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by pclowes 7mo ago
> “His manifesto obsesses over abundance, over the elimination of material suffering, and a future in which technology has lifted constraints that currently limit human possibility. These are goals I can get behind. But "forward&quo
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by pclowes 7mo ago
Anecdotally talking to teacher friends they have significant app fatigue. Multiple apps, crappy chrome books in the class room, they are basically a low grade system admin and IT support on top of trying to teach. Everything is benchmarked
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by pclowes 7mo ago
Fair but almost everything in almost every industry is downstream of interest rates. Capital allocation gets much harder in a 7% market than a 2% market.
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by pclowes 7mo ago
I still strongly feel all layoffs to date have much more to do with interest rates than AI. This may change but I am deeply skeptical of massive RIFs being caused by AI at this point. Look up FRED data in Interest Rates, SWE job postings ov
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by pclowes 7mo ago
I do hand tool woodworking as a hobby. Aside from rough dimensioning, all the final cuts, planing, mortising, carving, dove tails etc are done by hand. Sometimes using tools over 100yrs old, not out of some fetish for the past, they are jus
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by pclowes 7mo ago
Hows that working for SF so far?
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by pclowes 7mo ago
I dont understand your solution, houses are expensive because there are too few of them in desirable places (otherwise we have plenty). The govt becoming a command economy wrt to housing does not fix the supply. If the govt is just supposed
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by pclowes 7mo ago
See San Francisco. Also generally anywhere else where prices are rising and developers can’t develop and yet there are a lot of affordable housing policies. CA as a whole has mismanaged this so badly they have a net migration outflow. Also
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by pclowes 7mo ago
NYC is fairly high density. Has stopped building massive new skyscrapers and has water on two sides. It is also a tier 1 global city culturally AND economically. Its not really reasonable to expect to be affordable.
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by pclowes 7mo ago
Affordable housing in a vacuum disincentivizes development and results in worse affordability. Affordable housing used as an incentive or way to overcome other barriers to housing (density limits, height limits, zoning etc) that makes the m
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by pclowes 7mo ago
But where do you draw the limit on moving the line in? Do I get to demand affordable housing overlooking Central Park in NYC? Beachside in Malibu? If you want large incentive for development at scale you need to allow developers to make fat
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by pclowes 7mo ago
I would expect the development of Austin to continue until market equilibrium and then pause. Decreasing margin does not mean equilibrium. Obviously austin is not at equilibrium because we still have price data on developer activity and th
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by pclowes 7mo ago
In this case affordable housing nets out as a way to overcome policy barriers to market rate housing. So it actually makes the market freer. Many other implementations of affordable housing further raise the barrier and thus even if any is
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by pclowes 7mo ago
At scale banks only win as a facilitator of economic growth. As the adage goes they can only 3-6-3 if someone is making at least 7. For the everyman banks not winning is catastrophic.
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by pclowes 7mo ago
I dont think its just that. Nimbys also see: - many new building being very ugly (side note: ugly buildings no matter how green get torn down and are this not as green as building that are beautiful) - increasing density bringing increased
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by pclowes 7mo ago
Its wild how the solution to housing costs is really just: Build more housing. Keep law and order. No it doesn’t need to be “affordable”. Yes rent control is a terrible idea. Just build more housing. Note: that the US already has plenty of
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by pclowes 7mo ago
If you are visiting nature in any vehicle you are messing it up. Gas prices are pretty much trivial unless you: - drive a lot (which in that case you’re really messing up nature regardless of ICE vs EV) - own a fleet - are really tight on f
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by pclowes 7mo ago
Everyone is saying EVs are the future but most EVs cannot compete with many of Honda’s offerings. Eg. I need to move 6 people and significant gear (skiing, camping, biking etc) long remote distances. There is no EV that can do that really.
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by pclowes 7mo ago
I am uncertain of the utility of any mandated screen based technology or app in K-8 education. We keep investing in it and the standard scores keep falling. Teachers are often juggling multiple apps and now have an IT job on top of their wo
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by pclowes 7mo ago
“Hell-ya brother” 100% agree even with half your experience.
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by pclowes 7mo ago
I don't recall any recession with respect to tech in 2020. It was a hiring frenzy. Any commentary about tech jobs that does not include the interest rate environment and the massive over hiring that occurred between 2019 and 2022 is bo
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by pclowes 8mo ago
You can just do things. Not everything needs a study, you don’t have to justify yourself to anyone! Try things, if you like them, do them! Try not living a neurotic “study” based life, I am trying it and its pretty great!
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by pclowes 11mo ago
This is a farce. Handwringing about a cat while SF drivers kill hundreds per year, and SF policy kills thousands.
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by pclowes 11mo ago
I dunno, for a while it was the most valuable company on the planet. While you might not like his judgment it seems plenty of people did.
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by pclowes 1y ago
Honestly, stuff like this makes me want to leave my smart phone in the garage when I get home and have a single desktop linux box that is in a “computer room” hardwired and the house has no wifi or smart anything and every other screen goes
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by pclowes 1y ago
I fear the move to LLM based search is a short term boost with a potential long term cost. Yes they are very helpful. But what is the incentive to create more blogs for them LLM companies to scrape for novel tech? They are great for answeri
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by pclowes 1y ago
I agree, and personally think we need to be very careful about surrendering data privacy in order to stop the bad guys or creating a surveillance state to police immigration.
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by pclowes 1y ago
Is he wrong? This has historically been very true. The nuclear deterrent has significantly decreased the probability of civilian or armed forces dying as a result of conflict globally.
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by pclowes 1y ago
There are plenty of reasons to critique Palantir but this article comes across as so ham-fisted, conspiratorial, and wanting facts that it actually makes me more sympathetic. Critiques of Govt contractors really need to be grounded in first
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by pclowes 1y ago
For inspiration in this direction see Patrick Collison's great list: https://patrickcollison.com/fast

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