mtoner23

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by mtoner23 8d ago
engineers have long been interested in woodworking as a distraction from work. its one of the many dream jobs/hobbys for engineers when they get enough money
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by mtoner23 1mo ago
Why would someone good at running a social media website be good at managing and developing ai frontier models
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by mtoner23 2mo ago
I'm sure they will gladly sell us both
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by mtoner23 2mo ago
Hopefully Germany doesn't ban geothermal like they did with nuclear and fracking
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by mtoner23 2mo ago
Food would be the biggest barrier to population growth in pre modern times
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by mtoner23 2mo ago
They're cool people but like it doesn't stop the world from imploding. Most of all of our code is full of trivial bugs and edge cases and most people don't mind too much. Certainly no one cares about leap seconds, they hardly
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by mtoner23 2mo ago
After reading all that, maybe we should just have some bugs in our code and stop making up new things
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by mtoner23 3mo ago
so yes something is very wrong
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by mtoner23 3mo ago
trump just undid the gpu export to china to help jensen make money
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by mtoner23 3mo ago
well, eric's book tries to make the point that these good companies DO overperform the market. after reading the book this past week, im not convinced. feels like heavy selection bias.
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by mtoner23 4mo ago
just take the day off mate, this shit happens in every field of work
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by mtoner23 4mo ago
A fundamental misunderstanding of index funds and what an arbitrage is
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by mtoner23 4mo ago
wow thats extremely embarassing for meta
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by mtoner23 4mo ago
Surely that number can go lower with some tweaks
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by mtoner23 4mo ago
yeah of course. theres no license for most of these things. just clarifying
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by mtoner23 4mo ago
Cost of labor quite higher here. Especially house work. Any licensed person to work in your house you're looking at paying $200 minimum just to walk in the door. At least in the major metro areas.
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by mtoner23 4mo ago
Overall seems pretty good and level headed for changes at a large bureaucracy. If he delivers on no big layoffs then I think this is great for the legacy of isaacman
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by mtoner23 4mo ago
The kids are very fucked up tho by the internet in our pockets. I'm Not sure that id on OS is the solution. But we should be trying something
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by mtoner23 4mo ago
Because programming languages are the clearest way we can write down instructions for computers to execute without ambiguity.
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by mtoner23 4mo ago
Can't wait for the RHCP biopic in 2028!
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by mtoner23 4mo ago
Openai should not design a phone... They should try making money first
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by mtoner23 5mo ago
LSP is how all editors work today and its simplified everything so so much. you should figure them out
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by mtoner23 5mo ago
Maybe maybe not. Counter factuals are easy to dream up but impossible to verify
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by mtoner23 6mo ago
Net zero. But not effectively zero. They sell energy during the day when no one needs it and buy it an night when we all need it. If we all switched to solar and heat pumps there would be blackouts and an energy crisis
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by mtoner23 6mo ago
So then they are wrong. The last 5-10 percent is the hardest part and it's the one consumers complain the most about! You can't run a factory on 90% power availability
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by mtoner23 6mo ago
we are already mostly energy independent. dont understand how dumping oil on gulf animals helps
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by mtoner23 6mo ago
Not relative to their income tho. Sales taxes are regressive and get more money from the poor
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by mtoner23 7mo ago
Does the us have any toothless vassal states?
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by mtoner23 7mo ago
Many of those cancers are not harmful or would be killed ok their own. And the cost of diagnosis on the patient is not free either. It causes lots of anxiety and stress which also cause large negative health effects too. Over diagnosis is r
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by mtoner23 7mo ago
Do you check everyone's hn account history?

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