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No, this is backwards. "Local businesses" are net money extractors. Local residents spend their money, a portion of which goes up the supply chain and out of the community. Datacen…

It's really not. HN turns into the most scolding, puritanical Mormon when it comes to the topic of alcohol.

> Did you read the E.O. The EO is nearly a month old, and has precisely zero to do with the de facto current situation, seeing messaging from OpenAI and Anthropic on their non-publ…

> but the regulations are not hard to comply with Except that they are. As a US citizen, I can purchase ITAR-regulated nightvision, IR lasers, etc. But that's not what's happening.…

NN-specific ASICs won't buy you much more FLOPs per watt than GPUs/TPUs will. These chips are already extremely good at NN computation. Sure, you could remove GP shader support and…

> trading an hour or two of my time pacman -S postgresql initdb -D /pathto/pgroot/data grok/claude/gpt: "Write a concise Bash script for setting up an automated daily PostgreSQL da…

I know that by modern standards, 18% is better than average, but it's also still pretty fat for men. Men should strive for a 10-14% range. 14% is both aesthetically disgusting, and…

> but you need to amortize in all the infrastructure and training and energy costs The average American human consumes 232kWh of all-in energy (food, transport, hvac, construction,…

> putting a lot of blind faith in an algorithm that's proven time and time again to make things up Don't be ridiculous. Our entire system of criminal justice relies HEAVILY on the …

100 years ago people like Rob Reiner's drug addict son's dealer would probably have been hanging from a tree. note: this is not commentary on drug legalization, just commentary tha…

That's because many of us older developers got into the profession when it didn't pay well, and had negative status associated with it, because we loved doing it. So yes, there is …

I also do third party software development, and my approach is always: bill (highly, $300+/hr) for the features and requirements, but do the manual refactoring and architecture/per…

> cheaper housing would help the kids more, but that has more entrenched interests opposed to it (almost every homeowner) I hear this often, but as a homeowner, I don't understand …

The vast majority of courts award spousal support for this exact reason. Post-divorce, the vast majority of stay-at-home moms with limited recent work history are supported by cour…

Elementary Education and Pedagogy are "sciences" with an even poorer replication rate than Sociology and Psychology. Nobody educated to teach is actually qualified to do so by virt…

This is a strange claim. In my personal experience, the asshole kids overlapped greatly with the popular kids in a Venn diagram sense. People, in general, did want to be their frie…

Anecdata, but I am extremely addicted to nicotine lozenges.

You can do it on Kraken just fine. As long as you're ok paying taxes on it (since Kraken is KYC), you're still shielding the source of the funds, which is the primary utility of Mo…

From the article, cash is king in some of the most violent places in the world, so no. Also, this "cash is unsafe" meme is wild. Robbers do not routinely detect the presence of cas…

> or have too large denominations that people refuse In the US, if you have actually incurred a debt (e.g. you've already eaten your meal, or you've already had the repair performe…

Yes, using tools is a huge red flag. Imagine dating someone who uses a hammer to drive in nails rather than their bare fists.

> it's something they'd never ever know how to do There are hundreds of millions of people who have memorized megabytes of baseball statistics, pop song lyrics, celebrity relations…