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Here's the thing, I tend to believe that sufficiently intelligent and original people will always have something to offer others; its irrelevant if you imagine the others as the cu…

5k over 6ish years when volvo sells well over 100k ice a year. It doesnt look like they are even selling 1 % electric a year yet.

Awkward headline, since its not really much of a milestone. The first couple in a region are interesting, hitting significant proportions a year is interesting, a cumulative (relat…

Because selectively applying this line of reasoning to one moral injustice is making someone a victim by unfairly applying a standard to them alone. Is your plan to analyze all cur…

I have in the past, but three things put me off doing so now; Pages where I can spot inconsistencies are often controversial, with long dense discussion pages, edits here are almos…

Why should an individual landlord have to subsidize an individual tenant? Its a scale of social interaction that doesnt make any sense. This can have lots of issues. Imagine someth…

Its not really about building your own thing, its about identity... You are what you do. If you dont understand the impact what you are doing has once its out of sight, how can you…

Burn out is hard to manage; its something that happens in the cruisy 20-something hour a week job as well as the 80+ hour pressure cooker. Probably not to the same degree sure, but…

The distinction that i think is important to make when talking about "the bitter lesson" is that improving the compute and training infrastructure and tricks in the abstract wins o…

We have global commerce; you are not only working on the creation part of something new, but also competing with similarly skilled people working with different more advantageous s…

Personally I use google more/just as much for product searches; stores selling X, finding comparison sites, going to the manufacturers page for a product. That and restaurants from…

I dont think you can create a high trust society deliberately; It takes multi-generation level time-spans, and in a low trust environment there is no mechanism to guarantee your pl…

Im guessing my experience is very different; I work more in robotics than pure software, and this is an industry where many of the problems are investment intensive... I wouldn't c…

The idea that a crash would benefit talented people more than the bulshitters is not really all that likely in my opinion... More likely that the chosen few get put on life support…

The 3 hour day is a rare thing, but I dont think that its more available in Australia than anywhere else... I know more people with that setup in the states, as an anecdote. And fu…

It really depends what specific circumstances you are comparing. If you are looking at trades, low skill full time, or casual work, I dont think there is a better place to be. If y…

The last plumber I hired had a website, spotted a leak with a flir camera (and had a pile of interesting niche electronics), and sent me an invoice he generated through an app on h…

An economists point of view would say there is nothing wrong with empty houses; and in fact its a good thing because short-term low-barrier agreements allow the optimal price for h…

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I suspect tools like this will become excellent at all the slight variations and duplicate work that goes on in a whole bunch of development work. To the point where especially for…

HN tends to filter for people who are more academically inclined; people for who mastering a topic is a goal, and believe that education systems should support that. Taking a wider…

Its Malthusian, low income families grow until they run out of resources... Its a pattern we only briefly stepped away from in the industrial revolution, supported by the rapid gro…

How large are you aiming for? I suspect beyond around 5 people this falls apart due to either the value of the specific skill at the time matching the current profitability poorly,…

Likely the fiber setting expectations, 2gbps is the "premium" tier in many places, where the monthly difference between fast and the top speed is about the same as 32gb of ram.

Phone benchmarks getting bigger arbitrary numbers as an example of innovation has to be a joke right? Fundamentals like the existence of mobile internet is HUGE. My phone giving mo…