gamepsys

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by gamepsys 2y ago
The entire concept of making a living off recordings/reproductions didn't really start until the invention of the printing press which allowed for mass reproductions. Prior to that anyone with enough time on their hands and skills
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by gamepsys 2y ago
> All that remained were ragtag interns and junior developers. For many people, their first job in software engineering is the worst codebase they will deal with professionally for this reason. The first job hires lot of people with lit
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by gamepsys 2y ago
People who write histories often frame the past in order to impact how people think about the present.
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by gamepsys 2y ago
Except for the fact that we have a ledger for government spending now and the pentagon cannot account for $3.5 trillion dollars.
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by gamepsys 2y ago
More alongside the banking system, but we could have governments spend their budget in crypto. They would mint new coins at the beginning of every fiscal year. The coins could pass from department to department being recorded every time t
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by gamepsys 2y ago
There's also the issue of money. If you are turned down for a job that would have paid 20% more because of working in a controversial industry that can have a big impact on your life. I'd prefer to be able to have civil discussi
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by gamepsys 2y ago
I would be equally embarrassed if either of those were on my resume. I'd have similar levels of embarrassment with alcohol, firearms, cannabis or politics. You don't want your resume to suggest you are controversial in anyway.
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by gamepsys 2y ago
When I was in highschool I had to fill out a survey about my experiences with substances. I remember getting a laugh out of lying on the survey. Always take any self reported questionnaire results with a large grain of salt.
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by gamepsys 2y ago
Even after reading the article I'm not sure what the headline means. It seems to be some sort of a debt dispute (unpaid contractors). Is the rocket put up as collateral on the lien? Are the contractors refusing to hand over the phys
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by gamepsys 2y ago
The bet I described was that GPUs would be more and more relevant in modern computation, and that Nvidia sells the best GPUs and the best toolkit for writing general purpose code on GPUs. GPT is just the latest on a large chain of applicat
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by gamepsys 2y ago
Rule of thumb, the more people are talking about a stock the more weary you should be that your insight is ahead of the curve.
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by gamepsys 2y ago
I clearly said "up to 5%". If I lose 5% of my stock portfolio on a single stock in a year, but the rest of my portfolio goes up the expected annual return of 8%, I still made money that year.
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by gamepsys 2y ago
1. It's normal in the tech industry to own a lot of stock in the company you work for. Investing in a vendor (in Nvidia's case) or another adjacent company is lower risk. You cannot avoid risk in investing, it's a natural pa
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by gamepsys 2y ago
> As a retail investor, it's good to remind myself that if I actually had the skills to invest professionally, someone would probably be paying me to do it for them. Don't discount the knowledge you have from being deep into an
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by gamepsys 2y ago
I think Central/South America has good long term prospects, into the 2060s at least. Countries like Ecuador are making big moves to improve their future. While a lot of the changes are controversial and risky, I think it's likel
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by gamepsys 2y ago
This idea that a website could be 'done' was very much part of the old mentality from software people that software had to be shipped on floppy disc or cd-rom, and you had no guaranteed patch ability after you shipped. The web 2.0
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by gamepsys 2y ago
I concede that I was assuming a traditional chemical rocket to generate the force. A more gentle force would put less strain on the structure.
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by gamepsys 2y ago
No and no. * At the time its decommissioned it will be over 30 years old, well past it's original planned lifespan. * It was never designed for orbital maneuvers with that much delta-v. * Due to how adjusting orbits works, it would req
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by gamepsys 2y ago
> Old-growth forest protections proposed Friday will apply to trees on public lands managed by the Forest Service, but not to the Bureau of Land Management Wow, this just confirmed my lack of knowledge around how national forests are adm
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by gamepsys 2y ago
I think this works fantastic in Capitol Hill neighborhood in Seattle. The ground floor is filled with restaurants, cafes, bars, retailers that define the neighborhood as a cool part of town. There is enough public transportation, grocery
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by gamepsys 2y ago
> Cheaper grocery products can sometimes use inferior ingredients or lower-cost alternative ingredients, too. Comparisons with more expensive products may not be realistic because they're fundamentally different products, even if th
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by gamepsys 2y ago
After you've sold to the entire addressable market then you should begin maximizing your revenue per customer.
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by gamepsys 2y ago
For the most part the cluster of PS3s supercomputer was a myth used to hype up how powerful the PS3 was. The amount of RAM per compute was so low that it limited the type of workloads it was good at. Then server CPUs became more powerful
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by gamepsys 2y ago
> So the wealth of everyone is going up faster than the supply of desirable land We are also slowing down the rate we are making land desirable. During the 50s-70s we had massive success by creating suburbs that were connected to city ce
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by gamepsys 2y ago
> Twitter has proven he can't manage people and has blundered into every other success he's ever had. I think you are just as biased as the parent comment if you think one failure invalidates the merit of all previous successes
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by gamepsys 2y ago
The same idea is explored in more details in his later book 'Fall; or Dodge in Hell' where AI generated individualized content radicalizes parts of the population and convinces them to believe blatantly false facts. It's a d
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by gamepsys 2y ago
I don't think we are over-engineering it. You want to "weed out" everyone but the best candidate for the role, or the best candidates for your open roles. It's a very hard problem to identify the "best" perso
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by gamepsys 2y ago
> There's a pretty decent chance it's simply too expensive! I doubt the 24 year old, 300Mhz RISC, 32MB Ram, PS2 instruction set is too expensive to do a cycle perfect replication.
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by gamepsys 2y ago
> I don't know that it's true that moving a lot means you work with more people. It's generally true that you meet more people switching jobs every 2 years. You work with all the people that stayed and all the people that
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by gamepsys 2y ago
US regulation applies. On top of US regulation, basically every nation will see you as a potential security risk because the difference between an ICBM and space launch rocket is mostly payload and flight path.

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