mempko

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by mempko 3mo ago
Have you ever run a business? I have and still do. I make the pricing decisions, nobody makes them for me. Have to factor in a lot and repricing is always a hard choice in either direction. It's never automatic or some mystical force.
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by mempko 3mo ago
I'm in the US. The benefit of the Chinese spying on me vs a US company is the Chinese can't come to my door and take me to jail.
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by mempko 3mo ago
Yes and all the price decisions are done by a person. Lowering prices, increasing prices, these are all decisions. Nothing is automatic.
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by mempko 3mo ago
Post COVID is a great example of this in action. They DID raise prices because they could. What keeps prices low is competition. But again, it's not automatic. Look at Arizona Ice Tea as an example. All price rises are business decisio
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by mempko 3mo ago
People forget that prices don't rise automatically. Businesses decide to raise prices. There isn't some magical force called inflation cuasing prices to go up. It's human decision-making all the way down.
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by mempko 3mo ago
This brings me back. Used the live cd (then later thumb drive) at my university whenever I needed to use the computers. Would just reboot into it.
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by mempko 3mo ago
Margin debt (debt used to leverage stock buying) Is near record highs, and most of it is flowing into AI stocks ...
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by mempko 4mo ago
There is a reason Jolla is ex Nokia people who made MeeGo. Sailfish (the OS) is a direct distended.
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by mempko 4mo ago
Here is an old clip of Alan Greenspan explaining to Paul Ryan why the social security system can't go bankrupt. https://youtu.be/DNCZHAQnfGU?is=CWQS-QUJB0z4EfSM
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by mempko 4mo ago
Gold based money, or eras of coinage, historically have been times of war and slavery. The debt system we are in now is far better in a lot of ways. The outcome of what happens depends on the political will deciding where the credit flows.
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by mempko 4mo ago
Why do you have respect for Rene?
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by mempko 4mo ago
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by mempko 4mo ago
Wow, this takes me back of making my own software renderer and game engine as a teen in the 90s. Then OpenGL came out and fixed pipelines and some of the cool magic of doing anything with pixels disappeared (until pixel shaders came back).
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by mempko 4mo ago
There are firm proposals. Read the Democracy and Work effort lead by Richard Wolff.
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by mempko 4mo ago
As someone who has been a startup founder across several and who has basically been under-paid for the last decade as a result I am constantly thinking if I should have went to work at big tech again as many of my peers are much richer for
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by mempko 4mo ago
You made some good points, let me address them. The reason comparing to TCP, DNS doesn't make sense is this doesn't replace those at all. The reason I compared against other agent frameworks and things like MCP is because that&#x2
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by mempko 4mo ago
Have you heard of the Ask Protocol? ( https://abject.world/ask-protocol/ ). I might be biased because I came up with it, but we are over complicating these systems. There is a simpler way, and it appears to work well sin
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by mempko 4mo ago
What are you talking about exceeded expectations? Starship is very far behind schedule.
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by mempko 5mo ago
Companies are spending about $1 trillion this year in capex in the US! World wide estimate is about $2.52 trillion in AI spend in 2026 according to Gartner. There has never been a bigger spend in tech. It's so much spend that the softw
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by mempko 5mo ago
Go back and look at the original plans and projections. Constantly redesigning is not something to be proud of. I call it vibe spaceship design.
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by mempko 5mo ago
Sometimes a design is poor and needs a lot of modification and patches to kind of work.
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by mempko 5mo ago
This incremental progress, far smaller improvements than planned, has put them so far behind schedule I'm not confident this design is any good. Still haven't done orbit. This launch was not a smooth launch. SLS by contrast seems
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by mempko 5mo ago
I love that open weight models are catching up so quickly. Also hilarious how far behind Grok is. I guess demand for Grok must be poor if Anthropic is able to rent resources from xAI.
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by mempko 5mo ago
I had fairly deep knowledge about the bitcoin code base 7 years ago and I got a weird vibe from it as I've seen government code before. When I learned that Tor was funded by the Navy something clicked. Just as it makes sense to have a
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by mempko 5mo ago
If this was true, the big tech companies would be the most optimized. Maybe efficiency isn't the biggest factor.
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by mempko 5mo ago
I believe agents are the wrong abstraction. I came up with a superset called an Abject. See https://abject.world Seems safebox went after a subset.
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by mempko 5mo ago
Writing code is not the hard part of software development. This is coming from someone who has programmed for 30 years, writing an average of 100k+ lines a year. The sooner programmers start thinking about modeling the domain, user mental m
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by mempko 5mo ago
I've been building an object oriented system re-imagined in a world with LLMs called Abject ( https://abject.world ) and one thought I had was to build an OS that boots into my project. One way to do it would be a minimal lin
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by mempko 5mo ago
The author makes a great point about learning. Learning is what increases your intelligence and if we substitute learning for AI lookup we will literally get dumber. That said, AI models have a lot of information and can assist in learning.
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by mempko 5mo ago
I love blender. They should get all the money they need.

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