nojvek

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by nojvek 3y ago
Whatever we consume, likely someone has created it. Our economic world rewards creators. Creators that capture some value of their creation. Being a creator and seller is the ultimate cheat code.
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by nojvek 3y ago
PG is an inspiration for me to start writing. It’s an uncomfortable exercise to get started but I agree that clear writing makes you into a clear thinker and communicator.
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by nojvek 3y ago
40M isn’t a small population. Canada is mostly inhabitable and they don’t have great infrastructure. So Canada essentially is small pockets of densely populated cities.
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by nojvek 3y ago
It would work for US and Canada since they’re both fairly rich countries with modern economies. Would be a hard sell for US and Mexico. Many parts of Mexico are still controlled by drug cartels.
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by nojvek 3y ago
Canada has a version of universal healthcare and strong gun control laws. They trade with US. Being a Neighbour of US, they get protection. Canada gets to have the good parts of US without being US. It would be a stupid move for Canadians.
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by nojvek 3y ago
greedflation is real. It’s real because of competition drying up. Lina Khan is either incompetent or corrupt or both. The more consolidation we have at the top, the more power they have to raise their prices without consequences.
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by nojvek 3y ago
Oh wow. I legit dislike touch screens for safety critical work. Shifting ought to be something mechanical that you can’t mistake. It gets imprinted on muscle memory. My personal rule is I should be able to let my fingers do the seeing. With
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by nojvek 3y ago
Airbnb is just a market like the rental market or house buying/selling market.
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by nojvek 3y ago
You have links to back it up? We pay a decent amount of Federal tax which should be going into infrastructure like roads. The maintenance is paid by states which should come from state property and income taxes.
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by nojvek 3y ago
The AIs will create ever larger Shai Haluds.
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by nojvek 3y ago
I support that.
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by nojvek 3y ago
Baaaaad idea! A Better policy is to get the city planners to open up X% more land to medium and high density housing. We have a supply problem, not a demand problem. Same reason why UBI makes everything expensive. An economy needs universal
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by nojvek 3y ago
IMO the law I would support is no automated marketing calls with AI voice impressions. My immediate term concern for AI is enshittification.
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by nojvek 3y ago
I did a Boeing factory tour back in the day. At the end of the tour they made everyone say “I ain’t going, if it’s not Boeing” as a way to celebrate their superior plane. Ironically the mantra now is “If it’s Boeing, it ain’t going” Oh how
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by nojvek 3y ago
IMO the question for me is how close OpenAI is to controlling their destiny. They raised $11.3B over 6 rounds at current valuation of ~$80B. It could go into the trillions if they were the first to invent AGI and ensure no one else gets it
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by nojvek 3y ago
Why does the moon need a nuclear power plant?
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by nojvek 3y ago
Meanwhile US FTC is totally asleep at the wheel. What is Lina Khan even doing? Apple is clearly being a bully in daylight.
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by nojvek 3y ago
What is OpenAI GPT doing that Mistral or Claude or LLama isn't doing? What makes OpenAI sit the high moral throne? I get Sam & Elon's ego clash but I don't understand in this day why GPT-4 is a special snowflake and other
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by nojvek 3y ago
Apple is a bully. It is a bully well because it needs to show growth. Without growth their stock get hit and the leadership feels pain. Apple is in a tough position. It is losing market share in China to Huawei. The Chinese economy is feeli
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by nojvek 3y ago
Wow! This might just convince me to use Kagi as my primary search engine.
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by nojvek 3y ago
Is this what people mean when they say "woke mind virus". I've never really understood the term. My perception was that certain groups took the idea of diversity too far and made it into strict quotas. Certain speech is restr
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by nojvek 3y ago
That we're overtrusting AI? Wonderful book on it https://www.amazon.com/Weapons-Math-Destruction-Increases-In... https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/10/1081351/are-we-r... htt
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by nojvek 3y ago
He! in contrast to Stability AI, Open AI is the least closed AI lab. Even Deep Mind publishes more papers. I wonder if anyone in Open AI openly says it "We're in for the money!" The recent letter by SamA regarding Elon's
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by nojvek 3y ago
The issue with Transformers based AI is humans think it is a golden pill often trusting it more than they should. We are far from AI that models reality.
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by nojvek 3y ago
Is SamA now Orange Man, or are you referring to Trump?
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by nojvek 3y ago
This is going to be an interesting trial. Elon has a good case that OpenAI has long diverged from his founding principles. Sam and his friends can side with Microsoft to build a ClosedAI system like Google/Deepmind and Apple. There is
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by nojvek 3y ago
16k population. Wow! Must be a chill place.
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by nojvek 3y ago
That’s because there are stronger rental laws in Germany I presume. In US, you could be on the street if the landlord changes their mind. Also for a lot of Americans rising housing prices is seen as a way to build wealth.
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by nojvek 3y ago
One of the powers of excel is that it is your data on your machine. You can work fully offline, no SaaS monthly crap. Row zero is nice, don’t get me wrong. But the whole idea of me giving them gigabytes of data, or the creds to production d
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by nojvek 3y ago
My observation is that SpaceX is Elon's most successful company. It is fully private, he has great ties with US govt and even if Starlink goes out, SpaceX will keep shinning on.

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