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by niceice 2y ago
Yes it does. He knows how to solve hard problems. Ending the vaste waste, fraud and abuse is a huge spagetti code problem.
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by niceice 2y ago
It's the opposite. This paints tech nerds as the heroes.
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by niceice 2y ago
They are fixing our non-democratic government that has been wasting trillions of our tax dollars, while we have increased homelessness, physical and mental health crisis, and other problems that have been ignored for decades. The NYT just r
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by niceice 2y ago
There's a good chance it will happen, Musk has been pushing for this.
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by niceice 2y ago
Most of the metrics that matter have gotten worse over the past decades. Under both democrats and republicans. Education, physical and mental health, cost of living, healthcare costs, wealth inequality, I could go on. When you see all the s
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by niceice 2y ago
A case of being too early? Like the grocery delivery companies that went defunct before the era of Instacart.
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by niceice 2y ago
Average age of engineers and scientists in the Manhattan Project was 25. Our current gerontocracy is ahistorical. Perhaps one reason startups work so well is they are one of the few places that still let young people exert agency. The avera
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by niceice 2y ago
Why would bigcorps want employees to know that faking work while getting paid is even a thing?
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by niceice 2y ago
The entire app is banned. They use a different one called Douyin.
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by niceice 2y ago
That is still the case and no where else is even close. https://www.statista.com/chart/30815/top-destination-countri... https://news.gallup.com/poll/468218/nearly-900-million-world...
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by niceice 2y ago
EV sales are down in Europe generally. "Registrations of battery-electric cars declined by 9.5% to 130,757 units in November 2024. This drop was primarily driven by a significant decrease in registrations in Germany (-21.8%) and France
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Proved my physics professor wrong with help from my 3D printer(old.reddit.com)
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by niceice 2y ago
That's more than I would have thought. What generates that? How much of it is consulting?
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by niceice 2y ago
That's what he is doing. He designed the department to have an expiration date.
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by niceice 2y ago
That would be out of character for someone that opened Tesla's patents and lets competitors use the supercharger network.
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by niceice 2y ago
SpaceX started with a small faction of that, just $100 million.
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by niceice 2y ago
Would you have disagreed with Ilya about AGI? Or do you just disagree with the cost and timeline? Ilya reiterated on July 12, 2017, “Each year, we'll need to exponentially increase our hardware spend, but we have reason to believe AGI
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by niceice 2y ago
"For the first time, the report delved into race and ethnic data of those who died by euthanasia. Around 96% of recipients identified as white people, who account for about 70% of Canada's population. It is unclear what caused thi
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by niceice 2y ago
A more efficient government helps everyone.
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by niceice 2y ago
It's quite simply about efficiency.
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by niceice 2y ago
Then you'll be surprised to learn that the USA is the country that attracts the most international migrants by far. https://www.statista.com/chart/30815/top-destination-countri...
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by niceice 2y ago
From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a42key59cZQ Dwarkesh Patel How do you sustain yourself while writing full time? Gwern Patreon and savings. I have a Patreon which does around $900-$1000/month, and then I cover the
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by niceice 2y ago
It was surprising to only recently learn how little money Gwern makes and lives off of. And then beautiful to see how the internet responded. https://x.com/Suhail/status/1857102763249004655
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by niceice 2y ago
Any estimates of how much one of these cost to generate and keep a minute of context? Secondly, any estimate of how much the price could fall in 5-10 years?
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by niceice 2y ago
He should be more careful with his words, but they're resorting to cherry picked quotes and guilt by association to mislead: "appeared onscreen next to" It's unserious. To get his actual opinion, which is nuanced, you ha
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by niceice 2y ago
That's the rational response, but in practice what we saw is that anyone who questioned the Covid vaccine was instantly labeled anti-vax. It didn't matter if they were fine with all other vaccines. It didn't matter if they ju
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by niceice 2y ago
A lot of is the abuse of the label anti-vaxxer. It's being misapplied to people who aren't against vaccine technology. RFK, who is vaccinated along with his children: "I’ve been fighting 40 years to get mercury out of fish. N
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by niceice 2y ago
(12 months from now) We switched from Astro to SkibidiJS
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by niceice 2y ago
Isn't it still a React problem? They could have chosen to not rely on dependencies and you don't have to add more to it.
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by niceice 2y ago
Or is it that performance creates a network?

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