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Will Bunting

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Unlock the power of Richard Feynman's problem-solving framework for tackling difficult problems effectively.

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@historyinmemes By DNA he must be less than one percent of Abraham Lincoln — but there is certainly a resemblance Almost as if the family chose marriage partners to keep the “Lincoln Look” going

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@dieworkwear In Japan it really is the building codes that keep prices in check So that means that big cities in the U.S. could fix the problem if there was political will But that seems rather far fetched at this point

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@dieworkwear The problem is that the casualization of the workplace collapsed demand for things like reasonably priced well made suits These still exist in Japan where the demand per person for suits / well made clothes is higher

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@historyinmemes Sad that while there are individuals that have amassed large fortunes today we might never get to see these kinds of great works commissioned and available for the public to see 2000 years from now will we be amazed by Bill Gates' bathtub? ... probably not

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@soren_iverson Thank god the Windows phone never took off Microsoft would do this for sure

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@Hasen_Judi I remember at one point I had my Arch Linux install down to about 300 MB at boot, and perfectly functional for programming Doesn’t have to be this way…

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@fchollet The reality is that there are a lot of non interesting problems that are still essential to get done for any reasonable size organization Can't have everyone working on passion projects 100% of the time

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@dhh This bill would have been cut by an order of magnitude if they just dockerized and hosted on the cloud (instead of serverless) For startups the new playbook should be: - ✅Start with docker / cloud - ➡️move to owned hardware after product-market fit - ❎avoid serverless

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@dieworkwear It’s always funny to me that having an American flag on a t-shirt seems to decrease the chance that it was made in the U.S.

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@skdh You truly can bend string theory to compute just about anything Maybe a good test of a theory is how ** few ** (correct) things seem to fall out of it, instead of everything under the sun Couldn't compute pi from General Relativity alone

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@matt_gray_ I would have told myself: If you are thinking about doing something: just start Worried you are too late? You'll be even later tomorrow So just start

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@PhysInHistory They would be surprised to know that they were going to be the last generation with large contributions to fundamental physics for a while And that after their passing we have had a stalling out in fundamental physics

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@areasvellas @sovietsoleri In our evolution did we ever have such loud noises as are present in a modern city or available on demand with headphones Perhaps the loudest would be a group chant or song Our brains are not adapted for the sounds of modernity

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@RetroTechDreams Companies have become too conservative in testing weird form factors Phones are all the same slabs Laptops almost all the same with a different logo Yes weird doesn’t sell — but weird also pushes the envelope and sometimes works

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@PhysInHistory The real test is not how precisely you can define your theory -- but how well it predicts things If the theory predicts real phenomena accurately then we know it's a good theory The infinite "why?" regress can be left to the philosophers

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@dieworkwear The reason these sell is to people who barely wear their leather dress shoes and thus have never experienced break it Normal leather dress shoes are super comfortable after they have broken in and the cork adjusted to your foot shape

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@Soul0Engineer I don't understand why python has become the de-facto first language of choice for instruction If the point is to learn you would learn a lot more about the actual machine you are working on by learning C first And we know it's not impossible... people did it for decades

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@realRetroPC I remember needing all that "above desk" storage for CDs, I sort of miss seeing all my games and apps outside of the computer Also I'm pretty sure I had the same wallpaper

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@ObsoleteSony It’s a shame that all these awesome designs have all gotten compacted into the smartphone brick Sure the smartphone is “better” but because it’s a jack of all trades it’s a master of none quite like the Discman

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@SnazzyLabs I made them greyscale on my phone and like that it’s less distracting That being said… it’s a feature that should be tucked away / not in the marketing material. Looks off-brand

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@sweatystartup The best outsourcing is all about timezone overlap. More overlap means faster turn-around For EU: South Africa For US: Latin America (Argentina / Brazil) For Japan / Australia: Philippines

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@madzadev People wrote code on kilobytes / megabytes of RAM back in the day -- it's more of a question: 1. which language are you programming in (gc / non) 2. are you using a RAM hungry LSP 3. are you using a RAM hungry editor

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@GergelyOrosz There are a lot of startups that promised: We'll do 1 week of engineering work for you in exchange for you paying our SaaS license fee in perpetuity Maybe that somehow flew during zero rates, but it certainly doesn't fly now

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@zerohedge Probably one of the most dangerous aspects of the debt is that 40% of it is held by entities outside the U.S. This gives the U.S. a weaker negotiating position in making deals Japan by comparison (also high debt) has only 10% owned by foreign entities

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@ID_AA_Carmack It's not a bad thing For a long time startups were focused too much on growth and not on profitability The new paradigm where startup race to be profitable instead of chasing IPO / acquisition / the next funding round will lead to more sustainable businesses in the long run

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@levelsio @Starlink Now we just need all laptops to have screens bright enough to work outside

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@dhh Companies will soon realize they can save boatloads on MacBooks if they give their developers powerful Linux laptops with long battery life Apple better watch out.

