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marvin

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About marvin

Norwegian software engineer. Loves philosophy, economics, technological progress, history, alternative lifestyle choices.

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    Comment #48005905

    High market cap but universally hated by its end-users is probably not a great yardstick to measure consumer software against.

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    Comment #47715907

    Because it's a polite fiction that men and women are equally capable and expendable at warfare. Successful and enduring human societies practice traditions around warfare that refl…

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    Comment #44319530

    Well, you can make things yourself worth 365 x 100 million and decide to use them for something else. Fortunately, the rules in well-functioning societies do not allow anyone other…

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    Comment #44319370

    There was a seriously sour grapes quality to that comment thread. I wouldn't give it too much weight without hearing from actual SpaceX employees.

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    Comment #43611416

    Norwegian here. People collectively lost their minds after the 2024 election. The USA is a great country, embodying values that bring out the best in humanity. You don't deserve th…

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    Comment #43240479

    Is the top half of the comments on this forum for entrepreneurs really discussing the communist revolution revisited?

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    Comment #43212975

    Nation-state politics often devolves to the level of children on a playground. This was one of those occasions.

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    Comment #43212721

    > The energy policy of most European countries was clearly mismanaged Still is. That Germany continues to leave their nuclear fleet fallow in the face of this is absolute insanity.…

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    Comment #42726656

    Another way of phrasing the situation is that Quantas _very inconveniently_ chose to put their flight path straight through the projected trajectory of rocket debris.

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    Comment #42388813

    Tesla will win this, followed by Cruise. Waymo isn't scalable.

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    Ask HN: How to get good advice for investing in non-public companies?

    Hi folks. I'm probably not the only person on HN who technically qualifies as an Accredited Investor and is interested in investing in pre-IPO companies. Given the greater requirem…

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    Comment #40716974

    In most European countries, you are only ever allowed to be in possession of a gun in public if you are travelling to or from the shooting range.

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    Comment #40622546

    Just ensure that there’s good a insurance system to finance the rare health issues, and the market will take care of the hubcaps and spoilers. Solving e.g. male pattern baldness or…

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    Comment #40504678

    I guess that most likely means not winning the bid with Apple. But these companies aren't exactly aged grandmothers who have walked all the way to the one pharmacy in town; I don't…

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    Comment #40439988

    Norway’s child protective services has 17 convictions against themselves and counting in the International Human Rights Court of Strasbourg.

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    Comment #40349451

    At some point, algorithms for reasoning and long-term planning will be figured out. Data won’t be the holy grail forever, and neither will asymptotically approaching human performa…

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    Comment #40347127

    One of the linked demos is it being sarcastic, so maybe you can make it remember to be a little more edgy.

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    Comment #40333062

    Absolutely not. I first noticed this when visiting Iceland. The hot streams bubbling out of the ground sounded the same as boiling hot water being poured from a kettle, not the kin…

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    Comment #40234846

    Maybe IQ fell with advanced age previously, due to cognitive damage caused by disease or other environmental factors. And this is less prevalent today.

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    Comment #39681501

    If passengers were touching the ceiling, it would have required either a very powerful downdraft or control surface inputs leading to greater-than gravity acceleration downwards. V…

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    Comment #39639152

    SpaceX is amazing, but having Elon Musk as a critical geopolitical asset seems rather dodgy given his loud anti-Western comments recently.

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    Comment #39581027

    By definition you're risking more than 100% of your portfolio value when trading on margin, even short-term. One wrong bet can wipe you out. You shouldn't delude yourself to believ…

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    Comment #39482727

    It's been irrational since the Industrial Revolution; future growth has never been priced in even to the level of a reasonable discount rate.

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    Comment #39482713

    Don't invest on margin, ever.

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    Comment #39452403

    The market economic incentives of capitalism will weed out your colleague in short order. Or if not, your company.