change a problem into something AI is good at, than it is to change AI into something that fits every problem.' But unfortunately the nuances in the former re
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by ethbr1 11mo ago
This is why AI is the perfect management Rorschach test. To management (out of IC roles for long enough to lose their technical expertise), it looks perfect! To ICs, the flaws are apparent! So inevitably management greenlights new AI projec
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by ethbr1 11mo ago
An 85% disk size reduction at minimal performance impact is negligent by the standard of professional excellence. But that's also par for the course with AA+ games these days, where shoving content into an engine is paramount and every
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by ethbr1 11mo ago
> Jimmy Carter's peanut farm Ironically, somewhere I was walking around on Sunday. Pretty place.
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by ethbr1 11mo ago
> Could we just not prohibit lawmakers from investing in particular stocks You're talking about HR 5106 [0] (aka the "Restore Trust in Congress Act"), currently being blocked by Republican House leadership, and actively
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by ethbr1 11mo ago
Mercurial was/is nice and imho smooths off a lot of the unnecessarily rough git edges. But VCS has always been a standard-preferring space, because its primary point is collaboration, so using something different creates a lot of pain.
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by ethbr1 11mo ago
There's definitely a few phases of Github, feature and popularity wise. 1. Free hosting with decent UX 2. Social features 3. Lifecycle automation features In this vein, it doing new stuff with AI isn't out of keeping
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by ethbr1 11mo ago
The problem with that is always people. Because one person is judging that "terribleness" before being entitled to flame, changes to that person influence their ability to objectively make that assessment. Say, when their project
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by ethbr1 11mo ago
What does any of this have to do with voter registrations?
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by ethbr1 11mo ago
Same approach China is taking -- harsh penalties + heavy press broadcasting in the most egregious instances uncovered, with an emphasis on consequences for the high ranking folks involved. You don't want to try to catch everyone, as th
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by ethbr1 11mo ago
> Maybe starting with principles and making yearly changes that can easily be undone or redone by future administrations is the only path forward. I'd trend in the opposite direction. The death of bipartisanship (due to changes in
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by ethbr1 11mo ago
Perhaps. But there was a time they weren't required by law, and people still managed to drive.
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by ethbr1 11mo ago
Well, if we want to be technical about it, the 2008 crash did happen because some structural forces (banks) were perfectly happy to originate highly risky mortgages in exchange for higher face value rates. Which had the side effect of allow
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by ethbr1 11mo ago
That looks great, for everyone who knows how the US is funded.
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by ethbr1 11mo ago
Ultrasonics, eye monitors, electronic locks, self-contained infotainment systems (just a screen and the interfaces for a phone would be fine), lane keeping, auto-braking
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by ethbr1 11mo ago
Yes and no. A lot of people have gaps in their financial education. That said, mortgages aren't rocket science. 1. Assume at the end of the day you want the homeowner to be paying a stable monthly amount*. 2. In order to get there, you
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by ethbr1 11mo ago
On the location vs price front, I think that's a bit of a red herring. Because people generally want to live close to their jobs. If cities have a lot of demand, it's partly because they have a lot of jobs, which means that the pr
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by ethbr1 11mo ago
Qft. Many of the provisions in ACA are direct GOP asks from the bipartisan negotiations around it... before the party decided to unanimously vote against it at the 11th hour.
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by ethbr1 11mo ago
It's also important to keep in mind that reforming the US healthcare + insurance system was always going to be an evolutionary, multi-stage process, because of its complexity. You shouldn't change all the parts in an engine to d
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by ethbr1 11mo ago
Medicare Advantage? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejoi9yfLVCc
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by ethbr1 11mo ago
Aka Republicans being pissy about the ACA (despite having come up with no feasible alternative plan at the time and unanimously voting against it even after it incorporated Republican characteristics) and choosing to try to intentionally fi
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by ethbr1 11mo ago
> as the problem with socialized services like healthcare is that you never know exactly how much you’re paying and if you’re overpaying or underpaying as there’s no free competition whatsoever. Also true in America, in which there is
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by ethbr1 11mo ago
είναι δύσκολο να υποστηρίξει κανείς ότι δεν μειώνουμε συνεχώς
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by ethbr1 11mo ago
There's a reason 'come to Jesus moment' is an expression. Aka the uncertainty collapse of effective altruism -- in which someone realizes they might die before getting to the altruism part, and have to confront the "effe
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by ethbr1 11mo ago
> This! A "silver lining" from the current adminstration is that we've become aware that we've left way to much to custom. It's time to put some laws in place to act as hard guard rails. The US federal governme
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So like a 54 year old rich white man trying to post cool edgy takes?
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> If you want to sound like a human on the internet, for better or for worse the easiest way is to say something that would make Anthropic’s safety team have a heart attack. That's always been the somethingawful crowd's stanc
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by ethbr1 11mo ago
Given the political sensitivities of having Northern Ireland and Scotland as part of the United Kingdom, their individual outcomes deserved at least a little bit of consideration.

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