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by jedberg 5mo ago
DBOS is that library.
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by jedberg 5mo ago
> The picture caption with a 9/11 joke is a little off-putting 9/11 seems to be an important milestone in his life. In the about section of his web page it says this: Q:/> How old are you? A:/> I can't rem
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by jedberg 5mo ago
Because they have ethics rules to only bill for hours actually worked. If they did that, they would only get paid for 20 minutes of work.
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by jedberg 5mo ago
Most certainly not. These were enterprise licensing agreements where the other party was a large corporation who had a lot of lawyers and time. I was using the human lawyer for these before switching to Claude legal. Both produced roughl
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by jedberg 5mo ago
> If you involve a lawyer only for the final review, they will understand you don't want them to rethink your approach nor to advise a different strategy These were enterprise contracts where the other company made the contract. It
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by jedberg 5mo ago
I found the opposite to be true. Did you use a legal specific plugin?
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by jedberg 5mo ago
Lawyers bill by the hour. It is not in their interest to speed up what they do, because they only have so many clients. They would need far more clients to bill the same hours. I used AI to save my last company thousands of dollars, and m
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by jedberg 5mo ago
I probably should have put a big caveat in my comment: In the USA. Other countries are a whole other puzzle.
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by jedberg 5mo ago
My advice was to not delude yourself into thinking you're buying as an investment, and instead convince yourself to buy for psychological reasons. That seems in line with what you said.
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by jedberg 5mo ago
Which just goes to show how trigger happy people are about labeling things as LLM generated. People forget that LLMs were trained on writing on the internet, so it's going to sound how the average person writes!
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by jedberg 5mo ago
The benefit of owning a home is almost always psychological, not financial. If you take the money you'd use for a down payment and mortgage and invest it instead (after paying rent) you end up in about the same place. But the psycholo
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by jedberg 5mo ago
Some doctors will say yes, some no. Best bet is to do what your doctor suggests, but at least ask if the pills are an option.
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by jedberg 5mo ago
For the uninitiated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 Edit: Read the comment below, it's information I should have included in the first place. It's important to note that the comment was helpful at th
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by jedberg 5mo ago
> The worst part, by far, was the emptying / prepping. Protip to those who have it coming up: Ask for the pill prep instead of the "sludge" prep. You end up spending the day on the toilet either way, but at least it does
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by jedberg 5mo ago
My doctor actually doesn't recommend colonoscopy until age 50. But starting at age 40 they have you do the "poop in a box" test instead, and then only have you come in if that shows anything. The complication rate for colono
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by jedberg 5mo ago
Unions are great when they are fighting for worker's rights by demanding things like businesses sharing their profits with the workers who make it for them, more vacation time, required investments in safety, and protecting workers fro
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by jedberg 5mo ago
This is of course a dangerous suggestion, but also, never in the history of the world has the destruction of a technology that was replacing workers ever turned out well for the workers. At best it briefly delayed adoption.
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by jedberg 5mo ago
What I'm saying is that pre-AI, at least a human would skim it, and maybe see something that caught their eye that wasn't on the keywords list. Or if it were an internal referral that used to guarantee at least a call with a recr
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by jedberg 5mo ago
> The only reliable and high quality signal is a positive referral, but those are gated by your personal network That has pretty much always been the case, but what I've seen lately is even the referrals get put into the AI and then
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by jedberg 5mo ago
This is already happening. Most companies are using AI screeners for hiring now. They reject qualified people all the time.
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by jedberg 5mo ago
That's true. It is possible that the smartest 5% are all here in the USA. But it is statistically unlikely that's true.
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by jedberg 5mo ago
No? Not sure how you reached that conclusion. I'm just stating that the USA needs immigrants if we want to increase our median intelligence because we can't possibly have the smartest people in the world born here.
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by jedberg 5mo ago
It's not an issue if your office is so small that no one is hanging out in front of it. :) My wife only comes in to get printouts and supplies if I'm working, and if she's working (we share the "battle station" by s
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by jedberg 5mo ago
I have three monitors. The left and right are turned vertically. They're all 30". So the main screen is in the center and I keep slack/email/web browser with docs/info on the left and usually Twitch DJs or Spotify
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by jedberg 5mo ago
It's a simple matter of math. The USA has less than 5% of the world's population. It's statistically impossible for that 5% to be the smartest 5% in the world. Therefore, if we want the smartest people in the world, we ha
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by jedberg 5mo ago
Your argument is a bit flawed though. Most retires get income from a few places: Social Security, 401K, or rental property. 401k's will do great with AI replacing all labor. But social security will disappear and so will rental incom
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by jedberg 5mo ago
OP wrote it poorly, but isn't wrong. Most retires get income from a few places: Social Security, 401K, or rental property. Social security is a direct transfer of money from people currently working to people no longer working. The
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by jedberg 5mo ago
When they got big enough that that change made a noticeable difference in both performance and their bandwidth bill (which was pretty early on).
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by jedberg 5mo ago
If you're big enough you don't need a contract for that, that's just their default method of operation.
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by jedberg 5mo ago
One thing that helped me a lot to fix the iPhone keyboard was turning off slide to type. I learned that tip here on HN actually! Open your Settings app. Tap on General. Scroll down and select Keyboard. Toggle off Slide to Type

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