jedrek

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by jedrek 2y ago
That's completely untrue. Both the GOP and AfD are openly anti-EV, so their supporters are often anti-EV.
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by jedrek 2y ago
Except for not using LIDAR?
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by jedrek 2y ago
This is the problem with VC culture: it's not funding good, sustainable ideas, it's basically betting.
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by jedrek 2y ago
The economics prize is not an actual Nobel prize, but something "inspired" by the Nobel prize. It's little more than a tool to push neoliberal policies to the public, with 34 of the 56 winners tied to the Chicago School of Ec
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by jedrek 2y ago
Also, CERN does not have a profit motive. How much good work have the people reading this thread had to trash because it didn't align with Q3 OKRs? How much time and energy did they put into garbage solutions because they had to hit a
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by jedrek 2y ago
How is this a real submission? Yes, a day job is easier, because a day job has a very real cap on your renumeration. Work for a company, create a product, have that product generate $50 million p/a in sales? Cool, you're still mak
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by jedrek 2y ago
It's interesting to watch the arc of Microsoft being the big baddie, transitioning to being a good dude that the open source community has embraced, back to being horrible. Except they've gone from being horrible to developers, to
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by jedrek 2y ago
AI? Yes. LLMs pretending to be AI? No.
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by jedrek 3y ago
How long has it been like this though? The meaning of words change surprisingly quickly, but not as quickly as their second-order connotations.
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by jedrek 3y ago
How about we give them an offer: we can bail out your company, but you have to leave the financial services industry for 10 years.
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by jedrek 3y ago
This only makes sense if the engineering teams own the process from end to end, at which point they stop being engineering teams.
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by jedrek 3y ago
The Playstation 4 was launched in 2013 and there is no modern hack for it.
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by jedrek 3y ago
the internet was decades old when http appeared.
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by jedrek 3y ago
I would love to see any rigorously documented causation or even correlation between police budgets and crime rates.
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by jedrek 3y ago
I didn't have it in the US in the 1980s, and my wife didn't have it in Poland in the 1980s/1990s either.
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by jedrek 3y ago
The privatization of profits and socialization of losses.
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by jedrek 3y ago
Coincidences exist because human brains are absolutely amazing at finding patterns, wether they actually exist or not.
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by jedrek 3y ago
It's weird to see this mashup of "sales don't matter" with HN's utterly lapdog approach to capitalism and free markets.
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by jedrek 3y ago
I'd much rather have a door hinge[1] from Bosch, a company that has manufactured a billion door hinges[1], than from a company that's figuring out how to design and manufacture door hinges right now. [1] these are hypothetical exa
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by jedrek 3y ago
A lot of modern western capitalism mirrors whatever the hell we had in the eastern bloc, with the caveat that neither the US nor the EU are 20-40 years after the greatest, most destructive war in their history.
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by jedrek 3y ago
What's the name of the dealership? Cause I have no idea, it's just "that dealership with the chatgpt chatbot"
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by jedrek 3y ago
Right now it's integrated with siri so you just hold down your power button and say, "what is this song?" and it tells you.
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by jedrek 3y ago
Web devs do not love to take it away from you. However, designers, product owners and project managers do.
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by jedrek 3y ago
I left Poland in 1983 and came back in 1992. Before we left, I had never had pierogi ruskie . If we had pierogi, they'd either be with fruit (strawberries or wild blueberries), sauerkraut and mushrooms or ground pork. That was pretty
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by jedrek 3y ago
> Not because doing drugs as an addict is inherently a crime, but because addiction occurs way too late in the cycle to really do anything about. What's your source on this, or are you just going by vibes?
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by jedrek 3y ago
> If you think about it the growth mindset is quite psychotic. But it's absolutely crucial to VC funded businesses. Current VC groupthink isn't "how can we create businesses that deliver value", it's "how ca
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by jedrek 3y ago
This is by design.
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by jedrek 3y ago
Subs are not the script, they are a transcription of the finished work.
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by jedrek 3y ago
It's still one of the best on the internet. That said, if you have the viewers to get monetized on YouTube, you probably have the viewers to make even more money off sponsorships/patreons/etc.
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by jedrek 3y ago
My trick for doing this for a summer pool pass in Berlin was to take a photo of the QR code on the ticket and just show that to the scanners.

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