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by huijzer 2y ago
> The three things that any value investor values in stocks - Great management, good reinvestment of capital and a really wide moat. I’ve read a lot about value investing and I’m afraid that your statement is an oversimplification. Chuck
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The 'They Did It' Fallacy(huijzer.xyz)
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Europe should focus on sustainable chip production as sector emissions rise(reuters.com)
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> Hess said it was not clear if Europe should continue pursuing cutting-edge production. > "If the EU wants to double down on cutting-edge chip production, this will significantly affect the climate and environment (given these c
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Very interesting. The article states that > Really it's hard to point to any popular open-source tools that fully support HTTP/3: rollout has barely even started. But isn’t Caddy a widely used reverse proxy with HTTP/3 sup
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“There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors.“
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If I was a boss and saw someone being busy building Rust all day I would offer a faster computer.
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> It's in a better shape because unlike the US leaders, European leaders are better at pandering, being politically correct and saying the right socially acceptable things in public I couldn't agree more. What I keep wondering
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Some questions from your side of the Atlantic (I’m Dutch): how is Europe in good shape while Germany is in a recession for years now? And while our governments are becoming as polarized as the US? And while electricity prices are so high th
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I did similar things last year [1]. Also I tried running arbitrary binaries and that worked too. You could even run them in the GPTs. It was okay back then but not super reliable. I should try again because the newer models definitively fol
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Will this be made available to use?
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You rather live in 1900? Or pay $100k for 8 kW of solar panels (1974 price) instead of $2k? Or pay orders of magnitude more money for slow computers?
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> A couple of weeks ago, students asked we keep the discussions, but stop recording the class. They worried about any record of their words that might be viewed as criticism of the current administration, and somehow weaponized against t
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Will Durant and his wife have spent multiple decades writing history books. One of their observations was that technology creates inequality, see the book Lessons of History. Having said that, I still think technology has been a net positiv
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I think improving incentives is the real problem in science. Tools aren’t gonna fix it.
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> For me any modern service that uses subscription model feels like unnecessary fraudulent scheme. I actually think the incentives are aligned better with a subscription than with a one-off sale. With a subscription, the companies have t
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If you want small and cool, Wasmtime should be mentioned. It’s a WebAssembly runtime to it can only run WebAssembly programs, which narrows the set of programs that can be executed. However, if you can get your program in WebAssembly then W
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I know. That's the common argument, but I don't think that's it. See the argument I made in the previous comment. As I wrote in that comment, Magnus thinks his brain was better when he was younger. It probably doesn't he
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Magnus Carlsen (the multiple times chess world champion) talked about this in his recent Joe Rogan podcast. He said he passed his chess peak already now at 34. He now knows more, but when he was younger he could win via brute mental power.
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> They will distort the truth, deny facts and blatantly lie. They will try to make you forget what facts are, sedate your need to find the truth. They will feed “post-truths” and “alternative facts”, replace knowledge and logic with emot
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> UPDATE: what I am getting at - if you are developer and don’t care about screen or battery differences - should you go for same spec macbook pro instead of same spec macbook air. Depends on how much you care about the last bit of perfo
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> In 15 years or so I imagine most countries with sane leadership will be mostly running on renewables & nuclear. I think it's good to mention that in Europe, 40% of all the electrical energy usage was renewable in 2024 [1]. Thi
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> Unfortunately, dictators don't care much about damage to it's economy as long as they continue to be in power. I don’t know why you’re being downvoted but you are completely right. I would refer people who don’t believe this
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> From China’s perspective, the cost of war is much higher than the cost of developing these chips themselves. For China it’s not about the chips. It’s about getting rid of the humiliation that is having a small island, that was original
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Server reports insufficient storage. Web Archive also didn’t archive the URL yet.
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> They're not coming out of the same budget Federal budget is federal budget.
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Or. You use technology. Even places like Saudi Arabia have water for everyone. We cannot after hundreds of years predict human behavior with much accuracy but we can fix water problems.
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> Other canceled projects investigated whether climate change could lead to armed conflicts over access to fish stocks and how it affects societies in the Sahel.
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> Dozens of researchers with grants under the Minerva Research Initiative—studying violent extremism, disinformation, and threats from climate change, for example—have had their grants terminated in recent days. Social scientists researc
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> But there are plenty of people who are sent threats and insults every day, just because they are politically active and giving them a way to protect themselves is important for our democracy. I think this logic is flawed. By that same

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