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by slashdev 3y ago
I disagree that they’re the same. When you have motivation, you don’t need discipline. The work comes naturally because you want to do it. When that fades, and it will, discipline is the only thing keeping you from quiting.
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by slashdev 3y ago
That’s the ultimate nimby. Don’t even think of living or working in my city. May cities that pursue that strategy suffer the exodus of people, wealth, and jobs that they deserve.
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by slashdev 3y ago
Yet it’s my MacBook with the stupid Touch Bar that died while my “cheap crap” Alienware (Dell) laptop is going strong. It also cost half as much and has more than twice the compute.
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by slashdev 3y ago
Yep, exactly this. All the barriers to entry are decreasing the supply. The only way to fix it is get rid of them in a dramatically big way. Politicians like to point at foreign investment, empty houses, immigration, anything except acknowl
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by slashdev 3y ago
Motivation is fickle, discipline is about doing the action when you’re not motivated and don’t want to. Motivation comes and goes. Discipline shows up for work every day, rain or shine. I’ve worked on long term projects, and it’s the discip
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by slashdev 3y ago
Yeah, there is no world where Nvidia grows into this valuation. It would have to be bigger than the entire semiconductor business today by itself. If you think AI can bring that much growth, well then it could happen, but it seems extremely
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by slashdev 3y ago
I think their hardware is comparable with nvidia. The problem is the software is awful by comparison. It’s hard to run any of the AI workloads with AMD, and even when you can the performance is poor. The software investment just hasn’t been
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by slashdev 3y ago
I’m a fan of the death penalty for really egregious cases, given a hypothetical perfect Justice system. Some people are not worth trying to rehabilitate. However, the Justice system is flawed and a decent percentage of people who get the de
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by slashdev 3y ago
Nobody wants to sell right now. Partly because the demand isn’t there, partly because the prices are down a little, but mostly because they don’t want to swap a 3% mortgage for a 7% mortgage. I wouldn’t want to sell either in that scenario.
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by slashdev 3y ago
I feel a lot more comfortable wiring the money or using checks or so on than traveling across a border with that kind of cash.
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by slashdev 3y ago
What happens if you declare it? Could they confiscate it without due process, like the police can in many states?
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by slashdev 3y ago
I think it’s actually beneficial to both parties, which is why it’s become the standard. It doesn’t tell you anything about the company.
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by slashdev 3y ago
They don’t resubmit your data, but they’ll stop actively removing it from websites where it gets published.
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by slashdev 3y ago
It’s more complex than just that, there’s also tax implications for both investor and company. The liquidation preferences also apply in case of successful exit. If you have 2x preferences on this 1.2B note, if the company is acquired for l
525.
by slashdev 3y ago
There’s conversion rights to covert into equity, that’s why it’s called a convertible note. Otherwise it’s just called a bond.
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by slashdev 3y ago
The author is a French Canadian academic at Université du Québec à Montréal. He is one of the more famous figures in computer science in all of Canada, with over 5000 citations (which is stretching the meaning of famous, but still.) This is
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by slashdev 3y ago
It wasn’t all his money. Not that I think that’s what he’s doing.
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by slashdev 3y ago
> But yes, the whole American idea of "race" is weird as a European. Americans tend to mean "White" or "Black", but there's a lot of difference between a white Irish man, a white Scottish man, a white I
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by slashdev 3y ago
White is hardly homogeneous. Race is a poor proxy for culture and language. I’m not going to assume good faith when it’s not the likely explanation.
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by slashdev 3y ago
Why do you have to bring race into an unrelated discussion?
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by slashdev 3y ago
Those same engineers will still be there in the microservices world. You can argue that the damage they can do is reduced, but I don’t think that’s always true.
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by slashdev 3y ago
This is common all over the developing world. I always give them a little something, despite the feel of extortion it has to it. It’s marginally better than begging, and they will really watch the car, and often help with parking and leavin
533.
by slashdev 3y ago
I’m frankly amazed at how much you do on a bike. I’m not sure the average person could do as much, but color me impressed.
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by slashdev 3y ago
> Rooftop solar in Australia is now cheaper in some jurisdictions than transmission per kWh That is mind blowing to me. There’s definitely an argument to be made for decentralizing the grid.
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by slashdev 3y ago
> I agree with your sentiment, but think we should also have nuclear not just natural gas. Nuclear is reliable and clean. Why use natural gas if we don't need to? Because natural gas is cheap and nuclear is not. If you’re using tax
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by slashdev 3y ago
I’ve seen that one before, but I got a fresh laugh out of it. We’ll have to change the game again now that bots can beat humans at it.
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by slashdev 3y ago
There’s sodium ion, molten sodium, iron air, probably various options with iron or aluminum. There’s literally dozens of promising battery chemistries for grid storage where weight and density don’t matter.
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by slashdev 3y ago
That was built in the past, I’m talking purely about future potential for nuclear.
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by slashdev 3y ago
Solar still produces on cloudy days. The answer is a combination of storage, overbuild, long distance interconnections, and diversification ( which mostly means we keep some natural gas plants around, not new nuclear.)
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by slashdev 3y ago
Ontario is a great example where no no nuclear projects have been built or proposed at a competitive price. I stand by my assertion that nuclear is dead in the West until shown contemporary numbers to the contrary.

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