jonathankoren

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by jonathankoren 2y ago
There’s no single answer to why infrastructure is ludicrously expensive in the United States. It’s too easy to delay, so the costs go up. (Especially in California with its multiple rounds of public feedback.) Laws requiring American contra
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
I do not care. People fuck up all the time. It’s not anyone’s job to bail them out from their actions.
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
It’s not about picking. It’s about doing it at all. Now you’re active participant in a cover up. They want to delete something, edit something? Fine. The controls are there. Everyone knows that. But that’s not what this is. This is taking e
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
This is a trash policy. It's reputation laundering as a service.
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
Nah. You just set the prize at top 10.
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
yOu cAn'T tRulLy bE fReE iF yOu cAn'T sELL yOuRsELf iNtO sLaVeRy. I remember this take. It's the kind of thing that only makes sense in a dorm room full of financially secure people that ignore that this is simply creates a s
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
Equity in what property? Equity in what property? honk honk honk
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
Loans are a payment. These were a percentage of earnings. They are very different.
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
ISAs were indentured servitude. That's literally what they were. It was the single most scummy concept that Austin came up with and PaulG endorsed.
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
Can’t help but think making a list of people by karma just encourages karma farming
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
Are you sure you read the article? The very first sentence of the article is, "Enshittification is the pattern of decreasing quality observed in online services and products[.]" (Emphasis added.) If the quality remains the same,
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
It reminds me of the old West End Games / Legends description of the game sabacc in Star Wars. Instead of being played with normal paper cards as seen in Solo, the players received cards with screens on them At certain parts in the gam
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
It's not. The quality stayed the same, even improved. It's run of the mill monopoly pricing.
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
Your questions are right, but the conspiracy theory is dreadfully wrong. If you want a motivating force for banning, but not actually competing by leveling the field, it’s ideology. The US government doesn’t do subsidies (except when they d
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
You’re going to have to eliminate first past the post for that to work. Both parties are essentially coallitions. Christian nationalists and big business, and their apologists on one side, and everyone else on the other.
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
I’m honestly surprised it wasn’t Avi Loeb when I saw, “Harvard researcher”
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
It is that easy. Employee 1 is getting paid below market. That’s why they offer 0.9% equity. Meanwhile, the founders are also getting paid. No one is working for free. One of the first things VCs tell you is to make yourself comfortable so
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
Yes. Because you’re literally the same as the founder, but getting waaaay less equity. First employee is always a sucker
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
I'm sure Elon does get involved. The question is, does he get involved in a constructive way. All signs point to "no". We know this, because of what the Tesla and SpaceX people he brought on to Twitter in early days after t
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
Yeah but the emails with Elon show that the "open" and "nonprofit" part was always a fucking a scam.
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
That’s not what happens. What happens is if you don’t need junior people, you eliminate the junior people, and just leave the senior people. The senior people then age out, and now you have no senior people either, because you eliminated al
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
You're just making things up. Nothing you've said is true.
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
I don't know how much this costs, but it's only a meter, 65 kg, and runs on a 110 volt outlet. I'm thinking high ones of thousands of dollars, maybe low tens of thousands. https://www.furuno.com/files/Bro
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
My dad and I both have Davis Vantage Pro 2s. https://www.davisinstruments.com/pages/vantage-pro2 His has been working for 20 years now with no problems. There are cheaper ones no doubt, but the ability to add senors li
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
> So let's start talking about these people in the first person, not in the abstract. Here are two: Rick Santorum and Jim Bridenstine. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/...
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
I get the feeling that there’s an inverse correlation between the number of people that think the military is a competent meritocracy and the number of people that actually served in the military. It’s a giant government bureaucracy, with p
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
> [I hope an LLM made it polite enough] Engage in self harm.
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
> RealID requires a social security card and is mostly about making it difficult for poor people to vote. Bruh. If you don't have a social security number, you can't even work legally. Also, 99% of people born in the US[0] ge
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
Look, you really like to talk with confidence, but every time you bring up a a point, you pull a whatabout. Have you even looked into what the people you’re so very concerned with want? That’s the most relevant part of all. It’s not your fe
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
They should lose. As I said in another comment, SCOTUS just ruled that APIs weren't copyrightable, and there's a HUGE parallel with Microsoft and Sun Microsystems over Java. In the end, Sun settled for Microsoft to stop saying &

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