marinmania

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by marinmania 10mo ago
I travel 3 times a month for the last year and use Booking. I've never had a cancellation. I take advantage of their platform moreso than they me. I book refundable no-pre pay hotels every time, sometimes having multiple bookings for t
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by marinmania 1y ago
>I would guess that for every 1 software engineer there are 100 people doing this kind of 'manual data pipelining'. For what time of company is this true? I really would like someone to just do a census of 500 white collar jobs
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by marinmania 1y ago
You can't deduct losses against regular income. The idea is that if you win $100,000 one day and lose $100,000 the next day you should be taxed 0 since on net you won 0 total. Under the news rules it sounds like you would still be taxe
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by marinmania 1y ago
My jumbled brain definitely read this for a split second as Artificial Intelligence causing a 787 crash.
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by marinmania 1y ago
I have been consistently bad at predicting things related to AI, but I never get the insistence that a personal assistant would be that valuable? I honestly don't think it would save me that much time and for things an assistant would
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by marinmania 1y ago
It does seem far more straight forward to say "Write code that deterministically orders food items that people want and sends invoices etc." I feel like that's more the future. Having an agent sorta make random choices feel l
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by marinmania 1y ago
I think this is the spooky part. I feel dumb saying it, but is there a point where they are able to coordinate and build a factory to build chips/more of themselves? Or other things entirely?
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by marinmania 1y ago
It does either get very exciting or very spooky thinking of the possibilities in the near future. I had always assumed that such a robot would be very specific (like a cleaning robot) but it does seem like by the time they are ready they wi
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by marinmania 1y ago
Agreed. By HN standards I am a very shitty programmer, and as of a year ago I would have said it takes up about 25% of my time. I pretty much just make demos to display some non-coding research. I think with the rise of LLMs, my coding time
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by marinmania 1y ago
I was wondering if more sites will start to drift to a system where they require you to be logged in to an account attached to a SIM card in some ways. I feel like accounts that require phone verification are already similar in that they re
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by marinmania 1y ago
I agree with this - but sorta comforting? Like this would imply the AI may only do so if they chance of success was like 1% and the other 99% would give away the cards of it and other future AIs. I know this is all completely hypothetical s
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by marinmania 1y ago
I feel like its often people talking past each other. I currently live in NYC and am very congestion pricing. Cars are a major negative to most people in the city. But I have also lived in rural parts of America. Yes, it is annoying you can
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by marinmania 1y ago
I disagree that any car mechanic working a local auto body shop knows engines well enough to design one. They just know which parts are broken. Similarly we reach a point in coding where you don't really need to know how every API or l
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by marinmania 1y ago
OP mentions the lawsuits did not succeed Its not like the courts are investment banks with an evaluation arm. They are just judging if anything reaches the point where shareholders were legally harmed, which still gives a lot of gray area t
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by marinmania 1y ago
I wonder if people that were writing code in assembly complained that people learning more modern languages didn't really know how the 0s and 1s work. I'm not sure where the line is, but there is a point where the abstraction work
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by marinmania 2y ago
I am not the biggest Bond fan so feel free to ignore my opinion, but it seems possible that Amazon is less of a bean counter than a traditional studio? They will throw money at the first production - with the hopes it is a hit. They are not
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by marinmania 2y ago
I thought that at first, but if you look at the movies its hard to say any have much prestige? And you could probably make the case that getting more eyeballs on it will, if anything, make them a bit more valuable in 10 years. I still remem
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by marinmania 2y ago
I have a theory for the swiping behavior of women. When they swipe right, it will most likely be a match, and they mentally don't want more than X active conversations at a time. This strikes me as rational and reasonable. For men, mos
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by marinmania 2y ago
If the IMF was loaning them 1.4B to do economic development then its reasonable that the country not keep a massive liability on its balance sheets. Imagine I wanted to loan your car company 100M to build out a factory because I believe in
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by marinmania 2y ago
I highly recommend people get a food scale/measuring cups and weighing everything single thing they eat (even small things like nuts and cooking oil) for at least two weeks. After that I think you have a much better appreciation for ho
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by marinmania 2y ago
I imagine this could have more to do with how isolated these environments are? There are more unique species on mountains or islands because it is hard for those species to leave and take over new territory. On the contrary, something on co
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by marinmania 2y ago
>This paper shows that the main grid in the world’s fifth-largest economy was able to provide more than 100% of the electricity that it used from only four clean renewable sources: solar, wind, hydroelectric, and geothermal, for anywhere
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by marinmania 2y ago
Fwiw this is a graph of being diagnosed with cancer, not dying.
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by marinmania 2y ago
I haven't heard this before - the change isn't that large but but it really does drop after 80 My inclination is that this could still just be a selection effect. For people who are prone to cancer, you are probably dead by 80. h
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by marinmania 2y ago
Fast food causing people to eat badly reflects poorly on US society as a whole, but not sure if it reflects badly on the US healthcare system. Especially if the stats show that the US is good at keeping these people alive.
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by marinmania 2y ago
>The news is perhaps not shocking given the relatively poor quality of health care in the US. I'm not sure I agree with that? I'd think intuitively the delta between years lived and "health span" would be largest in c
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by marinmania 2y ago
fwiw the housing price index in New York has actually seen lower increase since 2000 than the rest of the country https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NYXRSA https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CSUSHP
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by marinmania 2y ago
I don't have the most faith it will be easy to execute but I would imagine: - Some disgruntled people at company's could leak directly, which would make engaging in this behavior riskier - Random individuals or competing companies
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by marinmania 2y ago
Even if that's true it's still a less accurate headline. The rule is about unlocking, not deals. The carriers say this is bad for consumers. Both those can be true and the current headline captures that.
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by marinmania 2y ago
I don't think that is a more accurate headline. The potential regulation is about the government making phones unlock automatically after two months of purchase. The regulation isn't about banning discounts or sales.

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