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by jacobjjacob 2y ago
If a balanced budget led to a flat or negative GDP, reduced the USA’s power and influence globally, and/or lowered standards of living, then would it still be desirable? What exactly is the argument against a deficit besides that it mi
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by jacobjjacob 2y ago
To be honest I wrote them off when they missed the first eXodus with their waitlist. I thought it was a Google+ moment. Luckily there were multiple exoduses which gave them second chances.
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by jacobjjacob 2y ago
He’s an elected president, not an elected dictator. It’s totally reasonable in our democracy to say that you don’t get to do anything everything you want just because you got 51% of the vote. We have a constitution and separation of powers
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by jacobjjacob 2y ago
Maybe it will be an opportunity to “build back better”, like in 2021. However, that’s assuming he actually leaves office which is not a given.
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by jacobjjacob 2y ago
I don’t agree with your opinion but I think you make a great point. They are definitely very different situations which at least warrant some differences in policy.
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by jacobjjacob 2y ago
I just quit Spotify because they kicked my family off the family plan without hardly any warning. Apple Music has a family plan and they don’t require that you live at the same address Never looking back!
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by jacobjjacob 2y ago
If they aren’t growing, and barely breaking even, the chances of going into the red are not low. Idk if the bonds have a rating but I don’t think X would have a AAA rating right now? If it’s really worth 95%, it’s only held up by the politi
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by jacobjjacob 2y ago
I meant that it takes a long time to build and costs too much to build. But like another commenter said, externalities and the implicit subsidies that other modes of transportation get make it a difficult comparison. Cleaner forms of transp
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by jacobjjacob 2y ago
People want infrastructure and then when it gets built, they say it’s too expensive and takes too long. Valid criticisms but many throw the baby out with the bathwater.
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by jacobjjacob 2y ago
I think that although there are rational tradeoffs in bringing in too many dependencies, a lot of these arguments are just rationalizing a personal preference and a tendency of engineers to want to build more and more. Is managing your soft
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by jacobjjacob 2y ago
Yeah there is a huge amount of rationalizing how the debris aren’t a problem. Everyone is certain it will burn up before hitting the ground, and if it doesn’t, it will land somewhere that doesn’t matter… but I don’t think anyone knows that
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by jacobjjacob 2y ago
Decades ago, when I was a teenager, and saw that “master/slave” was a technical term, it made me uncomfortable- like, it has so much baggage for a technical term. I’m guessing that the master branch is not a master/slave reference
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by jacobjjacob 2y ago
I think the nuance they are advocating for is twofold. For the technical part, people do use cargo cult to refer to real, proven effective processes, tools, etc when those are misused as the wrong solution to a problem. But any example is s
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by jacobjjacob 2y ago
I don’t think the author made a single judgment call on people who use the metaphor. However in the first paragraph of your comment, you lumped them into a strawman group that you use profanity to refer to. So my point is just that readers
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by jacobjjacob 2y ago
“An aggressively performative focus on social justice.” Paul is giving the strawman definition (or, ironically, the PC definition) of “woke”. It’s a code word that can be anything the user doesn’t like, and isn’t anything they do like. It’s
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by jacobjjacob 2y ago
I think reading in detail about the origins is just sad, and while it doesn’t invalidate the metaphor, it does make me think twice about using it. Just like I think twice about “drinking the kool aid” or similar metaphors. The author has a
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by jacobjjacob 2y ago
Someone’s personal conclusion can be summed as “you should feel bad”? I think that’s if you feel bad for using the metaphor after reading this, that’s on you. The author just wrote up a deep dive into the problem and concluded that it’s not
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by jacobjjacob 2y ago
Zero inclines? No rain? Waymo operates in San Francisco
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by jacobjjacob 2y ago
This is 10000% false. Straight up misinformation.
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by jacobjjacob 2y ago
The only reason that matters is “$20 billion to $25 billion in subscription revenue by 2030”. How they plan to accomplish this after laying off 1000 SWEs last year is questionable, but I worry that there isn’t enough competition and GM buye
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by jacobjjacob 2y ago
Everyone reports it this way. It used to bother me, but I think it does provide some interesting information vs the % day-to-day. Because % is relative to the previous day, number of points isn’t. Personally I prefer the %
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by jacobjjacob 2y ago
To be honest, this looks more like OpenAI playing catchup to what Google’s done since 2023. The fact is that ChatGPT, which people thought would kill Search, is falling behind Google in some ways. I think it’s great that competition is driv
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by jacobjjacob 2y ago
Looks a lot like Google’s AI Search features. I don’t think it’s the most efficient way to get information - LLM summaries don’t add value for me.
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by jacobjjacob 2y ago
It’s called a “provisional ballot” and the exact process varies by state
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by jacobjjacob 2y ago
It leaves you wondering what other WaPo coverage is being edited by Bezos. Erodes trust in the publication. You can agree or disagree with the endorsement they were going to make, but the fact that the owner blocked them from making it mean
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Google replaces Prabhakar as head of Search and Ads(theverge.com)
5 points by jacobjjacob 2y ago|1 comments
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by jacobjjacob 2y ago
No, what’s your rationale?
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by jacobjjacob 2y ago
No, but I don’t think its clear that Tesla deserves its valuation at its current rate. They aren’t demonstrating any competitive advantage or particular skill in the space vs Waymo
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by jacobjjacob 2y ago
One of the best things about Waymo vs Uber and Lyft is that they drive smooth and comfortable, they aren’t zooming around between every stoplight and making me carsick.
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by jacobjjacob 2y ago
I don’t understand how Tesla is continuing to ride so high on a borderline-vaporware robotaxi when Waymo is so far ahead.

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