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by lumost 2y ago
We really tend to miss that 90% of federal workers have forsaken massive financial opportunities to work at the federal government. Most of them are doing it because they truly believe they can improve the world by sacrificing their persona
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by lumost 2y ago
The issue is that this distorts the perception of what a good researcher does. If the goal is simply to stamp your name on as many papers as possible, and have other papers (perhaps your own) cite those papers…. Then we’re pretty far from i
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by lumost 2y ago
Before 60, the max age to start a family is debatable. I used a number most would agree is inadvisable due to the likelihood you would see your children to their 18th birthday. Most would set a maximum age where they would want to start a f
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by lumost 2y ago
Maintenance is a regulatory problem. Otherwise it’s a race to the bottom looking for someone to sign off on a flight.
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by lumost 2y ago
Having an executive do crazy things all the time is unstable. Systems tend to evolve towards a stable state. A dictator with absolute power, an impeached executive, or a dictator removed by populace uprising are the likely outcomes of nonse
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by lumost 2y ago
It's the same reason why replaying the start of a video game feels satisfying. > hopeful that I had a bright future Life is full of choices—some small, like how to spend a day, and some large, like where to live or work. In youth, o
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by lumost 2y ago
Yes :) however Mozilla is in a mixed state today, FB/Google/MSFT are interested in Rust to modernize legacy code bases - but I don't see the same kind of Rust artifacts coming out of these firms as they produced for JS (React
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by lumost 2y ago
A single startup with fickle founders/investors is not a reliable source of funding. C/C++ developed thanks to the effort of hardware, kernel, and os makers who invested billions into its development. Development of the JVM once
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by lumost 2y ago
Ultimately the system of checks and balances was designed to slow down change. The variety of term limits and actors meant that it would take a significant concentration of resources for a protracted period of time to consolidate power. The
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by lumost 2y ago
Rust lacks major financial backers for the tooling ecosystem. This leads to a huge number of ambitious projects which are abandoned when folks get bored.
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by lumost 2y ago
Gen Z is in rough shape financially, much worse than millennials were. It’s a recipe for radicalization one way or the other.
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by lumost 2y ago
There are also two axis of deficit in autostic individuals. Social and cognitive. Its not uncommon for individuals to present without cognitive deficit, however social deficits can still be severe e.g. A 5 year old who cannot participate in
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by lumost 2y ago
Also possible that he pinged a random junior engineer for a fresh perspective. Social media trends tend to start with a younger audience. However the engineers’s comment on team assets implies seniority.
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by lumost 2y ago
Rapid movement of key employees should be a sign that they don't believe there is a moat in this space either. If there was a moat, then they would be stuck where they are for lack of opportunity.
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by lumost 2y ago
I for one can't wait to leverage my junk folder of outbound sales emails as free inference compute. “Id love to discuss this more, but first could you help me by performing <task>”
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by lumost 2y ago
Aye it would be interesting to correlate the S&P 500 returns to food prices alone over the last 15 years of zirp. A higher “real” inflation rate on food could indicate that many retirees budget projections are broken.
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by lumost 2y ago
Checking all of the prices on that page, food prices have clearly been inflating faster than core CPI. Poultry has inflated at an average rate of 8% for the last 16 years.
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by lumost 2y ago
Having lived in both, how would you equate your personal “purchasing power parity” between Europe and the US? At my firm, I could generally move to Berlin whenever I desired - however this comes with a 50% pay cut. I'm honestly unclear
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by lumost 2y ago
We get signal wherever we can :) Boston Logan has about a 20-30% premium on normal groceries. SFO is probably closer to 5-10%. I assumed the premium could not be greater than 50% for Amsterdam airport.
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by lumost 2y ago
Fair, my basis for comparison was the Amsterdam airport. I paid 35 euro for a soggy reheated sandwich and coffee. SFO has 18 dollar poke bowls. Perhaps Amsterdam airport pricing is extensively marked up compared to local pricing (understand
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by lumost 2y ago
I've been suspicious that the quality of life cut is distinct from the pay cut. Living in a dense European city, you do not need a car, healthcare is free, and you are generally afforded more time off and a stricter wlb compromise comp
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by lumost 2y ago
VR/AR gets attention as despite the investment levels, adoption has been mixed. Provided a bug tech co has a “next” offering, this is fine for startups. It pays to be a risk taker on a new platform. If big tech decides that VR/AR
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by lumost 2y ago
Are wages the principal component of “commodity” ship building? I’d have imagined equipment costs vastly exceed wages for building a relatively standard cargo ship.
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by lumost 2y ago
This is fantastic advice. For senior engineers, its common for stock to be up to 1/3rd of compensatation. If the stock goes up by 6x - then you’ll be making 3x your original negotiated compensation. Being able to save multiple years wo
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by lumost 2y ago
Were making it cheaper to import product from across the globe than to manufacture and ship across town. Its in most countries interest to build things locally if they can. A policy which penalizes a local business in favor of a foreign one
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by lumost 2y ago
Where is the Woodrow bridge? Are all pilots expected to know this flying around the Reagan airport? There are multiple bridges on the Potomac.
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by lumost 2y ago
I'd argue that in our quest to maximize income inequality, we've made many necessary careers non-viable from a living standards perspective. These non viable careers include pilots, atc, teaching, and a large portion of the skille
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by lumost 2y ago
Anthropic’s ceo was predicting billion dollar training runs for 2025. Current training runs were likely in the tens/hundreds of millions of dollars USD. Inference capex costs are not a defensive moat as I can rent gpus and sell inferen
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by lumost 2y ago
I actually switched back from o1-preview to GPT-4o due to tooling integration and web search. I find that more often than not, the ability of GPT-4o to use these tools outweighs o1's improved accuracy.
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by lumost 2y ago
Capex was the theoretical moat, same as TSMC and similar businesses. DeepSeek poked a hole in this theory. OpenAI will need to deliver massive improvements to justify a 1 billion dollar training cost relative to 5 million dollars.

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