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by ojbyrne 1y ago
Correct, but then there's all sorts of value judgments involved. And things that are "good" just become part of the background. Makes me think of Louis C.K. and his "Everything is Amazing and Nobody is Happy" bit bu
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by ojbyrne 1y ago
Just quibbling, but obviously tech also enables good that was previously not possible.
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by ojbyrne 1y ago
FWIW, he makes about $10 million annually in endorsements. https://www.profootballnetwork.com/saquon-barkley-contract-s...
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by ojbyrne 1y ago
FYI, India has surpassed China for the largest population.
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by ojbyrne 1y ago
I was just looking at water usage in the Las Vegas area and found that one Google data center in Henderson consumes 320 million gallons a year. Just for comparison I looked at golf courses in the area and 1 golf course consumed 450 million
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by ojbyrne 1y ago
My experience is if there’s no typos, it’s probably AI. I don’t see any typos.
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by ojbyrne 1y ago
Define “Indian companies.” Define “American companies.” I think you will find that the companies you put in either of those categories are actually multinational companies.
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by ojbyrne 1y ago
You can basically already do this. https://www.google.com/search?q=self-sponsored+h-1b+visas
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by ojbyrne 1y ago
You have to be logged in to see the comments. So…
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by ojbyrne 1y ago
Does fiber optic cable become obsolete? I don't really know. But I know servers do.
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by ojbyrne 1y ago
I believe it was a joke.
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by ojbyrne 1y ago
My understanding is that the bulk of revenue comes from television contracts. There has been speculation that that could easily shrink in the future if the charges become more granular and non-sports watching people stop subsidizing the spo
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by ojbyrne 1y ago
“No Tax on Overtime” ditto. As I understand it if it’s overtime negotiated through a union contract, you’re out of luck.
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by ojbyrne 1y ago
Of course. So if you’re the employee, you’re going to sue? If so you’re paying for your lawyer, and the company is paying for theirs. Guess who goes broke first.
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by ojbyrne 1y ago
I used to say that the last 10% of software takes 90% of the effort. All the 70 percents and 80 percents in that article reminded me of that.
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by ojbyrne 1y ago
The fact that the us$ has dropped 15% vs the Euro in the last 6 months suggest that won’t necessarily hold forever.
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by ojbyrne 1y ago
My sister, sadly. Long time ago now, but definitely filled with mixed emotions from this article.
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by ojbyrne 1y ago
Slight amendment. It's actually a little worse than you describe. Like a machine, if this is amortized over 5 years, it's subject to the "half-year convention" - the assumption is made (to keep things simple) that the en
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by ojbyrne 1y ago
I haven't looked at the tax rule in detail, but it looks like the "half year convention" for amortization applies. The "half year convention" means that when you amortize a purchase, it's assumed you purchased
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by ojbyrne 1y ago
My mother, somewhere around 1976, told me that basically when men get married, they lose all their friends. But they get all their wife’s friends. Which seems prescient to me. Including their husbands, obviously.
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by ojbyrne 1y ago
Also not a lawyer, but I think that there are legislated laws that superseded that, and since its legislated, you can't just go back and choose to enforce one law without the others. In particular, Wikipedia tells me that the Reciproca
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by ojbyrne 1y ago
The US hasn't declared war since 1942. They seem to have fought a few large ones since then.
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by ojbyrne 1y ago
From the article: “all-stock deal” “As part of the deal, OpenAI is paying $5 billion in equity for io. The balance of the nearly $6.5 billion stems from a partnership reached in the fourth quarter of last year that involved OpenAI acquiring
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by ojbyrne 1y ago
I'm currently reading a book about the American Revolution and it mentions the adoption of "coppering" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_sheathing That seems like a significant technological advanta
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by ojbyrne 1y ago
It seems like another part of the fallacy might be that we only hear from people who have regrets.
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by ojbyrne 1y ago
I would guess he means Marc Andreesen.
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by ojbyrne 1y ago
Straw man. Nobody said anything about “getting rid of its military entirely.”
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by ojbyrne 1y ago
Or maybe it’s people who can charge at home are more likely to buy EVs.
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by ojbyrne 1y ago
I think 4 year olds know how to do that. Follow the exact letter of what they say, but doing everything else outside the bounds of "do this" the way you want to. I.e. "It's time for bed" means "I'm going t
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by ojbyrne 1y ago
Wikipedia supports the claim that she was an intern for Ted Kennnedy, but none of the rest. Interestingly she has an asteroid named after her. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez

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