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by yunwal 4y ago
> I'm fast coming to the conclusion that all renewable tech is about allowing the government to have deep control over your energy, and to put you in a situation where you are forced to buy very expensive gear from mega-corps. As op
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Makerspaces only work well when there’s a strong sense of community among the members. It’s all too easy to fall to tragedy of the commons - people not putting things back where they found them, cleaning up for themselves, etc. there’s only
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by yunwal 4y ago
No one ends up using “every-3-hours” routes in day-to-day life. Every 3 hours can work for the tourist who doesn’t want to rent a car, but people with jobs won’t accept that if they miss the bus, the next one is in 3 hours. These routes eff
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by yunwal 4y ago
If it’s at 0% why not (genuine question). That’s just free money, right? Obviously the interest on $300 isn’t much but if you take 0% loans on everything where it’s available it will add up eventually.
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by yunwal 4y ago
> If we wanted to we can always pull the plug Crazy that we had a computer virus that was able to cause $38 billion in damage when all we needed to do was pull the plug
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The younger generations are absolutely not set on buying all-new stuff. Go in a thrift store and nearly everyone shopping there is younger than 35. Craigslist is much more popular among younger people. The reason younger people end up buyin
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by yunwal 4y ago
My advice: if you major in physics and keep getting A’s, you can still easily get a programming job, and probably in areas that are more AI-proof than webdev. The opposite is not true. IMO, taking programming classes in college is a waste.
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I’d rather not arrest people for marijuana possession, but owners of private prisons and the alcohol lobbies sure as hell would like that
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My guess is that most people who have high value passwords also have weak passwords. CEOs and CFOs can probably authorize huge financial transactions with little oversight and tend to be security illiterate.
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I’m also a former TA and with 25 TAs we covered a class of 180 just fine. Sometimes it was more like 1 on 3 but most of the time not, and every student had the opportunity to ask direct questions and get personalized answers any day of the
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by yunwal 4y ago
> Of course, there's no way we can pay for 1:1 for every student This doesn't seem like an "of course" thing to me. University office-hours and the TA system work pretty well for this kind of thing.
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Generative has a more technical meaning than that. Generative AI is essentially the opposite of a classifier. You give it a prompt that could mean many different things, and it gives you one of those things. A robotic arm could use generati
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by yunwal 4y ago
I'm sure at some point OpenAI will start signing BAAs
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> People using AI to send mass telemarketing messages > The law will handle these cases just fine. You must not be American.
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> If they don't create value, why do people pay for it? How much would you pay for a machine that steals a dollar out of everyone else in the world’s pocket? Maybe you’re a good person and the answer is not much but I’d guess most p
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by yunwal 4y ago
The only careers in the future will be people who don’t do something an AI can do, so the EV won’t be low compared to no existent jobs. Obviously “capitalist” is the only job that makes real money.
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We are still very, very far away from having robotics overtake human dexterity. Even if AI can replace all knowledge workers, barbers, surgeons, and athletes will have a job for a long time.
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No some businesses do things like create value. You can take a dollar or you can sell something worth a dollar. Those are not the same When DoorDash puts themselves as a delivery service front end for restaurants without them knowing, and t
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by yunwal 4y ago
> I simply don't believe in fetishizing "true" (and therefore "untrue") innovation. I don’t think there’s a hard obvious line, but if I invent a machine that can take $1 from every other American’s wallet and put
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There’s a good reason we don’t build real buildings or machines out of legos
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Sometimes you capitalize words because they’re the first word in a sentence. What point are you making here? The OP was > While libertarian tendencies may be more prevalent in the VC community, they seem to still be a small minority No c
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SVB lobbied congress to not be subject to liquidity stress tests and got caught with their pants down. They didn’t have to buy 10 year bonds. They also didn’t have to buy volatile mortgage securities, which they did. They were obviously pla
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by yunwal 4y ago
You can call it whatever you want. They lobbied to not be subject to liquidity stress tests, and then didn’t have liquid assets when customers came looking for their money. That was risky. They could have invested in shorter term contracts
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> This is not the customers/depositors' fault. To be clear, it's not the customers' fault, but they also shouldn't expect FDIC insurance to cover any of their deposits beyond $250k. Whatever happens to their pers
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by yunwal 4y ago
> Greg Becker, the CEO of SVB, was a member of the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Fed Isn't this like a massive conflict of interest? How is this legal?
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> But it's possible to have additional "inner mental life" beyond the minimum that's necessary to give rise to an outward behavior. NNs have inner layers, and some of the properties in those inner layers translate to
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> The only risk for other banks is opportunity cost To be clear, if banks can improve their risk profile for free, they will do that (because it frees them to invest in other risky stuff). A no-risk 5% return while the fed is giving out
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by yunwal 4y ago
> and manages receiverships. This feels like you're agreeing with me. Is that the case? Receiverships have a pretty specific meaning, which explicitly does not include resolving liquidity issues using third-party funding.
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> Does this take awhile inititally to setup? Yes it does. This is fundamentally the difference to me. I've worked with hardware before, and if your business and load is predictable, and you understand how to architect it before goin
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> This is not at all about risky investments Please stop repeating this. It is 100% about risky investments. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/mar/11/silicon-val... Also, if your entire client

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