lesuorac

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by lesuorac 3mo ago
No? Maybe you were busy being open minded and etc. But uh rest of Silicon Valley was pretty openly rooting for Trump to win 2024. The emperor having no clothes is actually really useful when you can interact with the emperor. You want them
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by lesuorac 3mo ago
I mean why not? It got him a presidency, twice. It's clearly an effective strategy in our capitalistic society and if you feel otherwise let me know how many 0 Billions you've grifted from your job over the past year.
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by lesuorac 3mo ago
In general terms you want the stock to pop. Your bank will get a ton of orders from institutional investors of how many shares they want at a given price. You will have a preference as to which investors you want on your cap table. Almost a
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by lesuorac 3mo ago
Complex systems don't pop out of thin air. The US form of government is highly based on the existing British one and the British King had the ability to pardon and so that was copied over. I do think it makes a lot of sense to do thing
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by lesuorac 3mo ago
I guess it depends on what you see as waste. As a programmer I see waste all the time where people are doing work that could be clearly computerized for better speed and accuracy.
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by lesuorac 3mo ago
Clinton benefited from an era where if a voter was going to hear how bad your idea was then he got a chance to defend it.
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by lesuorac 3mo ago
> This doesn’t prevent people from learning to paint or play the clarinet. It prevents students from taking out enormous loans for it. The problem is going to that there's going to be a large shock to the system. As pointed out in t
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by lesuorac 3mo ago
> I do think colleges should be required to list the average salaries that people with those degrees have. Idk, I think just making student loans dischargable in bankruptcy is enough. Make both sides have skin in the game and you'll
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by lesuorac 3mo ago
There's kinda a significant difference between bloodletting and blood donation. For starters, you're not supposed to donate blood when you're sick. The other being the quantity. A donation is 1-2 pints. Wikipedia lists bloodl
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by lesuorac 3mo ago
Except leadership is largely not from employees moving up the rank Sundar (CEO) is from Mcksinsley. Ruth (President) is from Morgan Stanley. TK (Cloud CEO) is from Oracle. Mohan (YouTube CEO) is from DoubleClick which is Google at this poin
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by lesuorac 3mo ago
I didn't check, but I don't think the corporate charter for this companies allows for fraud. Not sure what the penalty for doing things you weren't incorporated for but seems reasonable for me that the liability doesn't
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by lesuorac 3mo ago
What version of capitalism wouldn't have the problem of risky investments paying out more than safe ones? The people with better ROI are just going to outbid the ones with a worse ROI for their retirement spending so if you just invest
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by lesuorac 3mo ago
They can't. The subscriptions are for personal use not enterprise. i.e. [1] "This article is about paid Max plans for individual consumers. If you're part of an organization looking to use Claude with your team, refer to Team
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by lesuorac 4mo ago
I'm really unconvinced gerrymandering is the issue here. It's not like Red cities have flock cameras and Blue cities don't. It's really just that the Fairness Doctrine [1] needed to apply to more than radio. If you can c
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by lesuorac 4mo ago
Isn't Flock more like a house sitter in the analogy though? "I gave the person keys to my house and then I trusted they wouldn't open bathroom doors while somebody was there". Like law enforcement is being given access t
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by lesuorac 4mo ago
If you actually act a realistic way then the (general) audience will completely miss it. You have to drop your jaws, screech, and other over the top expressions so that everybody understands what emotion is being conveyed. A quick smirk whe
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by lesuorac 4mo ago
Seems pretty in line with a recent frontpost of "Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part III: Paying for It " [1]. There's a cost for everything and while you can "devolve" the cost downwards of a phone to an empl
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by lesuorac 4mo ago
Eh, aren't most of those points non-sequiturs? > The Gilded Age, which had quite high levels of inequality, occurred when the gold standard was active: And the Gilded Age [1] ended long before the gold standard. Which makes sense si
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by lesuorac 4mo ago
> by doing nothing more than claiming to have laid mines. Where you do you get your news from? Iran has literally attacked ships [1]. Honestly, if there was a guy outside my workplace shooting people I'd turn around and if they were
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by lesuorac 4mo ago
I've always thought the reason a vendor can fleece the public is a mixture of 2 things. 1) You get elected by convincing voters to vote for you. Which is not the same as actually getting the lowest prices. 2) Core competency has been s
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by lesuorac 4mo ago
Honestly, I'm not sure most people get "hurt" in scams. Think of the generic which cup has the ball scam? Like no American sailor falling for that overseas is going homeless from that event. But I mean do you want to live in
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by lesuorac 4mo ago
When you retire is a personal decision (and also a financial one but I think for most people on this forum it's mostly a personal one). That said, if somebody is say counting the days until 55 so that they can retire then it's lik
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by lesuorac 4mo ago
> Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage? If we can insert "some" then Yes. > use of more advanced algorithms and data structures that use less memory? I don't think so. At least at work t
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by lesuorac 4mo ago
Well don't know your life but I suspect for a lot of people then it would've been more advantageous to not max out the 401k and retire pre-55 and spend the non-401k funds until 55. This largely being my gripe about the Trump accou
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by lesuorac 4mo ago
Yeah but Matt Levine is wrong. 1) Index funds and ETFs are highly active. They're just low-cost due to largely algorithmic decisions but at all of the edge cases manual _active_ decisions are made. IIRC, in this podcast Vanguard goes i
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by lesuorac 4mo ago
It did pop though. The news apparently is that after a pop comes a decrease.
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by lesuorac 4mo ago
Why do we need to ask why UNH is so big? This comment chain was started to question why limiting profits to 80% of claims has to result in insurance companies denying cheaper options. I have yet to see an argument as to why a company isn&#x
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by lesuorac 4mo ago
> So, no, paradoxically, it is not in the interest of people paying for the treatment to save money. Quite the opposite. I'll assume they're on company insurance. Which is often "self-insured" in that the company actu
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by lesuorac 4mo ago
We're talking about his Tesla grant so SpaceX's grant is irrelevant. The text written in the link you did not read, states "Notwithstanding Sections I, II and III above, in the event of a Change in Control, the Operational Mi
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by lesuorac 4mo ago
As pointed out by somebody else [1]; Operational Milestones are waived if SpaceX buys Telsa. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=antasvara

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