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   by fossuser 6y ago

   Pseudonymity and anonymity are not the same thing. Pseudonyms that are not trivially created and discarded can build reputation and will generally behave themselves (see Urbit’s approach to this problem). Anonymous accounts incentivize awfu
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   by fossuser 6y ago

   It's wild to me that no other car manufacturers have taken Tesla up on their offer for supercharger access. EVs without supercharger access are strict city cars. The electrify america network sucks, non tesla range is mostly bad (with
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   by fossuser 6y ago

   > "Why? Somehow Apple's chips will get better, but competition will stand still?" Arguably this has been the case for the last ten years (comparing chips on iPhones to others). I think x86 can't compete, CISC can&#x27
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   by fossuser 6y ago

   > "That's a completely unjustified comparison. iPhone brought a new way to interact with your phone." People don't really remember, but a lot of people were really dismissive of the iPhone (and iPod) on launch. For th
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   by fossuser 6y ago

   You make bets on where the puck is going, not on where it currently is. "How would a city with tens of thousands of HDDs transition to SSDs in the near future?" It happens over time as products move to compete. Client side machine
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   by fossuser 6y ago

   This is the first release targeting macOS, I'm not pretending their chips for phones don't exist - but the M1 is still version 0 for macs. > "And frankly I don't really see the pull of ARM/M1 anyway. I mean, I ca
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   by fossuser 6y ago

   My prediction is x86 is dead. External GPUs will remain and I think Nvidia has an advantage in that niche currently. The reason stack ownership matters is because it allows tight integration which leads to better chip design (and better per
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   by fossuser 6y ago

   You might have to bite the bullet and get a mac - I don't see much promise from others in this space. Intel's CEO change may save them, but they're definitely facing an existential threat they've failed to adapt to for y
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   by fossuser 6y ago

   I think we’re talking about different things. Does this make sense for alphabet? I agree that it does as one of their many bets. Does it make sense for Loon which spun off as its own company under alphabet with its own leadership and its ow
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    by fossuser 6y ago

    Well a nine year investment in a company to end in failure isn’t what I’d call a strategic success.
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    by fossuser 6y ago

    I honestly think SpaceX could give those away in developing areas if they had to. But yes, you’re right that being able to use LTE and existing phone radios was a point in loon’s favor.
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    by fossuser 6y ago

    The general idea of a global telecom is a good one. The strategic failure was not recognizing that starlink’s approach to the problem made way more sense. They didn’t see that as the existential threat it was. Instead they downsized their i
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    by fossuser 6y ago

    Thanks - I’d probably also add this one to my list: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7X2j8HAkWdmMoS8PE/disputing-... I swear 90% of arguments are basically that blog post.
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    by fossuser 6y ago

    I’m going to say I called this one at least 8 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23419270 Loon is not competitive in a world with Starlink (even without Starlink it seems). The business didn’t make strategic s
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    by fossuser 6y ago

    I recommended some of my favorites in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25866701 I found the community around 2012 and I remember wishing I had known it existed too. In that list, the less wrong posts ar
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    by fossuser 6y ago

    AGI = Artificial General Intelligence, watch this for the main idea around the goal alignment problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUjc1WuyPT8 They're explicitly not political, lesswrong is a website/communi
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    by fossuser 6y ago

    Nope - he's charging $35/month.
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    by fossuser 6y ago

    Summary: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/22/nyt-is-threatening-my-... NYT was writing a piece about rationality, SSC, lesswrong, east bay, maybe AGI, etc. Evidence suggests it wasn't a hit piece (at l
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    by fossuser 6y ago

    I’m going to say I called this one at least 8 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23419270 Loon is not competitive in a world with Starlink (even without Starlink it seems). The business didn’t make strategic s
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    by fossuser 6y ago

    I think he was looking for something new (that was actually a perfect anagram of Scott Alexander).
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    by fossuser 6y ago

    Here are some of my favorites that I'd recommend: The Toxoplasma of Rage: An essay about how more controversial examples tend to get elevated and thinking about why that happens. https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12&
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    by fossuser 6y ago

    I think what really gets to me is that not only have the NIMBYs rigged the system in their favor (paying relatively no property tax, buying when housing was cheap, constraining as much new supply as possible). They then are also condescendi
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    by fossuser 6y ago

    AGI seems like a likely option and under discussed for what could be met first. It’d be easier for it to travel great distances than organic life, it’d be possible for a variety of organic life to arrive at creating it, it may be hard for o
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    by fossuser 6y ago

    I wish we could pass something that basically said “allow upzoning and build X amount of new housing - if you refuse fine, but then you must pay market rate property tax on your property”.
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    by fossuser 6y ago

    In California with prop13 it’s even worse. Not only do they not have “skin in the game” they barely contribute any property tax. I think this article is a good example of what makes fixing housing so hard. If you have dumb NIMBY arguments o
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    by fossuser 6y ago

    The wine example is a tricky one because there's another metric aside from like/dislike or good/bad that wine falls into. Maybe class related status bullshit? I enjoy wine, but I also recognize a lot of the snobbiness about i
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    by fossuser 6y ago

    It's a niche market with mostly a lot of low quality build products (and a lot of snake oil). I have Sennheiser HD650s. They sound good, but they feel like cheap plastic, they require an amp to drive them, they have a 1/4" ja
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    by fossuser 6y ago

    I got them, they’re nice - I like them. Just try them yourself and see if they’re worth the price to you. Similarly the Apple duo charger all the reviewers write about being overpriced and not worth it is actually great. It photographs poor
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    by fossuser 6y ago

    I’m surprised to see no comment of Tesla’s sentry mode. It texts you, it records video footage from all around the car. If broken into it plays loud music on the speakers. It works great and is what modern alarms should be.
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    by fossuser 6y ago

    Thanks - I suspected as much.