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by powera 3y ago
Based on the tone here, it seems that NIMBY's don't want people building in anyone else's backyard either ...
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by powera 3y ago
Sigh, more drama from San Francisco. Theft and homelessness are fine, but if perchance something makes it more difficult for you to drive, it is suddenly a catastrophe.
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by powera 3y ago
I didn't like the article. Very long, and very shallow. It seems to take as an axiom that the status-quo of "residuals"-based payments is worth defending at all costs.
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by powera 3y ago
Tweet 2 in the thread is "buy my company's product instead".
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by powera 3y ago
There is a certain sense that Elon Musk paid $44 billion to do this, so he has every right to do so.
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by powera 3y ago
As is so often the case, the Signpost is trying too hard to be clever and sarcastic, and we have a worthless piece as a result.
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by powera 3y ago
I would not touch this with a 10-foot pole, and would be likely to reject an investment possibility based solely on this being on the cap table. It is marketed as being a way to preserve angel-investor equity in the event of an outsized e
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by powera 3y ago
A riddle: how do you know that an anonymous Reddit post is exaggerated?
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by powera 3y ago
Just because you can , doesn't mean that you should . Nobody should be running their personal website on their cellphone. When I read this type of diatribe, I hesitate to agree with it. Abstract considerations of freedom lose out t
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by powera 3y ago
Elon Musk lies so frequently, I don't believe this is true. I think he is just making up excuses for the news coverage.
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by powera 3y ago
The word "breakthrough" tends to imply something more than "we still don't know it's possible; and if it is possible, we are only closer to the next accomplishment because of the linear nature of time rather than an
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by powera 3y ago
There is a massive gap between "a lab which can do fusion once every six months" and "a power plant which can do fusion more than once per second". And "net energy" is still a bit of an accounting hoax; it&#x27
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by powera 3y ago
It's proof that one is part of "the in-group". The fact that it is an extremely stupid word only serves to make it more valuable proof.
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by powera 3y ago
Nope. That is discussing "an atom of hydrogen with 1 proton and 3 neutrons". Which kind-of exists, but is too unstable to be meaningful. The press release says it is a molecule of 4 hydrogen atoms. Neither the press release nor
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by powera 3y ago
As always, any press release about "quantum" is fake. What is "H-4"? How could this be used in solar panels? Did they use quantum computers for anything other than to spice up the press release? There are no answers.
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by powera 3y ago
Bad use of statistics. 42% of companies seeing more attrition than expected doesn't really mean "worse than we thought". But the author is in the business of selling pro-WFH consulting, so the facts don't really matter.
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by powera 3y ago
This is a bad idea and cannot possibly work as well as the commenters here are imagining it. But it is easy to say "this would be big if true" and difficult to prove "these cannot make anything close to enough electricity to
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by powera 3y ago
It is astonishing how many people are saying that Nate Silver must be wrong here, because he is going "against the experts". The damning comments are those made by the experts! But, because the disliked Nate Silver is involved, c
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by powera 3y ago
The facts aren't entirely clear here. But, hypothetically, if the insurance company did this ... it's not a privacy violation. Your "right to privacy" doesn't extend so far as to forbid your insurer from viewing yo
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by powera 3y ago
The cult of "alignment researchers", who feel that nothing other than "funding alignment researchers" is necessary to solve any possible AI problems, strikes again.
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by powera 3y ago
I really don't like this take. Of "climate change is vague, and unmeasurable, and literally every severe weather event will be blamed on it". There is a very simple graph at https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/tre
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by powera 3y ago
If a web application is making dozens of requests to invalid domain names, shouldn't the web browser do something about it?
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by powera 3y ago
Come on. Taking the Tourmalet (one of the recent climbs on the TDF) at Strava [ https://www.strava.com/segments/4951896 ], the fastest time for men was 47 minutes while the fastest time for women was 56 minutes. Women do
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by powera 3y ago
There is a critical flaw with this analysis: sometimes, relatives of politicians become notable because of their famous child. Bill Clinton's father, mother, and step-father all have Wikipedia articles, all of which are there solely be
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by powera 3y ago
Everything might cause cancer. https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/webmd-and-the-tragedy-... The current system (especially CA Prop 65) makes it impossible for these pronouncements to carry any meaning whatsoever.
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by powera 3y ago
For most businesses today, Google ads are not cost-effective. This applies double when you are buying ads for your company's name: you would have gotten the clicks even if you weren't paying! But people still do it, presumably on
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by powera 3y ago
It wasn't "irrational VCs" starting a bank run that caused the SVB problems. It was the very clear fact that the bank was insolvent, except under "we can pretend all their customers will leave their money at below-market
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by powera 3y ago
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36408700
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by powera 3y ago
I am more inclined to believe this is "a cabal of toxic moderators have revealed what they are, and Reddit is rightly removing them from the project". When loyalty is a facade to keep malevolent people in power, it is no virtue.
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by powera 3y ago
The reflexive anti-Facebook crowd is strong on this one. What we have here is a list of a few dozen random names, with a strong Tumblr vibe to it, claiming they will block something Facebook-related in the future. Will they? Probably not.

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