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by jimbokun 3mo ago
I didn’t know that. Box was responsible for all those things? I never heard of him before reading this article just now.
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by jimbokun 3mo ago
They didn’t know if they would get rich. They certainly hoped that would be the outcome. But they would have been idiots to not know most startups fail.
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by jimbokun 3mo ago
I wouldn’t be surprised if he had the Metaverse in mind but found it less offensive to his colleagues to use charity as the example.
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by jimbokun 3mo ago
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dIvV!,w_1456,c_limit... Of the items on this chart, I would say AI data centers are providing the least amount of value per % of GDP spent. And 1930s public works the highes
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by jimbokun 3mo ago
Is it just a coincidence that the companies creating them charge by the token?
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
Great, clear write up! Made it very easy to understand.
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
The article covers the purpose for prediction markets after super human predictors: to deal with bias or ulterior motives trained into the models.
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
I realized paid content creation wasn’t a good business when the only successful paid content creation was courses teaching you how to make money from creating paid content.
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
This is really the kind of thing you want to fail at compile time which isn’t real possible in a dynamic language like Clojure.
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
Didn’t ask me but I’ve been enjoying Zed and finding it a big improvement over using VS Code.
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
I’m really enjoying Zed. Definitely much more responsive than VS Code.
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
This is true until they see the AWS bill after moving all their infrastructure there in a difficult to undo manner. Suddenly they are very aware of the costs of inefficient software.
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
Yes I see people accusing the article of sanitizing the reality of capitalistic excesses, but can’t access the article text to evaluate for myself.
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
You are correct. The US is coming to resemble economically stagnant Europe more and more.
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
Mainly housing.
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
Sure but the point is that these scenarios must be far more common now than in past decades, if they are to account with the big increase in adult children living with parents. So what changed?
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
Could they just shove an electric motor into a beautiful Vespa?
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
Where does the cat live?
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
If you actually read this article it should give you even more assurance that SQLite is very robust and trustworthy. It mostly deals with all the edge cases where something other than the quality and reliability of the SQLite code base can
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
On immigration there was no daylight between Biden’s views and theirs.
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
“No person is illegal” is a very popular progressive slogan and lawn sign and if that doesn’t mean unlimited immigration it doesn’t mean anything.
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
It was only very recently that the Supreme Court acknowledged the protections of the US Constitution to all the people born here.
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
You can’t just change other people who are not yet ready or willing to change.
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
It’s shorthand for the policies of the Biden administration, who oversaw an unprecedented level of immigration.
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
Well certainly the two US political parties associated with “left” and “right” certainly have very different immigration policies.
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
Except for the majority of voters who elected Trump.
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
The far left as represented by Joe Biden’s administration.
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
> Some of its key issues include lowered wages for politicians, ending the tax payer funding of various sculptures, monuments and art, large scale remigration, a stricter immigration policy, and free dental care. Limiting immigration alo
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
George W Bush tried that. You can’t export democracy and economic prosperity at gunpoint. States must choose to embrace all those things you are talking about.
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
Empirical observation of the behavior of democratic demonstrates your position is not widely held.

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