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by somethoughts 2y ago
"But I know that I won’t be tuning in for the next episode of All-In to find out. I will not fall prey to Gell-Mann Amnesia." Not sure if the author - Michael Bateman - will ever see this but if he does - just a thought - it could
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by somethoughts 2y ago
Agreed - I find it useful to get unfiltered insight into how ultra high net worth people think about the world and view/approach things and what sources they use to form opinions. I also find it useful to compare/calibrate how mu
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by somethoughts 2y ago
I found this useful The Problem with Ikigai https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeX6kNbaF0w The TLDR I got from is that first - that the diagram itself was made up by someone trying to write a business blog/book. The secon
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by somethoughts 2y ago
My hot take is that the part that got lost in translation as it transitioned into a pithy airport bookstore business book is that it originally didn't have to be a single activity that covers all of the Venn diagram. It is more about m
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by somethoughts 2y ago
I suspect its a probably a combination of abundance of caution based on past bad experiences/lawsuits as well as also being good for margins: The Surprising Reasons Soft-Serve Ice Cream Can Be Dangerous To Eat https://www.ya
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by somethoughts 2y ago
It'd be really interesting if you could allocate your donation to specific branches of the government (i.e. NSF, Pre-K, etc.).
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by somethoughts 2y ago
Interestingly a lot of the larger philanthropic organizations are just as administration heavy as the US government and suffer from the same mission creep and the same obfuscated, bureaucratic decision making process, etc. Not to mention t
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by somethoughts 2y ago
I'd have to say I find the most interesting part of this article is that it is in the WSJ. This feels more like it belongs as a fun musing in the New York Times or Atlantic that has a slight twinge of "I'm a bit more intellec
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by somethoughts 2y ago
I think if the company could offer Fiber To The Curb and then the last 10-20 feet between the curb and the house's router was either DSL or Cable or 5G, that would ba huge win. FTTC would avoid this scenario at least where a heavy user
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by somethoughts 2y ago
This looked interesting last time I looked into using Mindustry to teach coding to kids. The original Logic programming seemed a bit too low level. https://github.com/cardillan/mindcode https://mindcode.her
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by somethoughts 2y ago
I feel like creating software applications is not what leads to high salaries as a software developer. Its creating software applications and then signing up to support said software codebase for 100K+ users and agreeing to pager duty and t
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by somethoughts 2y ago
It's a really good example of why one should not name your company after your surname. At some point if you sell your company, you are putting the surname of all your descendants in the hands of some other entity outside of your/
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by somethoughts 2y ago
I think it's part of the uniqueness of the United States that different states can try different experiments. If states like Texas and Florida governance want to run fast and are ok with potentially breaking things environmentally by e
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by somethoughts 2y ago
Is this notable due to the lack of HN comments?
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by somethoughts 2y ago
I wonder if its partly an issue when there is a combination of : - decriminalization of drug use - free access to treatment centers - lax laws regarding unauthorized camping that would a large number of dedicated drug users to migrate from
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by somethoughts 2y ago
I think knowledge work perhaps is more similar to being a composer rather than a musician. Musicians performing existing pieces add touches of nuance but are penalized if deviating too much from the original. A composer on the other hand sh
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by somethoughts 2y ago
I think its instructive to look at the early history of Google and Facebook. In the early years they did not really turn on the ad revenue levers and just focused on increasing users (i.e. Don't Be Evil) - until a decade after offerin
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by somethoughts 2y ago
The hypocrisy is apparent when you notice that the pretty much the only brand of products that miraculously does not have third party resellers listed (and hence escapes third party inventory commingling contamination issues) is Amazon Basi
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by somethoughts 2y ago
The hypocrisy is apparent when you notice that the pretty much the only brand of products that miraculously does not have third party reseller listed (and hence escapes third party inventory commingling contamination issues) is the Amazon B
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The Economic Case Against Free Range Parenting (2019)(marketwatch.com)
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by somethoughts 2y ago
The annoying feature of Facebook and LinkedIn is that every month or so they will suddenly wake up and clog up my feed with Suggested Posts. I actually prefer seeing Sponsored Posts versus the Suggested Posts because the quality of the Spo
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by somethoughts 2y ago
I think an interesting follow-up discussion/blog post would be - okay getting a job in tech may suck... but doesn't getting a job outside of tech suck even harder? In other words, if you were starting college today, would you sti
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by somethoughts 2y ago
My hot take is that GPT is getting better everyday at generating complicated and correct code that's maintainable, but its still got quite a ways to go. On the other hand today it's already passably good at generating stuff that
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by somethoughts 2y ago
The fun part is, as far as I understand it, the EV tax credit as part of the Inflation Reduction Act, did eventually include Teslas - even though Elon wasn't invited to the initial photo-op announcement party thrown by the White House
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by somethoughts 2y ago
It'd be interesting to understand how this is measured practically to determine if the infringement is occurring. Is it based/would it be based on a measurement using lab equipment - perhaps measuring volatile organic compounds?
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by somethoughts 2y ago
Just out of curiosity, is it easy to jailbreak a Peloton bike? Or are there any interesting open source stationary bike platforms?
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by somethoughts 2y ago
Could be interesting if there was an alternative industry which could profit from the land and then the funds could be used for counter lobbying and offer an alternative source of tax revenue for the state. I wonder if ecotourism would work
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by somethoughts 2y ago
I think the challenge is to determine whether or not AI applications are generalizably useful to all of society as general purpose PCs and smartphones or if they are more narrowly focused like crypto applications.
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by somethoughts 2y ago
The million dollar question (or trillion dollar question I suppose) is for the upcoming quarters - will there be pallets of h100s waiting shipment, 2x pallets of h100s or 10x pallets of h100s... or have all the pallets are shipped for the t
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by somethoughts 2y ago
"This is a typical "move fast and break things" mentality.. " with a big dash of “there’s no such thing as bad publicity” thinking thrown in for good measure. Staying relevant is all that matters these days.

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