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by ren_engineer 3y ago
this applies to an entire national economy, Silicon Valley was successful due to having hardware and software right next to each other, same thing for US manufacturing in general when we were a powerhouse. We then let our government get bri
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
maybe those universities can use some of those multi-billion dollar endowments to pay a decent wage to their grad students and professors? Always find it funny how these institutions who are statistically dominated by left wing individuals
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
the ultra wealthy put all their assets into trusts or charities that dodge taxes and don't require selling anything. They can then take out loans using those assets as collateral when they need cash
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
it's basically impossible for US inflation to get to baseline until the federal government stops the massive deficit spending, Fed can only do so much by raising interest rates when the government is spending 25% of GDP and 1/3rd
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US inflation increased more than expected in December- 3.4% YoY(bbc.com)
2 points by ren_engineer 3y ago|3 comments
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
>But then, looking forward years in time, people start leaning more heavily on that and stop posting to Stack Overflow and the well of information for AI to train on starts to dry up for coding tasks I'd imagine it could be trained
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
I love having our energy grid being reliant on a geopolitical rival. I'm sure this won't end in disaster >China makes 80% of global solar panels >controls 95% of overall supply chain for solar https://www.downtoea
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
the Silicon valley of the last 15 years was a 0% interest rate phenomenon, going to take a long time for normalcy to return after a decade of distortion to organic market forces
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
you'd be amazed at how many startups waste 100s of thousands(and millions) of dollars on buying seats for tools that barely anybody uses. Interest rate increases have made VC startups get a little smarter, but a few years ago it was re
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
the issue is it takes effort to determine if the idea is good or finding subtle errors in generated code, generating it with GPT requires almost no effort from the person who then offloads it
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How to get coworkers to stop giving me ChatGPT-generated suggestions?(workplace.stackexchange.com)
145 points by ren_engineer 3y ago|128 comments
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
They also allow for creating custom actions using structured data to external APIs and file upload for RAG type use cases. And they can call out to code interpreter, DALLE, and Bing
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
and based on how ChatGPT itself was built after seeing how customers were using their API, I'd be willing to bet that OpenAI will simply copy the most popular ones with an "official" version. Developers are going to act as fr
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
my take is that even without significant improvements over the current level of LLMs you are going to see significant impact on jobs and society over the coming years. There's so much low hanging fruit just by improving the UI around t
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
cell phones were a proven product by the time the iPhone came out, Apple just made a way better one. VR is still unproven beyond enthusiasts at this point, so it's a bigger risk of failure in my opinion
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
>multiple monitors so do I, haven't looked too deeply into Apple Vision honestly. My post was just conjecture on the most viable use case short term. there was an HN thread discussing it, seems like it would come down to how well Ap
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
>With Mac Virtual Display, users can even bring the powerful capabilities of their Mac into Vision Pro, creating an enormous, private, and portable 4K display, ideal for pro workflows this to me would be the more immediate selling point(
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
got to love how small the world is. For those who don't know, this guy has ties to Mossad and his daughter was Epstein's handler with Les Wexner funneling the money.
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
and if you look at the industries where jobs were added in December 90% of them were directly or indirectly tied to government deficit spending. If/when the government is forced to cut spending you are going to see a lot of job losses
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
you're using one of the most regulated and government lobbied industries as an example of "unchained capitalism" ? Boeing would have went bankrupt years ago if it wasn't for their sweetheart government contracts and favo
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
>Yeah there is a nice crossover also in religion, where some sects have agreed that theories like the Big Bang are not incompatible with a creator. The "Big Bang" theory was literally created by a Catholic priest, the name was
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
realistically the solution is going to be artificial wombs, which are already being tested in Japan and the US. They'll get them in the door initially for women who can't have kids naturally or homosexual couples, but eventually i
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
"fortune is of sluggish growth, ruin is rapid" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_effect Look at how easily supply chains collapsed due to lockdowns, complex systems are hard to sustain and the focus on eff
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
>We need to remove as many impediments as we can to child birth and rearing - for example changing how we work so that children are compatible with productive and fulfilling careers Most European countries already support this but their
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
>but in my opinion there is a tight relationship between population density and the housing market there are entire towns in Japan with empty houses, the problem is globalization which resulted in jobs being centralized in a handful of c
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
>I'm not sure if America actually cares about those types of war and military considerations any longer. Have you looked at ship construction times lately? it's kind of funny because the US won WWII by the ability to churn out
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
Everybody wanted to control the entire pie, when in reality almost all of them would have been better off just licensing their content to Netflix and not worrying about streaming distribution
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Fable Studio open sources SAGA AI agent simulation framework(blog.fabledev.com)
5 points by ren_engineer 3y ago|0 comments
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
OP of the thread says they talked to multiple financial advisors but they didn't listen. If they'd just put the majority of it into stocks 6 years ago and forgot about it the OP would have nearly doubled their money.
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Inherited 2M dollars and now 100K in debt(old.reddit.com)
5 points by ren_engineer 3y ago|4 comments

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