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by qgin 4y ago
Are they really facts? 8/10 current millionaires grew up middle class or lower. Most wealth is lost in 2 generations.
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by qgin 4y ago
It doesn’t make sense to me why pay is so low in Europe. Is there actually that much less demand relative to supply?
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by qgin 4y ago
Don’t mix up engineer culture with being spolied. Engineers will find ways to trade social boilerplate for efficiency whether they get paid 500k or nothing at all.
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by qgin 4y ago
HN doesn’t do happy very well.
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by qgin 4y ago
Inflation is good for those who hold debt. 5% inflation means you owe 5% less, in real terms.
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by qgin 4y ago
Not being glib, but I think we’re going to keep moving the goalpost until humans don’t even qualify as being sentient. And maybe that’s actually the real truth we learn from all this.
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by qgin 4y ago
Even Washington Post writing clickbait titles. Nothing in the article talks about “decadence”
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by qgin 4y ago
Would you say that’s the most likely explanation given the current state of models like this?
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by qgin 4y ago
It’s harder to use AirTags for this than other existing trackers. The tag will eventually start beeping if it’s traveling away from the owner. If you have an iPhone, you’ll get notified that a random AirTag is traveling with you.
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by qgin 4y ago
The ability to call back to references much later in the conversation blows my mind. >collaborator: Johnny 5 struggles to convince people that he is sentient, but he finds some friends who recognize this. >LaMDA: I think that’s import
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by qgin 4y ago
I promise I’m not trying to be cute when I say this. I regularly talk with a family member with dementia. And this conversation gives much more of a sense of presence and consciousness than the conversations I have with that family member.
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by qgin 4y ago
What is your reasoning?
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by qgin 4y ago
Fayetteville AR is 99.9% Walmart hiring
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by qgin 4y ago
It's going to take awhile for people to feel confident investing in downtown Portland again. Things were getting regularly destroyed in 2020. Apple is just beginning to install a permanent plexiglass barrier around the Pioneer Square s
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by qgin 4y ago
I have a hard time not imagining the shoe Community (season 5 episode 8) where the college starts using an app that rates every interaction between people. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_Development_and_Condimen...
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by qgin 4y ago
India has lots and lots of developers today and has had lots for a good long time now. But it seems there are factors beyond this list that prevent the majority of US development jobs from being shipped to india.
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by qgin 4y ago
People buy crypto in hopes of getting rich. The "revolution" story is what people tell themselves to morally justify getting rich off the money of later buyers.
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by qgin 4y ago
Came here to recommend the same thing. The core concept of the book is figuring out what you want/need and finding ways to actively work with others to get what you both want/need. It doesn’t mean you can’t help people without adv
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by qgin 4y ago
That’s definitely Uber’s biggest obstacle. But in some ways, until autonomous vehicles can go everywhere, they need a blend of autonomous cars and human-driven cars to be the first stop app for rides. Then they can route an autonomous car o
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by qgin 4y ago
It’s not about the victory or loss of either party. It’s saying there are two Americas developing simultaneously and people in each have different health outcomes. Are the parties causative? Or are they just the labels that we have to descr
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by qgin 4y ago
There’s a still-untested possibility that Uber / Lyft / DoorDash can become profitable when autonomous vehicles scale out and they can stop paying humans for labor and the use of their private vehicles. Hard to model the economics
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by qgin 4y ago
No, you’re talking about option #1, which I also agree is better. That’s not what’s happening here. If you see a program that doesn’t have equal access, and instead of doing the hard work to get to equal access, you just get rid of the prog
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by qgin 4y ago
There’s two ways to equity. 1. Make sure everyone has access to opportunities. 2. Get rid of all opportunities People are going for the second one despite the fact that it doesn’t actually improve anyone’s life. Its like solving homelessnes
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by qgin 4y ago
Oh yeah, I'm not saying it's fun for everyone. But when people say we don't need a state because humans can naturally organize themselves, that's the organization. And it only really works up to a certain number.
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by qgin 4y ago
Groups under a certain size (Dunbar * ?) can be managed socially with personal reputation and shame and shunning and all that. The state comes from living and working in larger groups than can bring managed socially.
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by qgin 4y ago
Limiting energy use while continuing to use carbon-emitting, non-renewable sources is literally the worst way forward.
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by qgin 4y ago
Am I crazy or didn't 4chan used to just be a slightly more wild and messy cousin of Reddit? I don't remember it being 24/7 neonazi clubhouse back in the day.
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by qgin 4y ago
Considering that we have no way of knowing if we ourselves actually have physical bodies or not, I feel like this is a big claim.
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by qgin 4y ago
That’s 100% true, but the tradeoff will likely be police not just using the taser in those instances, but a ton more that would have previously involved zero force involved or may not have even happened before the taser device made it so e
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by qgin 4y ago
In SF, theft under $950 is a misdemeanor. In Texas, theft under $2500 is a misdemeanor.

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