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by nojvek 3y ago
The executive order from Biden very much read that defense will spend billions on AI and that money will only be spent on companies that lobby heavily in their favor (Microsoft via OpenAI and Alphabet via DeepMind). Now I love Yann, but Met
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by nojvek 3y ago
Republicans are all pro-life, no abortion yada yada, but they are so against increasing minimum wage. Against child credits, which is a huge help to parents and did in fact reduce child poverty. Seems like a double standard when their actio
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by nojvek 3y ago
I pay for YouTube. Although they jacked up price from $9.99 to $17.99 with 0 difference in offering. I know the latest cool post pandemic is to keep on jacking up price until you see churn but that really rubbed me off. It felt very fuck-yo
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by nojvek 3y ago
Source?
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by nojvek 3y ago
Webcomponents will outlive React 13? Sure. Will they outlive React entirely or its cousins like Solid and Svelte? Perhaps not. Webcomponents and React look like they solve the same problem but they do not. Webcomponent api is pretty shallow
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by nojvek 3y ago
People intentionally or unintentionally get under trains and get killed. Train service in many countries continues to function. The thing about trains is the rails are only made for trains. I don’t think it is a good idea to mix human and m
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by nojvek 3y ago
> Application error: a client-side exception has occurred Doesn’t work on iOS. Page crashes.
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by nojvek 3y ago
Exclusive deals and market capture. Essentially they’ve captured the market. Venues and artists are no longer in the free market. It needs a big powerful player with deep pockets, startups don’t stand a chance.
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by nojvek 3y ago
The thing with manufacturing, at-least in the US is that it is very capital intensive. Doves of undergrads applying to YC get funded for SaaS apps, but only a few startups building hardware. The money isn’t there from investment or returns.
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by nojvek 3y ago
Hehe. Mostly boomer and ultra rich wealth jumped. Affordability index has been dropping for decades. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FIXHAI
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by nojvek 3y ago
Arxiv is a blessing, I would not be where I am without Arxiv and all the folks openly sharing their research. I don’t like that deepmind gates their research behind nature and other publications. I acknowledge it puts them in the cool kids
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by nojvek 3y ago
I want prices to come down, I want affordability to go up . Who cares if wages go up and prices go up even faster. The question is not what is the price of a house, but how many hours does a median wage worker need to work to afford their h
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by nojvek 3y ago
Wow! I did not expect this. Convoy was hiring like crazy at one point, touting how fast they are growing and how much money they have raised. They were going to be the Uber for Trucking.
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by nojvek 3y ago
We’ve been using vscode containers for our complex repos since getting deterministic Python environments are almost impossible with current tooling. For our node/js repos, yarn does a great job at keeping things simple, deterministic a
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by nojvek 3y ago
It’s only going to get better, no way to put genie back in the box. The whole point of AI/automation is to slowly chip away what needed exclusively humans. From the perspective of folks accessing and paying, does it matter if it is AI
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by nojvek 3y ago
That would be wonderful but doubt that is happening. Real estate agents will fight this tooth and nail. They make soooooooooo much money with current arrangement.
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by nojvek 3y ago
Perhaps their AI is just a big black box, it outputs if banned or not, no reasoning. No one has cracked proper reasoning AI based like human commonsense. Human commonsense is legit really hard.
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by nojvek 3y ago
The current reality of tech isn’t great. More than half a million jobs lost post 2021, yet the top tech companies are back to their top valuations with much smaller headcounts. There are very real risks with AI. - concentration of power and
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by nojvek 3y ago
So it’s essentially using a few compression techniques 1. Palettes aka dictionary compression 2. Storing as column arrays + run length encoding 2. Binary encoding instead of ascii All standard techniques used in modern compression, especi
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by nojvek 3y ago
Ah this implies definition of wealth is purely $ value, not what their inflation-adjusted “afford to buy material goods and services” value.
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by nojvek 3y ago
While I love the article and premise, he doesn’t make any points on preventing monopolies, rent seeking and regulatory capture. Like the “It’s time to build” article, it’s great VC porn but a16z is still mostly funding SaaS companies instea
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by nojvek 3y ago
Why would equitable wealth distribution make housing expensive?
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by nojvek 3y ago
That sounds rad. Would love to visit. Masai mara and Serengeti are incredible indeed.
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by nojvek 3y ago
California gonna do what it does best, keep on banning/restricting new building projects. Meanwhile the existing gas station owners would be relishing the regulatory capture that allows them to charge absurd gas prices and bag those pr
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by nojvek 3y ago
We don’t know how well maintained Russia’s nukes are. US has invested a lot in deterrence of ICBMs and Missiles. So if both Russia and US were to fire their ICBMs in quick succession (mutually assured destruction) scenario, it’s likely the
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by nojvek 3y ago
Their YouTube demo shows a full 24hour flight. They’re the perfect scrappy startup with fast iteration cycles.
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by nojvek 3y ago
They could deny any of the AI bots crawling their content and build their own AI. The way things are going, there’ll be islands of content and AI trained on it. Like how Reddit and Twitter closed crawling of data.
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by nojvek 3y ago
This is only until Dec 2017. The world is a lot different after Covid. Car prices have definitely shot up quite a bit.
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by nojvek 3y ago
IMO the biggest shift with remote work is building a culture of writing and async communication. Like sitting down, thinking clearly, writing your thoughts and sharing. At Stripe, this was perhaps the biggest differentiator in their culture
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by nojvek 3y ago
Without paywall https://web.archive.org/web/20231015070154/https://www.teleg...

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