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by nojvek 3y ago
> The Whole Earth Catalog preached self-reliance, teaching young baby boomers how to build their own cabins, garden sheds, and geodesic domes after they had turned on, tuned in, and dropped out—well before they grew wealthy enough to buy
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by nojvek 3y ago
Machine learning is done with python, AI is with in powerpoint slides and marketing pages.
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by nojvek 3y ago
We could do with a president that actually cares about making life better for US citizens than being involved in someone else’s wars. Other democracatic countries that want to buy US weapons can do so, but we shouldn’t be spending billions
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by nojvek 3y ago
Ultimately the courts and police enforce. Many laws aren’t enforced. So if you think the knuckle shaped screwdriver is actively harming the population, then you can go to court.
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by nojvek 3y ago
Each H100 is ~$30,000, so $3.8M in capex cost. Roughly $1/hr/GPU in power cost so looking at 128 24 7 = $21,504. Cheap compared to OpenAI, but not something an indiehacker can do by themselves unless they have millions to burn.
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by nojvek 3y ago
Related paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.08632.pdf ‘Pre-training on the Test Set Is All You Need‘ GPT-4 is really smart to dig information it has seen before, but please don’t use it for any serious reasoning. Always t
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by nojvek 3y ago
The Supreme Court ultimately rules what “bear arms” means, so not just the politicians. The constitution is vague, so it’s upto interpretation. And Supreme Court judges aren’t elected.
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by nojvek 3y ago
All the Silicon Valley startups will now have engineers working on if (user.location.state == “CA”) … Just like CCPA. I wish other states would join.
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by nojvek 3y ago
Guns are part of constitution, really really hard to take it off. It needs super majority, not even a majority suffices. Amending the constitution is legit really hard.
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by nojvek 3y ago
Correct. China is moving the fastest in large 5 economies to decarbonize their economy. They produce and install more solar panels then every other country combined.
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by nojvek 3y ago
There’s SpaceX Elon and a Xitter (pronounced shitter) Elon.
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by nojvek 3y ago
Unless an economy produces more physical goods and services, adding more money simply inflates the prices. UBI is a feel good measure with bad second order economic measures. The idea works only if paired with policies that legit increase s
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by nojvek 3y ago
What happened to “May the best player win”? The US can throw a fit, but technology is inherently human and RISC-V is an open instruction format. Sooner or later China will get a powerful working chip. Not in the best interest of US to be an
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by nojvek 3y ago
Many sites like Google including my banking sites send me an email when a new IP / location is used for login. This alerts if there is a sudden login without my knowledge and one click to disable. 23&me could have definitely done t
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by nojvek 3y ago
There ought to be a law “no mandatory fees like tips on top of advertised priced other than tax”. No pre-selection of tip amount allowed. The default should be 0. Sure someone can choose to tip, but the default payment experience ought to b
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by nojvek 3y ago
US does whatever the President, Senate, Congress votes to do at the time. It seems US is learning it's lesson but only takes one president to declare a war. Iran and Afghanistan were massive failures and trillions of tax payer dollars
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by nojvek 3y ago
UBI as a concept sounds nice on the surface, but it's second order effects lead to inflation and economy is mostly back to where it was, just with higher prices. It's been played out multiple times as govts hand out stimulus money
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by nojvek 3y ago
Correct. I always find cheaper prices on Expedia than I do at Marriott’s website or their counter. But Hyatt is almost always cheaper directly. Hyatt is my fav chain, they maintain a proper standard of service for their price. I’m a believe
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by nojvek 3y ago
> For a box a square meter in size it can produce 5 liters of drinkable water per hour. Let’s see if the claim is possible from physics and math perspective. In one hour the water is boiled to evaporation and then cooled (I presume with
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by nojvek 3y ago
What is the suggestion then? Either we increase supply of houses to meet increased demand from higher population, or you decrease demand by evicting illegal immigrants or killing some people. Can’t beat demand and supply dynamics with fairy
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by nojvek 3y ago
OP mentioned a reasonable argument for the lack of supply. A country ought to first serve its citizens before citizens of another country. Analogous to you’d first take care of your own kids before aiding others. Yes Ukraine is in a war and
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by nojvek 3y ago
I disagree. There a people who are nice and there are people who get capital and talent together to build new technology that makes per person productivity increase tremendously. With Elon, he brought to cost of sending payloads into space
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by nojvek 3y ago
There is no magic bullet to database migration unless your app is deployed with the database itself and can atomically switch to new version as a DDL change is committed, or you take down the whole ship in maintenance mode and bring it back
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by nojvek 3y ago
The entity making Edge is mostly Google. Edge is a shell on top of Chromium engine. Chromium/Chrome team(s) is easily a few 100 million loss making, only profitable because of ads. No one pays for the browser. It’s a loss leader. So sp
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by nojvek 3y ago
Source for Google >50% market share on edge?
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by nojvek 3y ago
Without paywall https://web.archive.org/web/20231002181005/https://www.nytim...
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by nojvek 3y ago
Like Tesla going against dealerships, this is very much needed. In general the best markets are have low transaction fees, efficient, trustworthy, maintain minimum quality bar, and many balanced players on both ends. In this scenario NAR ha
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by nojvek 3y ago
You’re right in that the buyer pays the seller so the seller pays the agents so ultimately the buyer is paying for everything and hoping he will find another buyer down the lane willing to pay more than 6% of the price he paid to at-least n
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by nojvek 3y ago
A median 4B house in greater Seattle area is now 1.5M+. 6% of that is 90,000. Buyer and seller agent each take 45,000. That’s about a Tesla for each of them. Good realtors make a fortune without creating any productive value in economy. The
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by nojvek 3y ago
There’s some truth to that but our algorithms and datasets have advanced in the last few years. Especially since the CNN + Transformers revolution. Many large well labeled datasets available for things on the road or home. So one could say,

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