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by umeshunni 4mo ago
This has probably been true only in the last 300? 500? years. Before that, things were the same for 1000+ years for most of civilization, barring any large invasions from neighboring kingdoms, or some far away empire (mongols etc).
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by umeshunni 5mo ago
It's entirely possible that he's changed and his pulse of the market has changed in the 10+ years since that decision.
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by umeshunni 5mo ago
Underwater data centers: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/china-powers-ai-b... "Flying cars" https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/joby-flie...
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by umeshunni 5mo ago
They learned their lesson from buying Allbirds shoes 10 years ago.
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by umeshunni 5mo ago
> it would only take a couple of these to really fill the context alot. Only skill front-matter (name, description, triggers etc) are loaded within context by default, so this isn't likely to happen without 1000s of skills.
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by umeshunni 5mo ago
My impressions after trying it in the Apple Store was - amazing v1 hardware, beta quality software and alpha quality content.
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by umeshunni 5mo ago
> b2b sales would be just as restricted as sales to consumers. They're not. A significant part of ad spend by the likes of Temu, AliExpress, Shein and other Chinese exporters are on Meta's platforms: e.g. https://www
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by umeshunni 5mo ago
Meta absolutely does business in China. e.g. https://www.metacareers.com/v2/locations/shenzhen/?p[offices... https://www.metacareers.com/v2/locations/shanghai/?p[offices... h
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by umeshunni 5mo ago
> the south was one of the most economically prosperous regions in the Indian subcontinent at the time. Still is, tbh
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by umeshunni 5mo ago
Does this work with ACP?
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by umeshunni 5mo ago
San Francisco is notoriously the most anti-new-housing city in the country.
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by umeshunni 6mo ago
I did that for my reading glasses, but for shortsightedness, especially as an astigmatic, I find it hard to buy glasses or frames without actually wearing them. Curious what your strategy is.
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by umeshunni 6mo ago
To be fair, the author does explicitly state that their blog is: > A home for poorly researched ideas that I find myself repeating a lot anyway
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by umeshunni 7mo ago
I would reframe it from > Biological optimal vs societal optimal to > Biological optimal vs personal optimal
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Snowflake's AI coding agent beats Claude Code at data engineering(snowflake.com)
4 points by umeshunni 7mo ago|3 comments
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by umeshunni 8mo ago
> Once India and China go negative who is going to fill that gap? Take a look at the fertility rates and population growth rates in African countries.
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by umeshunni 8mo ago
Yes - I suspect this doesn't apply to blue collar or fields like art and sports.
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by umeshunni 8mo ago
"government issued voter-ID" Gasp! Checking for IDs while voting is fascist! It's like Germany 1937.
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by umeshunni 8mo ago
If your job wants you to fly, it should buy you an id that lets you fly. Have you never applied for a visa to travel on a business trip?
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by umeshunni 8mo ago
> How many of the “working poor” can afford to fly and don’t have a drivers license? What he really means is illegals who have fake ids who now can't get RealIDs.
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by umeshunni 8mo ago
> It's extremely difficult to keep things cold in space. This is one of those things that's not obvious till you think about it.
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by umeshunni 9mo ago
The earth doesn't die because CO2 levels increase. There have been multiple epoch with higher CO2 concentrations than we have now.
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by umeshunni 11mo ago
> You mean the way taxi drivers had to watch as Uber and Lyft replaced them? For the most part, they were the same drivers I think
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by umeshunni 11mo ago
I usually use that as a bozo filter
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by umeshunni 11mo ago
> It’s somewhat like living in America and thinking that America is the entire world. Oh I have bad news for you...
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by umeshunni 11mo ago
Link is owned by Stripe: https://link.com/terms/contracting-entity
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by umeshunni 11mo ago
What if the electricity grid depends on some AWS service?
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by umeshunni 1y ago
We've been growing humans since the beginning of time. This one is just in vitro.
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by umeshunni 1y ago
Lol. Way to filter our people without a western education. It's ok - most companies that matter are led by people who have spent more time reading the Mahabharata rather than Plato. Enjoy your scraps.
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by umeshunni 1y ago
What kind of projects are you using them for?

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