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by sfblah 1y ago
How do they escape the reality that the Earth will one day be destroyed, and that it's almost certainly impossible to ever colonize another planetary system? Just suicide out?
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by sfblah 1y ago
The problem with effective altruism is the same as that with most liberal (in the American sense) causes. Namely, they ignore second-order effects and essentially don't believe in the invisible hand of the market. So, they herald the b
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by sfblah 1y ago
I substantially prefer the term "Emancipation Day," as it gets the point across more clearly. Lots of people don't know what "Juneteenth" means, since it's not a real word.
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by sfblah 1y ago
I was interested in making an open-source version of strava, so along the same lines. I hate how strava blocks so many features if you don't pay. The idea was to make a lichess to strava's chess.com. I'm just not sure if ther
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by sfblah 1y ago
According to this other thread posted on HN today, the issue isn't AI, but the end of zirp. Some even argue that AI and GenAI coding is all just hype: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44136117 Of course, I think th
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by sfblah 1y ago
I literally am in the process of firing someone who we no longer need because of efficiencies tied to GenAI. I work at a top-10 tech company. So, there you go. That's one job.
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by sfblah 1y ago
You're right, of course. Most of this thread is some sort of weird motivated reasoning by people who are terrified of the reality of what lies ahead. I work at a top-10 tech company. We've stopped hiring junior talent, and it&#x27
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by sfblah 1y ago
Examples of blockchain use cases?
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by sfblah 1y ago
Presumably "the world" used enough engine help to do this.
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by sfblah 1y ago
So you're saying it's something like an updated version of Yahoo Small Business?
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by sfblah 2y ago
Clean up the crisis, yes. Destroy the future of the US economy by endorsing ZIRP and massive government spending for more than a decade? No. People give Obama a pass when they shouldn't. This stuff didn't start with Trump. The pro
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by sfblah 2y ago
Oh? Then how do you explain massively increased adoption of such technologies right after the financial crisis? You're assuming the world works the way people say it does in a business textbook. The real world is messy, and people don&
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by sfblah 2y ago
Yeah, I mean people love playing political games with this stuff. But the actual crime was what happened between 2009-2012. Trump is just a symptom. Yes, he's a bad guy, but what do you expect people to do?
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by sfblah 2y ago
I strongly disagree with this point. History shows that most companies don't deploy cost-reduction technologies until forced to by economic conditions. When there's a recession, deployment of AI will be next level.
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by sfblah 2y ago
My opinion on this is that the damage has already been done. Successive administrations have already loaded up debt massively and participated in a Ponzi scheme with the Fed to pretend asset valuations in the US make sense. Sooner or later
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by sfblah 2y ago
I've been tracking this (literally on paper). I've moved around 75% of my queries to LLMs from search engines. And, the main reason I use search engines is because of queries on mobile, where the devices still make it much easier
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by sfblah 2y ago
https://archive.is/YCgdP
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by sfblah 2y ago
I'm a citizen, but I work with folks who are from India and are in the Green Card system. They have application dates going back all the way to 2015. They constantly tell me stories of how the date for being able to get your GC changes
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by sfblah 2y ago
Thanks for the context. Agreed it's amazing what people can do it such an unforgiving environment.
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by sfblah 2y ago
This is the most important question. What's the best practice? Firefox? Something else?
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by sfblah 2y ago
For years I've been reading commentators tell me that QE completely and permanently changed the nature of valuations in US markets. Now, perhaps, we'll finally get to see whether that's actually true or not. If they're r
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by sfblah 2y ago
So are you saying that landing the lunar lander in 1969 was substantially harder than SpaceX landing its boosters back on Earth?
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by sfblah 2y ago
To be clear, it's likely funded by people using Google search as the default on Mozilla.
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by sfblah 2y ago
I thought traceroute always used icmp.
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by sfblah 2y ago
When asked for use cases, they give a bunch of niche things like wildfire monitoring. What is the actual market for this stuff? Is it all spy satellites? Better versions of Street View?
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by sfblah 2y ago
I didn't see any data on the loudness of the sonic boom. Isn't an important part of the idea here to diminish that significantly?
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by sfblah 2y ago
The thing is, most of the reason for the fees you’re complaining about is things like government regulation and insurance. Now, you may not like the government regulation, since in many cases the governments are corrupt (South America is a
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by sfblah 2y ago
Most people will just use Instagram Reels or YouTube shorts. They’re identical.
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by sfblah 2y ago
It seems like they'll need a lot of different vehicles to catch the second stage given the number of pieces I saw in the video.
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by sfblah 2y ago
In basically every other era of investing since 1930, you would probably have benefitted from that approach. While I think you're right to set aside the prudence you were targeting in favor of a passive investment approach, I also thin

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