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by gizmo 3y ago
True in the technical sense, but it doesn’t address the mystery that in the 40s, 50s, 60s people in rich countries had access to plenty of food, ate lots of calories, and yet obesity was very rare.
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by gizmo 3y ago
Log scale can be -1000, -100, -10, 0, 10, 100, 1000. No need to be pedantic. And “doing nothing” is bad because of the opportunity cost. But you’re right that it is at the wrong place on the chart because “doing nothing” can’t be worse than
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by gizmo 3y ago
No. That’s never what unlimited means. Unlimited means you don’t have to worry about hitting some arbitrary ceiling if you’re a regular or heavy user. It doesn’t entitle the top 0.0001% of users to use more resources than the bottom 50% put
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by gizmo 3y ago
You’re correct. pg refers to startups as cramming a lifetime’s worth of work in ~8 years. Pretty hard to do that if a startup is your 3rd priority in life. There are plenty of exceptions, of course. But as a general rule startup founders ar
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by gizmo 3y ago
Simplicity is like performance or good design. It's valuable but it takes a disproportionate amount of effort. But it's worth it regardless if you want your product to become hugely successful because software popularity follows a
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by gizmo 3y ago
How does it deal with interrupted backups? Can it automatically prune backups older than N days? I don’t see anything about encryption.
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by gizmo 3y ago
I understand you want to be compensated for your work, but the world doesn't reward engineering effort by itself. If you want to run a software business, do that. If you want to run an open source project, do that. But it makes no sens
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by gizmo 3y ago
FTX offered an 8% yield on assets. Where does that yield come from? SBF also famously joked on the odd lots podcast that he was in the ponzi business.
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by gizmo 3y ago
The problem with ponzi schemes is that they need to keep growing and growing but nothing can keep growing indefinitely. Most people, even those without any scruples, understand this and avoid ponzi schemes exactly because they inevitably bl
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by gizmo 3y ago
If your total comp is 600k and spending a few thousand gives you cold sweat maybe your barriers are just psychological. Don’t be so afraid to take risks that you forget to live at all.
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by gizmo 3y ago
Not realistic unless you’re talking HELOC to fund the purchase, which I wouldn’t recommend.
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by gizmo 3y ago
With the Efficient Market Hypothesis it doesn't matter what people think because prices end up converging on reality. Everybody crunches SEC filings and stock/bond prices follow from that. That's relatively easy, and requires
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by gizmo 3y ago
Severe obesity is 40+ BMI. About 1 in 16 children and adolescents ages 2 to 19 (6.1%) have severe obesity, according to niddk.nih.gov. It's a staggeringly high percentage of the population. Even when you take a 1 in 5 billion outlier l
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by gizmo 3y ago
Why do people keep making this argument? It's a terrible argument. BMI and body fat are extremely strongly correlated. People with a very high BMI are all obese or morbidly obese. And people with a very low BMI are almost all underweig
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by gizmo 3y ago
The alternative to the cloud isn't running a server in the broom closet. It's running (racks of) dedicated hardware in a datacenter. Even "on premise" is often in a datacenter somewhere, and thanks to virtualized network
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by gizmo 3y ago
The difficulty with cloudless apps is that if you want to sync between devices you still need somewhere to fetch your data from. In theory you can have some true end-to-end encrypted peer-to-peer network, but in practice it works much worse
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by gizmo 3y ago
This is nonsense. You can't just put any kind of cookie banner up and magically be in compliance. You'd still have to explain what kind of data is being shared with with parties and why. And you have to update your privacy policy
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by gizmo 3y ago
The issue here is that Rust presents itself as a systems language, i.e. a language where the programmer has control over how the system's resources get used. However, Rust has safety mechanisms that will stop you from doing what you wa
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by gizmo 3y ago
Software isn't just a pretty UI. It also covers (partial) autonomy, emergency breaking, traffic sign recognition, drowsiness monitoring, automatic parking, air bags, voice control and much more. It's not a differentiator today bec
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by gizmo 3y ago
Manufacturing cars by assembling parts from 1000+ suppliers is inherently inefficient. This is fine as long as every car company uses the same model. BYD doesn’t; they make 70% of the components used in their cars themselves. This gives the
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by gizmo 3y ago
Volvo/Polestar is also under Chinese management/ownership.
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by gizmo 3y ago
German car manufacturers need to start taking Chinese competitors and BYD in particular way more seriously. For the past two decades they have been able to coast and keep their sales numbers up by minimally tweaking their old designs. Germa
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by gizmo 3y ago
Japan is nowhere near the most densely populated country on earth. It's the 40th. Less dense than Belgium, Israel, India, Singapore, and South Korea, just to name a few. Calling Japan cramped for space is a stretch. Japan is also not h
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by gizmo 3y ago
Doesn't seem to be end-to-end encrypted. Otherwise, really cool.
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by gizmo 3y ago
Gimp and Paint.net have probably benefited from a million hours of open source labor and yet their capabilities are nowhere near Adobe's products. People underestimate how much work commercial software takes by many orders of magnitude
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by gizmo 3y ago
Many who buy EVs have range anxiety. Easiest solution for Tesla? Lying about the (remaining) range. Many consumers wrongly believe that they need a lot more range than they actually do, and you can't really convince them otherwise beca
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by gizmo 3y ago
Software has no marginal cost. You can make something that's used by untold millions of people. Even if many people pirate enough people won't for you to recoup your development cost and then some. Software is easier to produce, s
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by gizmo 3y ago
Only if you believe that the risks of mRNA vaccination is higher than the (extra) risk of covid. In my estimation taking the vaccine is the prudent and cautious choice, and the scientific consensus has to be wrong by a large margin for your
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by gizmo 3y ago
Why would this tarnish her career? Everybody understands Musk is still the chief twit.
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by gizmo 3y ago
I feel like I've seen this article dozens of time before. Where are the new insights? This is their thesis: > The focus of this book is on the larger group between the 1% and the 10%. These are the managers and professionals of our

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