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by nojvek 3y ago
I really love US - married, filing jointly option if only one person is working. The standard deductible is a neat idea, a lot less paperwork to file.
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by nojvek 3y ago
Thank you a ton for the links.
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by nojvek 3y ago
Anything rock solid has a well thought out architecture, where the author(s) have thought through the entire problem domain and edge cases. Also has a ton of test cases to verify behavior. Prettier is rock solid but compared to rust based t
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by nojvek 3y ago
Google Search is ripe for disruption, just as they disrupted Yahoo and AltaVista in 1990s. Nothing would make me happier than the trillion $ corps being disrupted by new players offering serious value to users. Trillion $ corps rent seeking
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by nojvek 3y ago
I’m sure Elon is pissed since he has Grok. Someone now needs to make a Groc
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by nojvek 3y ago
I agree with some parts not all of them. His point of fraudulent Amazon SD cards makes sense but you could get fraudulent cards in other places too. Amazon has one of the best return policies and support. I once bought a portable AC from a
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by nojvek 3y ago
I noticed that Google is ranking Quora very high lately. Which is absurd because the first answer on Quora is usually auto-LLM answered post. I have to actively exclude Quora to get a better answer. The enshittification of the Web has truly
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by nojvek 3y ago
iOS and Android pretty much have a duopoly on mobile OSs. iOS at-least cares about user privacy but extracts a huge rent for it. I’m just sad how botched their implementation of PWAs and web apps as first class citizen is. Seems like Apple
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by nojvek 3y ago
Power in concentrated hands is seldom a good thing. Putin has concentrated power. Elon also is getting a more concentrated power with X and SpaceX. Elon can force enough of an algorithmic change to amplify conservative extreme views to elec
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That didn’t work for me. This does https://archive.ph/o4rsO
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by nojvek 3y ago
Nowhere in the video does he say “we’re sticking with Russia”. He has crafted every word with precision “strategic autonomy and non-alignment, we stand for peace” That is what good foreign policy looks like.
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by nojvek 3y ago
Conservative Americans - love guns, many states have open carry. Children go through active shooter drills in kindergarten - I’m not kidding, our kiddo went through it. They can’t handle titties or dicks though. Against porn, against prosti
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by nojvek 3y ago
Don’t want to downplay the concern. With modern machine learning is there an opportunity to build a better accessibility tool? Something that works on any set of pixels and sees like a human does? I.e parses text with OCR.
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by nojvek 3y ago
Child abuse? They are being asked to think about what is going to be the impact of climate on their lifetimes. And yes, going from 260 to ~500ppm of CO2 in atmosphere will have an impact on them. Better be prepared.
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by nojvek 3y ago
Xitter is perhaps Elon’s Xittest company so far. I was a daily user. With so many bots and ads, I only visit when I see an interesting link on the wide web. I still find to hard to digest Elon blew ~40 billion on it and made it worse.
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by nojvek 3y ago
Universal Basic Income has NEVER been tried. i.e Giving every citizen of a relatively large country (> 10 million) a fixed sum of money every month. It works on small samples because that doesn't suddenly change the demand curve rel
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by nojvek 3y ago
'Grand Unified Theory' or the 'Theory of Everything' is to unite Quantum Mechanics with General/Special Relativity. At scale of things in space (asteroids, planets, satellites, stars, galaxies) - We only need two c
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by nojvek 3y ago
It’s essentially asking why is the speed of light 299,798,452 m/s or the gravitational constant 6.67x10-11 Nm2/kg2 I’m sure a universe could work with those constants varied but that’s the one we have in our universe. There could
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by nojvek 3y ago
I believe startups can still make it if they can crack making solar + battery cheaper than $0.15/kwh, or bio fuels cheaper than gasoline. The sun is free 1.3kw / meter energy for ~5 hours in the sun belt states.
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Andrej inspires millions. He’s the Taylor Swift of AI/NNs. I really hope he’s next gig is at an actually Open AI company.
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by nojvek 3y ago
Not sure why you got downvoted. You are correct in terms of jobs not lost. However you can be both correct and wrong at the same time. What we're seeing in US economy is the largest transfer of wealth from middle class to wealthy class
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by nojvek 3y ago
Averages are a very bad way to look at things. Elon could be in the midst of a 100 homeless folks and the avg would be still billionaires. SF is a polarized city. Rich tech bros close to people barely making by. This was Chinese new year. I
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by nojvek 3y ago
Most presidents died before Biden got his first term. I wonder whether this will be the norm in US. I really thought this time the Republicans will get someone younger but I guess not. Nikki H is a long shot but time will tell.
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My biggest lesson after visiting SV multiple times is that the companies are super forward thinking when it comes to software. But the city council is pretty incompetent. It is a govt monopoly with no real incentive to be competent. The zon
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by nojvek 3y ago
Likely gonna get downvoted for saying it. Wasn’t this the whole point of bitcoin? To guarantee a slow increasing supply of coins with a fine upper limit of 21 million bitcoins. Only 2 million more left and they get increasingly take more en
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by nojvek 3y ago
True. My point being that all of mega tech corps are like hive intelligences. They are all optimizing for shareholder value. At that scale, the individuals don't really matter. If you make your Job your identity, you're in for a b
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by nojvek 3y ago
This ^ Gimme a battery electric with 100 miles. Then a tiny generator and a 50L tank. If I go on a long drive, I fill up with gas. Otherwise home charging every night. I’m really hopping someone comes out with a dirt cheap hybrid car - fash
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by nojvek 3y ago
Google is printing more money than ever before. Google could likely fire 1000s more and it wouldn’t change their trajectory. Same with Meta, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon etc. Their core businesses are massive empires. They can make so many stup
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by nojvek 3y ago
Could someone explain why Canada with their 40M population (almost 10x smaller than US) is running into highly overpriced homes? Canada is one of the largest countries on the planet. Why can’t Canada build more homes? Also why can’t we ban
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Got any sources on that? I'd like to learn more.

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