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by nojvek 3y ago
Depends by state. Florida has lawyer ads. “Have you argued with a woman” ads.
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by nojvek 3y ago
New vapes have Bluetooth on a small chip that tracks # of puffs remaining. Being sold for $40 bucks a at store. Crazy that we have disposable one use electronics now.
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by nojvek 3y ago
After Apple’s ad tracking blocking, Meta was worth $500B. After they announced they are full in on AI and want to be too they are now worth $1.2T. So even if they are losing a bit on infra and training investment, Meta is relevant again. Th
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by nojvek 3y ago
Humans working on farms with tractors are more productive than humans working with oxen to till land. Accountants working with computers are more productive than accountants working with books and a hand-held calculator. There will be a Par
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by nojvek 3y ago
dvassello loves attention seeking posts. There is some truth to it but the message isn’t clear. Yeah VCs make money over spread, and economic argument makes sense of Pareto principle. However this assumes only 40 1B+ exits and the rest get
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by nojvek 3y ago
Which one. There’s a few ongoing right now.
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by nojvek 3y ago
Human “farming” of animal biomass is greater than of all other land mammal biomass (wildlife), by an order of magnitude. https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/s/NazFPXrwYl We may not realize it but we are “The pl
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by nojvek 3y ago
If we want to grow US economy by making existing humans more productive per capita, then we need cheaper energy per capita, cheaper intelligent robots per capita. Also goes to say we need less NIMBY-ism per capita. We need high speed rail b
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by nojvek 3y ago
Apple stocks are already in the dumps due to them losing market share in China. If Apple cannot innovate themselves into growth they will further slide down to #3 spot behind Google. Apple has saturated its iPhone market and it shows.
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by nojvek 3y ago
> affect something in the physical world. This is satisfying. Especially anything electromechanical. In a similar tangent, I believe social media isn't really social since you don't have people face to face talking to each othe
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by nojvek 3y ago
I'm a big fan of various AI companies taking different approaches. OpenAI keeping it close to their hearts but have great developer apis. Meta and Mistral going open weights + open code. Anthropic and Claude doing their thing. Competit
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by nojvek 3y ago
AI is not your friend, it is the corporation's friend. AGI by meaning means "do what humans do, even better". AGI === cheaper human that takes no breaks, doesn't get sick, needs no benefits. If AGI gets here faster than
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by nojvek 3y ago
They changed to be Incorporated in Texas. Texas is corporation friendly.
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by nojvek 3y ago
I like the considerations topic. There’s likely also a an unsaid statement. This is for us only and we’ll be the only ones making money from it with our definition of “safety” and “positive”.
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by nojvek 3y ago
They can try reviving the age of Empires. US hasn’t directly gone into a war with another nuclear superpower. When it does, it gets dirty pretty fast. It hasn’t been a 100 years since nukes were used. And those nukes were weak sauce. The wo
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by nojvek 3y ago
If there is a clear monopoly. It is LiveNation. Ticket master is robbery in daylight. Those jank fees. Oh man, they have no shame.
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by nojvek 3y ago
This should be a benchmark. Could someone post me to where I can download the whole dataset?
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by nojvek 3y ago
DuckDB is the real magic. On an nvme disk with decent amount of RAM, it goes brrrrrr. I would love it if somehow Postgres got duckdb powered columnstore tables. I know hydra.so is doing columnstores. DuckDB being able to query parquet files
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by nojvek 3y ago
Right. And we have so few doctors because we artificially cap the number of doctors instead of letting free market dictate how many doctors we can have.
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by nojvek 3y ago
I felt this as someone who grew up religious. It was until this year that I properly internalized that the universe does not give a shit whether “human race survives”, or Earth survives. Or anything survives. Heat death of universe is slow
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by nojvek 3y ago
SpaceX and Starlink are the true wins for Elon. My perception is because he is not too deeply involved and Engineers take safety, quality and reliability quite seriously. Tesla definitely is daring and trying new things. Although the bar fo
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by nojvek 3y ago
Bay Area isn’t all that. Plenty of homeless and people barely getting by. Even founders working on the next jank app barely staying afloat of crazy rent. Successful is a weird definition. Most people in Bay Area, like the rest of the world
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by nojvek 3y ago
I was watching a video about Stanford long term happiness study https://youtu.be/IULhd1UuicA?si=6YezvfwZ5NE5ile6 The takeaway being what you mentioned. Having a long term loving caring relationship is the biggest indicator.
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by nojvek 3y ago
Hospitals also have non-competes, so doing a private practice isn’t that straightforward. But I wish we had more private practices where doctors had more control and optimized for patient well being.
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by nojvek 3y ago
> I went into medicine knowing that I will have to sacrifice much for the sake of my patients. What I am realising is that today in modern medicine, a doctor is just one of the many commodities in this complex industry. It’s no longer ab
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by nojvek 3y ago
I’m super grateful the web exists as open protocols and browsers with extensions. I can make rules to block things I don’t like. The app model is so backwards the user has no control other than what the author intended. I block reels, comme
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by nojvek 3y ago
I am convinced it won’t be human curated but AI curated. All information well organized without ads and junk. Like a super glorified Wikipedia with excellent search to dig exactly what you want.
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by nojvek 3y ago
I didn't know about Roko's Basilisk until today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut-zGHLAVLI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk Idea viruses are amazing that we can think and con
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by nojvek 3y ago
You can do to_tsvector “plain” and keep the strings intact. No lemming, stemming. We use plain tsvectors on a gin index and change the queries to allow prefix based searching. So “wo he” matches “hello world”. Perhaps I should write a blog
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by nojvek 3y ago
Should clarify which football. For most of the world football === soccer and that is a much safer sport where career athletes don't end up with concussions. American Football, like Australian Rugby is a much more violent sport.

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