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by tschwimmer 2y ago
I raised a similar objection to the GP comment many years ago, and someone made the same response to me. I wonder if I'm alone in that instead of making me feel more optimistic about mind transfer, it just made me slightly afraid to go
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by tschwimmer 2y ago
In addition to the sibling comment saying that it was a major marketing focus, it was also an internal culture focus for some time - the archetypal host as discussed internally was something like a 50+ couple that just sent their kid off to
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The full text of proposed Google Antitrust proposal [pdf](regmedia.co.uk)
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by tschwimmer 2y ago
Nobody will pay for it and they get hit with headlines that say “Geico raises rates on some customers by x,000%!”
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by tschwimmer 2y ago
I'm really surprised by the other comments saying that they are renters and they interested in this. It seems like a lot of work, cost and space required for very little payoff. 800 watts of panels gives you ~4 kWh a day, which is abou
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by tschwimmer 2y ago
As a strong counterpoint, Adam Neumann lost $16B of Softbank's money and walked away with almost a billion of it himself personally. [0] He later raised 350m from A16Z[1], so this is not universally true and in fact is a pretty big cou
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by tschwimmer 2y ago
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn Legacy of Ashes by Tim Weiner On the Genealogy of Morality by Nietzsche Zero to One by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
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by tschwimmer 2y ago
The article posits it could make approvals to build new rail lines near noise sensitive areas easier.
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by tschwimmer 2y ago
I really want to make a social media site where if you post stuff like this you have to also post proof that you have taken a financial position aligned with it.
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by tschwimmer 2y ago
I agree with you about it not being a dystopia but clearly it's a cautionary tale. The message I got from Her is not "Don't create the Torment Nexus" but "Touch Grass" or maybe "Don't force it."
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by tschwimmer 2y ago
Coconuts and Orens are full service sit down restaurants. They may not be super fancy byt you do not order from a counter like Chipotle. Ramen Nagi is not strictly full service because the lines are so long - the server comes out and hands
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by tschwimmer 2y ago
I see this argument trotted out and it's a huge dodge that implicitly acknowledges the zero-sum nature of capitalism as practiced by modern societies. It's true that global quality of life has increased and the examples you gave a
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by tschwimmer 2y ago
This is a reasonable middle eastern restaurant in Palo Alto: https://orenshummus.com/lunch-dinner-menu/ If you get 2 drinks, an appetizer and 2 sandwiches yes, it's about $40 pp. But if you just get two sandwiches
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by tschwimmer 2y ago
I don’t agree. I live in the Bay Area and eating out is noticeably more expensive in Zurich than here. I find that you’re not going to get away for less than 60-70 francs for dinner for two pretty much anywhere in Zurich. Sure, there are ma
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by tschwimmer 2y ago
It's a pretty crap ad - they have a weird oblique shot of the product from a angle so you can't even get a sense of the proportions. I won't comment too much on the messaging, but I will say that it very much seems to be targ
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by tschwimmer 2y ago
I want an EV but I rent and my landlord won't bother to have a charger installed. I even have an existing 120v socket running next to where I park so it would be pretty trivial to install. But he pays for electricity (no separate meter
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by tschwimmer 2y ago
Woohoo, we effected about the least possibly impactful change imaginable!
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by tschwimmer 2y ago
Meditations on Moloch: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
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by tschwimmer 2y ago
>If someone barely get's a PR accepted, they probably lack the skills to add a sophisticated backdoor. Unforuntately it's easy to sandbag being dumb. Just because someone submits a PR defining constants for 0-999 does not mean
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by tschwimmer 2y ago
Gold is both a great store of value (dense, does not degrade, easy to store) and a reasonable medium of exchange (small amounts can cover most transactions, but hard to verify amounts and purity) so I think it's quite likely that it wi
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by tschwimmer 2y ago
O/T but one of this guy's advisers is a "TEPCO professor of Nuclear Engineering" ... oof. This paper was published in 2015 too. A bit like having the Morton Thiokol Professor of Spacecraft Engineering. You'd think t
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by tschwimmer 2y ago
The article talks about a couple of substitutes. The "lab grown" coffee likely has the same problems as lab grown meat - it's unlikely to ever be cost competitive due to the economics of cell culturing. This is a well researc
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by tschwimmer 2y ago
I had the same question myself. The article notes that most of the first tranche of warrants went unpurchased which makes sense. However, the article also says that some of the portfolio went on to have an exit or raise later funding or som
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by tschwimmer 2y ago
how do you allocate which types of squash farmers will be able to plant? Knowing very little about farming, I do know that certain varieties have much more desirable traits than others. For example, yield, pest resistance, soil acceptance,
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by tschwimmer 2y ago
You and GP are both right. There's a huge divergence in entertainment pricing. Stuff you can do at home (movies, tv, video games, books and social media) is dirt cheap and may be getting cheaper. "Outside" entertainment is ge
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by tschwimmer 2y ago
I’m sorry that this happened to you. The debugging and tear down sound like they would make for an extremely interesting blog post though. I encourage you to write it up and post it here - I’d definitely read it.
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by tschwimmer 2y ago
Just so I can save others the confusion- this bank is distinct from First Republic Bank that failed about a year ago.
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by tschwimmer 2y ago
Financially? mathematically? Yes, certainly. From a principles perspective? it's a lot closer ;)
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by tschwimmer 2y ago
The compliance with this law is anecdotally very poor. Swiss Airlines owes me thousands of Euros for missed connections but they contend that the situations were outside their control (some mechanical issue) and thus they refuse to compensa
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by tschwimmer 2y ago
I think you have a typo in your comment. You said that it’s 5x cheaper for ICE, but I think you meant electric

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