mgfist

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by mgfist 10mo ago
It's funny how people complain about the rust belt dying and factories leaving rural communities and so on, then when someone wants to build something that can provide jobs and tax revenue, everyone complains.
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by mgfist 10mo ago
Most "good" software like you speak of was written long ago. Slop has dominated long even before LLMs.
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by mgfist 10mo ago
Too early to make what call? Pax Americana could end tomorrow and it wouldn't make the statement false (well, it would if whatever followed was even more peaceful).
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by mgfist 10mo ago
Thought this would be a blog, disappointed to see it's a whole book. My suspicion is there is 5 good pages of material stretched out 20-50x.
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by mgfist 10mo ago
The world saw it's greatest peace under US hegemony. It wasn't perfect and there were bloody avoidable wars on the behest of the US, but by and large things ran smoothly and US sponsored globalism brought prosperity and peace to m
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by mgfist 10mo ago
UK has higher inflation than the US, and has had so since inflation first picked up in 2022.
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by mgfist 10mo ago
The bet is that revenue keeps growing and unit economics turn positive (which you can't do if you sell a dollar, since no one will give you more than a dollar for it)
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by mgfist 11mo ago
Surely you understand the bet Anthropic is making, and why it's a bit different than selling dollars at a discount
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by mgfist 11mo ago
???
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by mgfist 11mo ago
That's the best solution. The easiest solution is to move away from homework and into classwork.
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by mgfist 11mo ago
I'd say it does. I take pride and meaning in working. Life's too short to not care about a thing you do 8 hours a day. And bad colleagues doesn't just include people not contributing enough.
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by mgfist 11mo ago
People change, roles change, responsibilities change, motivations change.
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by mgfist 11mo ago
I've had a really shit boss who was thankfully fired and I wouldn't want him to have been in a union either.
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by mgfist 11mo ago
I don't like unions because one bad hire can destroy a whole team, and the option to remove that hire is worth more than any benefit a union can give me. I also think people here misunderstand what unions do. Unions are inherently cons
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by mgfist 1y ago
Poker is so much fun with friends. It's not about winning, it's about hanging out and being a little competitive. It's a great way to hang out in real life for a few hours in today's online world.
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by mgfist 1y ago
> Self-driving EVs are not a solution to most of the externalities of personal automobiles. Why do you think self-driving cars are meant to solve automobile externalities? I don't view them in that way. I view them as solving person
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by mgfist 1y ago
Have you ridden in a Waymo? I'd sell my car if/when they become ubiquitous enough.
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by mgfist 1y ago
That's an interesting perspective and not one I've heard before, but it resonates with me. Thanks
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by mgfist 1y ago
The innovation is not making a reusable rocket, it's making a reusable rocket that is cheap and rapidly reusable.
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by mgfist 1y ago
Man I love Waymo everytime I'm in SF. Truly feel like I'm living in the future when I sit in one
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by mgfist 1y ago
Yes, but usage is not uniform even when you have millions of users. It smooths the usage lines, but the peaks and troughs become more extreme the more users you have. At 3am usage in the US goes down to effectively 0. Maybe you can use the
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by mgfist 1y ago
Both have benefits. Staying private means a lot less distractions, less investor scrutiny (good and bad), and the general ability to do whatever you want (good and bad). It's a lot easier to stay long-term focused without investors bre
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by mgfist 1y ago
Yes but free cash flow is free cash flow, and that's what matters for survival (i.e. run-rate). So long as fcf is positive, you'll never go bankrupt. Really what they don't tell you is how much SBC they have. That's what
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by mgfist 1y ago
Early investors (the main ones at least) usually get pro-rate rights - which means you can invest in later rounds to maintain your ownership percentage (i.e a later round dilutes your ownership, so you invest a bit until the ownership stays
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by mgfist 1y ago
> However genuinely curious about the thesis applied by the VC’s/Funds that invest in such a late stage round 1) It's evaluated as any other deal. If you model out a good return quantitatively/qualitatively, then you do th
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by mgfist 1y ago
Running a local model is not an apples comparison. Yes, if you run a small model 24/7 without a care for output latency and utilization is completely static with no bursts, then it can look cheap. But most people want output now, not i
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by mgfist 1y ago
> How about pitching an hour of work to make it easy to read on mobile? Not that I think BH cares, but in this day and age making it layout nicely on mobile is the least you can do and isn’t particularly difficult anymore. I think it loo
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by mgfist 1y ago
Well the biggest difference is most of the big foundation labs (OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI) are private companies, so it's not like you have to go out of your way to not hold any equity. This wasn't the case with Enron which was part
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by mgfist 1y ago
DeepSeek is also undercutting itself. No one is making a profit here, everyone is trying to gobble market share. Even if you have the best model and don't care to make a dime, inference is very expensive.
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by mgfist 1y ago
Lol ngl I somehow missed that. Still, it's pretty clear Enron and OpenAI are massively different companies. It's kinda strange that one would compare them at all. OpenAI is not even a public company. Their products have nothing al

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