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541.
by lumost 2y ago
There are two factors at work in my opinion. Doordash prioritized selection, they did online ordering even when restaurants didn't want it. Eventually the demand was high enough that restaurants adapted. Grubhub focused on the traditio
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by lumost 2y ago
That’s why they have reviews of these items. Ultimately, a fighter pilot is piloting a very expensive and very dangerous aircraft, if they can’t use good judgement - then they can’t be trusted to operate the aircraft. As an example, a us na
543.
by lumost 2y ago
Fighter pilots are extremely highly trained individuals. While data is scarce for the exact dollar cost - an F-22 pilot costs roughly 11 Million USD to train, pilots are expected to use judgement and be capable of dealing with high pressure
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by lumost 2y ago
These articles always miss the core deliverable of a staff engineer. Impact The engineer who wrote the MVP of the product and grew it's customer base to hundreds of MM ARR -> staff. The engineer who steers the ship for a 50 person o
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by lumost 2y ago
Does that apply when they are under 3?
546.
by lumost 2y ago
>A scrappy startup can copy the vast majority of chatgpt features with another foundation model. Software is expensive to build, adoption is more expensive. If you ever try to convince someone to migrate in a B2B setting - you'll le
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by lumost 2y ago
Child birth is a small fraction of the cost. The real costs add up in the 40 hour work week. School, daycare, and even the legal frameworks those operate in are intended for at least one parent to live close to the child and work at most pa
548.
by lumost 2y ago
How much of this is due to housing price increases? It naively seems like rising house prices trigger an arms race in education and productivity among young people to afford housing. If the labor quota is high enough… then nothing else will
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by lumost 2y ago
It's not different in the US - talk to any tech couple and you'll either hear about nannies and babysitters or a stay at home partner. Housing prices are high enough that you either must choose a very long commute with a stay at h
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by lumost 2y ago
It's unlikely that an investor will pay significantly more than a non-investor for a liquid asset. There is certainly some premium, but a large premium would imply something very strange about housing as a market.
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by lumost 2y ago
I work in DB kernels, everything gets hand tuned as there is economic reason for hand tuning it. The expectation in many of these systems is that there are no wasted cycles. You can codegen a decent kernel, but then someone will find a bett
552.
by lumost 2y ago
Tokens per second ;) I can do the arithmetic on my own.
553.
by lumost 2y ago
Is there a handy table for this? My napkin math has either underestimated throughput by 2 orders of magnitude or the above estimate is high.
554.
by lumost 2y ago
The point is that AMD is doing the legwork to ensure that AI models can run on their chips. While they could settle for inference workloads (port llama to AMD). It is unlikely that many teams will widely adopt their silicon unless they can
555.
by lumost 2y ago
There was probably a point of maximum hype ~12 months ago, or right after the launch of GPT-4 where the belief of imminent singularity was running high.
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by lumost 2y ago
I suspect the appeal of this in its present state is that passive income confers a sense of security to millennials. Our jobs are inherently temporary, and at some point in tech fields - it is likely that you won't have an easy time fi
557.
by lumost 2y ago
The article does make an interesting point on our energy usage. As an industrial society - we hit the limits of scaling energy output sometime in the 70s. With the majority of gains coming from improved efficiency as well as incremental exp
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by lumost 2y ago
Curiously, while I had a 2.7 in undergrad. I thrived in the workplace. The initial GPA restricted my options for the first 3-5 years, but I eventually became a Principal Engineer at a FAANG. In hindsight, I wish I had balanced my objectives
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by lumost 2y ago
My personal take, we’ve made the cost of failure to high and cheating too easy. As a student, the only thing the next institution will see is GPA, school, major. Roughly in that order. If the cost of not getting an A is exclusion from futur
560.
by lumost 2y ago
Original point was that a forced move carries a financial cost, as home prices rise - this financial cost rises relative to income. This dynamic creates a disincentive for individuals to move due to the cost relative to income. If individua
561.
by lumost 2y ago
The financial outcome for not buying property adds up after ~10 years. On paper, I've been paid to live in my current residence every year that I've owned due to housing appreciation. If I had rented - the financial delta compared
562.
by lumost 2y ago
Typical closing costs are 5%, while the seller usually pays these on purchase - it means that you lose 5% of your home price when you move house. On a typical 20% down payment, that means you lose 100% of your down payment when you move ass
563.
by lumost 2y ago
I'm curious what the increasing price of homes relative to salaries does to innovation in communities like these. If one gets laid off in a major industrial center, the next gig is likely within commuting radius. If one gets laid off i
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by lumost 2y ago
Plausibly, there is no real monitoring of co-orbiting bodies in space. If there aren't cameras pointed at every location of the sattelite (why would their be?) you could place a small kill device nearby to avoid the need to shoot down
565.
by lumost 2y ago
I don't know your age, but as I've gotten older a consistent observation is that vices grow tend to grow with time and we tend towards becoming the older versions of the people we hang around. The social heavy drinking of our 20s
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by lumost 2y ago
It's also relatively easy to enforce with a generic assertion that all inherited assets must provide proof of adequate payment of capital gains taxes or carry a cost basis equal to the earliest point from which proof can be established
567.
by lumost 2y ago
This assumes that any party to a conflict chooses to use their nuclear arsenal. In WW2, both sides had chemical weapons but chose not to use them due to concerns of reciprocal strikes coupled with a perceived limited utility. We could be
568.
by lumost 2y ago
Also pretty easy to hide in the noise of a trading algorithm. Eg. Make bets that hold a collection of biotech firms on the day that the fda approves their treatment. You could also up the exposure by choosing to hold N small market segments
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by lumost 2y ago
define "moat", Open source search engines and competitive scraping strategies were built in the early 2000s. The Google search moat has always been that they were better for 5-6 years - and then they were the default. Once they we
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by lumost 2y ago
Would be quite interesting if WeWork et. al. were schemes by the financial backers to capitalize on cap weighting strategies. The folks involved would not have been opposed to this in the past.

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