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by gonehome 5y ago
For an example at the extremes, you can run congressional testimony at 4x, but Andrej Karpathy or John Carmack at only 1x. It really depends on the quality of the speaker and the content.
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by gonehome 5y ago
If the monkeys start pushing people off buildings that seems like an escalation? If war breaks out between the monkeys and the humans - I’d think we’d have a decisive advantage?
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by gonehome 5y ago
I'd guess a VP can afford just one? Median housing price is 3M in Palo Alto.
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by gonehome 5y ago
Yeah - I moved off every Google service during covid (switching all accounts to fastmail was the biggest pain, but once moved has been great). One nice thing I'll say is Google's data tools and privacy controls are great. It'
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by gonehome 5y ago
Even Google Wave could be another example of this. They killed it almost instantly? This was before Slack, discord, etc.
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by gonehome 5y ago
I think to some extent there are always unknowns and there's a risk you'll choose wrong, but it's worth trying to choose correctly. In hindsight from your example it was a mistake not to do computers, your ROI calculation t
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by gonehome 5y ago
Yeah, I didn’t mean to imply that Google created it or anything. For better or worse they are owned and supported by Google now though.
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by gonehome 5y ago
I’m a little confused by your first sentence because it sounds like we’re mostly in agreement? Google does a bunch of random things kind of haphazardly. Whether this is caused by incentive problems around promo or something else I don’t kno
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by gonehome 5y ago
Google seems unfocused - AR is an example of this, their messaging platforms and failure to leverage Google voice for 10yrs after the acquisition are too. I’d bet on Apple, FB, or some new entry (harder without the underlying OS). DeepMind
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by gonehome 5y ago
I think the real calculus should be do something that interests you, but also consider ROI and if education cost is worth it. Most of the people I know with the worst financial outcomes overpaid to study stuff they didn’t care much about (a
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by gonehome 5y ago
I’m 31 and at least in my age bracket most of the people I was in CS with weren’t the money crowd. I’d believe it’s true now (I don’t really know), but it’s likely more recent than the OP thinks.
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by gonehome 5y ago
Yeah, I think these are all fair points.
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by gonehome 5y ago
Imo this is related to value provided. It’s why an excellent tutor can make serious money and be hired by wealthy families to teach kids. Good teaching is a scarce resource. Many (most?) teachers are bad and the existing incentives don’t re
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by gonehome 5y ago
I’m hoping they’re just going to announce it alongside e2ee rather than not doing it at all in favor of server side unencrypted scanning. It was a mistake to announce it in isolation as seen by this blowback because most people don’t unders
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by gonehome 5y ago
I'm not so sure, I think people are actually filling it with lots of other ideological stuff. Wokeism is one example, but Trumpism is kind of another? Similarly a lot of crypto people treat it almost religiously. People like to have so
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by gonehome 5y ago
Remindes me a bit of E.M. Forster's weirdly prescient 1909 short story The Machine Stops: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops "The story describes a world in which most of the human population has
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by gonehome 5y ago
For the vast majority of users the OS is just a way to get to the web. The web (browser) is the OS, but the apps are centralized, incompatible, and primarily SaaS subscriptions (or worse, ad based). Desktop operating systems are primarily t
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by gonehome 5y ago
That's it! Thanks! :)
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by gonehome 5y ago
I think this reasoning doesn't hold up imo. The vast majority of people are happy to exist, even people that experience a lot of suffering. Even if you ignore everything else, just that metric suggests on net it's better to have k
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by gonehome 5y ago
I think Urbit + Web3 (and yes some blockchain tech) is a pretty cool frontier that has the chance to fix a lot of incentives that lead to megacorp centralization and SaaS for Web2. I don't get the dismissal. Running linux servers is to
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by gonehome 5y ago
I thought the movie implied this as well? I include Arrival alongside Children of Men as an example of a case where the movie is better than the book (and I'm a big Ted Chiang fan) - changing the daughter's death from a climbing a
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by gonehome 5y ago
People complain a lot but I’ve run a unifi stack for years for my home network and my parents with auto updates on across a lot of devices and have had zero issues.
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by gonehome 5y ago
It’s pointless to continue - you asked for “just one thing” then come up with reasons why the use case I gave doesn’t count. It wasn’t about trading, it was about being able to store value without needing trust in a central authority. It’s
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by gonehome 5y ago
Ukraine: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tatianakoffman/2020/06/13/why-b... Stored wealth, memorized seed words and regenerated on the other side. There was also an interview with someone relying on BT
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by gonehome 5y ago
Then don’t enable iCloud backup. If you do enable iCloud backup you’ll have your images scanned in both cases. There’s functionally no difference, except one offers a future path to encryption on iCloud servers. If this was about on device
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by gonehome 5y ago
People have mentioned things to you [0], you ignore them and repeat this phrase. So despite what you say, you will not be “all over it”. You have no interest in changing your mind or in engaging in genuine discussion. You won’t even update
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by gonehome 5y ago
This is basically my takeaway, I think Snowden has a lot stronger of an argument frankly. Assange also editorialized his leaks to be damaging towards the US rather than just leak them. IIRC this lead to conflict within the org. The CM video
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by gonehome 5y ago
There were Tesla naysayers saying EVs wouldn't work, that the model3 would never ship, that Elon was a 'fraud', etc. etc. - a lot of that is forgotten now, but it was rampant and constant and completely wrong. I'd argue
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by gonehome 5y ago
The bitcoin whitepaper came out in 2009, Ethereum was 2015, a lot of the interesting stuff has been within the last two years. You may be right in the end, but people with exposure to the industry at risk of disruption are often bad at reco

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