positr0n

8 ms·

1.
by positr0n 14d ago
fwiw I thought it was a good analogy. Sure splitting a company is possible and scrambling an omelette is not, but it sure takes a lot more effort to effectively undo entropy. In a merger you can take as long as you want to go from 1. Two se
2.
by positr0n 1mo ago
Well I mean someone killed them. So whoever did it is who OP is talking about.
3.
by positr0n 2mo ago
I can't think of another regulated utility that doesn't provide service to (essentially) all humans directly in their homes. Everyone knows what water and electricity are, the vast majority couldn't explain what service AWS p
4.
by positr0n 2mo ago
The market will more efficiently settle on a price if market participants can push the price up (buying) and push the price down (shorting).
5.
by positr0n 2mo ago
How is shorting a stock gaming the market? You feel a stock is overvalued and you short it. You feel a stock is undervalued and you buy it. What's the difference?
6.
by positr0n 2mo ago
I know plenty of line level engineers (mostly non-software) who's main interaction with unions is things like waiting for a week to move their desk to the other wall of their cubical because that's a union job and they're not
7.
by positr0n 3mo ago
Even if I do accept your claims that cooling in space is not insurmountable, you still would grant that launching and cooling (and shielding??) a data center in space still cost more dollars than building a data center on earth right? What
8.
by positr0n 4mo ago
I don't really follow the politics and GPU drama in this space, but I'm surprised GPUs owned by SpaceX are going to Claude instead of grok or whatever AI stuff Tesla is trying to do.
9.
by positr0n 5mo ago
Most algorithms doing this charge lower prices to the wealthy since they are more valuable customers. Total spend is higher. And if your $20 tricket breaks you're less likely to bother to return it if $20 doesn't mean that much to
10.
by positr0n 5mo ago
>> Where does "grey" end and "black" begin? >When the color is 100% black. But what does this mean? Only vantablack is black, everything else is grey?
11.
by positr0n 6mo ago
Can you compare daily active users to peak simultaneous users? Seems like apples to oranges. 150 million DAU could easily be the same as 45 million peak online. Also how believable are both Steam and Roblox's numbers with regard to bot
12.
by positr0n 8mo ago
What's the public good that justifies the government dictating which networking stack people use?
13.
by positr0n 8mo ago
I think the people complaining about compatibility are more talking about the concepts in IPv4 and IPv6. IPv6 could have been "everything is the same except the IP address is 16 bytes instead of 4". Instead there are new ways to d
14.
by positr0n 8mo ago
That sounds like just describing the way the current global system works, not entitlement. Transitioning to another system would work (and seems inevitable at some point in the next hundred years??) but oof it would be chaotic.
15.
by positr0n 9mo ago
I'm clued in to that but at this point who cares. All the models are fungible for the coding assistance use case.
16.
by positr0n 9mo ago
I live a thousand miles from another country. No I don't have friends in another country and I don't even know anyone with friends in another country except immigrants or spouses of immigrants.
17.
by positr0n 9mo ago
Pretty sure OP means liberal in the sense of "classical liberalism". Ideas like free market, rule of law, private property, etc.
18.
by positr0n 10mo ago
How do you figure that? Capitalism has been chugging along for hundreds of years before artificial satellites existed.
19.
by positr0n 10mo ago
This is a problem, but unrelated to what the parent is saying. If you taxed 100% of the wealth of all US billionaires it looks like it would pay for social security, medicare, and medicaid for about a year and a half. You still need a stron
20.
by positr0n 11mo ago
Are we still talking about yogurt? I do not find it difficult or have to put in any work to buy low sugar yogurt. I buy large amounts of full fat zero added sugar Greek yogurt and yogurt cups with 2g of added sugar and there are always mult
21.
by positr0n 1y ago
I certainly don't think the industry's hiring processes are perfect, but $100k on top of a normal wage for an incompetent worker is a lot of money to throw down the drain and not either run out of money or have someone competent n
22.
by positr0n 1y ago
The original seeds and farm equipment still exist for the most part. Farmers use GMO patented seeds and no-right-to-repair complex farm equipment "systems" because they're more efficient despite the downsides.
23.
by positr0n 1y ago
That happened to me when I was a student. Crammed all night, napped, and slept in. The adrenaline from rushing to class somehow made me both ace the test and be the first to turn it in. Funny enough that was my last day attending, I decided
24.
by positr0n 1y ago
23&Me was hardly a big corporation at the time. Or does this saying apply to all companies with a few hundred employees?
25.
by positr0n 1y ago
> More practical people see it as pretentious bullshit. Or they just like spending time outside messing with plants? You could even call it a type of hacking if what you're trying to accomplish requires "a high degree of skill&
26.
by positr0n 1y ago
What’s high risk about churning besides the risk of wasting your time? Forgetting to pay a bill with all the accounts you are juggling then wiping out your gains with one late fee?
27.
by positr0n 1y ago
More likely to tell you to come in and buy a half price slushie, and hopefully grab a bag of chips too. Which is probably where they make their real profit.
28.
by positr0n 1y ago
> The average human will consume approximately 75kwh worth of calories in their lifetime. There are electric cars with bigger batteries. Doesn't pass the smell test. I think I could push an electric car at least a mile a day if that
29.
by positr0n 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45022640 Or, even older! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=473487 (2009)
30.
by positr0n 1y ago
Unlike most people I know, I am able to swallow a pill without water. Like everyone I know, I just take one or two pills at a time when I have a headache or whatever according to package directions.

More ›