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by ywvcbk 2y ago
I’m sure most could if they really wanted to. They just don’t.
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
I’m not saying that part is hard or particularly relevant. It takes a lot more time than 5 minutes to figure out how the new framework and/or build system works and all the implications of that, though.
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
Django is quite stable and monolithic. If you used it 10-15 years ago and wanted to build something new it wouldn’t take too much time for you to readjust. With JS you’d be entering a new world and chances are that almost everything you can
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
Every few years I end up wanting to build some random/hobby webapp and each time the official docs have changed drastically. Use CRA + webpack, now use Vite instead, you know what? Screw CRA you should just immediately jump to Next.js
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
Now store all of those states in an URL or some other place that would allow you to recreate the full view after the website is reloaded or in a new session.
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
It’s an app with a bunch of random components, though not really a website. If you want an actual website with proper routing and possibly SSR and want to use “plain” React with no additional libraries you’ll have to waste a lot of time rei
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
It’s kind of like Obamacare without a huge number of compromises > non-profit private insurance Only base/minimum coverage, the same companies still offer extended/supplemental plans with no such limitations. Also is the for pr
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
No, only actually candlelight is fine. Ideally an open fire. However reading itself is unnatural so it can only lead to negative outcomes..
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> smartphone use" in most of the population but here Presumably you don’t think that all the white collar workers who aren’t in tech spend all of their work-hours scrolling tiktok/etc.?
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> Their economics are structurally better than googles assuming Are they? I would guess that the cost per query for Google, even back then was insignificant compared to how must OpenAI is spending on GPU compute for every prompt. Are the
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
To cost per user for Google and FB was/is almost insignificant(relative to LLMs). So all the ad revenue was almost free cash. It’s not even clear if OpenAI is breaking even with the $20 subscription just on GPU/compute costs alone
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
I guess the difference (at least at comparable development stages) is that a single user query cost almost nothing for Google compared to how much money running ChatGPT costs. I wouldn’t be surprised if OpenAI were still losing money even w
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> the stuff to be shoveled They are spending a lot on shovels but it’s not clear that there is that much “stuff” (consumer demand) to be shoveled. VC money can only take you so far, you still need to have an actual way of making money. L
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> 5-10 years from now > models of Gpt4 capabilities or similar I took Apple how many years to change their bass config memory from 8 GB to 16? Somewhere between 8 and 10.. Regardless, I’m not sure running reasonably advanced models lo
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
Wouldn’t that destroy their whole value proposition (both for the poor but talented and the rich but not as gifted)? At that point you might as well abolish private universities altogether, because what’s their point?
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
Maybe they should stop breaking them then? That’s a design decision, Linux maintainers decided to not have a stable ABI because they’d rather have no drivers at all than proprietary ones.
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
The local Irish had a long tradition of engaging in slave trade (and raiding) themselves, though e.g. St. Patrick
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> You have to wonder if there was mostly an economic reason for it, like making more money from renting to serfs than owning them and having to house and upkeep You wouldn’t be enslaving your own peasant but rather buying foreigners or c
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> . If they don't do that, they're more likely to be broken by Linux changes, and it makes distributing their drivers more annoying So the idea is that having no drivers is better than having proprietary drivers? Seems like a
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
Is most of that an issue if you declare your income and pay any relevant taxes? Outside of some unnecessary annoyances it generally wouldn’t be too complicated to move your money around. Otherwise, what are you expecting? Direct taxation is
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> any attempt at financial privacy deemed money laundering If by privacy you mean concealing it from the government then yeah, that’s generally illegal in pretty much any place that has income/capital gains/wealth taxes.
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
War games can be very deceptive though. Back in 2019/20, 2 separate studies ( Polish and US) expected that it would only take Russia 4-5 days to get to Warsaw with Polish units sent to the border suffering 60-80% casualties. To be fai
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> Things can change in unpredictable ways. When you do stupid and unpredictable things? Certainly. But that seems like an internal US problem. Of choice rebuilding local manufacturing might be easier than fixing that in theory. OTH the l
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
I’m not sure labor costs could explain the difference the supposedly 5x difference in cost between Finland and the US. Labor is only a fraction of the overall cost and the difference is not that huge (e.g. average wage is $63k vs $50k). It’
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
The hypothetical war in Taiwan would likely be almost entirely naval/aerial so yeah the question is if US has enough political will. Don’t think artillery shells will be a huge factor and even on paper the Chinese navy (and probably th
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
Do American insurance companies have any incentives to minimize their spending?
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> so my insurance company would try negotiate the price down. Do they have any incentives to do that though? If their profits are fixed at a specific % wouldn’t they be incentivized to spend as much as possible so that they could increas
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
I don’t think we’re eradicating life, just most natural ecosystems and ecological diversity.
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> European market is worth it even with their lower profit margins. Overall fee (bank + network) seems to be around 1% in Europe and 2-3% in the US. So if we subtract the cashbacks/rewards which are almost nonexistent in the EU thes
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> In Europe you do Sort of.. generally in Europe chargebacks are still pretty rare in general and convincing your bank to make one is non-trivial and takes a lot of time

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