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by mdorazio 7d ago
To my knowledge there are only a handful of public transit systems in the world that operate at a profit, let alone that operate at enough of a profit to recover construction costs. As in, maybe 5 if you squint really hard. Who do you exp
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by mdorazio 3mo ago
This seems likely to be worse. How do you screen out people who point an LLM at your values and ask it to answer your questions in a way likely to appeal to a recruiter using an LLM to score the responses?
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by mdorazio 3mo ago
An AI written post talking about the importance of human connection in the age of AI is hilarious.
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by mdorazio 3mo ago
My favorite is how if you buy a “premium” ticket that comes with a checked bag they still try to trick you into paying for a checked bag (again).
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by mdorazio 4mo ago
I believe it’s still a single section, so probably around 250 (at least that’s about what it was when I was there a long time ago). Compared to the 1000+ who take 61A.
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by mdorazio 5mo ago
Not true. App Store is less than 1/3 of services revenue.
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by mdorazio 6mo ago
This is not correct. Here's Pfizer's 2025 annual report [1]. Total expenses for the year were $55.1 billion. Advertising expenses were $2.7 billion of that, or just under 5%. R&D expenses were $12.1 billion, or just under 22%.
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by mdorazio 7mo ago
Worth noting that LA does not have freeze cycles. I wonder what the pothole formation likelihood is as a result.
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by mdorazio 7mo ago
In addition to snmx999's point, you're also not specifying that you want to wash your car at the car wash (as opposed to washing it in your driveway or something, in which case the car wash is superfluous information). The article
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by mdorazio 7mo ago
I don't think it is, though. Where is the car? Do you want to wash your car at the car wash ? Both of those are rather important pieces of information. Everyone is relying on assumptions to answer the question, which is fine, but in m
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by mdorazio 10mo ago
Determined how?
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by mdorazio 10mo ago
The uproar over AI data center resource use has been rather bizarre to see and feels vaguely luddite. As this article points out, frivolous things like golf courses are far worse users of fresh water (and land) than any amount of AI. And on
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by mdorazio 10mo ago
Are you sure it was actually a 40mph zone in that section? Austin has plenty of school and construction zones with lower speed limits that most drivers completely ignore.
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by mdorazio 10mo ago
737 MAX. That whole saga was because of Boeing trying really hard to not certify a new airframe so that they could quickly push out a competitor to A320 Neo. The result was hundreds of deaths.
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by mdorazio 1y ago
EB-5 is intended to create businesses and jobs in the US as part of the process. This is just straight-up "give us money and we'll give you residency". On the other hand, it's not out of line with programs in other count
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by mdorazio 1y ago
Chat? No. But the strength of Teams is that it lets you do everything else you want in an integrated communications app - voice, video calls, calendars, viewing (and editing) documents, etc. At a reasonable price that Microsoft isn't g
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by mdorazio 1y ago
Please note if your goal is minimizing carbon footprint, burning wood instead of other biomass is probably not a great idea [1]. [1] https://www.pfpi.net/carbon-emissions/
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by mdorazio 1y ago
Varies by year, but top 1% share of income is around 21% right now in the US: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/income-share-top-1-before... i.e. the US tax system is still fairly progressive despite what many people
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by mdorazio 1y ago
Do you think train operators should make a quarter million a year to drive the same train on the same route every day? https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?q=train+o...
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by mdorazio 1y ago
For those who were hoping for the physical version of this, I recommend the Stuff Made Here Video on the topic: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cQO2XTP7QDw
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by mdorazio 1y ago
You’re conveniently ignoring what “reserves” means in the GENIUS act. Unlike regular banks, Circle can use US Treasuries instead of cash so that they earn interest and prop up US government debt at the same time. It’s a clever scheme, but n
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by mdorazio 1y ago
TSMC has already put $65B into the Phoenix fab and is adding at least that much more, so no. You're off by an order of magnitude.
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by mdorazio 1y ago
The data is kind of misleading. Texas actually produces almost twice as much solar + wind power as California. The %mix is lower because Californians don’t have to run AC and heat year-round, so power demand per capita is way lower as a fun
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by mdorazio 1y ago
In this case it mostly does. Only South Korean men must do compulsory military service. It's optional for women.
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by mdorazio 1y ago
I recommend reading the full paper linked by esafak. For those without the time, the brief summary is that political stress is a multiplication of (1) the likelihood of the general populace to mobilize, (2) the likelihood of elites to mobil
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by mdorazio 1y ago
Thanks for linking the full paper. The most worrying part is that the numerical study is from 2013 and two of the key factors (government debt to GDP and trust in government) have both gotten significantly worse since then.
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by mdorazio 1y ago
In general, women get paid the same as men, within the error of measurement, and have for many years. The trope of women making less than men comes from an apples to oranges comparison. Women choose less lucrative careers, leave the workfor
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by mdorazio 1y ago
> FSD is more reliable Citation needed. And not Tesla’s typical lying with shitty statistics data (fun fact: most car accidents do not happen in places where FSD is commonly used). Also, vision-only systems work great… if they’re backe
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by mdorazio 1y ago
This is great advice if you want to write like Hemingway . Most of the great authors are not so sparing with their words, though. And I often find that people who excessively prune their writing end up with quite generic paragraphs that se
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by mdorazio 1y ago
Congratulations! But I’m disappointed with no mention of profit level in this post or another one linked. My last business I scaled to 500K ARR in less than two years, with $20K in total annual profit including the $0 my cofounder and I pai

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