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by rnk 4y ago
What are the things you don't like? The claim that to enable statehood you had to get more white people there seems abundantly obvious based on historical precedent and today's political calculations about what territories would b
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by rnk 4y ago
The media is not united in support of one party.
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by rnk 4y ago
I assume gates et al weren't foreseeing the rapid rise of china then. That plus the seemingly rapid advance of drones must make it difficult to plan the last few years.
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by rnk 4y ago
so we send f16s and f15s as appropriate for those tasks for which the risk is there for the f35? If there's a war in 5-10 years with china, will drones be fighting on the battlefield, maybe preventing the us' billions in fighters
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by rnk 4y ago
Yet we keep using the a-10 to fight against non-modern air defenses over and over again. It has a use. If ukraine had them, would russia be able to shoot them all down? The answer should be yes, but russia should have waxed ukraine theoreti
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by rnk 4y ago
It's not that mysterious why people want this. For people of means, they want to preserve the quality of life that they see in having mostly single family homes and in the past keep it full of white people with money, hopefully the onl
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by rnk 4y ago
They say it's that much safer but the data hasn't been available. They have only said concrete numbers for the number of autopilot beta users. They aren't running as uncrewed taxis like waymo and other companies have been doi
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by rnk 4y ago
I don't want to pile on, but I do see startup after startup that is focused on improving the cost/perf payoff of pyspark. Pyspark seems to be basically implemented by having the databricks query planner embedded in it, then it gen
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by rnk 4y ago
Thanks, that's an idea that makes a certain sense. The counter point is that technical things get replaced quickly at times when something vastly superior arrives. We don't use cpm computers or apple IIs any more. I think saying s
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by rnk 4y ago
Lindy?
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by rnk 4y ago
PySpark is such a performance killer. How many startups will there be that just have a goal to improve performance and reduce cost. It locks you into a small number of platforms (bc many dbs don't have an impl and details vary), every
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by rnk 4y ago
Are you teasing us on purpose by not suggesting some well known lean alternatives? lynx comes to mind, doesn't show images, does work ok. But what are you thinking about?
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by rnk 4y ago
China has done a good job of hiring us leaders when they "retire to become rich consultants". You see the same thing in Germany of course with their old pm and Russia. This is how the despots curry favor and get the elites to go a
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by rnk 4y ago
There's one key problem, making hydrogen without creating more carbon in the atmosphere. If they solve that, then it's worth considering. If we have fusion providing endless electric energy (which could be used to split water), th
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by rnk 4y ago
It's not about purity, it's about removing carbon from the atmosphere. All the existing industrial scale hydrogen production gets hydrogen from carbon based fuels, using other energy. There doesn't appear to be an option at t
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by rnk 4y ago
It's the next day and I'm still positive, above 0 ;-)
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by rnk 4y ago
Let's see if that is true. I don't think it is. Peter Thiel and the dark enlightenment is a bad thing for the world. NYT article. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21/books/review/the-contrar
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by rnk 4y ago
People will care because disney et al will use their legal power and money power through lobbying to try to make laws blocking these new competitor, the ai generated IP (the movies, books etc).
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by rnk 4y ago
Trying to excuse your bullying behavior by pointing at someone else's behavior isn't actually justifying your own.
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by rnk 4y ago
Every 10 years or there has recently been a major economic event that impacts the 'programmer classes'. Welcome to the early 2020s one, hopefully it will be over soon. I remember in the dot com crash tons of people left microsoft,
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by rnk 4y ago
That feels contradictory. You disagree with the person who says they don't like to hire ex-amazon, but you yourself prefer not to hire ex-amazon. Sorry, what's your point?
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by rnk 4y ago
I know several experienced people who quit less than 3 months before a big stock vest. They all said it was so stressful and terrible they couldn't stand another day, even for another 250k. Soul deadening, they called it. They all got
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by rnk 4y ago
If you worked there a decade you might be. Not everyone is in that category. If you bought a place in the Seattle area, you probably sank most of your excess money into it. That might be a temporarily depreciating asset (prices slightly dow
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by rnk 4y ago
No, that's not going to happen. First we are too independent, too many libertarians. But the main reason is I think we still feel like there are lots of opportunities to find jobs. I'd love to pay 5% or something like that for job
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by rnk 4y ago
these are already available.
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by rnk 4y ago
Varies a huge amount. I have an 8 year old tesla s 85kwh battery with 65k miles on it, known to be above average, 5 miles lost from ~272 range. Tesla has the best results for long life, it's basic matter of heating and cooling the batt
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by rnk 4y ago
Fascinating, the combination of need (more spinning machines could significantly improve use of thread spinning), the availability of coal plus the steam engines that were improved for coal mining use (bringing up the coal, pulling water ou
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by rnk 4y ago
One difference is Tesla runs on all roads basically (subject to weather view on cameras). It's gm super cruise and google that only work on road that have been imaged. It does seem that super cruise and google waymo is ahead of tesla.
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by rnk 4y ago
Hey, I'm compiling! I guess we need a new 2023 joke/true statement. How about "I am taking a break because chatGPT seems to be down". I can't translate that code from Java to Rust by myself.
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by rnk 4y ago
I have thought about that. It's hard to estimate the value of unlikely to succeed company options. The answer of course is do your own startup, so you can be the one making foolish decisions and causing chaotic development, instead of

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