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by jordanb 8mo ago
Yeah the "off light" has always really bugged me. It's like Homer Simpson's "everything's OK alarm."
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by jordanb 8mo ago
My understanding is Google had this culture of killing products that was fostered by L&S on the idea of "fail fast." Every product had a few year grace period but then the knives were out as PMs all tried to get your product k
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by jordanb 8mo ago
These guys can't watch a dystopian scifi movie without picturing themselves as the bad guy.
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by jordanb 8mo ago
Of course the grappling to find one good billionaire begins. While Taylor Swift is not nearly as obviously evil as the tech bros, she grifts the shit out of her fans. I do think it's kinda evil to create a parasocial relationship sit
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by jordanb 8mo ago
Yeah but I'd argue that the eccentric billionaire trope itself is the creation of the PR industry. "We've got this guy with rancid vibes, how do we make him palatable?"
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by jordanb 8mo ago
It was always difficult to get normal people to understand why the tech billionaires are so bad until Thiel gave us that clip of him getting stumped by the "should humanity survive" question. I'm forever grateful to Thiel for
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by jordanb 8mo ago
Many companies pay severance in lieu of giving notice.
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by jordanb 8mo ago
I've never understood this belief. There are many things I struggled with as a child that are very easy for me to understand now. For instance, calculus. I struggled barely passing my classes originally. A few years ago I decided that
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by jordanb 8mo ago
This made me laugh but then I remembered I'm on HN and you're probably serious.
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by jordanb 8mo ago
AI's main use case continues to be a replacement for management consulting.
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by jordanb 9mo ago
The stocks of a lot of these SaaS companies were priced on the expectation that they could become the next IBM: become entrenched with the customer and then hike prices until their eyes bleed. A lot of companies have been too smart for that
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by jordanb 9mo ago
> believes in climate change etc. He "evolved" on this after the election..
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by jordanb 9mo ago
And if those pirates had been successful young Billy might not have grown up to be such a naughty boy.
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by jordanb 9mo ago
One of the weird things is the way manufacturers used emissions regulation as an excuse to lock their engines down. Older engines had no computers. But computer control allows things that are needed to meet emissions like variable valve tim
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by jordanb 9mo ago
Back when Wikipedia was new people had a tendency to spend all day in it clicking deeper and deeper. It was called "ratholing." It was timewasting or avoidant behavior for sure, and often described negatively. But at least you wer
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by jordanb 9mo ago
There's an Isaac Asimov story where people are "educated" by programming knowledge into their brains, Matrix style. A certain group of people have something wrong with their brain where they can't be "educated"
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by jordanb 9mo ago
Back then he had a PR firm working for him, getting him cameos and good press. But in 2020 he fired them deciding that his own "radically awesome" personality doesn't need any filtering. Personally I don't think Elon is
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by jordanb 9mo ago
So you're saying Tesla made $3 billion directly from taxpayers and another $11 billion in cash transfers from their competitors required by the government?
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by jordanb 9mo ago
> it was intended a low-volume product for next-gen Tesla tech If this is true that's not what Musk was saying beforehand.
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by jordanb 9mo ago
Dunno where that $3 billion comes from; tesla made 11 billion in regulatory credits alone: https://insideevs.com/news/767939/tesla-regulatory-credit-11...
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by jordanb 9mo ago
Tesla's original "secret plan" (published on their website) was to become a commodity car manufacturer faster than electric cars became a commodity. Such that the other manufacturers would find them selling obsolete vehicles
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by jordanb 9mo ago
> Coding agents are really good at tasks where you can define a concrete goal and then set them to work iterating in that direction. Specifically ones that are in the training data. > A web browser is the most ambitious project I can
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by jordanb 9mo ago
Everybody could see how the whole Microsoft thing was going to go except Miguel, apparently. Worse he was very smug and self-righteous about selling out.
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by jordanb 9mo ago
The problem is mass-surveillance and dragnets. Obviously if the state wants to go after you no laws will protect you. As we've seen they can even illegally collect evidence and then do a parallel construction to "launder" the
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by jordanb 9mo ago
Gas stoves need electricity for the starter these days. Maybe you can get a really old one with a pilot light. It's far easier to provide a backup for electric appliances using a generator, than it is to store CNG onsite for gas interr
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by jordanb 9mo ago
While I'm concerned about the environmental challenges of reversing the trend and increasing energy consumption, I'm happy that people are living in more comfortable homes, that the Amercian industrial base is being restored, that
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by jordanb 9mo ago
This is exactly it and parallels what happened with the end of the Wiemar Republic. There was an asymmetry in response between the Nazis and the government. You can see that in the limited prosecution and light sentences of the Beer Hall Pu
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by jordanb 9mo ago
Fairly long history of Apple doing something anti-consumer and then all other manufactures following their lead. Same with non-replacable batteries, no headphone jack, have to pay extra for a charger, etc.
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by jordanb 9mo ago
We're still in 1932. Night of the long knives was in 1934 after the Nazis had consolidated power. In 1932 they were still a party of block-headed street thugs with the SA terrorizing people. One of the reasons why they had all their ra
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by jordanb 9mo ago
Spain ended up the same way. The Franco regime just petered out and the ghouls got to keep their swanky digs in Madrid.

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