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by pmg101 1y ago
Anyway with money invested in inflation-hedged assets. Also anyone with a wage since wages rise with inflation too (not always and not always immediately, but generally correlated).
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by pmg101 1y ago
What deep shit do you foresee? My prediction is that this will be like the 2000 dot com bubble. Both dot com and AI are real and really useful technologies but hype and share price has got way ahead of it so will need to re adjust.
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by pmg101 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44837949
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by pmg101 1y ago
The problem is that I find the conversations that flow from these openers incredibly dull. So I just stay at home and read my phone instead, however unfortunately I hear that that is correlated with various negative outcomes. "Hi, I ha
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by pmg101 1y ago
Something the HN discussion on this topic just like the UK online safety act seems to ignore is that this kind of legislation has broad support among voters. I'd say in general people are more concerned about The Bad People than about
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by pmg101 1y ago
Yes it'd be interesting to see all those kinds of decadal costs factored in. My head is still very much turned however by the fact that rents rise with or above inflation every year, meanwhile I'm still paying off my mortgage in 2
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by pmg101 1y ago
Yes, I am apathetical because it seems self evident to me that the reason Jobs invented the smart phone and I never could is because he's smarter than me. I guess I call that humility. Perhaps the point of the quote is to encourage peo
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by pmg101 1y ago
Let's simplify by assuming you can choose between two scenarios: 1. The bank lends you £1m to buy a house, you pay them 5% interest for this service = £50,000 pa. 2. You rent a £1m house from a landlord and pay £50,000 pa for this serv
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by pmg101 1y ago
I like the quote up until the word "people" because it is quite an epiphany to realise that anything that was made can be remade. I don't buy the "no smarter than you" part though.
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by pmg101 1y ago
Terrible to read that young people's despair is now so bad that it's almost as high as mine, a person in my 40s
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by pmg101 1y ago
It'll be interesting to see if in a decade when a whole cohort of juniors didn't get trained whether LLMs will be able to do the whole job. I'm guessing a lot of companies are willing to bet on yes.
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by pmg101 1y ago
Do you mean that for every 11 devs, 10 of them are "senior" as per the example? Or that only 1 is?
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by pmg101 1y ago
It already was the case wasn't it, that you could either get one senior dev to build your thing in a week, or give them a team of juniors and it would take the whole team 4 weeks and be worse. Yet somehow companies continued to opt for
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by pmg101 1y ago
You could just teach them to be gardeners or carpenters
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by pmg101 1y ago
But doing nothing doesn't fulfill the required function, which is distraction from existential dread. Watching TV does. People do a lot of that too. Anything to save observing things as they are or reflecting on them.
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by pmg101 1y ago
Sounds fun but breaks down on further inspection. What activities, in your taxonomy, count as "just living"? Reading a novel? Reading a trashy magazine? Washing dishes? Building a model boat? Conversation? Staring out the window?
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by pmg101 1y ago
I was comparing a Hyundai Ioniq EV with a Hyundai Ioniq PHEV and was surprised to find more problems reported by the owners of the Ioniq EV. Mostly issues with 12V battery, it seemed like. In the end I bought a Stellantis EV so I probably d
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by pmg101 1y ago
I thought about PHEV but in the end went full EV simply because it seemed to me with two whole power trains that's 2x the components to go wrong/need maintenance.
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by pmg101 1y ago
Only one of these outcomes will be correct, so worth putting money on it if you think they're wrong a la The Big Short.
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by pmg101 1y ago
Sounds mad but it could work. People seem inclined to buy hybrids over full EVs which is a comparable situation.
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by pmg101 1y ago
I think what my computer science degree taught me more than anything is historical context and good taste. Of course you can develop those on the job. But it was a good shortcut I think.
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by pmg101 1y ago
It was interesting today to discover the concept of "type 2 fun". I often wondered why people did these self-evidently unfun things, purportedly "for fun".
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by pmg101 1y ago
"Documentation - or, as I like to call it, lies." After a certain number of years you learn that source code comments so often fall out of synch with the code itself that they're more of a liability than an asset.
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by pmg101 1y ago
Thanks for the correction. I guess both thinkers took a somewhat similar position and I somehow remembered Dawkins's argument but Dennett's term. The term is memorable. Do you want to describe WHY you think the design stance is ap
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by pmg101 1y ago
I remember Dawkins talking about the "intentional stance" when discussing genes in The Selfish Gene. It's flat wrong to describe genes as having any agency. However it's a useful and easily understood shorthand to descri
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by pmg101 1y ago
What do you mean by "brain rot"?
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by pmg101 1y ago
The replies to this made me think harder about pyramid schemes vs population pyramids. I concluded it is in fact OK to bring in young working people from elsewhere to fund the retirement and social services of those already here and ageing.
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by pmg101 1y ago
Isn't it a pyramid scheme where we import younger people to pay for older people's pensions and benefits... unlikely to end well, like all pyramid schemes.
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by pmg101 1y ago
Right but that is actually a strategy that makes a lot of sense. You will likely fit in well with your peers and you will likely feel comfortable with your beliefs and "knowledge". Maybe we could call it a local maximum, personall
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by pmg101 1y ago
It's the perfect product. I pick it up, I use it, it functions perfectly without thought. It's a lifelong mission to find any such tech product.

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