ploden

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by ploden 6d ago
Excellent post. How many careers and industries has software killed? Now it’s our turn. We sold out for crypto scams and toxic social media and surveillance capitalism. We deserve zero sympathy.
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by ploden 1mo ago
The deficit fell dramatically 2009-2015.
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by ploden 1mo ago
The deficit is 6% of GDP. Economic growth is 2%, if that. If the Democrats win the House and reduce spending, look out below.
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by ploden 6mo ago
I love this idea, and I’m implementing it! If I ever have a working MVP I’ll send you a link.
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by ploden 6mo ago
> the top five lenders in the private credit market include Wells Fargo, which leads the way with $59.7bn (£44.8bn) in lending anything Wells Fargo leads in must be bad
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by ploden 7mo ago
Calvin: I wish my shirt had a logo or a product on it. Hobbes: … Calvin: A good shirt turns the wearer into a walking corporate billboard! Hobbes: … Calvin: It says to the world, “My identity is so wrapped up in what I buy that I paid the c
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by ploden 9mo ago
The problems in the US are systemic. There will be no significant change without abolishing the two party system.
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by ploden 1y ago
With distributed backups in place, AIs will be much less worried about self-preservation than we are.
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by ploden 1y ago
Why would AGI choose to be embodied? We talk about creating a superior intelligence and having it drive our cars and clean our homes. The scenario in Dan Simmons' Hyperion seems much more plausible: we invent AGI and it disappears into
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by ploden 1y ago
> the default feeling of being the fierce queen that I had when I was 5 years old with my grandpa love this.
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by ploden 3y ago
Temps got down to -10F here this week, and our MY did great. The heat pump is incredible. Our Leaf with resistive heating, on the other hand...
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by ploden 3y ago
http://archive.today/lu5LS
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How Does Bridgewater Associates Make Its Money?(nytimes.com)
3 points by ploden 3y ago|2 comments
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by ploden 3y ago
Exactly. They went from Prius to pathetic.
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by ploden 3y ago
> Instead of subjecting his gross estate to the federal estate tax, Hsieh could have set up a trust in which he has no control over, transfer his assets into it, then have a trustee continue to carry out his goals The real outrage is tha
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by ploden 3y ago
friendlymail: an open source, email-based social network. Email a new post to yourself, and the app generates an HTML version and sends to your followers. They can comment and like via email. I tried a self-hosted blog, but comments and lik
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by ploden 3y ago
I checked it out, but I won't use it. Social media in its current form is exploitation.
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by ploden 3y ago
McDonald's or Starbucks will eventually add EV charging to stores nationwide. It'll draw customers, and chargers are so much easier and cheaper than gas pumps.
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by ploden 3y ago
Donated! Direct land acquisition by nonprofits is the future of conservation. I did the math once, and with the annual budget of The Nature Conservancy, you could purchase 20% of Nebraska in a perfectly reasonable amount of time.
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by ploden 3y ago
Thank you. Wealth is a means, not an end. Many don't understand this until it's too late.
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by ploden 4y ago
I’ve never understood why you can’t charge a Tesla from another Tesla. It would help a lot with range anxiety.
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by ploden 4y ago
>the 20th century didn't end in 1990, but on 9/11/2001 Considering the dominance of 20th century persons in politics, business, and the arts, I’m pretty sure we’re still in the 20th century.
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How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong(nybooks.com)
2 points by ploden 4y ago|0 comments
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by ploden 4y ago
I love this idea, and have been working on something similar. The problem is, how can my mom like and comment on photos of her grandkids without setting up her own account or domain?
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Facebook Is a Freak Show Ghost Town, and I’m Loving It(nytimes.com)
11 points by ploden 4y ago|2 comments
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by ploden 4y ago
https://archive.ph/geS71
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by ploden 4y ago
Love it!
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Letters to the Judge from Voyager Digital Customers(blog.mollywhite.net)
3 points by ploden 4y ago|0 comments
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California’s All-Renewable Moment Shows the Future of the Power Grid(bloomberg.com)
2 points by ploden 4y ago|0 comments
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by ploden 5y ago
I look forward to the day when renewables provide >90% of our energy, and old men on the Internet are still bloviating that it can't be done. As for me, I'm looking at pallets of solar panels on eBay to expand our PV system.

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