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by irjustin 4y ago
I take issue with this article under the Effective Altruism concept. 100% agree with the title, that the it is very not impactive. But it isn't actively harmful, which there's a LOT of other ways to spend $300m and actually be har
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by irjustin 4y ago
Should it be a refund (instead of a tax break)? I'm leaning towards the refund since it effectively gives everyone the "same final price"
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by irjustin 4y ago
I down voted because it just seems like you wanted to being up the dear GitHub. It's been years... 7? with great features that go well beyond the letter. Yes gh was stagnant but this is pretty well in the past and your points have almo
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by irjustin 4y ago
> A nice analogy but it doesn't work. Your analogies don't refute his claims the way you think they do. When you look at the FAANGs you're implicitly viewing from $$'s of the overall pie (top 99.99999%??) where as the
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by irjustin 4y ago
Absolutely true and the "small number of users" clearly are your power users. You don't mess with power users without some clear path. For better/for-worse, they tend to be rather influential.
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by irjustin 4y ago
I can sympathize. It can be personal too, and I wouldn't blame him. Getting denied a Visa to China would be the the easiest problem. The worst would be getting arrested (Chinese friendly airport), possibly extradited because you ran a
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by irjustin 4y ago
That's amazing. Mercedes has the first certified level 3. Only a few states, but the rest will come. Tesla is falling behind due to its hubris.
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by irjustin 4y ago
It's not LIDAR alone it's a combo. The problem of course is that Tesla/Elon is being stubborn and unwilling to put the "expensive" lidar claiming that pictures is enough to work on. Maybe it is, but not today.
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by irjustin 4y ago
> Tesla has made self-driving (for some definition of self-driving") I'd be okay with this if they weren't f'ing it up. Put Lidar in there and just get it right. Stop w/ this non-sense.
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by irjustin 4y ago
I think the criticism is fair - charging takes time. I'll speak personally from my parents who are pushing 70. They purchased a Tesla because of the EV credits and overall price attractiveness. My dad tells his friends about it because
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by irjustin 4y ago
Previously we were giving our old laptops to friends with kids. Now our kids use our old Macbook air to learn to type and other learning programs. My old MBP runs our 2010 "smart" TV via HDMI. It's not perfect because we have
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by irjustin 4y ago
Yeah I really dislike that. It's putting a code path that will never run in production. This feels like code that has special switch `if env.is_test` just because you needed that for a spec. It's a really bad practice. This librar
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by irjustin 4y ago
definitely seems like a good candidate.
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by irjustin 4y ago
Not a fan of this one since it only works on templates and requires special code
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by irjustin 4y ago
It's not a risk I'm willing to take nor do I believe other general Django engs should take. It's fine if it's a pet project or if you've got deep knowledge of Django's inner workings. This requires understandin
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by irjustin 4y ago
Rails has Bullet[0] to help identify and warn you against N+1 Does Django have anything active? Quick search revealed nplusone[1] but its been dead since 2018. [0] https://github.com/flyerhzm/bullet [1] https:/&#
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by irjustin 4y ago
Agreed that you're talking about physics, but how does that translate into society? At some point you have to move away from physical requirements. The barter system simply doesn't scale.
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by irjustin 4y ago
I'm fast learning Django and even though it's an extremely well documented space, ChatGPT has sent me down the wrong path more than a handful of times. This is especially difficult because I don't know when it's wrong an
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by irjustin 4y ago
Actually if you looked at it the shuttle system was pretty insane all around
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by irjustin 4y ago
> That's the only possible course of action. Only _reasonable_ course of action. Possible is to do nothing =)
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by irjustin 4y ago
> More seriously, one good reason to require reasonable record retention in big companies, is that if multiple employees at a company collude, they can do irreparable harm to others in a way that a single individual cannot. This doesn&#x
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by irjustin 4y ago
Why can't they have a chat room w/o record keeping? Why can't I? Phone call w/o recording, In person w/o recording, why can't there be a chat room w/o recording? It seems absurd you wouldn't be allowe
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by irjustin 4y ago
This is where I've found ChatGPT sooooo effective in searching. I ask it a question much more naturally vs google - meaning less cognitive load and the answer it spits back is usually a result of multiple sources distilled down to the
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by irjustin 4y ago
My personal take - on the surface "cost cutting"; real answer "internal politics" Dale (along with Rogers) opposed Jared Cohen and Sarah Robertson on their plan to repackage the MBS products, or maybe it was the specific
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by irjustin 4y ago
Well the point is that it isn't supposed to matter. If they're backed 1:1 as claimed (BIG IF). Technically, anyone left holding a USDC should be allowed to go to Circle and say HEY give me $1 for each. Let's see how that goes
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by irjustin 4y ago
> The brakes have to match the accelerator on the car, or you're going to be in for a hard time -- even if that means the car will go slower. You have to figure it out differently There's so many problems with this analogy you
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by irjustin 4y ago
Yes full reserve banking is only for people with excess capital. And the number of those is small in comparison. Must people don't want it can't have their money tied up the full length of the loanWhich then shrinks who actually l
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by irjustin 4y ago
I think you're replying to the wrong thread. This one is talking about removing lending in general.
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by irjustin 4y ago
If you remove fractional reserve lending there's almost no loans available. Access to capital is one of the keys too allowing a company or asset grow. All growth stops and you get deflation. Which isn't healthy either.
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by irjustin 4y ago
How do you expect those assets to grow if they can't get access to capital?

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