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@GergelyOrosz While banning Signal from the App Store might cut down on petty drug crime Serious criminals (the ones that they are right to care about stopping) will just get pushed into alternatives that are harder to block / track It’s almost like they don’t know the alternatives exist…

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@KobeissiLetter Starbucks doesn’t know what it wants to be anymore But one killer feature that they have over other venues: it’s a meeting place The (subpar) coffee is just a ticket to a seat / table. Starbucks should just have a few nice self-serve coffee machines and one employee per store

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@zerohedge For most people it’s as simple as not eating breakfast and not eating snacks late at night This almost automatically locks your daily calories at a reasonable level because the amount of time you have to eat is limited Not really a diet so much as a lifestyle change

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@PhysInHistory Susskind's quantum mechanics lectures are certainly a must watch even for people who have studied Quantum Mechanics extensively Because of the complexities in interpreting quantum mechanics you can almost always gain perspective from a different instructor

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@chaser @SuperCycleBear And Linux users doubly smug

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@PhysInHistory Note that there is no global rest frame in relativity. Eg. you are at rest with respect to your frame and moving objects will have the time dilation effect But seen from their perspective they are at rest and you are moving and thus your clocks are the ones that are running slow

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@GergelyOrosz Maybe it’s a pre / post product market fit divide? For startups still figuring out the product they need that direct feedback from customers Apple has the luxury of charting their own course and bringing the customers along with them

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@dieworkwear An (overpaid) image consultant must be giving job advice on how to “connect” with Gen Z ✅ sneakers ✅ overly slim trousers ✅ pump and dump crypto

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@dieworkwear The issue is that the tech billionaires need to put on a guise of being "one of the people" This is because modern media puts them constantly in the spotlight, and the topic of their wealth in focus Old money families had some attention, but it was not as constant

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@paulg I'm not sure it's quiet so much as predictability One thing I appreciate about Tokyo is that while it can be loud in crowded areas nothing crazy or unexpected typically happens For people trying to conduct business random interruptions tend to cause outsized pain

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@ThePrimeagen It’s just not black and white There are some cases in which you should certainly use third party code (implementation too expensive) But also some in which you definitely shouldn’t (tiny helper libraries) Takes some experience to know where the line is best drawn

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@Jonathan_Blow The biggest benefit of the new language might be that it attracts developers with the right mindset, who think deeply about problems, don't put up with bad tools etc. And that grows a strong ecosystem around the language And in turn will make the language successful

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@RetroTechDreams Just imagine how fast windows 95 would run on modern hardware, and how unobtrusive it would be

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@levelsio But But But... if I go with VC money maybe I can get in Forbes 30 under 30 list 🥺

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@tsoding I still find it hard to fathom the popularity of Python It feels like most large companies do not write their backends in python -- so where's all the popularity coming from University students? ML / Data science only? That's enough to rank #1 ?

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@unusual_whales Would be interesting to see how much of that was due to interest charges on existing balances vs folks taking out larger balances One should almost never take credit card balances as a loan. But especially with current sky-high rates

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@PhysInHistory An interesting implication of Penrose's Orch-OR theory is that AGI may not be possible without sufficiently powerful quantum computers. Without an analogous mechanism for consciousness akin to human quantum processes in microtubules, AI wouldn't be able to match humans

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@sovietsoleri Not only separated work-spaces but a typewritter for extreme focus Waiting for the masterpiece produced in this setup

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@levelsio Maybe it's just an effect of being used to the interesting things around you to buy When I'm in Europe or Japan I find myself wanting to spend a lot more money on random items and food When I'm in the US I basically ignore all the overpriced random stuff at Whole Foods

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@zerohedge Seems like they are in a bit of a bind... ⬆️Rates can't be higher (ballooning debt payments) ⬇️Rates can't be lower (massive inflation) Something bound to break soon...

