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by rib3ye 3y ago
They may be referring to close family members. These are the people mostly likely to offer unsolicited parenting advice in my experience.
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by rib3ye 3y ago
I wouldn't post that publicly. But then again, I didn't create Copilot.
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by rib3ye 3y ago
The question is not, "Does this guy hate/understand crypto?" The question is, "Is this guy right about centralized platform regulation causing industry-wide collapse?"
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by rib3ye 3y ago
Why isn’t anyone pointing out that there were many demos of people walking around, and some of them, in an office with other people? It’s almost like, after spending $10B on the space, he doesn’t have a clue what he’s talking about /s
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by rib3ye 3y ago
Bitcoin is not just a technological play but also a political play. Try explaining to someone why they are wrong about voting for <idiot you voted against> and the reason becomes obvious.
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by rib3ye 3y ago
I've heard the same theory from several friends and family serving in the US military (not in any IT capacity).
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by rib3ye 3y ago
For me, intention matters.
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by rib3ye 3y ago
I am not as confident about predicting the future but I like to think that the current demand for a Snowden pardon, despite “Russia”, would have been significantly louder.
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by rib3ye 3y ago
The irony of VICE publishing a piece about a “ticket to nowhere” is very hard to ignore.
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by rib3ye 3y ago
The alternative is me sitting at my desk, with my back to the kids, while I tell them to stop bumping into my chair. Which one seems more engaged with their kid?
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by rib3ye 3y ago
> Does someone really sit on their couch, put on a massive headset, and scroll through their vacation photos? If your photos are: 1. 3D movies 2. viewed in a collaborative setting instead of trying to show your stupid phone to everyone a
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by rib3ye 3y ago
That’s the point. These stories are recruiting for ongoing and future programs.
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by rib3ye 3y ago
This has to be the most re-posted piece on HN https://hn.algolia.com/?q=War+Is+a+Racket
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by rib3ye 3y ago
I also wonder if we are beginning to accept criminality as class elevation. That’s a society I don’t want to be a part of.
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by rib3ye 3y ago
Sometimes I get the feeling personal accountability is becoming bourgeoisie.
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by rib3ye 3y ago
> User stories as requirements are bad. User stories as work items might be ok. I think better said: user stories as completion requirements are good. Can the user do it? Then check that off. If the PM comes back and doesn't like ho
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by rib3ye 3y ago
The last part is the big one - the manufacture fragmentation delivers an incoherent user experience. Every year Apple delivers a major iOS release that makes it "feel" like a new phone (I won't even debate that the improvemen
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by rib3ye 3y ago
Probably a vastly unpopular opinion in HN but don’t we think sitting at home alone all day, working remote, could be related? Humans evolved to be physically social, is 100% remote really the right direction for American society?
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Chile to Nationalize Lithium Industry(reuters.com)
208 points by rib3ye 3y ago|235 comments
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2023 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting [YouTube](youtube.com)
3 points by rib3ye 3y ago|0 comments
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by rib3ye 3y ago
Organized, concise, and not wordy. Props to the writer, he shows a deep degree of written communication skills on a topic frequently cluttered with jargon.
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by rib3ye 3y ago
You don’t think English propagation had anything to do with British colonialism?
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by rib3ye 3y ago
I guess this is not really developer-friendly, but I only want to sideload apps with their source published on github. And in that case, I can download, sign, package, and load the app on my phone myself. I cringe every time I check the &qu
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CA Electric Bills on Income(ktla.com)
26 points by rib3ye 4y ago|45 comments
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by rib3ye 4y ago
Sometimes I go to In-and-Out Burger and I see hiring posters on the front door. One year ago they offered $19/hr starting pay. Today the poster says $22/hr. Something is up.
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by rib3ye 4y ago
So workers are 10x more productive! Are there not enough papers to annotate? The writer still needs a specialist to make sure the LLM is going the right thing. Aren’t the comparisons to blue collar labor a little much here? If I hire 10 peo
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by rib3ye 4y ago
Perspective of an SF homeowner and resident for 20 years. I also raise young kids here. In 2000, there was observably more crime everywhere , but rents were cheap and as a young person I enjoyed the relative lawlessness. Market St used to
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by rib3ye 4y ago
What some people might call "negativity", others might call "risks", and I want to have as many risks on my radar as possible. The crime is marketing benign events as risk.
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by rib3ye 4y ago
Pre-SVB Peter Thiel: True example of the best of the hacker mindset! Post-SVB Peter Thiel: Dark and selfish example of the worst of the hacker mindset.
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by rib3ye 4y ago
It's not just the profit incentive. Imagine a world without lending against liabilities: yes, some people will be able to buy a home, pay for college, buy a car without a loan, but the financial friction will keep a vast majority of pe

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