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by sangnoir 2y ago
I can't tell if it's just uninformed grassroots mistrust of big tech, or the result of astroturf PsyOps to get more people to use the app with weaker encryption.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Competitiveness is an economic concern one can ignore while the government is willing to pour billions on a decade+ timeframe
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Extra miles don't earn Tesla additional revenue. Aside: do you believe that Elon's actions are motivated by the desire to reduce gas emissions in red states, or is this more of a thought experiment? My hot take is that his frustra
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Would you be surprised if some people swear off buying BMWs for that reason?
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Step 1 is to stop buying things (or not) because you care how it will make you look to other people who don’t actually care Car OEMs invest millions in branding on the basis of/to promote the opposite of what you're saying: t
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Even if German cars don't last, when they roll off the assembly line, they don't have panel gaps and loose or missing parts. There's also a difference in brand positioning. If I know nothing except the car one drives, driving
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Companies do this all the time though. The trade off is, of course, that you get more support from customers the other side If by "do this all the time" - you mean pander towards a specific affinity group, then I agree. Patag
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by sangnoir 2y ago
"Hovel" is the opposite of industrial housing, etymologically, and evokes the images of ad-hoc slums rather than soviet-style brutalist blocks. Industrial housing is a step up from what OP described (no running water or electricit
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by sangnoir 2y ago
...vs "providing" housing like developed nations in cramped shelters, in cars and on the street? FYI: multigenerational households are a cultural artifact, not an economic one. As one might assume, hovels without water or electric
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> It’s really difficult to make solid state components that work at million+ volts. You can split (or add up) the million volts as transmitted at either end so the individual components only work across a small fraction of the 1MV potent
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by sangnoir 2y ago
I'll be the devil's advocate. Zero interest rates means it's easier for startups to raise money. High interest rates locks in the status quo - because of their massive war chests big companies don't struggle because of h
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by sangnoir 2y ago
How is this a change in job description? It may be a failure of imagination on my part, but it sounds like you're still doing what you have always done - you've changed the how.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
What I'd give to have a look at the roadmaps to see how they hope to 10x/100x VC investments with a text editor and terminal.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
For those who don't have the latitude of uploading their code to Microsoft servers, smaller, limited but fully local AI is better than nothing.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> What's up with this artificial limitation? I'd take frame back function over not having to install some codec pack once any time Then VLC is not for you - and there's nothing wrong with it or you - you just happen to
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> However, I argue that if the engineers are interrupted by QA issues, they will be motivated to find ways to not have those QA issues. There are institutional limitations that engineers cannot overcome, no matter how zealous or motivate
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by sangnoir 2y ago
So what's your mental model for the protectionism by the US against Chinese EVs and batteries despite the push for renewables by the same administration? > The textile industry has completely left the western world and no one is c
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by sangnoir 2y ago
I understand that. Your national government (or politicians) will likely disagree.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
In many places in Texas, the soil can ruin foundations of single-storey buildings if allowed to cycle between wet and dry. To overcome this, watering the foundation is a requirement to maintain a baseline soil humidity level. Snails thrive
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> But who would go through the pains of manually making up a mushroom identification book, while perhaps being quite clueless about the topic, on the faint hope of selling a few copies Err, at least 1 person: English As She is Spoke[1]
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> I don't grok why Tesla does it and I don't grok why BYD does it either. > Thing is, super cheap EVs and solar panels is exactly what we should want. It's plain to me how this can come into conflict with National Inte
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> I don't grok why Tesla does it and I don't grok why BYD does it either. User data is valuable[1], and storage is now so cheap, for a modest sum, one can keep data forever without deleting[2], so keeping car telemetry/vid
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> You shouldn't be liable for debts incurred after having your identity stolen but proving that is a lot of work. The first step is to call it what it is: fraud by misrepresentation. The owner wasn't deprived access to their id
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by sangnoir 2y ago
So, the original author is an American living in Ohio, and made the comment in the year AD 2018 while critiquing an essay about the New Deal. I'm confident you can make a good-faith educated guess on which country and period they were
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> But there simply has to be control and restrictions over the use of software for it to be commercially viable (in almost every case). True. But not all software has to be commercially viable, arguably the most useful/critical an
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Searching for it is the only way you can find the word, because tweets containing the word are "reach-limited" (and appropriately labelled to the author, so they are discouraged from using that "slur" ever again).
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by sangnoir 2y ago
If you're in a charitable mood, the context on when, where and who originally made the statement will provide clues on which strain of conservatism the statement is referring to.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> OpenAI trained on tweets, but it also trained on tweets Not only that - Grok is/was trained on ChatGPT output, which I suppose Musk felt was turnabout. When asked about its identity, the first Grok would respond like ChatGPT ( htt
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Even in an alternative world where agency rule-making was totally abolished, and everything has to be enacted directly through legislation, Congress could still defer to experts to draft that legislation. What are the odds that the exp
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> If you are happy to contribute code and then have them take it and sell it under a closed source license; or at a later stage just decide to relicense the whole thing as closed source; go for it. Isn't this a core feature of the &

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