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@robin_j_brooks But isn't the question if / how much the geo mix has shifted Eg. I would expect the G7 to make up a smaller percentage of that and Russia a larger one

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@RetroTechDreams The next time you try to play a song on Apple Music -- notice the latency due to having to stream the song Then try to remember how fast it was to click on an mp3 file and have it play via iTunes Instantaneous We lost something

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@PhysInHistory You have to realize that it's not only the students who get value out of the interaction. The teacher might even get the bulk of the value. Teaching is the best way to sharpen your understanding Feynman understood this, which is why he would teach at every passing opportunity

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@zerohedge Over the last two years there has been a lot of hype in the Japanese press that the stock market has been finally going up along with wages But in reality it's just interest rates too low for too long causing asset inflation Not real growth, as the numbers are starting to show

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@typecraft_dev With Linux it's always a feeling of "If I just fix this one thing THEN it will be perfect and I'm done"

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@RadarHits Apple will almost certainly be opt-in to OpenAI And don't be surprised if sooner rather than later Apple retires external models and uses only their own models in their own cloud (where they control privacy / environmental factors)

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@skdh @EricRWeinstein I used to say that I worked on black hole thermodynamics instead of QG. The latter often got said eye-rolls The system pushes students to work on unphysical math problems: deSitter, wrong # of dimensions, SUSY Because this generates infinite papers, the metric you are judged by

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@sweatystartup Around only half of students at Lehigh and Bucknell even take any student loans Some of these small "no-name" liberal arts colleges are places wealthy families like to send their kids rather than big public schools. Smaller class sizes etc.

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@PhysInHistory These kinds of things are nice mathematically but seem impossible to test Smolin’s Cosmic Natural Selection is a bit better because it has implications for some of the parameter ranges that can be observed (maximal black hole production)

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@saylor @BitcoinSapiens If you had sharp thinking you certainly wouldn't buy bitcoin... Bitcoin has many fatal flaws that will prevent it from being a real currency. But whales continue to try and strategize their exit by pumping - No privacy (public wallet balances) - Slow / Expensive transactions

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@PeterSchiff People really haven't caught on that bitcoin itself is pointless... 1. No privacy (effectively all KYC / tracked) 2. Too slow / costly to be used in transactions At least something like Monero wins on those two points even if it's still backed by nothing

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@levelsio I've always had a better experience in Europe than the US (but you have to pay for it) Japan is unmatched though for the price. It's almost criminal how good the service is for where the wages are compared with the US / Western Europe

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@ID_AA_Carmack @code I seriously don't understand this trend of coding in the cloud Just seems like it adds an extra layer of complexity and failure points -- for what? a consistent environment? If you really really need that you can use docker on a laptop and code inside the container

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@ProfFeynman Also be open to learning from unexpected places Feynman learned a lot from non-experts by trying to explain his ideas to them in simple plain language

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@Jonathan_Blow The barriers to actually releasing a game in the 80s meant that there was a quality floor, below which you couldn't ship a game You had to get it manufactured, distributed and no "over the air" bug fixes The floor in quality has now been pushed to near zero

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@seldo @EdwardTufte The problem is that a bad update was pushed to an antivirus software that loaded a kernel module If Linux or MacOS were used in these “normie” situations the security software would probably have a similar level of access and similar problems

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@RetroTechDreams Boy do I miss the days where view source actually gave you insight into what the site was doing Throw it in notepad and remix it, make it your own That was a great platform for learning about the web

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@zerohedge Oh oops we forgot to tell you that it’s a race to the bottom Open models will be a close to zero cost alternative to OpenAI Maybe Apple can sell some more iPhones with the improved Siri… especially if they lock out old hardware

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@naval The "world is ending" philosophy is basically an excuse to go into hiding and do nothing of importance

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@unusual_whales What exactly does “we do it “ mean? Central Bank Digital Currency? Sounds like a privacy nightmare (but good for the IRS)

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@t3dotgg We would probably be in better shape if schools were just one giant Faraday cage

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@tsoding I suppose you can’t get a virus if the computers are down 🤔

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@ThePrimeagen Really it’s year of the Linux Laptop Linux has been great on desktops forever But ARM + OLED might make a Linux Laptop usable compared to a MacBook (Battery / Screen)

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@nikitabier I had the biggest reverse culture shock of my life coming back to the US for the first time post-COVID while being abroad in Japan (about 2 years away) Even just queuing in line at the airport felt too disorderly

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@gamingonlinux And likely in the process they will make Linux run better on a lot of other systems It's so nice to finally have a company whose profits are so closely aligned with desktop Linux's success

