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by zemvpferreira 5mo ago
Couldn't agree more. Jobs' advice to say no to a hundred things sounds easy in a vacuum, but to actually go against the powerful people around you and gatekeep the quality and essence of your business over decades is incredibly ha
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by zemvpferreira 5mo ago
Not a fan of Altman but the devil you know is a powerful argument. If you believe a CEO/Founder to be a grifter-position at its core (fake it till you make it etc etc), retaining the best grifter you can find is the optimal play.
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by zemvpferreira 5mo ago
What he actually wanted was a straw-man to burn. Glad it's out in the open now.
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by zemvpferreira 5mo ago
Yep, the Time Machine minus the fear, the cannibalism, the suffering, the apathy, the reduced capacity for engagement etc are essentially the best-case scenario, which takes us out of HG Wells enough for it not to matter much as a cautionar
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by zemvpferreira 5mo ago
I don't think you need to worry yourself so much on my account friend. You asked, I told. Let's keep it at that. Also feel free to keep the name-calling to yourself.
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by zemvpferreira 5mo ago
Sure. The machine gods are benevolent gods who care deeply for their creator-species. We are freed from labour and troubles into a paradise, to eat peaches and cream and make love under the sun. Rich or poor, we'll all be emperors of o
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by zemvpferreira 5mo ago
Sorry to hear that. As a counterpoint for the peanut gallery I've been on tirzepatide for 5 months and lost 15 kg in the first 3 months, never going past a 1.25mg dose. I've only creeped up to 3mg since and keep losing around 0.3
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by zemvpferreira 5mo ago
You mean the price of software, as well as the cost. The value (to the user) is the same if not more.
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by zemvpferreira 6mo ago
I would earnestly suggest reading Apple In China: https://www.amazon.com/Apple-China-Capture-Greatest-Company/... It both captures Tim's genius and the genius of the person much geniuser than him: Xi Jinping.
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by zemvpferreira 6mo ago
Paranoia as in fear of losing sovereignty. The average Swiss is not a cleverer or more productive person than the average European. However like you said they make outstanding communal decisions because they at their core believe Switzerlan
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by zemvpferreira 6mo ago
European who has travelled/lived extensively in China and the US. I don't believe our problem is idleness. It's instead a pernicious belief in peace. There's no sense of geopolitical competition in society at large. We g
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by zemvpferreira 7mo ago
Not to beat my own dead horse but at the heat stress needed to cause an adaptation there’s nothing pleasant about the experience. If it’s not causing nausea and palpitations, it’s not hot enough.
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by zemvpferreira 7mo ago
Have you tried submerging yourself in moderately hot water, I wonder? And have you spent some time pondering the difference in heat transfer between convection and conduction?
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by zemvpferreira 7mo ago
Yes, if by hot bath you mean submerging yourself to neck level in 40ºC or above water for 20-30 minutes. There's no reason to believe any "heat therapy" modality is superior to another as long as you suffer equal heat stress.
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by zemvpferreira 7mo ago
PartitionMagic was one of the first programs to make me feel like I was in control of my computer. I don't think about it much but looking back it was an important part of my development as a technologist. You made a difference in lots
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by zemvpferreira 7mo ago
So we are now hypothesising fully-developed multi-planetary civilisations to justify an IPO price in 2026? By the same leap of logic Coca-Cola is worth 1 trillion times its current price since it's poised to be the galaxy's drink
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by zemvpferreira 7mo ago
You can praise the technological achievements while still thinking the underlying business is trash. Plenty of horrible companies have generated great advances, but your money in them before mine thank you very much.
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by zemvpferreira 7mo ago
I don't mean to nitpick but really the only thing they have in common is a)rackets b)being played in pairs and c) being very popular at the moment. Padel is orders of magnitude richer and more complex than pickleball. Pickle is a lot o
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by zemvpferreira 7mo ago
That's perfectly nice idea but still doesn't make for a good movie. Making a good movie comes before a nice idea, if a movie is what you're making.
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by zemvpferreira 7mo ago
Fair enough if you enjoyed it. I'm no stranger to the period or the director's movies and still found this one overly contrived. The tense bits are so engaging that the fantastic/anachronistic felt like it detracted from a gr
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by zemvpferreira 7mo ago
Am I getting old or did it use to be much better 10 or 20 years ago? Half the LRB feels so politicised to me now, and the other half barely feels erudite. Was I just too young to pick it up back then?
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by zemvpferreira 7mo ago
I found it unsatisfying. Such a strong opening let down by a meandering movie with no payoff. Made all the sadder by great moments and performances spread thinly through the 2-something hours. I remember coming out of the movie theatre thin
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by zemvpferreira 7mo ago
There is no difference.
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by zemvpferreira 8mo ago
A perfectly performant, luxury-feeling laptop with a secure OS for under $500? This thing is going to eat Chromebooks and budget HP shitboxes for lunch. Sure a lot of niceties are missing but compared to the experience most people have with
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by zemvpferreira 8mo ago
A 10 or 20 gram usb-c cable will literally solve this problem forever for $2.99
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by zemvpferreira 8mo ago
“Soon” is likely 5-10 years easily though.
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by zemvpferreira 8mo ago
Limited resources? Billions per year are being thrown at the base technology. We have the capital deployed to exhaust every path ten times over.
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by zemvpferreira 8mo ago
I think we’re well past the point where mass surveillance was a technical challenge. Mass oppression through autonomous violence however…
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by zemvpferreira 8mo ago
The mind salivates at the idea of sub-$100 and soon after sub-$10 Lidar. We could build spatial awareness into damn near everything. It'll be a cambrian explosion of autonomous robots.
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by zemvpferreira 8mo ago
It’s nothing. This is not a test to take a value judgement from.

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