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by dangjc 13d ago
The Supreme Court opened the doors to this with Citizens United. You can’t expect one party to unilaterally disarm while another rakes in hundreds of millions. We all just need to come together and agree on a constitutional amendment to end
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by dangjc 8mo ago
Rooftop solar has lower distribution costs. A solar farm needs new transmission and upgraded capacity distribution lines to get the power from far away to the users. Generating solar right next to your neighbors lets them access your surplu
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by dangjc 1y ago
This! My company is mid size and we can’t hire junior people for fear they’ll jump to FANG right when they’re starting to become productive for us. And we can’t afford FANG compensation for senior people.
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by dangjc 1y ago
Then Tesla should pay for back up drivers until their safety record meets the bar.
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by dangjc 1y ago
I live in a VHCOL coast (the Bay Area) and am trying to add onto my house. Contractors are quoting broadly between $500-$1000 per square feet for an addition, for an ADU, or for a new house. We need both YIMBY procedure reforms and also som
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by dangjc 1y ago
There are horrible consequences and people are suffering, totally. So then what? How do we get others to understand the impacts and start to change their mind?
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by dangjc 1y ago
We often reach for black and white thinking which makes political discussions difficult. Both sides do it, and it stunts our empathy for why people vote the way they do.
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by dangjc 2y ago
We destroyed half of Russia’s military without shedding American lives. We defended the principle that people should govern themselves and not be dominated by force.
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by dangjc 2y ago
This weakens the US against China. Europeans have no stake in a big Pacific conflict and will be much less interested to back US war mongering now. It’s short sighted for us to forego alliances that were helping us build a world order and a
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by dangjc 2y ago
China will benefit the most from this. Europe has zero interest in backing up the US in a fight for Pacific dominance. Good luck trying to form a trading block that excludes China now.
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by dangjc 2y ago
I think most Americans value freedom and reject tyranny.
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by dangjc 2y ago
We (Americans) can’t be relied on. Yeah most Americans are still supportive of Europe but our political system produces whipsaw foreign policy. The end result of all this is America is weakened on the global stage as our allies lose faith i
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by dangjc 2y ago
Institutions try to make people more than the sum of their parts. The free market pits businesses against each other in a way that harnesses overall economic productivity. We’ve gotten pretty far with our federalized system and balance of b
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by dangjc 2y ago
We have a product analytics team where people have transitioned from being fully PM focused to being deeply data analysis oriented. It starts with using code-lite tools like Tableau and SQL queries then easily opens up into running data tra
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by dangjc 3y ago
One other issue with the Sahara is that you still have to transport that energy to where it will be used. It's been difficult already to build transmission within the US between a few states. Crossing the Mediterranean and getting the
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by dangjc 3y ago
We’re getting to the point where sites might need to embrace ID verification to protect against fake, malicious, farmed, and AI generated content.
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by dangjc 3y ago
> I can for example look at the HTML of a document and if it has too many ads or if it has too many tracking elements I can downrank the website for example. Or enable a user to have a check box to say I don’t want to many ads. I prefer
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by dangjc 3y ago
DBUs are about +50% the underlying compute cost. We use Databricks in production extensively.
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by dangjc 3y ago
Some nuggets of wisdom from the article when managing an engineering org: - “if the only reason an engineer wants to work for you is because of your tech stack, that may be a warning sign. Culture Amp therefore avoids hiring engineers who a
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by dangjc 3y ago
That’s reassuring we are in steady state. If perennial rice takes over, we will gradually drop atmospheric methane to a lower steady state.
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by dangjc 3y ago
They decided not to hedge on purpose, take the risk, hoping to earn the extra profits. Slate money did a good episode on this last week. SVB has high touch relationships with their clients, and they need money to pay for all that client ser
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by dangjc 4y ago
It’s not walking on egg shells. It’s very clear directions to avoid anti competitive behavior. Maybe it’s harder without a moral compass telling them to not be evil.
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by dangjc 4y ago
People kept asking me why I was still using Atom, and Hydrogen was it. It doesn't seem like there's an exact equivalent in VSCode. For now, I'm just relying on sending blocks of code to the interactive Python terminal. Or usi
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by dangjc 5y ago
You might want to gravitate more in the machine learning engineer direction. So much of ML is building the data, training pipelines, the serving environment, model tracking, evaluation, promotion, and other general infra around modeling. Ma
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by dangjc 5y ago
A huge portion of electric bills are paying for wildfire damage/hardening and for expensive transmission lines. Rooftop solar reduces both, but is not being credited for it in NEM 3.0. When electricity is generated and consumed locally
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by dangjc 5y ago
He stole intellectual property and deserves to be prosecuted. With abundant streaming options these days and threat of being cut off from your ISP, few people pirate films anymore in the US. This is not normal, tolerable practice anymore. P
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by dangjc 5y ago
Bezos leaned very hard away from work life balance. He’s extremely wealthy and divorced.
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by dangjc 6y ago
This might be a short term hit to publishers, but maybe readers will eventually retrain to visit news sites directly rather than relying on Facebook and friends to select articles for them. This is very much a fight over who controls the en
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Smartmatic sues Fox News and others for $2.7bn(theverge.com)
6 points by dangjc 6y ago|2 comments
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by dangjc 6y ago
The eyeball is not “just” too long. It elongates as a response to the stimuli from the lens projecting an image at a focal length behind the retina. Most kids are not born nearsighted. It develops over time. This is how.

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