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by pokstad 8mo ago
Social media is like tobacco. We went after tobacco for targeting kids, we should do the same to social media. Highly engineered addictive content is not unlike what was done to cigarettes.
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by pokstad 8mo ago
> Data centers in space only make sense if they are cost effective relative to normal data centers. Author made a fatal mistake. By flying enough hardware in space, you can simply blot out the sun and steal their solar capacity. Drink th
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by pokstad 8mo ago
Didn’t Elon say that orbital solar collection was a stupid idea due to energy loss in transmission? Using AI as an almost proof-of-work shows that it may potentially be more complex problem than previously thought. If we threw Bitcoin miner
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by pokstad 8mo ago
100%. Go on Facebook or Instagram today and you’re more likely to see viral videos than to see anything to do with your friends. It’s just a moth to flame.
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by pokstad 8mo ago
Has Steve Wallis stealth camped in LAX yet? Good concept for an episode.
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by pokstad 9mo ago
You know rocket science was founded by literal Nazis, right? We actually brought them to America to run NASA and get us to the moon.
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by pokstad 9mo ago
While we’re on it, I don’t want the internet on my stove or car either.
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by pokstad 9mo ago
Really it’s the US government that it turns the screws on. China doesn’t need to comply with US regulations to produce their cars.
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by pokstad 9mo ago
> They have been pointing China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, a radio telescope referred to as FAST, at these targets since July, hoping to see the signals again. This is how you get Trisolarians knocking on your doo
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by pokstad 9mo ago
Until you solve the tow range problem of electric trucks, it’s going to be hard to replace ICE-based vehicles.
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by pokstad 9mo ago
I just watched a Veritisium video that said the same thing: https://youtu.be/XRr1kaXKBsU
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by pokstad 9mo ago
Cost is definitely a factor, but I think the ease and convenience of a dog over the stress of children also plays a big role. Dogs are obedient and mature in less than 2 years.
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by pokstad 9mo ago
I watched a documentary on dogs that was cheerful until the last 5% when they mentioned modern day dog owners. The film speculated that dogs might be a considered like a parasite that infiltrates human families and causes them to stop breed
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by pokstad 9mo ago
Put the onus on the social media companies, then have a 3rd party investigate how much content is bypassing their own protections and then fine them. Give a kickback to those investigators to incentivize them to find more violations. Rinse
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by pokstad 9mo ago
Social media has the power to ruin a child’s life by letting them publish self incriminating information. A normal website is a primarily read only interaction. Prohibit child generated content and let kids view websites.
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by pokstad 10mo ago
This reminds me of how many Facebook employees were mad at Zuckerberg for going MAGA, but didn’t make any loud noise at the rapid rise of teenagers committing suicide or the misinformation and censorship done by their platform. People have
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by pokstad 10mo ago
“Stripped stellar core” is a crazy concept I could never come up with on my own. A literal diamond in the sky.
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by pokstad 10mo ago
Maybe we can do away with the expensive battery if we feed power to these cars using overhead cables.
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by pokstad 10mo ago
As someone with kids, I’m really surprised to hear this. I viciously keep my kids off social media. There’s no political connection. It’s a safety and mental health concern.
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by pokstad 10mo ago
Nothing wrong with Kafka. Time to build better abstractions on top of Kafka.
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by pokstad 1y ago
I guess you never drank from a fresh water spring?
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by pokstad 1y ago
Soylent green will be affordable when the baby boomers start passing.
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by pokstad 1y ago
Imagine a future world where the richest people never die and rule over the poor mortals.
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by pokstad 1y ago
I think he was more influential to the younger generation. I saw Gavin Newsom interview Kirk, and Newsom opened by saying his son followed Kirk to a certain extent.
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by pokstad 1y ago
How does that make sense? Wouldn’t high interest rates and tariffs cause more expensive engineers to have disproportionate opportunity? I remember during 2008 it was much easier for my employer to justify junior engineers than senior ones.
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by pokstad 1y ago
People need purpose. It’s not enough to work in an Amazon warehouse selling stuff from China to make ends meet or driving Ubers. These manufacturing jobs aren’t low skill industrial age jobs, they are highly skilled professions that improve
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by pokstad 1y ago
Exactly. Don’t boil the ocean searching for a perfect solution. Create solutions that match their requirements and nothing more.
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by pokstad 1y ago
Well then maybe it is easier to let someone else do the heavy lifting first
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by pokstad 1y ago
But the Soviets made them second…
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by pokstad 1y ago
You can run it yourself for free

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