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by quonn 2y ago
Explain?
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by quonn 2y ago
Can an uber (eats) delivery really be an order of magnitude more expensive and still be viable? Same for Airbnbs, which already cost 30-50% of a hotel. However I agree that the gig economy artificially distorts the employment statistics by
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by quonn 2y ago
Yes: to specialists that have typically another 5 years of formal education on top. They do not refer patients for relatively trivial topics covered in the first year of a bachelor‘s degree.
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by quonn 2y ago
> Auth is a solved problem by minds much smarter than my own. Imagine a doctor making such statement about their field of work. Do you have a degree?
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by quonn 2y ago
> MBA types too, although they tend to think the solution always comes down to treating everything as a market or something to be solved with a market mechanism
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by quonn 2y ago
What you like to call an economic "war" is simply policy. Whether the policy is "There should be no barriers when trading with China" or it is "There should be many barriers when trading with China" - either wa
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by quonn 2y ago
Right, but intelligence/smarts and consciousness are not the same.
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by quonn 2y ago
We know for a fact that for humans consciousness only exists in parts of the brain and can be turned off using drugs, sleep and accidents. It is almost certainly the same for all animals with a brain. Given the fact that plants have no brai
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by quonn 2y ago
I‘m sure it‘s factual and common, but it‘s tone-deaf given the slide deck title.
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by quonn 2y ago
It will not matter less and less because China can and will satisfy that demand themselves without relying on American products. So far the US exports about half as much to China compared to the exports to the EU (2022). And it will likely
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by quonn 2y ago
This always went both ways with the EU providing a market. When the US stops to provide defense, watch and see the EU reaction, starting with all things digital.
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by quonn 2y ago
Literally on the second slide: "I’ve done engineering since the turn of the century, and led small teams and biggish orgs." If that is not navel-gazing or humble bragging, what is?
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by quonn 2y ago
But Google came years late. I used multiple search engines before Google finally emerged as a winner. altavista, excite, hotbot and others; there was a huge hype around the Lycos IPO and then alltheweb was a thing for a time and then Google
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by quonn 2y ago
Maybe they changed their mind on it in the last 10 years. I had as the source a high-ranking BMW manager as well as an Audi one who each gave a public lecture at a university with such a statement.
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by quonn 2y ago
> not being able to drive the car I had plenty of recalls and it never happened even once that I could not drive the car before the recall.
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by quonn 2y ago
It‘s not just Musk. Most automobile manufacturers have maintained that they need to find a way to do it with cheap and pretty sensors.
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by quonn 2y ago
How is he within scope? At best he might have contributed to advancing engineering science, but is that really the case? Has he not rather merely financed engineering science and perhaps not even engineering science but just engineering pra
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by quonn 2y ago
> Hell a single cotton shirt requires 2000 liters of fresh water That‘s a surprisingly small amount of water. Just a typical shower uses 150 liters and all it does is keeping you clean for a day. On the other hand a cotton shirt can last
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by quonn 2y ago
> What we eat, by far, is the element that most impacts the planet. By far. No it isn‘t.
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by quonn 2y ago
About half of CO2 emissions are electricity, heating and transport. Not beef. And for those we have viable solutions that either do not lower subjective quality of living or even improve it, but they are not sufficiently implemented by enou
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by quonn 2y ago
That is balanced by not having to heat. The more likely explanation for the first two is that plenty of fossil fuels are available so they are used inefficiently.
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by quonn 2y ago
It‘s only slavery if those beings have emotions and can suffer mentally and do not want to be slaves. Why would any of that be true?
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by quonn 2y ago
Wouldn't that just be lying to people? Most of the measures you suggested, especially straight up give people money will just increase inflation further.
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by quonn 2y ago
Rewriting probably even more risky. In my experience the kind of change that is needed to make the function testable rarely introduces bugs. Rewriting the function will likely introduce bugs, especially if bugfixes have been done on the ori
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by quonn 2y ago
> I also think that mass source scraping for ML/AI training will make businesses less likely to participate in open source. I totally agree with this. And not just businesses, individuals too.
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by quonn 2y ago
On other words, the product can just return control to the user at the moment when there is a problem, so they don‘t take responsibility.
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by quonn 2y ago
> Energy will get so inexpensive in a few years (10?) Any evidence for that? I predict the exact opposite. The price of energy will rise.
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by quonn 2y ago
How is this food for thought? OpenAI had an unfair advantage by starting out as a non-profit.
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by quonn 2y ago
AC equipment is replaced at the end of its lifetime and picked up by professionals. That's a fact. And as I pointed out, even if it wouldn't be picked up and leak _completely_, then it would still be 50x less than the average car
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by quonn 2y ago
Please provide a source for this wild claim. Nothing winds up outside, unless it leaks. The gas can and does get reused indefinitely. Additionally and just to put it in perspective, a typical AC Split-Setup contains around 1kg of R32 which

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