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by tqi 3mo ago
My impression is a lot of these companies raised mega rounds right before interest rates went up, and are now able to tread water by cutting headcount enough that their revenue + interest can sustain them. To what end? Who knows...
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by tqi 3mo ago
You should probably also take the opposing views of corporate media, especially a tabloid rag like the independent, and assume their intent is to foment the maximum amount of outrage possible in order to drive ad impressions.
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by tqi 4mo ago
It doesn't require collusion, just misaligned incentives. "Perversely, with the MLR requirement capping profit margins and administrative costs, insurers are discouraged from containing health plans’ premium increases. Economists
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by tqi 4mo ago
They are not solely responsible, but of course they bear some responsibility. ACA has a Medical Loss Ratio that requires insurers to spend 80% or 85% of premium revenue on medical services "thereby limiting administrative costs and pro
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by tqi 4mo ago
Yes that's why country clubs and the Greek system never caught on...
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by tqi 4mo ago
I wonder how the proposal for 24x5 trading would affect how international selloffs like this ripple through US markets.
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by tqi 4mo ago
I think people are opposed to all of these.
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by tqi 4mo ago
kalshi has a feature in beta right now that lets the public bet on the outcomes of this game
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by tqi 4mo ago
"...investigating data centers is quickly becoming its own beat" ie it is in the economic interest of the writers to tap into (and foment) the FUD around "data centers."
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by tqi 4mo ago
Enlighten me
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by tqi 4mo ago
The hostility towards self driving is so baffling to me. Setting aside the question of which company is going to get there first, it seems patently obvious that self driving is clearly the safer future for drivers and pedestrians. after all
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by tqi 4mo ago
Cool to see that lack of object permanence does not prevent one from becoming CEO.
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by tqi 4mo ago
I would pay to see no more than 50 posts per account per year in my feed. (And 0 replies)
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by tqi 4mo ago
In the about page, this author states that they produce "original reporting and commentary on the criminal justice system and civil liberties." I really think it is a mistake to blur that line. These days it feels like you can pre
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by tqi 4mo ago
How can something be simultaneously useless to the average person and likely to create massive joblessness?
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by tqi 4mo ago
Turns out media fear mongering for clicks works
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by tqi 5mo ago
> The honest first question is: what data platform are you already standardized on? If your analytics warehouse is Snowflake, the answer is Snowflake Postgres or no managed cloud-native PG... Wait, who is picking an operational data stac
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by tqi 5mo ago
Is your objection just to the bloat, or also to what the bloat is for?
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by tqi 5mo ago
Four(?) years ago this could have been a PhD thesis project
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by tqi 5mo ago
Well it's 5-10 minutes once you get to the west 30th st heliport, which can easily take 20 minutes within Manhattan. Plus getting loaded in, cleared for takeoff, and potential for backups at the landing pads, I suspect the gains are mu
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by tqi 5mo ago
JFK airtrain carries about 30K passengers per weekday in 2025. how many landing pads would be needed to carry a meaningful % of that traffic alone?
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by tqi 5mo ago
> solve tons of problems I'm skeptical that air taxis could ever meaningfully reduce traffic congestion to / from JFK. Compared to cars, these would seem to require a significantly larger landing pad and passenger unloading spa
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by tqi 5mo ago
The time part reminded me of the old WWVB radio time signals. If/when that goes away, I wonder if it will be cheaper to use a gps chip to make "self setting" clocks, or if everything will just be wifi connected.
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by tqi 5mo ago
> The report estimates that training the latest frontier large language models, such as xAI’s Grok 4, can generate over 72,000 tons of carbon-equivalent emissions. That seems pretty trivial, relative to 38bn per year globally?
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by tqi 5mo ago
> Claude doesn't ask you to define an attribution model. It doesn't open a whiteboard. It runs [query]" Why is that a good thing? Claude didn't ask any obvious follow up questions, like what determined whether a user
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by tqi 5mo ago
This is maybe beside the point but it annoys me how many CEOs wax poetic about "locking in" and "grindset" but then seem to have infinite time for bullshit side projects like owning an NBA team.
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by tqi 6mo ago
Not really, the same study could be done with giving people a calculator to do long division. How much participants bother to check the work is a function of 1) their expectations for how accurate the tool is 2) how much time they are affor
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by tqi 6mo ago
Doesn't sound like there was any incentive to get the answer right, so why would anyone bother fact checking AI answers. These marketing researchers are basically trying to rebrand path of least resistance to be a new thing? On brand f
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by tqi 6mo ago
Despite what the folks here like to believe about themselves, I think the reality is we as attuned to what is in fashion and on trend as everyone else, just about different stuff. Last year it was Chatgpt, this year Claude is the new hotnes
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by tqi 6mo ago
That is my understanding as well, but I see it so often and stuff changes so quickly it's hard to tell what is real.

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