nickpinkston

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by nickpinkston 20d ago
Two more great books to have in the mechanical world: "Manufacturing Processes for Design Professionals" - amazing photos, diagrams, explanations, etc. of every major manufacturing process - great coffee table book. https:/&
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by nickpinkston 2mo ago
I believe it's an ESOP, but not a co-op because the workers don't have much voting control of the company.
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by nickpinkston 2mo ago
Yea, I agree, it's a great book! It should be said that Sara [1] was also the founder of the Freelancers Union [2], offering solo benefits and other resources to freelancers. The book is great because it's so practical, with 3 org
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by nickpinkston 2mo ago
Let's do it fairly. Like 100s (?) of Americans killed by Iran ever. Compare to Iranians: Affected by the aftermath of the American coup of Mosaddegh (ultimately leading to IRGC's existence), providing weapons to Iraq for the Iran-
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by nickpinkston 2mo ago
"[T]he oddity I pointed out in that piece that the chuds are both really attached to classical antiquity and also don’t know very much about it." As a history nerd in the Bay Area tech scene, it always amazes me how so many of the
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by nickpinkston 2mo ago
Shoutout to https://libro.fm/ which is a non-Amazon Audible that lets you: - Buy nearly any audiobook that's on Audible or other services - Donate to your favorite local bookstore - Get the downloadable audio file with
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by nickpinkston 2mo ago
This is really cool and I want one, but please someone tell them to put a clear CTA button above the fold saying "Pre-Order" or something. Also, the bottom spinning button CTA doesn't read like a CTA to me. My skimming eyes a
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by nickpinkston 3mo ago
This is very cool to see - seems like soooo much efficiency waiting to be unlocked at the chip level. What's everyone think of Taalas? They're actually burning the LLM model into the silicon, with some onboard memory for fine-tuni
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by nickpinkston 3mo ago
I'm very sympathetic to cooperatives, have traveled/know the Mondragon people (largest coop federation), etc. However, I think there's a reason why coops seem to succeed at smaller scales, but there are essentially no large i
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by nickpinkston 5mo ago
Play with fire, and you get burned... These scams are all too frequent today, and putting these guys and others like them in prison would act as a deterrent. We'll see if our system can actually hold any white collar criminals accounta
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by nickpinkston 5mo ago
Unsure if this is the connection, but the guy who discovered Troy in the late 1800's (Heinrich Schliemann) actually brought Troy artifacts to a Berlin museum, which someone with more knowledge of Berlin than me may be able to draw more
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by nickpinkston 5mo ago
It was oddly satisfying taking a file to my MacBook when a drop lifted a nasty burr on the edge. Very minor "you can just do things" collides with the "infallible object" presence that Apple wants for its products - almo
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by nickpinkston 5mo ago
I see them as morally equivalent in our current system - ie an illegitimate democracy without recourse for common people. If companies can do strategic bankruptcies, transfer pricing, etc., then regular people can do the consumer equivalent
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by nickpinkston 5mo ago
During the 2008 Crisis, it was mortgage holders who got fucked and banks made whole, so risk asymmetries go far beyond just student loans.
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by nickpinkston 6mo ago
Exactly! I like the analogy of: When the bank is giving you a sub-prime loan, who is more sophisticated in that transaction? If the bank (with their fancy risk models, etc.), why shouldn't they be the party to take the bulk of that ri
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by nickpinkston 6mo ago
Totally agree - there's a lot of double standards here: Bankruptcy is good for entrepreneurial risk, but not for human thriving apparently...
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by nickpinkston 6mo ago
Interestingly, you can similarly friction weld wood without added adhesive. The welding utilizes the existing ligand glue that holds the wood fibers together, as it's essentially a natural composite. https://www.youtube.com&
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by nickpinkston 6mo ago
Better late than never...
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by nickpinkston 6mo ago
Haha - yes exactly.
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by nickpinkston 6mo ago
Iran... if you're listening... We'd love to see all of those Epstein files.
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by nickpinkston 6mo ago
That's a fun insight. Have you / others written about this?
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by nickpinkston 7mo ago
Yea, they never mention that Europe also has way better social safety nets, mental healthcare, etc. I do think gun control can work, but these kinds of legislation feel like the "paper straw" kind of regulation - ie alienating som
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by nickpinkston 7mo ago
Requiring people to drive to Nevada to buy a real 3DP? I'm a long time shooter of all kinds of firearms (bolt actions to full-autos). What people don't realize is that gun control works, but only when it's very controlled - i
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by nickpinkston 7mo ago
"leaving nothing to the imagination of a single lens" - sick burn Waymo haha From: "Using these diverse inputs, the Waymo Driver can confidently navigate the "long tail" of one-in-a-million events we regularly encou
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by nickpinkston 7mo ago
I'm fine with the free love and debauchery, but just really keep it to adults and be safe.
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by nickpinkston 8mo ago
Wow... Twitter being down today must mean the economy is losing billions of $ in lost procrastination.
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by nickpinkston 8mo ago
In the US context that's largely true, with the government providing useful regulations after the fact (allowing national corporations, railroad right-of-way law, etc.). The exception being guys like JP Morgan who organized industry ca
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by nickpinkston 8mo ago
Yea, this is like the early railroads making steel cheaper via cheaper transport of bulk ore/coal, that made cheaper railroads, that then ship more products made of steel to larger markets opened by the extended rail networks, etc. Thi
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by nickpinkston 8mo ago
Per my link above, it's just evidence they're reacting to it, but I suspect there are more nefarious things going on they're not posting in public trade journals. The "prize" I'm referring to isn't a liter
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by nickpinkston 8mo ago
Yea, agreed. I'm more worried there's some plausible way (like the ginger discussed) to negate the GLP-1 agonist's function itself or its net effects. They're not going to talk about it in open industry journals, but Big

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