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by marvin 4y ago
The politicisation should be obvious from the "eat the rich" rhetoric currently floating everywhere on Twitter. The government is mostly concerned with the stability of the economy and preventing cascading bank runs, which this cl
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by marvin 4y ago
This is exactly the statement that's required, given the confusion and irresponsible politicization of deposit insurance. Shareholders lose 100%, depositors get 100% of their deposits back. It's a simple situation, and the former
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by marvin 4y ago
Vertically-integrated success stories like Tesla can't be that shoddy in quality, when compared to the horror stories here. Maybe the truth somehow lies more along the path of antiquated ecosystems leading to too-lenient customers, t
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by marvin 4y ago
A lot of people will leave reddit forever when they take old and i down. Unsure if someone has understood this, but I suspect so.
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They’re expensive though. Looked into this a year ago. Have things changed? My holy grail is a powerful LED light source where you can adjust the spectrumin very granular detail, including at the extremes.
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by marvin 4y ago
An aside to the sexual harassment: If favoring high-performing individuals is now a firing offense at Google, I believe they’ve opened themselves up to competition.
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by marvin 4y ago
That’s game theory for you. It pushes the world to shitty equilibriums like this one.
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There should be a quick-reference lexicon for these things
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I reckon a bottom saying «pwease» would also get their point across.
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by marvin 4y ago
> The difference is that current Google is full of non-tech non-sales people who fight with eachother to reorganize tech people who are trying to build things. Is this true? If so, how can a historically disruptive and innovtive tech com
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by marvin 4y ago
Personally, I'd prefer not to condemn 2 billion people to war, famine and poverty due to avoidable consequences of human nature. Sweden ostensibly has a similar political climate, but I wonder if it's still true when push comes to
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by marvin 4y ago
I think you misread me. I think crypto will be very, very big in terms of utilization and value, much bigger than it is today. But I also believe this does not imply that there will be much expected gain from purely speculating in the price
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by marvin 4y ago
Mining lots of various minerals is necessary to transition the world to a net-neutral climate gas economy that has similar standard of living as today. Huge increases in production of batteries, wind turbines, solar panels, synthetic fuel p
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by marvin 4y ago
Your tulip futures from 1637 would still be out of the money, even though global tulip consumption is much, much higher and the Netherlands is the world's leading supplier.
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by marvin 4y ago
Most folks commenting on this are probably not old enough to remember the controversy. But the original majority opinion was that YouTube would go bankrupt and die, having no potential to be profitable even after an acquisition. This in spi
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by marvin 4y ago
> OpenAI is really strong tech without much product market fit. It's got a ton of mindshare, but that's about it. Buying them is making a big bet that you can somehow turn that into a big business. That's the YouTube argum
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by marvin 4y ago
Expand the argument to the economy as a whole, and it's just the Prisoner's Dilemma. You'll get screwed by someone else someday, the solar company will screw someone other than you etc. I'll certainly agree it would be b
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by marvin 4y ago
You're at least a few weeks behind the state of the art.
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by marvin 4y ago
A comparison of my own quality of life with and without makes the distinction obvious both with and without a long-term relationship. It's a completely unproblematic and simple judgement. Of course I don't claim to speak for every
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by marvin 4y ago
I don't understand why one would quit porn. It's great entertainment. It increases quality of life. It's an integral part of one's sex life. Why would one want to quit?
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by marvin 4y ago
Sure, properly developed CO2 sequestration along with the right regulation is a perfectly viable option to renewable-produced battery-electric vehicles. And fossil transport certainly has a role in the world economy for the foreseeable fu
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by marvin 4y ago
Salaries are half though, so it's not all roses.
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by marvin 4y ago
Filling gas and changing oil is also pretty inconvenient, it’s just habit that makes you discount it. A good EV is more convenient for everyday use. Cheaper too.
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by marvin 4y ago
Tesla attempts to solve self-driving by generating a sufficiently-accurate world model in the moment, relying very heavily on vision. Waymo solves self-driving with a centimeter-level precision pre-scanned map of all the places it can drive
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by marvin 4y ago
Regular EV user here - plugging it in is something you do every time you park, the way you lock your doors. It takes five seconds. Press the «open charge port» button on the charging cable and stick it in the charging socket. Done.
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by marvin 4y ago
Tesla FSD and Waymo FSD are trying to solve two completely different problems.
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by marvin 4y ago
Tesla has been hated on HN for years . Current sentiment is just a continuation of that long trend. I've kept a record of HN comment threads that keelhaul Tesla and Musk since around 2015 or so. I really believed in the company's
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by marvin 4y ago
A real-life prisoners' dilemma right there.
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I don't understand how developing tech for energy recovery makes sense. Why not just idle and descend at a reasonable speed for a reasonable L/D, the way practically all airlines do for practically all routes today? This is ener
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by marvin 4y ago
I've kept a pretty distanced opinion about Musk's Twitter dramas, figuring that the network effect and having access to the thoughts of whichever thinkers I enjoy reading is what matters. Most other stuff is ancillary to that, and

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