dtquad

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by dtquad 1y ago
I hope China will look into this. The Western mind will think it is "unnatural" and playing God with nature on a completely unprecedented scale but large-scale geo engineering like this is probably the few options we have left.
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by dtquad 1y ago
In that regard the Danish pension funds are actually playing it safer than our neighbors. The Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund, the largest of its kind in the world, is 40% US equities (read: US tech stocks) and 10% US private equity (read:
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by dtquad 1y ago
Maybe apps that take less than 3 minutes for a 17-year-old to install, register account, and learn how to use, are not really defensible "monopolies" and maybe these apps shouldn't be the target of antitrust laws that were in
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by dtquad 1y ago
>monopolies Where exactly? They lose market share to every new AI wrapper app and most young people are on the Chinese video app. >are good because line goes up The "line goes up" sarcasm really doesn't work when we are
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by dtquad 1y ago
This anti-big-tech hysteria in the US is dangerous. Applying early 20th antitrust thinking to modern tech companies is short sighted and doesn't show the whole picture. These American big tech companies that people like Steve Bannon an
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by dtquad 1y ago
The reason many prefer Cursor over VSCode + GitHub Copilot is because of how much faster Cursor is for tab completion. They use some smaller models that are latency optimized specifically to make the tab completion feel as fast as possible.
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by dtquad 1y ago
GPGPUs ended up becoming the AI/cloud accelerators that FPGAs promised to be back when Intel bought Altera. FPGAs are not ideal for raw parallel number crunching like in AI/LLMs. They are more appropriate for predictable real-time
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by dtquad 1y ago
>This assumes that he has more power than the tech companies lol Even the San Francisco city council is bullying American tech companies and tech executives. The power of US tech companies is vastly overstated.
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by dtquad 1y ago
>the Chinese economic model of government-controlled economic direction, though not perfect, would work better You want the US government to provide more subsidies to US tech companies so they can stay competitive? Because that is what C
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by dtquad 1y ago
>Linux, where there's just one thing, but its free and impossible to monetize directly Redhat and SUSE are multi-billion dollar Linux distro companies.
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by dtquad 1y ago
Google is the primary target for current US anti-big-tech sentiments that are getting political traction with Lina Khan and Steve Bannon teaming up at a recent conference against US Big Tech companies. J.D. Vance has also expressed that he
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by dtquad 1y ago
The Pelosis' trades are public knowledge. Pelosi and her husband have outperformed the market by being tech-optimistic Californians. One of their most lucrative investments was investing in Nvidia after ChatGPT was released triggerin
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by dtquad 1y ago
How would a "friend of Pelosi" know when Trump would post his "THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!!" and "90 days pause" posts?
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Ask HN: What are you using Gemini 2.5 Pro for?
1 points by dtquad 1y ago|0 comments
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by dtquad 1y ago
>Too early for the people fundraising to build US manufacturing capabilities. It's a good idea to hedge against future trade uncertainties. After COVID some Danish and German companies began looking for non-Chinese alternatives for
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by dtquad 1y ago
Interesting and important question. I know MobilePay by Danske Bank is one of the most popular payment apps and can be linked directly to a Danish bank account (probably using the Danish "Dankort" payment infrastructure) without V
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by dtquad 1y ago
There are alternatives to both inefficient government-run monopolies and US tech giant monopolies. Even a small country like Denmark has multiple software and finance companies doing apps and software in the digital payments and banking fi
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by dtquad 1y ago
A lot of US undocumented immigration is not people jumping the US-Mexico border but instead people from India, the Middle East, and China intentionally overstaying their Visas. Obviously they don't want to come during an administration
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by dtquad 1y ago
Twitter was never really big in most European countries. I only have an account to follow AI hype and drama.
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by dtquad 1y ago
The Trump administration seems to have given themselves completely free reign in Yemen. Iran and Houthis forgot that Qatar is no longer paying Western NGOs to say every Saudi bomb kills 1000 babies.
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Iran abandons Houthis under relentless US bombardment(telegraph.co.uk)
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by dtquad 1y ago
This isn't true and sounds like something written by terminally online reddit libertarians. The Black Swan documentary is primarily about sleazy private sector actors in Denmark. The only remotely state affiliated individuals in the do
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by dtquad 1y ago
Interesting that the majority of (new?) UK govt software development is by convention Ruby on Rails: https://docs.publishing.service.gov.uk/manual/conventions-fo... Are there other examples of governments mandating the
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by dtquad 1y ago
The US is primarily attacking Houthis to support Israel and not Europe. Vance knows that. J.D. Vance comes of as a rabid anti-Europeanist in his speeches, tweets, and apparently also his private messages. Here in Denmark the authorities rep
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by dtquad 1y ago
Can some billionaire please buy 23andMe's corpse and delete all data and physical samples they have? Even if you have never used 23andMe several people you are related to already have so they have a partial genetic profile of you.
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by dtquad 1y ago
In 2017 Copenhagen had a wave of gang shootings with 1-2 daily fatalities during the worst weeks. That is nothing compared to the most violent US cities but it was completely unprecedented for a Danish city. The gang warfare was stopped by
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by dtquad 1y ago
>Estonia, Malta and Slovenia rejected the highest percentage of Schengen visa applications from India last year, while Germany, Italy and Hungary were most accommodating. Sounds like Estonia, Malta, and Slovenia didn't want their co
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by dtquad 1y ago
Not all EU countries are the same. I would avoid Hungary, Slovakia, and former Eastern Germany (except Berlin).
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by dtquad 1y ago
Alleging that white men who live in South East Asia are pedophiles is part of the wider pedo panic in anglophone countries. Nobody really cared. I feel bad for the rescue diver.
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Ask HN: What're some interesting non-AI things happening in software and tech?
2 points by dtquad 1y ago|3 comments

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