hindsightbias

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by hindsightbias 2y ago
Consider a Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs applied to an AGI. I predict weird nuclear and space proposals in the next few years.
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Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy(paulgraham.com)
3 points by hindsightbias 2y ago|3 comments
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
Why are we subsizing Apple when they have $200B in cash laying around? Repatriate and give them sme tax credit.
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
When even your secret programs have to do marketing. Don’t cancel me bro!
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
> That item says DOGE canceled a contract of almost $8 billion with D&G Support Services for services provided to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Investigative reporting from the New York Times revealed that the contract was val
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
The first rule of opposition should be to not embrace the conspiracy memes of your opponents.
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
Sykes-Picot agreements weren't just for your great grandparents. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sykes–Picot_Agreement
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
People are finally getting acclimated to the crash rates we were used to back in the old days.
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
https://www.baen.com/rip_moc 1990: https://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/Documents/MCC%20Development%2... Pirates: https://www.wbs.ac.uk/news/the-nasa-pirates-that-transformed... He
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
I’ll bet DOGE could code up an auction system in no time. Or turn it over to Ticketmaster. Think of the profits.
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
This is usually doable until it's DEWS/SAGE radar code from the 50's. That's what NASA started with and the last guy died in the 90s. We got every other subsystem off the mainframe, but had to keep it around for the rada
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
They have to orbit ~1600 Kupiers by summer 2026 per their FCC license. I’m sure President Musks FCC director will be ameanable.
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
This guy would never have an agenda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Moritz
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
You can always go to Cerner and buy Larry a new yacht.
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
paypal brought us freedom.
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
That’s by congressional design. Don’t blame the mainframe. DOGE just shut down the auto prepare because gov’t is bad and wasteful.
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
The IMF and BMF aren’t just software. They’re the code in tax code. It’s the law, not the printed thing in a binder. If you have the gall to question IMF behavior vs printed tax code and write it up internally, you will get a reply from an
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
The 1040EZ was being OCR’d forty years ago. It doesn’t scale to 1040s and schedules because today’s biologics don’t know how to write anymore.
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
Why update what isn’t broken?
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
If only the techies would listen to reason and move to Houston. They would be so much happier. Why live somewhere that you hate so much?
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
> new music I keep thinking I'm going crazy until Rick Beato explains that yes, I am just an RNN Meat Popsicle and the world is interpolated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_9Larw-hJM
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
The Navy, especially carriers, operate like that drunk guy in a powerboat. With their lights and AIS off. A destroyer isn’t going to help much when you’re trying to run over a bulk carrier.
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
You're not being thick. It's Rothchilds run USAID who control Apple/Amazon crazy.
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
"Our research offers an extremely promising clue, suggesting that the virus may have been triggered by the rare Sennetsu fever, possibly transmitted through consuming raw or undercooked gray mullet fish infected with trematodes or by i
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
Loneliness is almost as old as Eternal September. http://ereserve.library.utah.edu/Annual/SOC/3030/Bro/bowling...
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
Sigh. What Norman Mailer said. Someone should make a movie where Cuban snipers, Anti-Castro snipers, CIA snipers, KGB snipers, Mob snipers, Oswald and whatever conspiracy is hip today are all in Dealey Plaza shooting at each other and JFK g
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
Couldn't the prior actions and TikTok be taken as precedents for a National Security takeover? Put it under DOGE?
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
When I want advice on debt I always prefer it from a realtor politician.
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
There are many critical legacy systems running on institutional knowledge that no one under 40 knows or cares to know. Nobody under 40 is writing anything that will have that lifespan.
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
So do “thin places” include cabin isles? It’s 2025 and boarders are still blocking the isles playing with their bags. Could you possibly think of doing that before boarding? Isle Rage needs to become a thing.

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