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by keeda 8mo ago
More than hard work, the key trait is grit. Because yes AI is going to upend everything and we need to be prepared to deal with what that brings.
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by keeda 8mo ago
This strawman pops up often. The purpose of IP is to "promote" progress. The word was carefully chosen. And luckily we have years of research, empirical and otherwise, showing the impact of IP on innovation and the arts. It's
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by keeda 8mo ago
Ah I see, I had misunderstood, the discrepancy in tariff revenue and what the consumer pays is due to the markups at each stage of distribution successively absorbing minor portions of the price increase until the consumer bears most of it.
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by keeda 8mo ago
Here's how I see it: Ideally a manager / reportee relationship is a symbiotic relationship. A manager becomes more successful by making their reportees more successful, and both roles grow together. And repeating this across teams
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by keeda 8mo ago
> For a long time, I faulted Americans who didn’t teach their kids to “learn to work 16 hours a day” like my dad taught me. But I have kids of my own now, and they don’t have the mentality of someone who is a generation away from having
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by keeda 8mo ago
That's true in absolute numbers (sales volume goes down), but in terms of margins (profit / sale) they're still doing better than they should have. As the study in TFA implies, if the consumers paid more than the tariffs were
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by keeda 8mo ago
For many, many reasons, I suspect patents will become much more important now. After all, it's the ideas that matter now. Which I maintain, has always been the case, because "execution" is nothing more than a series of smalle
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by keeda 8mo ago
Unpopular opinion: AI is just a new medium of art. It's like the advent of photography after painting. It was dismissed as an art form for a long time: - https://antique-photography.com/when-was-photography-conside...
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by keeda 8mo ago
Yeah I expect, just like physical exercise, people will need to get their hands dirty on a regular basis to stay competitive. In fact, this is nothing new, and even encoded as a requirement for many professions like lawyers and doctors: to
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by keeda 8mo ago
Yes, unfortunately, and we have already seen this happening for a while now with grade inflation: https://www.ed.gov/about/homeroom-blog/addressing-grade-infl... https://fordhaminstitute.org/nation
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by keeda 8mo ago
Well, lucky for us we've seen multiple, broader tariff studies, all concurring in their conclusions: https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2026/02/who-is... https://www.nber.org/papers
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by keeda 8mo ago
How is Apple a decade behind if modern AI is only 3 years old and compelling use-cases are starting to appear on devices now? And concerningly, their AI products, like their search, will be powered by their biggest competitor in the mobile
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by keeda 8mo ago
For what it's worth, my take is Microsoft is the one Big Tech most aligned with us and the rest of the world, though HN is too Slashdot-pilled to accept it. The primary reason being their business model relies mostly on making people
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by keeda 8mo ago
> Talking with strangers is surprisingly informative I think this should be a key point here, for people motivated by curiosity. I don't seek out conversations with strangers, but when they happen I lean heavily into this aspect.
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by keeda 8mo ago
These can show up on Google Maps, which is how I found out about them. I once had time to kill in a neighboring town and so I thought I'd check out the local library, and a marker saying "Little Free Library" showed up nearby
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by keeda 8mo ago
The problem with the tractor analogy is that there is not much that can go wrong in digging with a machine versus by hand. However, AI, like people, makes non-obvious mistakes that require a high level of skill to catch. For instance, what
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by keeda 8mo ago
There are many aspects here, but I'll only comment on the one I brought up originally: they are in the military because they had few other options in life. And this is true in this very situation as well. If they choose to disobey orde
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by keeda 8mo ago
That's what I was addressing: for many it's "voluntary" in the way poor people "volunteer" to be homeless. (This applies across many countries BTW.) I absolutely do not mean to slight any soldiers anywhere, I h
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by keeda 8mo ago
Yep! Which is exactly why I said implementing this at scale is TBD, I personally have no idea ;-) One strategy I can think of is to remove the incentive to offload to AI, which probably means reducing the reliance on tests for evaluation. H
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by keeda 8mo ago
Haven't been able to verify, but somebody on a podcast mentioned that sales of paper and stationery have started soaring precisely because of this. Edited to add: I think this is worth trying, but not nearly sufficient. I would not be
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by keeda 8mo ago
Wait, I'm confused, wasn't the campaign plank to end wars??
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by keeda 8mo ago
> Cry no tears for the slaughter of imperial troops This comment from the same account above is dead so can't reply to it, but you must understand that the troops themselves do NOT want this. They are not clones genetically engine
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by keeda 8mo ago
I maintain that in the future, any person wishing to learn any skill (not just coding!) will need to willingly eschew the use of AI when learning until they have "built the muscles". The literature is clear that repeated, hands-
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by keeda 8mo ago
> The organizational assumption that reviewed code is understood code no longer holds. This never held. As somebody who has inherited codebases thrown over the wall through acquisitions and re-orgs, there is absolutely nothing in this
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by keeda 8mo ago
I feel like this sort of symbolic planning means you don't even need to leak to the wrong Signal chat group to telegraph your attack? Especially when enemy warships have already been hovering for a few days...
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by keeda 8mo ago
Valuations?! The "R" in "ARR" stands for "Revenue." Valuations are something entirely different and much higher. And if you suggest that these and other AI companies are lying about revenues or fudging the numb
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by keeda 8mo ago
This is why I miss Windows Phone. My $35 Lumia with 512 MB of RAM was infinitely smoother and faster than the 2GB Samsung Galaxy flagship phone I had, and of comparable fluidity to the so-much-more-expensive iPhones with 2GB RAM.
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by keeda 8mo ago
Note I didn't say the bottleneck is the hardware itself, it's the supply chain for production of the hardware. Specifically the Rare Earth Elements, as I explained here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47178
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by keeda 8mo ago
Motors with permanent magnets are preferred because they are much more cost- and energy-efficient, even with the painful reliance on REEs. There is a very strong incentive to find alternatives but nothing comparable has been found yet. Ther
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by keeda 8mo ago
You're right, it's not. I just posted this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47182655

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