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    Comment #47695914

    HAM radio is whole range of things that were not possible when I was getting into it - first of all it's super cheap to start now, and you can probably bounce RF signals off the mo…

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    Comment #47619384

    I know it's brutal, but my kids were raised with iPads, PS3-5, computers, age inappropriate Minecraft and youtube, all kids of gadgets and turned out ok, already earning money (in …

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    Comment #47618835

    Curious about the motivation. The current conflict in Iran once again reminds us of how it;s all intertwined. The blockade of Strait of Hormuz means helium shortages means no chip …

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    Comment #47572011

    I think you'd want to offer morethan a problem statement when taking CEO time. Yes it's broken because shareholders demand M$ products have AI feature so that the share price has t…

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    Comment #47540370

    the headline is pretty stupid - compares a model to a GPU that models run on. Somewhere in that data centre, some part of Sonnet infferencing runs on a 900$ GPU or maybe even cheap…

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    Comment #47273477

    My father was pretty serious about this as a hobby - SP7DRV - had shortware CW and voice connections with pretty much all the coutries, remote islands (when there was an expedition…

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    Comment #47005129

    One thing I learned about logic is that if you start with a false statement, whatever comes next doesn't matter "almost all valuations and returns are driven by corporate earnings"…

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    Comment #46958286

    Unfortunately for a lot of performance and luxury oriented Car manufacturers, EVs are a death trap - since they don't have access to any special battery chemistry, the drivetrain i…

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    Comment #46732232

    ..so they would pay so the see the blog post a little earlier thna you do? Math doesn't work out on this

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    Comment #46120829

    came here to put this comment exactly ;)

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    Comment #46033136

    blah, blah,people will simply use it as they see fit

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    Comment #46013070

    I think that goes to show that official inflation benchmarks are not very practical / useful in terms of buckets of things that people actually buy or desire. If the bucket that me…

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    Comment #45732834

    I dunno, I got used to the weekly beatings. You could arque that if you understand what brings the most business value and deliver that repeatedly, you're pretty safe from being fi…

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    Comment #45357870

    Wow, I bought Baldur's Gate 3 out of nostalgia before a very long (20hours + ) flight and played some good long hours on the plane. Unfortunately the Proton version meant the game …

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    Comment #45198000

    but 250 000 000 other people will.

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    Comment #45091694

    What is the chemistry and expected lifetime of the batterries? They are saying this is for sustainable energy future but it looks like it's using natural gas (not sustainable) powe…

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    Comment #45038564

    US can (effectively) shut down F35s remote.y

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    Comment #45027504

    computer job market is a huge misallocation of skills and resources, so no it's not that simple. Given how much tech debt/backlog there is, there should be enough work for everyone…

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    Comment #44973930

    occam's razor

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    Comment #44972872

    I dare say that size is 3. Fight me ;)

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    Comment #44971969

    For 2038 I predict Epochalypse and since there will only be vibe coders by then, good luck to y'all.

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    Comment #44963700

    it's funny how we're letting private companies get away with made up numbers. Rather than making IPOs easier, owning a private company above a certain valuation should come with at…

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    Comment #44963655

    what is the investor thesis for coming in with such a multiple? You know they will have to find a a greater fool, possibly the public to buy at an even higher ratio to break any pr…

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    Comment #44963637

    At that time the Palantit valuation was considered 'hefty / overpriced' at $9B. Current stock price valuation, post IPO is a completely detached from fundamentals ~$378B if you wer…

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    Comment #44963544

    depends on who is making a decision and how exactly is the funding round structured - for some investors, diluting other shareholders is actually a good thing. For existing employe…