dimva

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by dimva 5mo ago
They say AI will destroy humanity because they believe it. OpenAI and Anthropic were created by people who believed this. There's nothing nefarious about them saying this. Why are they still building it? Because each team thinks that T
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by dimva 3y ago
It makes sense that this is true. We've been systematically underbuilding housing since at least the 1980s. Lots of places had old, run-down surpluses that were being "revitalized", hiding the issue for decades. But now the h
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by dimva 3y ago
The problem of homelessness isn't due to a lack of money. The problem is people don't want housing for the homeless (or any housing at all, usually) built near them. When there's a shortage of housing, there's gonna be h
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by dimva 3y ago
I've been programming since I was 7, and I've always viewed software development as a means to an end. The alternative seems crazy to me - coding without a purpose? Why on earth would you want to do that??? I've been very s
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by dimva 3y ago
Why are you discounting real wealth? I am a millionaire. If I spent my millions on buying a modest house in Palo Alto, does that mean I am no longer a millionaire? Have I lost all my wealth just by purchasing a home?
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by dimva 3y ago
Any increase in the number of homes reduces the homeless population. There are so many homeless people in CA mostly because there just aren't enough homes for everyone there. It won't completely solve homelessness - many people li
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by dimva 3y ago
Honestly, if you want a truly progressive city government in California, you probably need it to be 100% private. If it's public, the regressive California constitution comes into effect, and now you can't make property taxes be h
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by dimva 3y ago
Reading the comments here and elsewhere about this project is so vindicating for me. In cities, NIMBYs will say "why should we build anything here, just move away and build your dream city somewhere else". I knew that there was no
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by dimva 3y ago
Why would you move away from such a nice situation?
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by dimva 3y ago
No, you won't be blocking the noise of an ambulance with noise-canceling headphones, that's not how noise-cancelling technology works. They only block persistent sounds, which an ambulance siren isn't as it changes pitch rapi
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by dimva 3y ago
Yea, all of the above. And that's a pretty big market, enough to support its current price (around $30k I believe)
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by dimva 4y ago
Does this fundamentally disagree with anything I wrote? Before Tumblr became a place where some people showed off their inscrutable social justice terminology, it was mostly a place where hipsters showed off their inscrutably cool aesthetic
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by dimva 4y ago
The ever-changing euphemistic language seems to me like mostly just a new way to be a hipster. The new vocabulary is a shibboleth to distinguish people who got the right sort of education from the right sort of places. Your knowledge of all
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by dimva 4y ago
He has already "suffered" the consequences. Google stock is down ~35% from its highs, so his compensation (which is mostly stock) has already been reduced by that amount. Following the layoff announcement, it is up by ~3% in prema
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by dimva 4y ago
https://sfzoning.deapthoughts.com . It changed the conversation about zoning in San Francisco, and lots of politicians and activists now quote the topline stat (apartments are illegal to build in 3/4 of San Francisco).
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by dimva 4y ago
Wage theft is committed by millions of employers, this "theft" was committed by just a few people. While I agree with your general sentiment, the resources required to prosecute wage theft would be vastly greater than to prosecute
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by dimva 4y ago
It's funny remembering how people would say stuff like "if you aren't paying for the product, you ARE the product", and someone even tried to make a Twitter clone where the only differentiator was that you'd pay for
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by dimva 4y ago
His argument makes no sense. If this is indeed why they are banning people, why keep the reasoning a secret? Honestly, every ban should come with a public explanation from the network, in order to deter similar behavior. The way things are
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by dimva 4y ago
The internet is not a public square for the same reason the world isn't a public square - it requires effort to see things from outside your own community. Twitter (and Facebook), on the other hand, will regularly push things to me fro
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by dimva 4y ago
We gotta build things for the humans we have, not the humans we wish to have. Maybe global public squares don't work for the humans we have. That's ok.
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by dimva 4y ago
You pay for services where there isn't a network effect (streaming) or where the market isn't super competitive (telecom). Social is an incredibly competitive market with a huge network effect - if Facebook or Twitter charged mone
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by dimva 4y ago
For some reason, driving a car causes a strong desire to move forward quickly in most people. Even for me, a person who hasn't owned a car in over a decade and always bikes or walks everywhere, whenever I get behind the wheel of a car,
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by dimva 5y ago
the USPS consistently has the highest favorability rating of any government agency, at 91%: https://federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-oversight/2021/04/usps...
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by dimva 5y ago
Murder is not the only crime. I, and a bunch of my friends, have been attacked (punched, followed home, etc) by homeless people in SF. This has never happened to any of us anywhere else, and we are a group who travels a lot to a lot of citi
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by dimva 5y ago
If anyone is motivated to do this for some weird reason, please self-host the code instead of exposing your users to potential hacking.
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by dimva 6y ago
Maybe they should stop driving around a major city with world-class public transportation and excellent bike infrastructure? That's what I did when I moved to NYC after a year of frustrated searching for parking.
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by dimva 6y ago
GOOG has 3x'd in the past 7 years, FB has 10x'd, AMZN has 10x'd, etc. The initial stock grants would be worth a lot more, plus all the refreshers. My friends who are decent software engineers with a few years of experience ar
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by dimva 6y ago
$3.7 million sounds like a lot of money, but he could have earned more than that over 7 years if he just took a mid-level job at a FAMANG company. EDIT: saw that the founder lives in Birmingham, Alabama. So yes, $3.7 million IS a lot of mon
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by dimva 6y ago
I'd be very surprised if more lockdowns came. Lockdowns are useful in only 2 situations: 1. there's a new disease that is spreading rapidly through the population and you want to prevent the healthcare system from becoming overwhe
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by dimva 6y ago
FOSS is super competitive, too. Teams splinter off and fork projects, new projects start up that try to dethrone the industry leaders, people compete for status/usage, etc. The main difference is that the work product/process is p

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