flask_manager

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by flask_manager 1y ago
Here's the thing, I tend to believe that sufficiently intelligent and original people will always have something to offer others; its irrelevant if you imagine the others as the current consumer public, our corporate overlords, or the
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by flask_manager 1y ago
5k over 6ish years when volvo sells well over 100k ice a year. It doesnt look like they are even selling 1 % electric a year yet.
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by flask_manager 1y ago
Awkward headline, since its not really much of a milestone. The first couple in a region are interesting, hitting significant proportions a year is interesting, a cumulative (relatively) small number is not that interesting.
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by flask_manager 1y ago
Because selectively applying this line of reasoning to one moral injustice is making someone a victim by unfairly applying a standard to them alone. Is your plan to analyze all current wealth for morality based redistribution?
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by flask_manager 1y ago
I have in the past, but three things put me off doing so now; Pages where I can spot inconsistencies are often controversial, with long dense discussion pages, edits here are almost impossible beyond trivial details. I dont mind fixing triv
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by flask_manager 1y ago
Why should an individual landlord have to subsidize an individual tenant? Its a scale of social interaction that doesnt make any sense. This can have lots of issues. Imagine something like a good school zone changing, an event that may not
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by flask_manager 2y ago
Its not really about building your own thing, its about identity... You are what you do. If you dont understand the impact what you are doing has once its out of sight, how can you understand yourself as part of society? Contracting is simp
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by flask_manager 2y ago
Burn out is hard to manage; its something that happens in the cruisy 20-something hour a week job as well as the 80+ hour pressure cooker. Probably not to the same degree sure, but its not the only thing going on here. Its a whole lot more
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by flask_manager 2y ago
The distinction that i think is important to make when talking about "the bitter lesson" is that improving the compute and training infrastructure and tricks in the abstract wins over intelligent model and system design. Its more
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by flask_manager 2y ago
We have global commerce; you are not only working on the creation part of something new, but also competing with similarly skilled people working with different more advantageous start conditions. Nobody is talking about the difference betw
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by flask_manager 2y ago
Personally I use google more/just as much for product searches; stores selling X, finding comparison sites, going to the manufacturers page for a product. That and restaurants from maps. I use it less for information based searches, bu
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by flask_manager 3y ago
I dont think you can create a high trust society deliberately; It takes multi-generation level time-spans, and in a low trust environment there is no mechanism to guarantee your plans will be carried forward; even if you currently have dict
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by flask_manager 3y ago
Im guessing my experience is very different; I work more in robotics than pure software, and this is an industry where many of the problems are investment intensive... I wouldn't call it a crash in this field, but there is definitely a
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by flask_manager 3y ago
The idea that a crash would benefit talented people more than the bulshitters is not really all that likely in my opinion... More likely that the chosen few get put on life support through government contracts or entrenched work, and innova
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by flask_manager 3y ago
The 3 hour day is a rare thing, but I dont think that its more available in Australia than anywhere else... I know more people with that setup in the states, as an anecdote. And fully remote in the states has the additional benefit of actu
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by flask_manager 3y ago
It really depends what specific circumstances you are comparing. If you are looking at trades, low skill full time, or casual work, I dont think there is a better place to be. If you are comparing the lifestyle available from a full time s
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by flask_manager 3y ago
The last plumber I hired had a website, spotted a leak with a flir camera (and had a pile of interesting niche electronics), and sent me an invoice he generated through an app on his phone via email... Maybe there are places where you can h
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by flask_manager 3y ago
An economists point of view would say there is nothing wrong with empty houses; and in fact its a good thing because short-term low-barrier agreements allow the optimal price for housing in an area to be determined. They would then say that
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by flask_manager 3y ago
I suspect tools like this will become excellent at all the slight variations and duplicate work that goes on in a whole bunch of development work. To the point where especially for the low complexity work you get enough productivity increas
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by flask_manager 4y ago
HN tends to filter for people who are more academically inclined; people for who mastering a topic is a goal, and believe that education systems should support that. Taking a wider view, this is not really something that society wants in a
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by flask_manager 4y ago
Its Malthusian, low income families grow until they run out of resources... Its a pattern we only briefly stepped away from in the industrial revolution, supported by the rapid growth in the amount of real goods able to be produced by each
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by flask_manager 4y ago
How large are you aiming for? I suspect beyond around 5 people this falls apart due to either the value of the specific skill at the time matching the current profitability poorly, or the protective clauses that would be needed in a contrac
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by flask_manager 4y ago
Likely the fiber setting expectations, 2gbps is the "premium" tier in many places, where the monthly difference between fast and the top speed is about the same as 32gb of ram.
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by flask_manager 4y ago
Phone benchmarks getting bigger arbitrary numbers as an example of innovation has to be a joke right? Fundamentals like the existence of mobile internet is HUGE. My phone giving more or less the same access to video, messaging, and webpage
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by flask_manager 4y ago
I see no particular societal need for people to be formally trained in art production. At least not any more than there is value in horse-riding or kendo. A small number of people able to attempt mastery professionally does nothing for the
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by flask_manager 4y ago
Depends, I find that the need to see more in a work is a fairly minority and insider opinion. The majority of people buying art go by visuals first, then their personal response, and finally talking/status points. Relating to the arti
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by flask_manager 4y ago
Ive always found whitespace to be like variable names, restriction coming from the language always seems to make it harder to use them to convey things to the next person who comes along. The code typesetting is for the humans not the machi
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by flask_manager 4y ago
I prefer waking up to a light turning on than a noisy alarm; but also like having a normal switch the rest of the day. I have also used them to relocate a switch to a more useful place for much cheaper/in a rental. (Automatic switch in
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by flask_manager 4y ago
My guess it that archeology does not attempt to link DNA to behavior, and so gets a pass. Ultimately what directs anthropology is fickle, there is no real push for correctness or profitability; its all prestige and arbitrary funding direct
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by flask_manager 4y ago
Has CRISPR been successful on mammals yet? Once its widespread enough for someone without ethical constraints to have a try it seems like an inevitability.

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