RhodesianHunter

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by RhodesianHunter 1mo ago
Guess what category of drug reduces the intake of large amounts of sugar?
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by RhodesianHunter 2mo ago
Don't let it outside the sandbox. Don't let it have access to anything but dev environments. Continue using git. Never had any issues.
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by RhodesianHunter 2mo ago
> My feeling is we're still in the Uber era subsidy period I often wonder whether this doesn't continue indefinitely. Uber was able to do this because it was just them and Lyft playing second fiddle, with a huge barrier to entr
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by RhodesianHunter 6mo ago
Just because it's been done before for a different use-case doesn't mean that building exclusively for this use-case doesn't remove friction.
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by RhodesianHunter 6mo ago
There are many obvious ways in which this may not be true. Anyone learning the language and some people with learning disabilities, for example, may communicate better via an LLM.
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by RhodesianHunter 11mo ago
You're welcome to move somewhere with no taxes. I hear those places are all very pleasant.
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by RhodesianHunter 1y ago
That's what happens when there's a need for something. You see an explosion in offerings, and then eventually it's whittled down to a handful of survivors.
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by RhodesianHunter 2y ago
I just don't think ancient artifacts are comparable to an old TV.
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by RhodesianHunter 2y ago
Well, and once this kills the web then Google's AI no longer has a data source its AI can tap to answer questions about anything that happens afterward, so it kind of needs the web to at least limp along.
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by RhodesianHunter 2y ago
Yes, but are they on Instagram though?
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by RhodesianHunter 2y ago
That doesn't seem like much of a plan given their trailing position in the cloud space and the fact that Microsoft and AWS both have their own offerings.
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by RhodesianHunter 2y ago
I wonder if they're pulling the wall-mart model. Ruthlessly cut costs and sell at-or-below costs until your competitors go out of business, then ratchet up the prices once you have market dominance.
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by RhodesianHunter 2y ago
Half of builders went out of business in 2008 and 1/3 left the trades. We only just recently reached the level of new home starts we were hitting pre great-recession. We have a decade's worth of supply deficit and in most locale&#
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by RhodesianHunter 2y ago
Malibu, CA is very expensive to live in as well.
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by RhodesianHunter 2y ago
Hard to get much denser than NYC without massive capital expenditure.
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by RhodesianHunter 2y ago
> Collusion requires taking supply off the market in order to raise prices. This is factually incorrect.
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by RhodesianHunter 2y ago
Yes, living in one of the, if not the, most desirable cities on the planet comes with additional costs.
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by RhodesianHunter 2y ago
Housing supply is inelastic due to the time it takes to permit and built. Housing demand is more elastic than you suspect. People have income on a curve, and at a certain point of price/quality will move further out and commute or move
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by RhodesianHunter 2y ago
>I have a strong incentive to undercut them Not in a supply constrained market where your rental will be occupied either way.
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by RhodesianHunter 2y ago
True but, look up the price fixing that's been going on in big AG via AgriStats. Similar story as OP.
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by RhodesianHunter 2y ago
I'm not trying to be snarky, I'm genuinely curious. Have you ever read the economics literature on price controls?
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by RhodesianHunter 2y ago
>Dynamic price control of rents How many economics studies, from all schools of economic thought, across 100 years of research need to prove that price controls don't work before people start accepting that fact?
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by RhodesianHunter 2y ago
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by RhodesianHunter 2y ago
I don't think this is a matter of good or evil, simply a matter of business strategy. If LLMs end up being the platform of the future, Zuck doesn't want OpenAI/Microsoft to be able to monopolize it.
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by RhodesianHunter 2y ago
Stock vests over time. By providing stock instead of cash the company incentivizes the employee to do their best, because that will ostensibly help the stock to be worth more than the cash by the time it vests. Hence, incentive. Does that m
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by RhodesianHunter 2y ago
You seem to have missed an absolutely critical element of what drives human behavior. We call it "incentive".
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by RhodesianHunter 2y ago
Meta just keeps releasing their models as open-source, so that whole line of thinking breaks down quickly.
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by RhodesianHunter 2y ago
> Just being earlier doesn’t mean they contribute more to the company No, but being earlier does mean taking on more risk, which is the whole argument founders and seed investors make for their cuts.
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by RhodesianHunter 2y ago
> I know people in your position who have ~$200k cash comp in addition to meaningful equity. That's great, so long as its taken within the context of "200k is way more than the average US engineer makes without any equity"
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by RhodesianHunter 2y ago
It's a Ponzi scheme for VC and other investors. Founders just get greased palms along the way if they're successful.

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