ethbr1

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by ethbr1 11mo ago
Probably ~25?
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by ethbr1 11mo ago
Seriously, while the Mozilla and Wikimedia foundations are burning cash on vanity products instead of reinvesting in their singular (1!) popular products, the bar for fiduciary responsibility is REALLY low. At least Kagi already has multi
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by ethbr1 11mo ago
Political corruption is like environmental radiation: a viable fix is never 'just get rid of political corruption'*. It's an environmental constant that needs to be handled by an effective approach. That said, parent's s
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by ethbr1 11mo ago
Regularly? About 10. (That's 3 MAGA and 7 more traditional conservatives)
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by ethbr1 11mo ago
It's a funny joke, but I'd be very surprised if that held at any grade school math level. Someone would have to be numerically illiterate (with a college degree!) to be unable to do grade school math they've been teaching for
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by ethbr1 11mo ago
It's also a question of accessible public spaces. The US (especially the vast bulk of suburbia) is incredibly varied in quantity of these. Some areas have them. Ironically, for all their faults, Florida master planned developments do b
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by ethbr1 11mo ago
So, good training for exactly the same pressures they'll face as adults?
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by ethbr1 11mo ago
You're straw-manning the worst public school experience against the best possible homeschool experience. > They are the most socialized kids in the US. Bullshit. You know how I know? Because on average parents are terrible at expo
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by ethbr1 11mo ago
> BoJo delivered what the people demanded This is one thing I don't get about the Brexit framing (at the time and now). It was just under 52-48. With some key constituencies voting remain (Scotland and Northern Ireland). In a norm
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by ethbr1 11mo ago
As of ~1 year ago, American-fast-food-in-France was still noticeably better than -in-America.
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by ethbr1 11mo ago
Or feature limit the mobile web version. In both cases, requesting the desktop version (i.e. using a non-mobile user-agent string) will give you back the normal, full-fat web version.
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by ethbr1 1y ago
Microsoft has the same struggle as Facebook and Google. If AI matures into the next big thing, it risks wiping them out of their dominant positions if they don't spend to keep pace. If it doesn't, then they just blew a bunch of mo
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by ethbr1 1y ago
You can quibble about cost or timeline or specs, but that's a different argument than saying something that's factually incorrect.
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by ethbr1 1y ago
Absolutely! The engineering delivery and pace of execution was super impressive. Especially avoiding the gold-plate-it tendency and remaining laser focused on economies of scale.
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by ethbr1 1y ago
It is a real issue, because it's human nature. Groups don't like outsiders. Pretending that isn't human nature is why anti-immigrant parties keep attracting surprising support in elections. And that tension shouldn't be
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by ethbr1 1y ago
> whereas these days much of Europe can’t maintain living standards or political stability Those are the side effects of Europe trying to offset its fertility rate with immigration, yet failing to explicitly address the enculturation t
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by ethbr1 1y ago
If you have legs harpooned to the deck on touchdown, presumably you can use much shorter legs (and therefore lower mass), as you're no longer depending on their length to prevent toppling? Also, shifting compressive loads to tension on
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by ethbr1 1y ago
Starlink was not that amazing as a business decision. If one expects to generate orders of magnitude more supply of a good (launch capacity), then one needs to expect the existing (conservative, long lead-time) market will have insufficient
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by ethbr1 1y ago
The fact that SV was divorced from military spending for so long (80s-20s?) was really the anomaly. Which is to say that instead of leveraging SV, military funding went through the primes. The Steve Blank piece from Tuesday had a good summa
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by ethbr1 1y ago
The difficulty is quantifying the relationship between risk and organizational knowledge. Otherwise bloated, inefficient companies look the same as those retaining institutional knowledge.
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by ethbr1 1y ago
> Mining, farming, forestry, fishing, things like that. Traditionally a lot of those industries have had high labor input costs too. They miraculously didn't all fall over like manufacturing though. Mining has been dropping since
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by ethbr1 1y ago
> can’t be updated You mean the ICP that's already been updated as part of TR3 to support Block 4 features? https://militaryembedded.com/avionics/computers/f-35-program...
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by ethbr1 1y ago
Manufacturing in western countries was gutted by the price of labor (read: rising standard of living relative to global averages). 1. It's difficult to manufacture competitively when a local living wage is in the upper echelons of glob
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by ethbr1 1y ago
> Springfield Armory Side note, if you're ever in central Mass, the Springfield Armory is a great tour. Agile, vertically-integrated weapons manufacturing... in 1820. They've got an original wooden copying lathe: traces a fin
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by ethbr1 1y ago
Wrong comparison. The right comparison is " For people who can spend $500 on a pair of pants , what is the financial difference between $100 and $500?" For most of that subpopulation, not much.
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by ethbr1 1y ago
English has a pretty heavy thumb on the linguistic unification scales via American and British cultural export weight. If India and Nigeria kindly did the needful and exported more English-language cultural content, the situation would be m
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by ethbr1 1y ago
Both realities are true. They don't have a moat... because their moat is their performance growth rate. If they stopped today, competition would flood in. But by the time competition catches up to Nvidia today, Nvidia has moved several
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by ethbr1 1y ago
Nvidia's moat is their pace of performance growth, which is hardware + software + cultural. If they skip a beat, or it becomes impossible to increase performance (TSMC node stumble or P4-style dead-end), then it won't take long fo
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by ethbr1 1y ago
"Spanish" as one single standardized language is being a bit charitable though.
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by ethbr1 1y ago
I'd make the case that even if you thought he wasn't going to run again / would lose , it would be a bad idea to send him to prison on a less than black and white charge. The clearest Constitutional line would have been impe

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