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by spamizbad 1y ago
I think it's pretty reasonable to take a CEO's - any CEO in any industry - statements with a grain of salt. They are under tremendous pressure to paint the most rosy picture possible of their future. They actually need you to &quo
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by spamizbad 1y ago
If you're in the AI space you need roughly the same infrastructure as any other SaaS PLUS your LLM costs. Take a look at AWS Bedrock costs [1] and you'll soon realize your costs can escalate rapidly unlike traditional SaaS infra w
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by spamizbad 1y ago
Even a financially responsible (and I’m not suggesting Builder.ai is one of these) company in the AI space is going to be significantly more capital intensive than your typical SaaS startup, and I suspect are fundamentally more challenging
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by spamizbad 1y ago
How is cutting cancer research funding going to produce more a robust and academically rigorous MBA program? The correlation seems to work the other way, based on MBA program rankings: https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-sc
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by spamizbad 1y ago
> Colleges need to get back to their mission and ditch the sports, drinking, non-academic facilities. Get back to teaching, standards and research and stop ripping off students to backbreaking loan debt. Can you explain how cutting resea
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by spamizbad 1y ago
This saddens me greatly. I think to certain people, this is viewed as a necessary trade-off to curb the political power and influence of the so-called "Professional Managerial Class" in the United States, due to fears that a versi
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by spamizbad 1y ago
It seems like everything this administration thinks will make America better somehow also involves making everything I buy and use more expensive. Except maybe gasoline, although not as much as one would think.
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by spamizbad 1y ago
Not sure if Canadians are aware of this, but Canada does two things really well: 1) Developing its own domestic artists/musicians, to a much greater degree than the US (eg https://www.factor.ca/ ) 2) Greatly restricting
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by spamizbad 1y ago
Unfortunately these things get attacked because they're primarily enjoyed Americans who happen to be left-leaning. Ideologues will argue these outlets are "brainwashing" Americans but I find that to be absurd argument. Listen
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by spamizbad 1y ago
It sort of makes sense: If tariffs are here to stay, you're going to have to fundamentally change how your business operates in a way that's not easy (or cheap) to "undo". So you're better off punting until the las
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by spamizbad 1y ago
Krugman is a Nobel-prize winning economist. You're referencing Thomas Friedman, who was a reasonably successful journalist before breaking into the opinion game and laying down some infamous stinkers.
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by spamizbad 1y ago
I know this is a hot-button political issue, but I do think there were a lot of major hints from Trump's 1st term about how this would go. Tariffs were very much not a bluff during his first term. They were very real. And they started
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by spamizbad 1y ago
Yeah never take anything less than a 50/50 split. During the initial fundraising rounds (seed, Series A and maybe even into B) you're also going to be doing just as much lifting trying to get a deal done while also doing your regu
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by spamizbad 1y ago
Worth mentioning even the Soviet Union ran into this problem when shuffling former serfs to work in factories, which today we think as “manly” but in the 1930s did not carry such a reputation with those outside of urban centers
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by spamizbad 1y ago
If you call something gender fluid you lose tax exempt status? Good to know. I just feel that logically this doesn't make any sense. Having the view or even promoting the idea that a mythical creature is "gender fluid" isn&#x
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by spamizbad 1y ago
This to me seems like a completely lawful act on the part of the judge?
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by spamizbad 1y ago
It doesn't. It's a side-effect of the populist right's "human capital" problem. Lots of nefarious theories abound about how this will be used to clamp down on our rights, and that may ultimately happen, but that wil
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by spamizbad 1y ago
I'm inclined to agree. I remember when Facebook (and before that, MySpace) was new and was still mostly a reverse-chronological feed of your friend's updates. It caused zero stress or anxiety at all - and it was kind of nice check
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by spamizbad 1y ago
> Software architecture was never about code elegance, it’s about making it easier to get reliable results. And that’s mostly about using automated tooling to check correctness and easy to understand and to modify modules. The first isn&
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by spamizbad 1y ago
The second type of quality is necessary to achieve the first type of quality for systems with nontrivial levels of complexity. It doesn’t need to be perfect, or even close to perfect, but it does need to be “good enough” - Your end users wi
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by spamizbad 2y ago
AT&T was broken up in 1982. Our manufacturing peaked around 1990 and what really pushed it downward was China joining the WTO. We also halted a lot of fab construction domestically after the GFC of '08.
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by spamizbad 2y ago
We don't know if they're actually cutting waste here. DOGE has already had to do a massive climb-down from saving $1000B to saving $105B, but most of that $105B has not been shown to be true. Actual cuts may only amount to a few b
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by spamizbad 2y ago
If any non-trivial ask of an LLM also requires the prompts/scaffolding to be listed, and independently verified, along with its output, their utility is severely diminished. They should be saving time not giving us extra homework. Far
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by spamizbad 2y ago
The US auto industry is protected via tariffs. It would implode if those were lifted.
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by spamizbad 2y ago
There used to be significant alignment between engineers, founders and certain VCs: lots of excitement around building software that genuinely made things better/easier/cheaper. Each group naturally wanted a different thing out of
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by spamizbad 2y ago
They’re still getting a friendlier NLRB, lower corporate tax rates, and an economic policy that is less focused on full employment; tamping down engineering wage growth
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by spamizbad 2y ago
Ah, the irony of suggesting anyone who isn't thoughtlessly consuming is an "NPC" You’re not going to guilt anyone into buying a Tesla.
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by spamizbad 2y ago
Ellison's strength, I felt like, has always been in the field of sales and ruthless contract negotiation rather than technical innovation - a "golden touch" that doesn't benefit disruptive scientific innovation, but migh
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by spamizbad 2y ago
You might not be getting gaslit. I’ve sat through some interviews recently with candidates who started their careers in the last 6 years or so… during the boom cycle. Some were quite good but a troubling amount were clearly over-leveled at
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by spamizbad 2y ago
Neither Iraq nor Afghanistan are US territories.

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