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by toss1 1mo ago
Interesting data, and possibly true OTOH, I'm quite sure if you came to me with a truckload of $100 bills and a gun, put the gun to my head and asked me to tell you anything about an advert I saw 3 minutes ago, the truckload of cash is
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by toss1 1mo ago
Surprising it is taking advertisers this long to wake up, considering the decades I've been reading articles on HN about the massive fraud rates from entire fraud ecosystems. The saying in marketing used to be: "Half of all market
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by toss1 1mo ago
Start with the excellent articles and books on the topic of enshittification by Cory Doctorow. Also, simply observe the economy, without the prior bias of holding paramount values of tropes like "free market" and "shareholder
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by toss1 1mo ago
YES!! The other thing to do is discharge it, so it has little energy stored to maintain/enlarge a fire A drone engineer I worked with would immediately put any suspect battery into a barrel of water for several days, then get them disp
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by toss1 2mo ago
"Democratic Socialism" is VERY different from "Social Democracy" In socialism with supposed democracy, where the state owns the means of production and supposedly the workers supposedly have a say about everything, the
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by toss1 2mo ago
Perhaps consider reframing the term from referring to the God in which you believe but as merely a reference to just the top agent in its little Munder Difflin universe? Seems like both a mental model which more accurately represents the me
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by toss1 2mo ago
The evolutionary adaption to running ultra-distances is persistence hunting, and it was one of the keys to human survival and evolution. In persistence hunting, over great distances, humans can outrun game animals as long as they pick one a
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by toss1 2mo ago
If you take the view of a simpleton, sure, it seems "Better", for now, and depending on your definition of "Better". If it is only price, then sure. But remember, the economies of scale first make things more the same an
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by toss1 2mo ago
If it is only 25% more, you are NOT getting ripped off. Mere economies of scale and purchasing power yield Amazon more than 25% lower costs. the mom & pop stores you accuse of ripping you off likely have even slimmer margins than Amazo
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by toss1 2mo ago
Interesting thought, but I'm not sure the (admittedly flammable & explosive) fuel load is the main threat posed by a hijacked aircraft — the large mass at velocity can still to major damage and casualties wherever it is crashed. Pl
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by toss1 2mo ago
Wow you have a relentlessly unrealistic view of things. >>Ask a civil engineer the degree to which they can fight their leadership on these grounds. Both civil engineers and doctors both can and absolutely do refuse to sign off on u
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by toss1 2mo ago
More credentialing and requirements would do plenty to curtail leadership incentive problems. First, as the sibling points out, it gives the licensed engineer a solid ground to stand on when refusing a stupid leadership order — "I&#x27
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by toss1 2mo ago
>>doctors make mistakes that kill people all the time Yes, but they make a lot FEWER such mistakes than would people who could not pass the exams and maintain a license. The standard is not perfection; the standard is as good as pract
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by toss1 2mo ago
>> A difference in degree (of usefulness and speed), not in kind. No. Automating the system is ABSOLUTELY a difference in kind. The argument "it is the same thing" is reductionist beyond absurdity. "Quantity has a qu
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by toss1 2mo ago
Our world is such an amazing place — just full of things we barely notice but are a lifetime of fascination if you just dive into them, as this guy is doing. Inspiration to us all
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by toss1 2mo ago
Good to see info on how critical domain expertise is for success. I've seen AI used well in a few support situations, and it is great - faster to get to the answer vs a human (usually faster than even getting to a human, which is anoth
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by toss1 2mo ago
Paying more would not help you when there is no more supply. It is a zero sum game. Maybe you could pay someone else who is less desperate to part with some, but that does not increase supply. Nine women cannot produce a baby in a month,
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by toss1 2mo ago
Exactly this! They should say more clearly up front what is the definition of efficiency. If they want people to think of a particular metaphor, but there are critical differences, those differences must be clarified up front. It seems th
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by toss1 2mo ago
>> 98% of trips are under 50 miles. Only 0.8% of the trips are over 100 miles! Sure, ubiquitous charging will be enormously helpful to adoption, and universal rapid charging also. But the reality is it doesn't yet exist. Until t
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by toss1 2mo ago
Yes, underselling a bit for sure! I didn't even want to get into the optimizations available if cars were really designed for lightweight when the entire motors+battery is only 100-150kg, and the battery can be low and centered. We cou
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by toss1 2mo ago
It should be relatively straightforward to imagine — we already have that in gasoline-powered internal combustion engines. The Watt-hours per kilogram of good Lithium Ion batteries is around 250-280 Wh/Kg; for Lithium Iron Phosphate it
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by toss1 2mo ago
Good distinction! Varying service tiers are different from surveillance price discrimination. It is not a difference for each person; it is a difference for a different category or type of person or service. It is not exploiting spying on
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by toss1 2mo ago
Not usually, but the same standard framing and drywall techniques work using the more modern steel stud systems. Here are a few that came up at the top of a DDG search you can peruse to update yourself. https://studcosystems.com
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by toss1 2mo ago
Simple There are two ways to legally "earn" money. The first is to provide a product or service that is sufficiently valuable the buyer willingly parts with the money for the price. The other is extractive — to find a way to exp
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Connected SUV Locked Its Owner Out in Another Country(autoblog.com)
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by toss1 3mo ago
I'm not a customer of those routing systems, but I quite often use different Claude models for different tasks. While most tasks were Opus 4.8, I often used 4.8 to make a plan, prompts, and package kit to setup Fable for a bigger proje
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by toss1 3mo ago
Ah, yes, he does seem to belabor the existential crisis more than that cause. I think that is the part where he talks about "do I still have economic value?", and more generally, is everyone in this ever-receding pocket where th
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by toss1 3mo ago
Yup, up 7.9% on that year. And until this week, they would release numbers every six months. Now they are NOT releasing numbers. If the numbers were up, they would post them. This sudden change of Netflix' reporting shows they decided
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by toss1 3mo ago
It seems he is describing normalcy bias. This is the bias where people's brains try to fit new data into existing normal frameworks An all-too-frequent real-life example is "that smoke is just part of the show, wow, that's im
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by toss1 3mo ago
The article actually cites the opposite - reported users going down at many media sites, including Facebook for the first quarter ever, and Netflix now refusing to report user counts until 2027 when they used to proudly report user count in

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