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by hvb2 10mo ago
Is the subsidy just to lower cost of living for the lowest incomes? Would be very curious about the rationale for it if not. Why would you subsidize increased energy use
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by hvb2 10mo ago
Or simply dare to say that the deadline you're shooting for is impossible. There's value in knowing that too
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by hvb2 10mo ago
Not referring to the CEO. I was referring to short term stock price and shareholders being your only customers versus the people buying your product
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by hvb2 10mo ago
> Microsoft is a public company. That means their primary product is not products or services, it's their stock. Yeah that's a great business idea, ask Boeing how that's going
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by hvb2 10mo ago
Yes, there are rare use cases where this is useful. The high inflation case is one as well. So stop talking about a parallel system and start talking about what it is, a niche product.
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by hvb2 10mo ago
The problem is that most of that work is not something anyone can pick up. Regardless of the coding, one would first need to be familiar with git or VCS in general. Also, you would want people to go back to normal jobs when they can. This w
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by hvb2 10mo ago
There is no value in a currency that isn't mass adopted. That was the whole reason we switched from trading 100 breads for 1 pig etc. In order to be that currency it cannot be volatile. Ask any country with high inflation how useful th
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by hvb2 10mo ago
> your bank account would just hold USDC or Bitcoin, and you could send a billion dollars to anyone in the world in a few seconds. That belief is powerful and I still ascribe to it. These statements still surprise me to this day. If you&
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by hvb2 11mo ago
Even the best product in the world can come from a company whose own valuation is too high. Anyone is bearish on Nvidia today if the share price would be at a $10T valuation.
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by hvb2 11mo ago
> Retail is a big deal these days. Used to be sub 10%, now it’s in the 30-40% of daily volume range IIUC. But that isn't relevant? If they trade a lot but own less than 10% of the shares they're still a small piece. The institu
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by hvb2 11mo ago
> Most of these journalists, who are so sure that we're in an AI bubble and it's going to collapse, do not have an economic background nor tech background. I don't understand how they are so confident. Barring the unlikely
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by hvb2 11mo ago
The fact that you can create more doesn't make you creative. If I'm a farmer and every potato I sow yields a different shape, does that mean they're no longer potatoes?
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by hvb2 11mo ago
This is mostly an American issue. Tools to help offset a shortage in doctors are welcome everywhere else because the population is aging
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by hvb2 11mo ago
> Let's say these investements just break even with spend. Isn't that better for society? That's a big leap you're making. Because you're first of all assuming that all of what you describe will happen (show me a
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by hvb2 11mo ago
It's an anti theft feature too
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by hvb2 11mo ago
So to summarize... Men, stop riding motorcycles Women, stop having kids That last one might have some detrimental effects long term though. So while men are taking risks, women take one for the team
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by hvb2 11mo ago
> A central database query didn’t have the right constraints to express business rules. Not only it missed the database name, but it clearly needs a distinct and a limit, since these seem to be crucial business rules. In a database, you
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by hvb2 11mo ago
> So I guess my advice is: if you're starting out in this business worry less about LLMs replacing you and more about how to efficiently use that global expert on everything that is sitting on your shoulder. There's a real dang
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by hvb2 11mo ago
It's a political problem, maybe. It's peculiar that it's a political problem in pretty much every country though? I know Finland is well on its way for long term storage but that's the only example I know of. There'
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by hvb2 11mo ago
No, you really do not. Long term storage is still up in the air in the US. Yucca mountain was the plan but didn't happen Correct me if I'm with m wrong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain
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by hvb2 11mo ago
And Ukraine, depending on the time that is/isn't Russia/USSR
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by hvb2 11mo ago
Sure, but Kuiper is launching on other rockets to meet an fcc deadline for using enough of their spectrum. They even launch on falcon 9. If other providers had the capacity to launch all of them, I'm sure falcon wouldn't be in the
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by hvb2 11mo ago
And no one would be ok today with the risks taken in those launches. Human spaceflight is more about mitigating risk than anything. Apollo was getting there first, so there was a willingness to take more risks. Also, NASA at the time had a
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by hvb2 11mo ago
But there's also plenty that fail, it's just that you won't know about those. I don't think what you're saying proves that the companies that were acquired couldn't have done that themselves.
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by hvb2 11mo ago
You might want to look up flammanville. They built a new reactor there and that also took 20 years or so and was way over budget. We've built a lot of nuclear in the last century and then largely stopped. A lot of the know how is gone
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by hvb2 11mo ago
This feels a bit like talking in hindsight. With fossil power plants, the bigger plants were more efficient. This lead to centralization. We now find ourselves in a situation where you can end up with a lot of small/local generation. W
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by hvb2 11mo ago
You may need small amounts of rare earth elements. Those are definitely a supply chain nightmare.
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by hvb2 11mo ago
Your dictionary would disagree? By that logic every company is a government?
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by hvb2 11mo ago
Previously discussed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45615481
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by hvb2 11mo ago
You're replying to a story about a hyperscaler worrying investors about how much they're leveraging themselves for a small number of companies. From the article: > OpenAI faces questions about how it plans to meet its commitme

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