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by screye 2y ago
It's a race for AGI, a VC's wet dream. The beauty of a failed investment is that it never goes below zero. So upside is the only thing they care about. Why invest in a near-zero chance for a random SAAS to take off, when you can i
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by screye 2y ago
Lots of recent incidents with regional bombardier jets. First DC, now this. Have there been any recent with major commercial jets yet ?
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by screye 2y ago
Nyc has more homeless people, but they're sheltered. [1] California homeless have higher rates of mental illness and drug abuse. It's this trifecta that people complain about - unsheltered, mentally ill and addicted. If we can sol
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by screye 2y ago
California loves kneecapping itself. I guess the solution would be to make these spots 2/4 hr parking, instead of permanent overnight parking for all. Or remove parking all together and make it easy to build private parking lots. SF&#
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by screye 2y ago
Story of America. There's a reason only this continent has excessive sprawl. Ideally, rural areas pay up. Good forcing functions for change. Maybe people move closer together (similar to European villages) or they become energy-indepen
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by screye 2y ago
Most people are scared of violent crimes. If it is a felony, I doubt it gets removed after 6 months. How many people are robbed, assaulted, violated or killed on the subway ? Those are the numbers that matter. Talking about vague 'crim
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by screye 2y ago
I can't imagine a scenario where pre-training on someone else's works is fair-use, but distilling from a proprietary LLM isn't.
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by screye 2y ago
Seattle to Japan is 11 hours. (It's 15 hours from nyc) Were you thinking of Hawaii? The west coast isn't near anything. Most of Asia is 16 hours away, which is the same for NYC.
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by screye 2y ago
Sure, a cold war has started and China is the enemy. But why make enemies out of your closest allies? The US tried tariffs during Japan's rise as an automobile powerhouse. Look where that's left the American auto industry. Sanctio
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by screye 2y ago
USD as reserve currency is a hen that lays golden eggs. The US maintains monopoly on this free money cheat through goodwill driven manufactured consent, diplomacy, financial bullying and military might. Each subsequent tool being more heavy
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by screye 2y ago
A comment on another thread mentioned California's predisposition to New Age cults. California makes it easy to avoid touching grass. It lacks the population density of the Northeast Corridor which forces social collisions. It lacks th
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by screye 2y ago
At the risk of sounding like a fanatic, I bet it will be great. Everything Astral have put out has been a step improvement to my python dev flow. Until they disappoint me, I'm staying on this hype train.
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by screye 2y ago
I track everything. (with caveats below) It's less important to get the calorie numbers perfect, and more important to be consistent in your under/over reporting. To me, it's a tool to track the consistency of my diet. No amo
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by screye 2y ago
From a historic standpoint, rights are peacetime luxuries. The US sees China as an existential threat and TikTok is one of its key weapons. Tiktok is getting banned for the same reason Cuba can't have nukes. It's a national securi
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by screye 2y ago
the US would avoid flood damage if they just built apartment buildings. Asian apartments towers are immune to flooding because they allocate the ground floor to parking. Can't blow the roof off a square concrete building either. Ofc, a
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by screye 2y ago
That's how the TGV and subways do it. You scan in. It's unconvienent if a human needs to read a ticket. But tap-in or scan-in systems are pretty fast.
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by screye 2y ago
This doesn't match my experiences with India, SEA or mainland Europe. Suburban lifestyle can only exist in a world where urban areas already exist. They rely on the city-dwellers to create the experiences, entertainment & economic
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by screye 2y ago
No one is one discord because its UI is impenetrable. Amazing VOIP though.
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by screye 2y ago
It's more like eating meat. You need to get past major mental blocks before getting used to it. Americans start conversations with assumptions like: * We need space because all amenities must be privately owned at home * You should be
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by screye 2y ago
Teens are rebellious & want to be far away from parents. It disqualifies mainstream apps like Twitter, Reddit, BlueSky, Reels & now Snapchat as well. This leaves Tiktok and now international apps like Xiaohongshu as the obvious alte
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by screye 2y ago
I dislike RTO because none of that happens anymore. The economic landscape is too paranoid (despite positive macro indicators) for employees to enjoy work. People don't want to chit chat, just clock in clock out. Layoffs threat is ever
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by screye 2y ago
All studies show that free public transit is a bad idea. There is a reason no country provides it. People mis-treat free things. When you ask them to pay for it, it enforces civic contracts. With contactless terminals in place, a free MTA b
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by screye 2y ago
There is a wikipedia article on it [1] Canada tries to hide it in official statistics, but it still peeks through. Despite being a model minority in every other nation, ethnic-Indians have the 2nd highest crime rate by race in Canada[2]. G
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by screye 2y ago
Whiplash, every time. HN's takes on cars are shockingly bad. For a community as thoughtful as HN, their responses are (to use an insult provocatively) car brained. It's as if cities don't exist outside the US. The US is decad
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by screye 2y ago
I think you're extrapolating further than I intended. I used the phrases 'low-skill-low-virtue underclass', 'slice' &'subgroup' for reasons of being precise, not as dog-whistles. 'Subgroup and sli
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by screye 2y ago
Canada has some of the most easily abused immigration systems in the world. Back home in India, it's considered a joke, with entire movies made on that premise. It has led to mass migration of a slice of India's low-skill-low-virt
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by screye 2y ago
How big is your targetable market ? How many customers would you have if you had a 100% monopoly. If the number is in the thousands or more, then you're best off trying and failing than getting it right from the start. Every company is
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by screye 2y ago
Huh, that doesn't compute. I've known Indians to treat books with respect. It's ingrained in the culture. Books can't be on the floor or touched with a foot. Kids spend days learning how to create books sleeves with brow
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by screye 2y ago
The bar for wide-audience podcasters and interviewers is low. They're expected to be generalists who can ask good questions, not experts driving the conversation. Now, expertise is valuable for focused Podcasters like Peter Attia for f
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by screye 2y ago
I wish he'd match his guest's pace of talking. I'm happy to set watch speed to 1.25x. But if they're mismatched, all speeds feel wrong.

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