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by jppope 1y ago
pretty sure we've already had products in the market that can do the things you are thinking of, the problem with products like baxter (or boston dynamics products) wasn't/isn't the capabilities it was/is the price
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by jppope 1y ago
Sure, but they still need to know what calls to make for new things. For old things someone can likely reproduce the things that they have built for less money, with less overhead now.
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by jppope 1y ago
Maybe but at this time it doesn't appear to be a "winner take all" market, its actually looking more and more like a commodity or utility market... There doesn't appear to be a moat or proprietary advantage to any provid
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Ask HN: What economic reasoning is there that bigCos have an advantage post-AI?
1 points by jppope 1y ago|5 comments
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by jppope 1y ago
Just a recommendation, switch to the 37 signals model: do consulting and find a thing people keep asking for that isn't out there in the market. That is get paid to research your product, and have a prototype ready to go when you feel
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by jppope 1y ago
I hear what you are saying: consumables and normal luxury items are hard to spend a lot of money on (houses, cars, boats, planes, clothes, food, etc)... if you however were to choose to spend a lot of money on the R&D required to reduci
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by jppope 1y ago
Tragically, there is some truth to this.
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by jppope 1y ago
very cool project and map. I've recently picked up stone masonry so this is super great to view
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by jppope 1y ago
Anyone who has worked in a restaurant or bar can provide plenty of observational data that if you provide better service you will be tipped better. I would recommend trying out working as a server/bartender you will understand tipping
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by jppope 1y ago
Just an important note, and a thing that is often confused by new managers - leadership and management are not the same thing. More often than not the skills you want to hone are actually leadership skills not management skills.
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by jppope 1y ago
Love what they are putting out in the world! Congrats on the round, and being able to proliferate the work!
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by jppope 1y ago
who was the retired US Army brigadier general?
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by jppope 1y ago
Wonderful talk. I now have some reading material for the next week :)
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by jppope 1y ago
I applaud the courage to call out this as a problem. With that said I believe that there is a lot more nuance on this issue than the article is willing to provide, or more importantly research needed to be done to be rigorous on this topic.
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by jppope 1y ago
Use your natural network first. Ask your friends to make intros for you. Once you have a decent conversation with those people they can recommend you to other people they have worked with in the past. People will treat outreach on linkedin
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by jppope 1y ago
Even hiring people at minimum wage costs a lot of money... Maybe they are firing people so they can rehire at a lower cost, but thats a really expensive way to get people to work for less.
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by jppope 1y ago
ok. so you can reduce your head count without impact great! Why would you get rid of people? Why would you not reassign those people into other productive or revenue generating activities? The only logical explanation is that they don'
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by jppope 1y ago
I think the fair way to read any CEO's comments about AI reducing their workforce at this point has nothing to do with the capabilities of AI and more to do with the revenue outlook or the growth outlook. Basically, they are "narr
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by jppope 1y ago
Interested to see how it all works out. Elon has been using a lot of smoke and mirrors lately, but this seems like an area where they can genuinely make progress - with the right talent competing in the GenAi world is totally possible right
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by jppope 1y ago
I think theres probably an uneven distribution on this... I can think back to my childhood in a small town in new england and I can still remember everyone on my block, the block across the street, and every kid's house within a half m
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by jppope 1y ago
Totally valid observation, but things definitely changed. Neighbors don't know each other as well, so the grandma keeping an eye out the back window doesn't exist anymore. It was a village watching the kids before, its not that wa
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by jppope 1y ago
An honest attempt from a social adult to develop a sense of community is far from cringe. Reasonably speaking, its actions like that which can actually make socialization happen. If the old way wasn't working, so try something else.
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by jppope 1y ago
Serious question here, not trying to give unwarranted stress to what is no doubt a stressful situation for the supabase team, or trying to create flamebait. This whole thing feels like its obviously a bad idea to have an mcp integration dir
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by jppope 1y ago
good catch. Should be updated in ~5min
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Why are there still 7 continents?(jonpauluritis.com)
33 points by jppope 1y ago|20 comments
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by jppope 1y ago
I've said this before but I'll say it again- AGI is right around the corner, because we don't have a technical definition of what it is... the next bigwig CEO trying to raise money or make an earnings call could take their sy
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by jppope 1y ago
really nice, going to give it a try. this solves a problem for me that I honestly started working on fixing myself.
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by jppope 1y ago
yeah there was an analysis that came out on hackernews the other day. between low demand side economics, virtually no impact to GDP, and corporate/vc subsidies going away soon we're close to finding out. Sam Altman did convince So
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by jppope 1y ago
The reports from analysis of open source projects are that its something in the range of 10%-15% productivity gains... so it sounds like you're spot on
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by jppope 1y ago
I've been using SerpApi for a while, its a great product. checking this out now!

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