jameslk

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by jameslk 2y ago
> Often, though, the customer is envisioning a more complex application, and I just have to tell them, “Sorry, you’re going to have to hire a professional developer for this.” Welcome to enterprise sales, where building custom solutions
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Fortune 500 companies warn of growing AI risk to their businesses(ft.com)
3 points by jameslk 2y ago|2 comments
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by jameslk 2y ago
Where have you learned about this? I’ve been casually spelunking into the US economic past, mostly via Wikipedia, but I’d love to know if there are other better sources to check out. Especially around where you drew that conclusion of “capi
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by jameslk 2y ago
No problem! As an outsider to sales myself, I only realized after a friend who does this for a living as an account executive explained to me how much of sales is simply asking good questions and being a good listener. Quite opposite of wha
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by jameslk 2y ago
The attention grabbing and objection handling pieces are discussed in Never Split the Difference, amongst other ways to negotiate a deal. Basically ask lots of what/how questions until the other party negotiates themselves to your posi
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by jameslk 2y ago
Some of the tactics in the script are explained in Never Split the Difference which I highly recommend for sales but especially negotiation (the article author also mentions the book author, Chris Voss). The sales script doesn’t seem to h
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by jameslk 2y ago
> (There, 3 paragraphs that say exactly what the OP said in 1 word. Happy?) Yes, I think that’s a better comment, sans the snark. Regardless, as another commenter pointed out, the quote is missing some important context: https:/&#x
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by jameslk 2y ago
Please write more substantial and intellectually stimulating comments on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by jameslk 2y ago
My point is that there is no political will that leads to the long term fiscal adjustments proposed in TFA
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by jameslk 2y ago
There’s no political will to raise taxes and cut government spending. One or the other may happen but not both. Both are required to get us out of this mess. We don’t have politicians that think long term. As a consequence, the Fed will be
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Big Tech says AI is booming. Wall Street is starting to see a bubble(washingtonpost.com)
79 points by jameslk 2y ago|94 comments
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by jameslk 2y ago
From a negotiation perspective, it seems the domain owner has set an upper limit to how much they could make from the domain.
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by jameslk 2y ago
Here's a recent demo video with sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmkKydWRpZU Apparently this is their 5th gen and they have a more recent 6th gen aircraft but I didn't spot a similar unedited video like this
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by jameslk 2y ago
Sure, everyone's experience is subjective. A lot of the tech debt I've seen that ends up being true baggage for developer velocity is inherent to some core foundation of the codebase leading to large rewrites. Most teams I've
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by jameslk 2y ago
> Most developers attribute their time loss to tech debt or insufficient documentation Ah the tech debt argument. Most likely it's true, but what developers really want to do is Rewrite The Whole Thing, often in something new. That&
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Sex and Age Differences in Personality(stevestewartwilliams.com)
1 points by jameslk 2y ago|0 comments
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Old Money: Campaign Finance and Gerontocracy in the US(twitter.com)
8 points by jameslk 2y ago|2 comments
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by jameslk 2y ago
Nixon, that former president the person you’re responding to brought up, was going to be impeached by his fellow Republican party members. > On August 5, 1974, Nixon released a transcript of one of the additional conversations to the pub
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Study suggests connection between anxiety and Parkinson's disease(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by jameslk 2y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Could AI be a dot com sized bubble?
159 points by jameslk 2y ago|130 comments
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by jameslk 2y ago
“You’ve Read Your Last Free Article”, aka “Open This Page In Incognito Mode Reminder”
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Apple Wants You to Forget the New MacBook Pro(forbes.com)
2 points by jameslk 2y ago|0 comments
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by jameslk 2y ago
Any reason why Nvidia doesn't expand into building their own data centers and cloud platform? Seems like the logical next step once you own the chips everyone wants, giving them more moat. Of course, that's not their core business
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by jameslk 2y ago
I think a citizen making governing decisions on behalf of an LLM would be more realistic to work, legally. An AI-enhanced mayor, if you will.
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by jameslk 2y ago
> Consider this: From 1978 to 1985 (7 years), the federal funds rate was never below 8%, and from 1969 to 1991 (that's 22 years), it only dropped below 6% during the recoveries from recessions. The difference then was that the gover
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by jameslk 2y ago
> Not how the Fed works. (And given recent deficits, the Congress isn’t worried.) Yes I’m aware. It’s the battle between monetary and fiscal policy. So far fiscal policy is winning. > The multiplier effect from credit contraction more
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by jameslk 2y ago
They will have to cut rates, because they can’t keep paying the high interest on the government’s debt[0][1]. There’s no political will to raise taxes and cut government spending (one or the other may happen, but not both)[2]. Keeping rates
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Turn almost any bike into an e-bike with the Clip(arstechnica.com)
12 points by jameslk 2y ago|1 comments
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by jameslk 2y ago
I’m curious what the logical extreme of this is. Why 4 days? Why not 3 days? 2 days? 1 day? No days? When do we hit the equilibrium level between less work resulting in meaningfully less output? Were these jobs ever needed?
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Exercise rewires the brain, helping mice forget traumatic and addictive memories(kyushu-u.ac.jp)
52 points by jameslk 2y ago|21 comments

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