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@tomwarren Hopefully the higher RAM configurations are not ludicrously overprices like the ones from Apple Upgradable RAM is not really necessary these days -- 32GB should be more than enough for almost any workflow But soldering it to the chip reduces the competition for RAM prices

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@zerohedge September is doubtful — they won’t want to spike inflation prior to election

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@JamesClear Sleeping too late I always am 10x more productive first thing in the morning. Staying up an extra hour "feels good" -- but I almost always regret it the next day Now I set a loud alarm at night too to remind me to wind down / jump in bed

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@BTC_Archive Why is this better than just sending money to someone’s wallet address with the QR code

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@skdh @DanielHerber13 Winner take all voting has a tendency to favor coalescing around two parties This is why in the US there are members of each party with wildly different views In a European style parliamentary system those parties would have broken up a long time ago

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@mattvsjapan Exactly what happened to me I've learned Japanese with close to zero help from my wife because English was the stronger language between us The thing that did help though was that we watch TV together in Japanese

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@theapplehub I'd take a thicker iPhone with: - bigger / replaceable battery - no camera bump - better cooling

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@historyinmemes At some point school buildings started to be mass designed / mass produced Old school houses have such a nice charm. Inspiring for students This is the first school building in Wichita, KS

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@skdh It's really too bad you no longer can get RSS feeds for X accounts. Was a more sane way to read without algorithm bias Would be nice for RSS readers to get some personalized AI features though (summaries, recommendations etc)

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@StockMKTNewz Some pre-election rate cuts to make the stock market look better will land imminently

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@GergelyOrosz True but I suppose they have enough cash that they can take that gamble? (A strategy startups usually can’t afford) But I suppose this strategy was still true of Apple in the late 90s / early 2000s (when their financial situation was more dire)

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@ObsoleteSony One thing very common on these old sites is image textures / backgrounds These days it’s apparently too hard for developers to make sites “responsive” with images (it’s totally possible though) Foregoing images shuts out a whole dimension of design possibilities

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@unusual_whales That doesn’t sound like it includes their home values If you priced in a downsizing of real estate holdings around retirement age that would probably be a lot less scary of a number

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@zerohedge Three points: 1. Current LLM training methods are running out of steam (no more data). 2. AI is plateauing at a level too weak to replace many jobs. 3. Companies are spending a ton because of FOMO, not forecasting the plateau. It's a spending frenzy with no clear endgame.

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@tsoding If you are working on something complex describing it to an LLM will be less efficient than just writing the code from the outset since code is more efficient than human language for compressing complex logic Simple things sure, it's a very fancy text-expander

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@levelsio Also dedicated stores just for cardboard boxes of every shape and size Cheap and convenient when you need to move house or ship a lot of things

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@Entity3Self @fchollet You can have huge impact by grinding through those kinds of things. Often lots of opportunity left on the table

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@saylor Now we need giant billboards and light-shows to pump up the price / prevent the merry go round from stopping... Gold never needed this to become a currency, it just naturally emerged over centuries

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@t3dotgg The hard part is not really porting the ShadUI styles to other frameworks / approaches It's that under the hood Shadcn uses some really solid libraries (radix-ui, react-hook-form etc.) And there are less mature substitutes for those in other frameworks

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@_MaxBlade People like buying hardware from the same manufacturer when they have a product that they previously bought from them that they like (risk is higher for the consumer than with software) If it goes well you should turn it into a brand and add more items under the same umbrella

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@saylor Obvious pump and dump... Bitcoin is doomed to fail - Too expensive to do small transactions - Not private due to government control / KYC - Been technically surpassed by other coins 100 years from now a single bitcoin will be worthless for sure

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@zerohedge But I thought that all these "AI Gains" were supposed to bring massive efficiency to the bottom 490 of the S&P 🤔

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@unusual_whales Which is why it now typically both parents need to work to make a comfortable environment for raising kids

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@levelsio With the loneliness epidemic -- perhaps a return to tighter families is not a negative? Although I assume the high rates are hardly voluntary

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@zerohedge Undersea cables are an under-rated choke-point to global infrastructure Starlink can help provide robust fallbacks here

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@sweatystartup Is it hooked up to the internet / a mini pc for remotely changing the ads? Could see this scaling a lot easier if you don't have to go out to each tv to manually change the ad reel

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@PhysInHistory A few mathematical physicists Edward Witten: Amazing mathematical contributions, yet sub-par physicist (no solid evidence). Newton: The leaps he made cannot be understated Gauss: Developed Gaussian distribution and Gauss's Law in electromagnetism

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