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by jasmer 3y ago
The people here commenting that this is outrageous have missed the boat a little bit. This 'one line change' is an existential and fundamental effect on the company, it may very well affect operations otherwise. 'One line of
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by jasmer 3y ago
Finance is extremely regulated even if there are shenanigans, Crypto is just an excuse to do finance without oversight, which means it's mostly shady. Every attempt to peel away the onion layer reveals mass problems. It's like s
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by jasmer 3y ago
The price of all crypto is managed. All exchanges have a huge % of wash trading to hold up prices, and insiders with giant ownership stakes manipulate markets. All exchanges are either a scam, or 'implicitly colluding' with shady
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by jasmer 3y ago
Callibri is a nice business font actually, slightly opinionated and definitely not good for everything. Like a Prius when it came out.
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by jasmer 3y ago
Just because Calpers fails doesn't mean the industry is a failure. VC is a wide gamut, the top 25% generates something like 30% IRR while the bottom 25% is negative return. LP in VC is just like VC - have to get in on the good deals an
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by jasmer 3y ago
The carpenter absolutely should have some education, certification, and especially apprenticeship. A certified carpenter has more trade-specific information than your average dev out of a great Uni. It'd be positive if there were some
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by jasmer 3y ago
I would not put the needle that far over. The person responsible for the total user experience, and the PM are responsible for the overall design. The developer is not.
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by jasmer 3y ago
Yeah, if you don't know why you weren't going to keep your job after that, then well, that's not good. Plenty of places you can work with opinions like that. Also be wary that others will then voice their opinions about you.
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by jasmer 3y ago
I'm afraid this call for freedom is actually narrow ideology. Consider: what is more 'free'? A) Here is some code, do whatever with it? or B) Here is some code, you can only use it in certain circumstances? FSF is dead becaus
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by jasmer 3y ago
Where your rack is is basically not relevant. For most startups, AWS is great, even if it's more cost of colo, it's the opportunity cost and dynamism it offers. Use AWS until the savings of not doing so will not affect your abilit
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by jasmer 3y ago
Not really, once you are up and running even then the economics of cloud are usually better than self host. Instance time is 10x more costly on AWS than self host, but, it's still very cheap. Things like 'egress data' can be
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by jasmer 3y ago
So private fleets aside, when will it be out-of-the-box on my Toyota? Are we at diminishing marginal returns and not getting closer? Do we need a 'leap' in AI? Or is this just a matter of grinding it out?
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by jasmer 3y ago
It's fast, does not have ads, doesn't have layout reflows, doesn't have popups, doesn't have marketing overheaad and BS. Those things alone would make 90% of sites better. My god man just give us the goods!
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by jasmer 3y ago
This example is not going to help your case. The statement 'kill all men' is literally a call to violence. Now of course (probably?) you didn't mean it as that, but it still falls well within purview of 'obviously modera
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by jasmer 3y ago
Lack of moderation is 10x a worse problem for revenue that offending the blue icons. Moreover, it seems most of the activists don't want to contemplate that bigotry runs in all directions and saying things about 'men' or &#x2
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by jasmer 3y ago
Fisted by Foucault is a dark substack, meaning at least partly ideological lies and disinformation. It's a bit like Zero Hedge in that it's one of those places where they like to talk about how the 'World Really Works!'
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by jasmer 3y ago
Most devs are not earning anywhere near what a doctor is.
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by jasmer 3y ago
" Nobody would expect e.g. Rhode Island to feed itself, b" Again - internal self sufficiency is not the basis of development. S. America has relatively free trade for things they need, and there are no hugely relevant issues there
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by jasmer 3y ago
"would make Brazil a lot more stable economically (and even socially and politically) " It's the other way around. Brazil and Argentina especially should be rich, what's lacking is coherent social organization from top t
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by jasmer 3y ago
It says what it says in plain English. If the claims of climate change people were true, that we are facing existential destruction in short order - then how is it possible they are denying a tried and true solution? We could have reached &
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by jasmer 3y ago
Far from not being listened to - the green movement absolutely killed nuclear development and research in the 1980's and continue to fear monger about that issue, in places like Germany, the fear is generationally entrenched. The build
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by jasmer 3y ago
Climate fear mongering is a driver of denial. Unwillingness to build nuclear power, which could possibly solve the problem, is a driver of suspicion, which is a driver of denial. Politicization of social sciences and campus activities, seve
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by jasmer 3y ago
If eco warriors rationally believe this fear mania, then why are they not screaming for a Nuclear Energy revolution aka large scale builout over the next 20 years to literally save the planet? Because we could absolutely do it, we wouldn&#x
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by jasmer 3y ago
My gosh 'the robots that replaced the factory workers ... will just help the workers - so now worries!' Do you know what happened to manufacturing when automation low-cost outsourcing happened? It was wiped out. It was devastating
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by jasmer 3y ago
It's scary because AI is going to put the developing world out of business. This coming century is supposed to be about 'Rest of World' - first China, then India and the rest. But it's going to risk the ability of the ne
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by jasmer 3y ago
There's something to be admired about people who put a lot of effort into planning and doing something, even if it is a bit petty.
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by jasmer 3y ago
There is no reasoning, which is why it will be impossible to move the LLM's past certain kinds of tasks. They are 'next word prediction models' which elicit some kinds of reasoning embedded in our language, but it's a cr
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by jasmer 3y ago
'It's not AGI yet' - the implication is insufferable. It's a language model that is incapable of any kind of reasoning, the talk of 'AGI' is a glib utopianism, a very heavy kind of koolaid. If we were to have r
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by jasmer 3y ago
Sam is responsible for marketing the team which popularized a certain kind of AI product. No need for personal attack.
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by jasmer 3y ago
It's absurd that people are still thinking that a language model which a bunch of tokens are indexed is some kind of 'AGI'.

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