jdross

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by jdross 6d ago
I live in Austin TX, so no :)
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by jdross 8d ago
My 2025 model 3 has driven me over 95% of my last thousand miles. I'm frankly surprised it isn't more, but I'm not the only driver of the car. It's very obvious to me that FSD is a reality already, usually from parking s
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by jdross 16d ago
We are a republic of 50 states, who are only willing to work together because they are represented. I’ve lived in NY, MO, CA and TX. The cultures and beliefs are different in each, and the people you seem to call “idiots” I have never found
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by jdross 1mo ago
Demis is CEO of Alphabet material. He would be exceptional in that role, and Google would be wise to put him there
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by jdross 1mo ago
Apple is cutthroat in business too. Tony Fadell, the inventor of the iPod and co-inventor of the iPhone, and later Nest founder, commented this in Stratechery about the lawsuit when filed: "This is Apple’s typical tactic to scare Apple
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by jdross 2mo ago
I like this, it will be a really exciting benchmark to refer back to in a few years
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by jdross 2mo ago
One of the best and most clever "hidden" features. Very Apple. I never get nauseous looking at my phone in an Uber anymore. My wife can barely handle looking at a screen in a car and this feature allows her to work with no issue.
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by jdross 2mo ago
These have become some of the most valuable companies on Earth. The idea that there are lapses in governance in these companies is insane. Any shareholder is buying in fully aware of the governance structure. Many because of it! Shareholder
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by jdross 3mo ago
Instagram Reels? Your measure of “innovation” is just not how large companies succeed. They are specialized at optimization, and take seeds of things and water them. Instagram had 0 revenue and like 13 employees when acquired. WhatsApp had
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by jdross 3mo ago
Socialist Russia was an environmental disaster. https://www.gchumanrights.org/preparedness/the-environmental...
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by jdross 3mo ago
we regularly depose those with political power. In elections. And the wealthy die or stop participating within around 30 yrs of becoming wealthy normally. And compete themselves across idiology. Soros, Koch, Musk and Moskowitz all have very
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by jdross 3mo ago
The villains are the people who let these people continue to commit crimes and make life worse for others in the name of empathy instead of quickly and forcefully moving them into compassionate care where they have any chance of recovering
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by jdross 4mo ago
The whole post is premised on a fixed pie economy. "The financial model underneath requires the elimination of human cost centers at civilizational scale." No, it is not. It requires humans to collectively want more things if they
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by jdross 5mo ago
"certainly" is doing a lot of work here. I'm not "certain". In fact the people I have spoken to who have worked on Palantir platform were deeply suspicious of their users treating data with respect, and so built sec
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by jdross 5mo ago
Flame of the West? Seems like a pretty apropos name for an American defense company
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by jdross 5mo ago
They have over 300 falcon 9 launches in a row now, just in case you’re not caught up on the latest
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by jdross 5mo ago
I realize how unpopular flock is, and I will first say that I have literally never personally looked into the privacy concerns. But one city you don’t see named here is SF, which has cited Flock as a primary driver of its 10x reduction in c
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by jdross 6mo ago
It was 1T post merger with xAI being 250B of it, SpaceX being 750B
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by jdross 6mo ago
I'm pretty sure this is the school that was on the corner of a military base, and the school building hit was previously part of the military base.
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by jdross 6mo ago
“I’m going to either steal your work in a way you don’t consent to, or not consume it” isn’t really great. The alternative is paywalls
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by jdross 6mo ago
The steelman is that this issue is politically loaded, and there is not yet proven public evidence for the most explosive version of the claim. That makes it an easy target for partisan amplification, especially because it maps perfectly on
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by jdross 6mo ago
The opposite of this has been my experience. HN comments bias far more negative towards technology, tech companies, and current politics than the people I know in real life. People who mostly don’t work as professional software engineers, a
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by jdross 7mo ago
We usually just call this collective extraction “taxes”
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by jdross 7mo ago
“While the pouches are considered a tobacco product, they don’t contain any tobacco, and are instead made from the plant fiber cellulose” It’s just Zyn, which doesn’t seem that dramatically different than coffee. But maybe that’s because I
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by jdross 7mo ago
As you know, this is a subjective take. (I enjoy my experience there more now, for example, with less social politics in my feed.) And their head of product claimed that X only has around 30 FT employees apparently working on it, so it&#x27
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by jdross 7mo ago
Would nuclear energy research be a good analogy then? Seems like a path we should have kept running down, but stopped bc of the weapons. So we got the weapons but not the humanity saving parts (infinite clean energy)
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by jdross 7mo ago
I’m married to a Brit and she is constantly in awe of how much better our healthcare is here in the US. And she paid for private insurance there too. Quality of facilities, low wait times, quality of staff interactions, organization, etc. S
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by jdross 7mo ago
I think the consensus is the biggest danger of a nuclear weapon being used is that it will result in way more nuclear weapons being used. The specific damage of a single nuclear weapon is far outweighed by thousands of them hitting populati
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by jdross 7mo ago
Is there a single private sector more removed from market incentives than healthcare?
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by jdross 7mo ago
I'm not saying we shouldn't have an IRS, and I think IRS agents are probably one of the best ROI gov't employees possible, but 8,500 IT engineers and managers (who I have heard literally didn't even know how to code) mak

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