prolly97

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by prolly97 8d ago
haha, yes, this is 100% just me overfitting then! And it's not as if there aren't a bunch of somewhat arbitrary regulation in the US either. But the general sense I got from the US, was that people still feel agency to improve th
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by prolly97 8d ago
He's stating a fact that you don't dispute. You follow up with hyperbolic language; "eating rotten food" (as if anyone would purchase their goods from purveyors known to disregard food safety). In a market that has been
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by prolly97 9d ago
Awesome! But, looking at the numbers the decrease in totals are due to fewer registered "street crimes", less fraud and legalization of cannabis (removing a 183k comparable from 2016). Violent crimes however went from 193,542 to
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by prolly97 9d ago
Why shouldn't it be possible to completely automate decisions? Imaginary entry level job, where you need to deliver parcels from one business to another. Qualifications: 1. Drivers license. 2: Eyes in your head. Applicant 1: Drivers
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by prolly97 9d ago
This!!! I went to California earlier this year. In our apartment we had a freezer that was clearly made before politicians thought to decide to put a cap on how good a freezer could be. It was fucking amazing at freezing stuff. No freezer I
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by prolly97 9d ago
>Despite the average european objectively being better off and safer than a decade ago I'm sure it's true, but do we have some statistics on that, and a comparison to places that doesn't have the same regulatory burden?
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by prolly97 9d ago
I don't think you're taking my "there's two sides to regulation" comment in good faith. I gave a pretty clear example of pro-consumer regulation myself. Saying that the EU is overregulating cannot possibly be that c
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by prolly97 9d ago
There's a big difference between governments regulating to benefit their own control and power, and regulating in favor of consumers. Most regulation in the EU have jack-all to do with consumers. There's a couple of niceties - ha
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by prolly97 16d ago
I think the idea of "even distribution" is dangerous, as it often assumes equal preferences and views of what needs to be distributed. Do we want equal outcomes or equal opportunities. What constitute and outcome and an opportunit
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by prolly97 16d ago
Not all science has this issue. But to reference Thiel, a lot of the sciences with "science" in the name, seem to.
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by prolly97 16d ago
I've experienced something similar, I still think the quote works - If you can explain difficult concepts well, it's a demonstration of true understanding. Not that poor communication demonstrates lack of it.
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by prolly97 23d ago
For every time the EU implements a new regulation... and sees it fail horribly... it seems as if their collective minds concludes that the reason is for not having even more central control. Soon we will have our own, European, Gosplan. Com
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by prolly97 24d ago
This - though I'm not certain that the product really solves any of these identified issues of "y is bullshit"
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by prolly97 24d ago
Thanks for writing this! Was about to say something adjacent but much less structured and precise.
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by prolly97 24d ago
> I wonder if the overall trend in tech is that engineers are experiencing less bottom-up autonomy and more top-down controlled environments I've thought a little about this. First: I don't believe that you can have bottom-up a
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by prolly97 27d ago
Haha, "follow the money!"
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by prolly97 27d ago
Invoking the bullshit card on opposing views, in order not to have to elaborate your own pov, seems counterproductive, if the aim of your participation in a discussion is to test your own hypotheses about the world - or in any way gain or d
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by prolly97 29d ago
Is this just an opinion? If so, fair. If it's an attempt at rebutting their claims etc, it'd be easier to interact if you provided some data, or concrete observations :)
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by prolly97 29d ago
If you built a task management system, you'd have very different code bases depending on whether it's for internal use at a mid-size development org or as a SaaS. So I wonder whether, in your experience, the results you've se
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by prolly97 1mo ago
Is this net bad behaviour that was added due to Flock, or was it a bad actor who happened to use Flock? Agreed that it's bad behaviour, and that we don't want police overstepping. But I don't see how the use of Flock by poli
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by prolly97 1mo ago
People are throwing a lot of shade on Lovable - mostly while comparing the output of non-technical people, with the output of the HN audience. "Excel is the second best tool for everything". While, from a technical POV, we can hav
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by prolly97 1mo ago
You're comparing almost three millennia of text, to a couple of years worth of text. Let's see this play out. Plato also threw shade on writing. Which is an invention that turned out alright for humanity, imho. Maybe it'll
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by prolly97 2mo ago
I mean... yes discrimination doesn't feel nice... but it's not as if people who come to Germany where forced to do so by the germans. I'm not from Germany, but the vibes in some of the high-muslim density parts of Germany I&
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by prolly97 2mo ago
Anecdotally I've noticed that among the coworkers I've had from other countries, the ones who manage to learn danish and stay, have generally been in areas with lower density of foreign workers. My theory is that in areas with low
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by prolly97 3mo ago
With the way you're framing your opposition, I agree with you. But I'd like to add some nuance. Parts of building a product or a set of features is about search, rather than great engineering. Sometimes it's better to build
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by prolly97 3mo ago
I hear you. And I believe disagreement is good. The markets were right back in 2018 - Tesla did manage to overcome their manufacturing struggles, and they did become profitable (now having retained earnings equal to ~65% of their then mark
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by prolly97 4mo ago
All that. But also he makes products so compelling that people who dislike him drives in them. "Fuck Elon" gotta be an all time top seller among bumper stickers. > few could have anticipated that Tesla and Musk would be unaffe
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by prolly97 4mo ago
When I followed TeslaQ, the valuation was around 60b. Today Tesla has 39b in accumulated retained earning (pr latest 10k, not q). If the thesis was that Tesla would be unable to create a system that would churn out cars that could be sold
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by prolly97 4mo ago
So this guy was pretty active in the TeslaQ community. They believed Tesla to be (extremely) overvalued in 2017-2019 on the grounds that they would never become profitable.. or something. They lost a lot of money shorting Tesla. https:&#
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by prolly97 4mo ago
At least half of the people in this thread survived growing up with access to social without age verification. And I'm pretty sure we've all had an encounter with some creep in some random chat room too. We talked about these thin

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