marvin

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by marvin 5mo ago
High market cap but universally hated by its end-users is probably not a great yardstick to measure consumer software against.
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by marvin 5mo ago
Because it's a polite fiction that men and women are equally capable and expendable at warfare. Successful and enduring human societies practice traditions around warfare that reflect this.
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by marvin 1y ago
Well, you can make things yourself worth 365 x 100 million and decide to use them for something else. Fortunately, the rules in well-functioning societies do not allow anyone other than the owner of something to decide how it should be used
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by marvin 1y ago
There was a seriously sour grapes quality to that comment thread. I wouldn't give it too much weight without hearing from actual SpaceX employees.
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by marvin 1y ago
Norwegian here. People collectively lost their minds after the 2024 election. The USA is a great country, embodying values that bring out the best in humanity. You don't deserve this hate.
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by marvin 2y ago
Is the top half of the comments on this forum for entrepreneurs really discussing the communist revolution revisited?
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by marvin 2y ago
Nation-state politics often devolves to the level of children on a playground. This was one of those occasions.
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by marvin 2y ago
> The energy policy of most European countries was clearly mismanaged Still is. That Germany continues to leave their nuclear fleet fallow in the face of this is absolute insanity.
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by marvin 2y ago
Another way of phrasing the situation is that Quantas _very inconveniently_ chose to put their flight path straight through the projected trajectory of rocket debris.
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by marvin 2y ago
Tesla will win this, followed by Cruise. Waymo isn't scalable.
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Ask HN: How to get good advice for investing in non-public companies?
2 points by marvin 2y ago|0 comments
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by marvin 2y ago
In most European countries, you are only ever allowed to be in possession of a gun in public if you are travelling to or from the shooting range.
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by marvin 2y ago
Just ensure that there’s good a insurance system to finance the rare health issues, and the market will take care of the hubcaps and spoilers. Solving e.g. male pattern baldness or bone loss from peridontitis means guaranteed billionaire fr
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by marvin 2y ago
I guess that most likely means not winning the bid with Apple. But these companies aren't exactly aged grandmothers who have walked all the way to the one pharmacy in town; I don't think this constitutes an abusive business relati
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by marvin 2y ago
Norway’s child protective services has 17 convictions against themselves and counting in the International Human Rights Court of Strasbourg.
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by marvin 2y ago
At some point, algorithms for reasoning and long-term planning will be figured out. Data won’t be the holy grail forever, and neither will asymptotically approaching human performance in all domains.
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by marvin 2y ago
One of the linked demos is it being sarcastic, so maybe you can make it remember to be a little more edgy.
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by marvin 2y ago
Absolutely not. I first noticed this when visiting Iceland. The hot streams bubbling out of the ground sounded the same as boiling hot water being poured from a kettle, not the kind of cold-water stream sound you'd normally expect in t
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by marvin 2y ago
Maybe IQ fell with advanced age previously, due to cognitive damage caused by disease or other environmental factors. And this is less prevalent today.
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by marvin 3y ago
If passengers were touching the ceiling, it would have required either a very powerful downdraft or control surface inputs leading to greater-than gravity acceleration downwards. Very interested to hear the investigation into this.
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by marvin 3y ago
SpaceX is amazing, but having Elon Musk as a critical geopolitical asset seems rather dodgy given his loud anti-Western comments recently.
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by marvin 3y ago
By definition you're risking more than 100% of your portfolio value when trading on margin, even short-term. One wrong bet can wipe you out. You shouldn't delude yourself to believe that this isn't the case because you'v
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by marvin 3y ago
It's been irrational since the Industrial Revolution; future growth has never been priced in even to the level of a reasonable discount rate.
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by marvin 3y ago
Don't invest on margin, ever.
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by marvin 3y ago
The market economic incentives of capitalism will weed out your colleague in short order. Or if not, your company.
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by marvin 3y ago
I think everyone just disbelieves the stated goals of the AI startups as a matter of convention. OpenAI wants to create machines that are more capable at almost all economically valuable labor than humans. Such technology would be incredibl
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by marvin 3y ago
If OpenAI succeeds with its mission, this will be a terrible decision for sellers apart from diversification necessary to feel financially secure.
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by marvin 3y ago
OpenAI is the Manhattan Project of machine intelligence. Private-sector.
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by marvin 3y ago
In two posts, you went from ~"it's a travesty that only 5000 people have access to the technology that will soon own the world", to ~"it takes at least three years for the state of the art to run on a box owned by myse
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by marvin 3y ago
I don't see AWS fast-following the 1.5 million companies that use AWS, not even the 0.1% most successful of them.

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