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by jdross 8mo ago
Do you know how many people 8,500 employees in IT alone is? Google, all of it, has 60,000 engineers IRS direct file is just not that complex, I promise you, and are you sure it was even built in house vs contracted?
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by jdross 8mo ago
8,500 IT workers in the IRS is insane. They barely have any products, and they contract externally for so much other work
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by jdross 8mo ago
Is that very different from what Joe Gebbia is doing now as chief design officer? Seems to be largely a rebranding of 18F's mission with different people and prioritization
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by jdross 8mo ago
I am so confused when I read things like this because my Tesla model 3 is effectively self driving for me for months now. Hundreds of miles without intervention. No other car I can buy can do this yet
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by jdross 8mo ago
The new robot demos from Unitree make me wonder how many classes of unskilled labor are about to be automated (garbage collection, laundry & dishes, pothole repairs, last mile delivery, simple food preparation…) Skilled labor still has
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by jdross 8mo ago
The set of people who believe the automobile (or the Internet) are net negatives taken as a whole for society is extremely small, for good reason
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by jdross 8mo ago
Well you could not sue the video-editing software for someone making child pornography with it. You would, quite sanely, go after the pedophiles themselves.
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by jdross 8mo ago
Including Cybertruck, it's just 2.75% of sales Q4 sales: Model 3 & Model Y: 406,585 deliveries All Other Models (S/X/Cybertruck): 11,642 deliveries
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by jdross 9mo ago
Making money fixes that. Look at some of the featured hairlines
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by jdross 9mo ago
thank you lol
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by jdross 9mo ago
This might be a good time to recommend you all read the first 5 pages of East of Eden by George Steinbeck. It’s about how the Salinas valley goes through flood and draught cycles, and how every time they’re in one cycle they forget the othe
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by jdross 9mo ago
Have you been in a Waymo recently or used Tesla FSD 14.2? I live in Austin and my Model 3 is basically autonomous - regularly going for hours from parking space to destination parking space without my touching the steering wheel, navigating
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by jdross 9mo ago
I work in insurance - regulated, human capital heavy, etc. Three examples for you: - our policy agent extracts all coverage limits and policy details into a data ontology. This saves 10-20 mins per policy. It is more accurate and consistent
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by jdross 9mo ago
You can’t afford to buy a home because the current owners vote to restrict new housing through zoning and expensive regulation on construction permitting, so supply is limited in the places you’re trying to live (a higher income region?). T
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by jdross 10mo ago
It is precisely this anxiety that is the issue being discussed. Parents are terrified of what might happen to their kids, so too little happens to their kids (both good and bad)
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by jdross 10mo ago
The US job market is way more dynamic than people realize. Roughly 1/5 of jobs are changed every year in roles permanently lost to roles newly created. Gross job creation & destruction annually is roughly 10–12 percent of all jobs
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by jdross 10mo ago
Not getting everything everyone wants is a pretty common outcome in negotiations. Some people got more sick days. Some didn’t get more sick days. Maybe the ones who didn’t will leave to find work elsewhere with a better schedule?
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by jdross 10mo ago
Specifically in the US context, this is failing. And 70% of our teachers are unionized, with unionized districts seeming to underperform equivalent non-unionized districts (despite researchers repeatedly trying to find the opposite, the sta
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by jdross 10mo ago
I would love to address unions in public and semi-public (e.g. teachers' unions, dockworkers, police and fire unions). They are able to hold the public hostage by preventing automation at ports, stopping teaching (often doubling as day
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by jdross 11mo ago
How often do you get a meaningfully better result than google.com/flights? Outside of booking with points, it's all basically the same thing and I can book on google on my phone in under a minute
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by jdross 1y ago
I'm a 2024 Tesla Model 3 owner and my car drives me everywhere nearly flawlessly, thousands of miles. For all this I pay something like $500 per month for the lease, including FSD. It's a miracle product to me, and the comments he
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by jdross 1y ago
It could actually be very productive. Addicts do not do well with coddling
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by jdross 1y ago
They just did
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by jdross 1y ago
The very first thing you discover as a business owner managing cashflow is how hard you must work to get customers versus to provide a service.
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by jdross 1y ago
The second box is 10,000 pixels (100x100). Not 1,000 pixels (31x31)
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by jdross 1y ago
They do. The law is literally that you must equally protect all groups
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by jdross 1y ago
He has children, and this is what children listen to
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by jdross 1y ago
They’re going to use junior attorneys to do that work. It’s the juniors who will be expected to produce more
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by jdross 1y ago
I’m not trying to challenge how you feel, but I’ll note that in my social groups people don’t feel this way, life is good, and they also feel confident that they’re well informed. So I’m open to the possibility that lot of these types of fe
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by jdross 1y ago
Spend 15 minutes talking to a person in their 20's about how they use ChatGPT to work through issues in their personal lives and you'll see how much they already trust the "advice" and other information produced by LLMs.

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