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by jacobjjacob 1mo ago
Over what timescale do you amortize your investment by pricing it in? Do you earn back your $100k by selling $20 coffee? That wouldn’t be sustainable. So, this is where the loss comes in. You can’t realistically sell at a profit considering
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by jacobjjacob 2mo ago
The value of air conditioning is much more than 20x the value of bitcoin. It might be more than 20,000,000x the value.
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by jacobjjacob 3mo ago
I don’t think that my career has been eroded by even 1%. The areas of erosion listed by the author feel like reverse order to me. The domain is knowing what questions to ask. That’s the last thing to be replaced. I think that if you are a s
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by jacobjjacob 4mo ago
AI is currently, actively getting better. That might stop in a year, and you can argue whether it’s linear or exponential, but it’s very difficult to argue that it won’t get better in the near term. On the other hand, arguing that we hit a
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by jacobjjacob 7mo ago
It’s 100% trackable. It’s anonymous but there are many datapoints that could be used to deanonymize if the transaction parties are not extremely careful
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by jacobjjacob 7mo ago
Markets can’t see the product quality of a monopoly. It won’t be reflected in the metrics because there’s no competition to anchor the earnings to the real consumer value. But that doesn’t mean quality isn’t a factor- it makes them vulnerab
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by jacobjjacob 7mo ago
No one should be charging $10/month for a local PDF editor anyways… but I don’t think AI will solve that
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by jacobjjacob 7mo ago
What does this have to do with Garry Tan and CA, it happened in Georgia?
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by jacobjjacob 1y ago
He wasn’t claiming that he is. He was pointing out that people were scrambling to label him as being from “the other side”. The reality isn’t so binary. I agree it could have been worded better but I think it’s clear if you watch it in cont
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by jacobjjacob 1y ago
Yes, I think it was the right call if they want the post to be taken seriously by a broad audience.
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by jacobjjacob 1y ago
Does the first example really need to be some softcore weeb p*rn?
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by jacobjjacob 1y ago
It’s not breaking the law in this case as far as I know. The law requires Apple to provide equal access to the iPhone hardware and software in marketplaces that it competes in. That can be done in a manner that is either additive, by provid
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by jacobjjacob 1y ago
As far as I understand, the act can’t control what Apple decides to do outside of the EU. Whether Apple has products or features available outside that market means nothing because it’s scoped to that jurisdiction. I think that whether or n
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by jacobjjacob 1y ago
If the consumers in EU don’t like the legal and predictable effects of the DMA in this case, how is Apple subverting the democratic process? If the act isn’t having the intended effect, then either voters will change their minds or it will
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by jacobjjacob 1y ago
Saying the Waymo was even involved in the crash is misleading. It was a victim along with most of the other vehicles.
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by jacobjjacob 1y ago
They only have ten cars on the road? What a farce, the stock is inflated with hopes and dreams and hot air. Only needs a little bit of work to not drive into trains.
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by jacobjjacob 1y ago
They claim to have delivered L4 autonomous parking, not full L4.
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by jacobjjacob 1y ago
Was just there a couple weeks ago and didn’t get to ride, they were doing engine repairs :(
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by jacobjjacob 1y ago
This example just sounds like it was coded poorly. I would assume that experienced React developers would know to avoid something like this. For inexperienced developers, you don’t need a framework to do something dumb.
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by jacobjjacob 2y ago
It’s a flop relative to the expectation that Elon set - that they’d sell 500k units per year.
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by jacobjjacob 2y ago
Many seasonal campgrounds never open due to lack of staffing. Fire risk can’t be sufficiently managed and creates massive fuel buildups. Illegal dumping at the edges of the national forests is also a big problem that they can’t keep up with
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by jacobjjacob 2y ago
AFAIK, this affected probationary employees of all or most agencies. So I’m not sure how this argument makes sense as something the Forest Service did wrong or could have prevented. Also, the government should be efficient but shouldn’t be
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by jacobjjacob 2y ago
This site is called hacker news… the article is news about hackers
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by jacobjjacob 2y ago
I think that the practical solution is to hire more auditors/investigators, and they would end up paying for themselves, but I don’t think Elon would accept a solution that requires more humans and up front cost.
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by jacobjjacob 2y ago
I’m not advocating for war but one thing this deficit pays for is being a military superpower, which is the main way our debt is “guaranteed”. As in, call in the debt at your own peril.
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by jacobjjacob 2y ago
I would guess that part of it is to tear down what’s there so they can rebuild in their own vision. I think this is a desire that any engineer can understand- and also understand that it often has to be suppressed because it’s a common blun
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by jacobjjacob 2y ago
Maybe the strategy is to let it play out until there is enough of a case that the other branches can’t look away? Let Elon show himself out by inevitably crossing Trump and going the way of so many other advisors?
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by jacobjjacob 2y ago
Looking at the quoted post, what do they have against Direct File? It is really hard to keep track of their positions which I believe is intentional.
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by jacobjjacob 2y ago
Separation of powers, checks and balances. The executive branch taking powers from the legislative branch with the judicial branch approving can be seen as a coup.
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by jacobjjacob 2y ago
Should we become a totalitarian state in order to compete with another? That feels like McCarthyism/Cold War/ “authoritarianism is fine as long as it isn’t communism” vibes.

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