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by victoro 4mo ago
> Google spends $9B a year on software engineers. Well they are projected to spend $175 - $185B on capex in this year alone most of it for AI buildout. Lets say only 150B of that is for AI. If they can then somehow replace all their soft
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by victoro 1y ago
The Democrats had control of the presidency and the house in 2022 when this provision first went into effect but had 2 fewer senators (1 fewer if you count the tie-breaking VP). Why didn't they try to change it? Is there some reason a
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MSN Publishes AI Generated Obituary for Former NBA Player(futurism.com)
26 points by victoro 3y ago|12 comments
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by victoro 4y ago
> calls by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida for Japanese companies to pay workers more as inflation takes hold So the prime minister wants to fight a phenomenon caused (in large part) by a wage price spiral by calling for accelerating the wa
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by victoro 4y ago
Haha well I'm in full agreement with you (and u/shapefrog below) on your Chamath evaluation, but the sad reality is that his influence, by virtue of both the money and attention he can direct towards projects he deems worthy, is r
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by victoro 4y ago
Why is the marginal cost of a KWH the main inhibitor to rapid scaling? Wouldn't the main inhibitor be the marginal cost of additional capacity? To put it another way, if my solar panel can currently support 10 GPUs running all day but
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by victoro 4y ago
Setting aside the article's mention of moderately intensive solutions like natural gas which has a very real and obvious cost per KWH, your panels will still need maintenance and eventual replacement (the current industry standard li
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by victoro 4y ago
we are intently focused on what we anticipate will be the two biggest drivers of the next decade: The first is the marginal cost of energy going to zero. I anticipate that this is the dumbest thing I will read from a supposedly serious
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by victoro 5y ago
"Always have a beginner / practice mindset." Just wanted to highlight this because it is a fantastic piece of advice to keep in mind for interviews (and honestly for your career and even crafts or hobbies too). There's a
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by victoro 5y ago
Honest question I constantly think about and have never been able to answer about the future of cryptocurrency development: Why/when would a government ever want less control over the primary means used to transact within its borders
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by victoro 5y ago
I like the soap opera analogy -- hadn't thought of that. But keep in mind that actors (and other folks that work in long-running shows) will still take other jobs as at the same time as their main gig -- e.g taking a part in a movie i
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by victoro 5y ago
In my younger years I spent some time working in the film industry as a PA and reading everything I could to learn about the business side of things. Needless to say, after becoming a programmer, I have often asked myself the same question
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by victoro 5y ago
It's tough to avoid this thinking because examples of employees being treated like cogs are often systemic and very public -- like stack ranking at big companies that everyone (even people that don't work there) either knows about
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by victoro 5y ago
This response strikes at the heart of the issue. Until the wild distortions in the property market are fixed (imo, specifically until Prop 13 gets repealed or significantly amended) big, expensive cities in California will continue have inc
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by victoro 5y ago
Exactly. Government has been backstopping/de-risking asset ownership since the Great Recession and massively increased that program in March 2020. At the same time, they started to de-risk the asset consumer class with eviction morato
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by victoro 5y ago
My browser (when behind work VPN) is showing an untrusted SSL cert error so probably the issuer is not whitelisted in some employer's systems.
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by victoro 6y ago
I'm wildly out of my depth, but why couldn't Uber drivers be regulated effectively as micro-franchises? The dynamics seem pretty similar -- drivers benefit from the Uber marketing, brand (which brings trust which is necessary in a
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by victoro 6y ago
Anti-trust enforcement can take many forms -- breaking companies up is just one of the most extreme and obvious ones -- but often just the threat of action was enough since for a while the US government backed it up. A big reason Bell Labs
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After a $14B Upgrade, New Orleans’ Levees Are Sinking(scientificamerican.com)
2 points by victoro 7y ago|0 comments
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by victoro 8y ago
It seems to me that a relatively simple to implement (I'm not going to say simple in aggregate, because the knock-on effects would be hard to predict) solution to all of this is to make student loan debt dischargeable in bankruptcy. At
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by victoro 9y ago
To everyone commenting on the looming job-pocalypse that will be caused by the automation of trucks, please explain why much simpler transportation systems to automate have not resulted in wide-scale job loss. Last I checked, airplanes sti
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California's climate fight could be painful(latimes.com)
3 points by victoro 10y ago|0 comments
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by victoro 10y ago
I like the concise summaries of each pattern, but it looks like most of the actual implementations are still under construction.
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by victoro 10y ago
> Going after AirBNB (barring those running large hotel-like operations) isn't addressing the supply issue. What is the definition of a large hotel-like operation exactly? I have a friend who lives at his parents house, rents 2 ap
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by victoro 10y ago
If everyone did the right thing all the time, then no industry would ever need to be regulated in the first place.
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Many Animals Seem to Kill Themselves, but Its Not Suicide(bbc.com)
1 points by victoro 10y ago|0 comments
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3 SF supervisors move to put tech tax on November ballot(sfchronicle.com)
1 points by victoro 10y ago|0 comments
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by victoro 10y ago
Carl Zimmer's very interesting book Parasite Rex (though now over a decade and a half old) cites some studies on using worms to treat Crohn's disease and googling around yields this a more recent paper published in Science about s
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Brazilian congress votes to impeach president(theguardian.com)
3 points by victoro 10y ago|0 comments
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Work Policies May Be Kinder, but Brutal Competition Isn’t(nytimes.com)
4 points by victoro 11y ago|0 comments

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