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871.
by svnt 3y ago
almost: > Then underneath each number write down the difference between that number n the one before it
872.
by svnt 3y ago
This is thinking about it inside out — from the teleology of society needing to run. If no one promoted musicians, organized tours, etc, then buskers would be the extent of what’s possible. If one person had to mine, refine, transport, and
873.
by svnt 3y ago
And this is computer science. If you want to feel bad for someone, grad students in e.g. biology or anthropology are still at or below $20k annually in many places.
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by svnt 3y ago
I understand that fuel cells are electrochemical systems. I also understand that there are fundamental limits to their physics and to the storage and transfer of hydrogen that put it at a severe disadvantage to batteries in these respects.
875.
by svnt 3y ago
To which fundamentals are you referring? If you factor in production, transmission, and combustion, tank cycling, and failure modes, is it still superior?
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by svnt 3y ago
I guess that answers it for me and seems to reinforce it is strongly skeuomorphic — it isn’t really possible to have a box of aminos/proteins in the same way you can have a box of Hs Os and Cs. They wanted a box of parts and this is th
877.
by svnt 3y ago
Can someone please update the title to reflect this is from 2010?
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by svnt 3y ago
I dunno, now you’ve got a bin of parts to store, and what happens if they get lost or damaged? You order more and wait for shipping? Print more and have grad students glue magnets in? The mean-time-to-kitchen-drawer seems low. I wonder if s
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by svnt 3y ago
I am not in the field but I just felt trapped by the whole thing. To me it appears to be skeuomorphic design to the nth degree. Why would you create an entire system of artifacts in the real to replace something you could do more flexibly w
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by svnt 3y ago
Others discussed hydrogen. Frankly it seems to me to be a bad bet by Toyota. I assume they have better information than I do, but they also may have been prevented from a reasonable position on battery vs hydrogen by some internal politics
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by svnt 3y ago
It’s the attempt to fulfill the story they’ve been selling since the beginning, which is exactly the EV-company-but-with-sticky-SaaS-revenue you’d expect from SV. A problem when you try to span those markets is you lose access to support fr
882.
by svnt 3y ago
It is a more complete number to use. Unfortunately, debt (and equivalents, and even cash depending on its location) aren’t always or even often a simple addition or subtraction.
883.
by svnt 3y ago
It happened when Google Penguin was rolled out, because Penguin’s claimed focus was on better content itself to combat backlink spam practices that abused PageRank descendants. It sort of worked but there were entire valuable websites with
884.
by svnt 3y ago
The market cap tells you what you need to know. Is there a way in which Tesla can grow the total vehicle market, expand alone into adjacent protected, high value markets, or reasonably exceed Toyota’s market share? If not, they’re over valu
885.
by svnt 3y ago
The quickest llm giveaway is the total lack of humor: dry, self-deprecating, or otherwise.
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by svnt 3y ago
I would maybe phrase it differently but I guess I don’t disagree: social networks should be publicly-owned and exist for the public good. The reason the model runs the way it does and collapses is because we inherently understand that most
887.
by svnt 3y ago
imo this is the most human thing about it.
888.
by svnt 3y ago
What do you think that intelligent means? Able to know things it hasn’t learned? I don’t think it has been trained on localization, geography or way-finding.
889.
by svnt 3y ago
There are myriad ways that networks produce value. One immediate one is attention — if you think the ability to direct attention does not have value, I suggest you try selling anything to anyone without it.
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by svnt 3y ago
That is because Twitter’s network produces content which currently has monetary value, while bsky currently has nothing and will run the loss-leader game of converting VC cash into network (which will someday produce value) for as long as t
891.
by svnt 3y ago
I’m not sure how your argument serves as any counter to “VCs invest in companies to make money” except that the shell game may be one deeper in this case.
892.
by svnt 3y ago
> we shouldn’t be bailing out rich folks either. We already did, though, at a much higher per-capita cost, and a total program cost of about twice what this would have cost. https://boingboing.net/2022/08/24&#x2
893.
by svnt 3y ago
> 'Design to Code' Startup Anima Raises $2.5 Million in Seed Funding Dec 22, 2022 > Anima, a no-code tool that turns designs into code, raises $10 million Series A • TechCrunch Sep 01, 2021 > Seed Strangest spelling of br
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by svnt 3y ago
You can always tell the winner of an argument, the conclusive victory made from an integrated perspective, because of their inevitable descent into trivial insults and name calling. I wasn’t trying to claim anything. You came along and with
895.
by svnt 3y ago
You sound like a grad student or someone who identifies very strongly with their specific trauma by the amount of exclusionary gatekeeping you’re trying to do here. What will you do with your identity after the next major revision of the DS
896.
by svnt 3y ago
TLDR; A fluffy conversation nominally about AI with ample I’m-not-like-the-others disclaimers by both parties spends more time Monday-morning-quarterbacking COVID policy and otherwise generally back-patting than saying anything meaningful a
897.
by svnt 3y ago
Habitually doing the second inevitably leads to the first.
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by svnt 3y ago
Having been through both ample random street conflict and an extended sleep-deprived traumatic startup experience I’ll take the muggings, please. Get more life experience before you declare what’s not possible.
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by svnt 3y ago
I am not excusing homicides, but can you imagine that perhaps being emotionally illiterate and constantly put down might cause someone to be more likely to become violent? When they cannot defend themselves in all of the social discussion,
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by svnt 3y ago
We’ve had one, yes. What about the second submarine tourism startup?

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