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by xyzzyz 17d ago
The entire business model of Anduril is based on eschewing the “cost-plus” model in favor of fixed-price contracts, where your profit margin is not capped, and where you are actually incentivized to keep the costs down, instead of pumping t
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by xyzzyz 17d ago
Just to nitpick, there is no such thing as “semiautomatic pump shotgun”. It’s either semiautomatic, or a pump.
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by xyzzyz 1mo ago
We have data on this too. If, instead of spending at large, you look at spending on any specific thing (school lunches, after school classes, teacher wages, materials, classroom aids, electronic equipment, facilities, etc), you find the exa
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by xyzzyz 1mo ago
The Rotchschilds, the Rockefellers, and the Du Ponts would have done very well in life just as well had they went to public schools, while the alumni of Baltimore public school would not become Rotschilds and Rockefellers and Zuckerbergs ha
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by xyzzyz 1mo ago
Keeping down cost per child? What are you talking about? The cost per child has skyrocketed in the US over last 20 years, particularly among the worst-performing schools. Baltimore spends more per child than Mountain View. NYC spends more p
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by xyzzyz 2mo ago
I don’t think it’s true. I have been recently to a store here in Virginia that specializes in furniture made by Amish in USA, and while significantly more expensive than IKEA/Wayfair sort of stuff, I doubt that it was significantly mor
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by xyzzyz 2mo ago
The point is that while power and water is scarce in space, the NY state has no jurisdiction there. It might literally be easier to build data center in space than it is to overcome social and political pressure in NY.
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by xyzzyz 2mo ago
Yes, the furniture became less durable as it became much cheaper. You can still buy durable furniture, but people just aren't interested in it for the most part.
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by xyzzyz 2mo ago
I'm sure some smart people could come up with a SQL-esque language that is even more readable to non-technical folks than programming syntax. And somehow, none of the thousands of very smart mathematicians have done that, or if they
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by xyzzyz 2mo ago
Gas prices have barely changed in inflation adjusted terms over last 50 years, and if anything, the trend is slightly downwards. At the same time, inflation adjusted incomes went up, and cars became significantly more fuel efficient.
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by xyzzyz 2mo ago
This is literally opposite of the truth. In almost all businesses, the wages constitutes higher share of revenues than profits.
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by xyzzyz 2mo ago
It's probably easier to understand this concept if you forget about tech, and think about something like steel mill, or a mine. If you want to make money as a worker making steel, if you just start doing it in your backyard by yourself
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by xyzzyz 2mo ago
Dividing profits by employee count and calling this "fair share" is ludicrous. It exhibits a childish understanding of the world and the economy. If you believe that you're cheated, and you are creating significantly more val
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by xyzzyz 2mo ago
We spend only 5% of our GDP on food, which is much lower than other OECD countries. Does it mean we are starving?
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by xyzzyz 2mo ago
For the stuff I do, I rarely use signed types. I find the example of finding difference between two numbers to be really silly. I don’t recall ever having to do anything like that, for a simple reason: I design my code so that I always know
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by xyzzyz 2mo ago
Both of them have to be completely rewritten to make use of multiprocessing, so what exactly is the advantage?
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by xyzzyz 3mo ago
What is creepy about Anduril? Anduril simply sells weapons. There's nothing mysterious or nefarious about it. European countries want to buy weapons too.
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by xyzzyz 3mo ago
Yes, that's my point: if you're next to the ocean, disposing of brine is extremely easy.
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by xyzzyz 3mo ago
Exactly. If you subsidize the abundance for everyone, the effect will just be raised expectations floor.
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by xyzzyz 3mo ago
If you read the article you sent me, you'll learn that, just as I said, you don't use sodium chloride, aka table salt, aka sea salt, for these purposes.
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by xyzzyz 3mo ago
It’s about thermal storage, you don’t use table/sea salt for that, and you don’t need a lot of salt, because the salt is in a closed loop; it’s not being consumed.
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by xyzzyz 3mo ago
Brine might be bad to the place you dump into, but crystalline salt is even worse. Overall though, it’s just such a tiny concern. Ocean is huge. If we kill everything in a 100 foot radius, that’s 0.0000000008% of the ocean being destroyed.
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by xyzzyz 3mo ago
Maybe, but dumping crystalline salt is even worse to the spot you’re dumping it on.
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by xyzzyz 3mo ago
Brine is very easy to dispose of: you just pump it back to where it came from. Solid crystalline salt, on the other hand, is a hassle.
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by xyzzyz 4mo ago
How are they “not obligated to be truthful”? Lying to investors is literally a crime.
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by xyzzyz 4mo ago
It's very easy today to transcribe and summarize every call that you have.
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by xyzzyz 4mo ago
Yes, and by shifting the labor supply curve you can make the laborers worse off, because it will often shift the supply curve of the product they’re making. If labor unions make you pay your workers more, you might need to raise the prices,
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by xyzzyz 5mo ago
None of what you said responds in any way to the arguments made in the post you are responding to.
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by xyzzyz 5mo ago
Sorry, I’m not chilled at all by the prospect that the court can subpoena my data from Goole. It can already issue a warrant to arrest me, and to search my actual home.
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by xyzzyz 5mo ago
I hate this change. I loved how the original Timeline worked, and now it's unusable. I don't care about courts subpoeaning my data. I'd love to opt in to previous status quo. I don't care about the loss of "privacy&

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