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Over what timescale do you amortize your investment by pricing it in? Do you earn back your $100k by selling $20 coffee? That wouldn’t be sustainable. So, this is where the loss co…

The value of air conditioning is much more than 20x the value of bitcoin. It might be more than 20,000,000x the value.

I don’t think that my career has been eroded by even 1%. The areas of erosion listed by the author feel like reverse order to me. The domain is knowing what questions to ask. That’…

AI is currently, actively getting better. That might stop in a year, and you can argue whether it’s linear or exponential, but it’s very difficult to argue that it won’t get better…

It’s 100% trackable. It’s anonymous but there are many datapoints that could be used to deanonymize if the transaction parties are not extremely careful

Markets can’t see the product quality of a monopoly. It won’t be reflected in the metrics because there’s no competition to anchor the earnings to the real consumer value. But that…

No one should be charging $10/month for a local PDF editor anyways… but I don’t think AI will solve that

What does this have to do with Garry Tan and CA, it happened in Georgia?

He wasn’t claiming that he is. He was pointing out that people were scrambling to label him as being from “the other side”. The reality isn’t so binary. I agree it could have been …

Yes, I think it was the right call if they want the post to be taken seriously by a broad audience.

Does the first example really need to be some softcore weeb p*rn?

It’s not breaking the law in this case as far as I know. The law requires Apple to provide equal access to the iPhone hardware and software in marketplaces that it competes in. Tha…

As far as I understand, the act can’t control what Apple decides to do outside of the EU. Whether Apple has products or features available outside that market means nothing because…

If the consumers in EU don’t like the legal and predictable effects of the DMA in this case, how is Apple subverting the democratic process? If the act isn’t having the intended ef…

Saying the Waymo was even involved in the crash is misleading. It was a victim along with most of the other vehicles.

They only have ten cars on the road? What a farce, the stock is inflated with hopes and dreams and hot air. Only needs a little bit of work to not drive into trains.

They claim to have delivered L4 autonomous parking, not full L4.

Was just there a couple weeks ago and didn’t get to ride, they were doing engine repairs :(

This example just sounds like it was coded poorly. I would assume that experienced React developers would know to avoid something like this. For inexperienced developers, you don’t…

It’s a flop relative to the expectation that Elon set - that they’d sell 500k units per year.

Many seasonal campgrounds never open due to lack of staffing. Fire risk can’t be sufficiently managed and creates massive fuel buildups. Illegal dumping at the edges of the nationa…

AFAIK, this affected probationary employees of all or most agencies. So I’m not sure how this argument makes sense as something the Forest Service did wrong or could have prevented…

This site is called hacker news… the article is news about hackers

I think that the practical solution is to hire more auditors/investigators, and they would end up paying for themselves, but I don’t think Elon would accept a solution that require…

I’m not advocating for war but one thing this deficit pays for is being a military superpower, which is the main way our debt is “guaranteed”. As in, call in the debt at your own p…