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We’re not even close to overpopulation
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3y ago
It’s all about Israel and flexing power to remove others, a warning shot to institutions about what will be tolerated. "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.“
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3y ago
Realistically the only escape is bootstrapping a company. Start now and win your freedom. I agree with everything you said, and people always acted like there was something wrong with me.
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3y ago
95% of candidates aren’t relevant or qualified
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3y ago
Yup. It’s too much work, literally. Especially when 20% of the resumes you get end up being fake
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3y ago
Yup, people love to deny this but it’s true
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3y ago
Extremely biased. Only obvious when you know a philosopher well that he covers
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3y ago
The new click bait is openai negativity
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3y ago
TLDR: openai still crushing the competition. Competing models beat benchmarks, but are borderline worthless on real tasks.
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3y ago
The human brain can understand the world without collecting statistically significant samples
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3y ago
For a while now, there has been complete suppression/derision of people who use their own life anecdotes to come to conclusions about society. The church of only using rigorous statistics to draw conclusions is a method of thought cont
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3y ago
Ofcourse
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One of my rules for life: If someone does something once, they will do it twice. Given similar circumstances, people act the same
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3y ago
I learned so much from using tailwind ui. Could be more extensive but it’s easily paid for itself
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3y ago
I give it two years. Salaries will drop like a rock.
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3y ago
Cool
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3y ago
I really don’t people will be programming like we do today in five years
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3y ago
It’s kind of an untold story, but I grew up near San Diego. My dad knew a bunch of early Qualcomm employees (in the first 50). Many of them had most of their equity clawed back through unethical legal agreements
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3y ago
In college I found all the CS final exams in a hidden folder structure on the urls
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3y ago
They just licensed openai, they haven’t innovated on anything
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3y ago
I don’t believe that any of these large old school companies will meaningfully compete in the LLM space, including google.
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3y ago
My opinion is temporal is a step function change in building workflow software. It allows for very complicated processes done simply
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3y ago
temporal.io
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3y ago
Component libraries are the new business model
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3y ago
Maybe, but this isn’t about growth, it’s about making money. I’m not doing this for my health or the experience, but rather to succeed.
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3y ago
Yeah, I really really wish I could have a run at it myself. It just feels like this huge amount of baggage, and all the value I’m creating is accruing to someone else. I’m at the point to where there’s no real reason to communicate with him
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3y ago
It’s more that they just don’t have good business sense. They can’t make decisions on their own, and so I’m essentially doing their job and mine.
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3y ago
Right but it’s a weird feeling, doing all this work and have this person own large stake in it
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3y ago
Good situations come up, X millions raised. Takes a few months of working with someone to understand them. It’s probably still better than working a regular job
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3y ago
They have an absolutely premium resume. Investors like it
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