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by taylodl 1y ago
Yeah? I worked for 4 startups - guess what? It's still bullshit and games, yet the hours are longer, and the pay and benefits are worse. If anything, there's more opportunity to make a big impact at a corporation because they&#x27
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I'm sure part of that analysis includes the tariff costs of importing all the parts you need to manufacture the iPhone in the United States. Mr. Trump has never run a global business involving global supply chains. He has no clue what
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If Chaos Monkey were to run this administration, would we see worse results?
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Add it to the growing list of conflicts of interest this Republican-led Congress is going to ignore
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I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that
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Apple will sue...and win, if the tariffs aren't applied uniformly to all smartphones not made in the US.
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Microsoft is better than Hamas. That's the bar you've set?
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Betting against? No. Going all-in? Also no. What I've seen across several companies is they're familiarizing themselves with the technology and understanding how they may utilize it to enhance workflows, augment the productivity o
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If the U.S. becomes irrelevant in the future, which seems increasingly likely, it will be due to the gross incompetence of American leadership and their ignorance of international markets and business. It's astonishing that a nation th
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I trust Zuck to do what he thinks will make him the most money - he doesn't care if what he's peddling is solving problems or creating them, so long as you're using it. That's not even a judgement statement, what other b
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And if you can utilize a hot, new buzzword for allowing you to make the cuts then your stock performs better as well.
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I just commented last week that we should expect a 2.5% to 5% reduction in IT staff pretty much across the board as a result of AI. ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43916814#43918067 ) Companies are always looking for
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Of course they are. The same party that once floated eliminating the FDIC now wants to roll back the very safeguards that prevent another 2008-style crash. Banking crashes aren’t a bug of Republican leadership - they’re a feature.
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The unintended consequences of DOGE. At this point, what kind of person would be willing to work for a federal agency?
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Humans need: - Water - Food - Clothing - Shelter - Healthcare ...to survive. Humans also need: - Friends - Hobbies - Sense of Purpose ...to thrive. The real threat of AI isn’t just that it might make human labor obsolete. The deeper danger
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by taylodl 1y ago
Ever notice how Republicans are die-hard for states' rights-right up until a state wants to regulate something they don’t like? When a state bans books, it’s freedom. When a state wants to regulate AI, it’s tyranny. Got it.
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by taylodl 1y ago
Ironically, I think the tariffs is what led to inflation not being as bad as thought, but in a roundabout manner. Because the majority of Americans understand how tariffs work, they expected and prepared for an economic slump - which is hap
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by taylodl 1y ago
Before Apple tries to read minds, can we get Siri to work as promised a decade ago? It still struggles with basic voice recognition, especially while driving, and can't reliably distinguish between 'fifty' and 'fifteen,&
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NOAA has published both raw and adjusted temperature datasets for decades. Adjustments are made to account for factors like urban heat islands (e.g., airports becoming more developed) and station relocations (e.g., moving to higher elevatio
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No it won't, for one simple and old-fashioned reason: software companies aren't going to take on the legal liability. Period end. Full stop. What's happening is doctors are already being "replaced", really augmented
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If your net worth is under $100 million, then you're getting hurt. Meaning, HN millionaires will find out in the eyes of the billionaire ruling class, they're just worthless rabble to be gutted and consumed, not deserving of any r
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by taylodl 1y ago
This is why I say Women's Lib failed. Traditional "female" work is no more valued today than it was 60 years ago. Women are only valued when they perform traditional "male" roles. Men are looked down upon when they
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I don’t care what an adult chooses to believe, they’re free to make their own poor decisions. But imposing those decisions on young children and exposing them to serious health risks is potentially child endangerment. If this situation does
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by taylodl 1y ago
The creator of Cuid, Eric Elliot, claims to have run into collisions with UUIDs. I'm extremely skeptical of that claim. It's far more likely that the site he was working on had an implementation issue. Anyway, here's the arti
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by taylodl 1y ago
> Need unique ids in your app? Forget UUIDs and GUIDs which often collide in large apps. Use Cuid2, instead. This is misleading. In fact, Cuid2 IDs are more likely to collide than a UUID, but both are negligible. Cuid2 IDs are URL-fr
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The challenge is, you really have to ask: what problem are we actually trying to solve? Sure, it's homelessness - but homelessness is a symptom, not the root issue. The real issues are: - Lack of affordable housing - Lack of stable, li
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The electrical grid can support increased demand if loads are distributed over time. Industrial batteries can be charged overnight, when demand is typically lower, and discharged during the day, effectively shifting the load. This strategy
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> Despite initial projections of producing 250,000 units annually, it appears Tesla might struggle to sell even 20,000 Cybertrucks per year in the current market climate. I don't think it's the "market climate", ins
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> We’re literally decades behind NavCanada Rather than reinventing the wheel, could we adopt or adapt proven solutions from countries like Canada? Is this reluctance to do so a symptom of 'Not Invented Here' syndrome?
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> Even as organizations push AI implementation, individual employees might resist due to concerns about how they'll be perceived. I’ve been designing and developing software for 40 years. In my experience, those who resist new tec

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