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Didn’t say they were rare I said they weren’t distributed equally which ends up creating geopolitical tensions and while newer chemistries might change the equation that doesn’t seem like what is going to happen at least in the short term.

The geopolitics don't go away because the resources needed to switch to renewables aren't evenly distributed geographically:

https://www.statista.com/chart/33754/countries-with-the-larg...

https://www.techpolicy.press/us-critical-mineral-aggression-...

Battery storage is only a solution if you can actually generate a surplus of energy that can be stored, which is not a given.

We absolutely need to move off of fossil fuels but thinking that renewables are the only solution seems very short-sighted to me.

The houseboat has an interesting history: https://qaswa.com/ss-vallejo

Summer 2017: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flock-safety

Focus learning well the fundamentals of the field as they will underpin everything else. Try to keep your finger on the pulse of industry in some way beyond whatever they are teaching in your classes (industry conferences, trade orgs, etc.). Try for internships during the summer break to get an idea of what people's day to day is like today and where it may be headed. Have a backup plan (e.g. pre-med).

I think it just means they had been partnering in the past and now they're expanding it with more investment.

It does exist: https://www.slooh.com

Clarify? I don't understand how whether or not I pay someone to manage my money makes a difference as to whether what they did was commit fraud. People paid Bernie Madoff to manage their money and early investors got promised returns but he still went to jail because he was running an illegal ponzi scheme.

Wrong Eric Ries? The writer of that blog claims to be a 65 yo Baby Boomer (would be 67 today), the one here is much younger than that iirc.

"1. a long-term commitment to maximize some aspect of human flourishing (in the book I explain how this is the true definition of what it means to create a for-profit venture"

How does this square with the widely taught business-school definition of a for-profit entity being something that aims to maximize shareholder value?

Interesting that the guy who rightly criticizes billionaires for not paying their fair share of taxes thinks those same billionaires are going to use AI for maximizing the common good. Already there is much evidence that they are not.

I got my hunter's safety card back just before covid. Prior to the actual course starting, our instructors spent a good 15 minutes "encouraging" us to join the NRA because "they're really trying to take our guns, blah blah". This was in "liberal" California. When I had last taken the course as a kid in my home state of Oregon, in a conservative majority town, there was never any kind of propaganda that I can recall of this level.

Sometimes you just have to trust your Coscto instincts.

AIpathy

I would hypothesize that this is strongly correlated to where a person's sense of purpose comes from. If someone gets most of their sense of purpose from their job then you would expect to see a decline once they leave their job if they can't replace it with something else. For those whose sense of purpose is derived mainly outside of work and can continue to derive that sense of purpose in retirement, I would expect less of a decline in retirement other than normal aging.

Didn't they need the data from the 200 million miles or so from actual driving before they could get to the generative model though? Data isn't everything, as you point out with Telsa (mainly because they decided to forego using lidar it would seem), but it is pretty fundamental.

From the article it doesn't sound like it was physically stuck as much as it's maps might not have been updated with the latest addition of that light rail and/or it was confused by the ongoing construction.

"Make something people want" seems so quaint now.

Minor typo: assming -> assuming :)

If there is anything left to come back to.

I have an EV and am on a Time of Use rate plane here in SF. My lowest rates are between 12am and 3pm every day. I charge the car and run everything I can in terms of major appliance use between these hours (dishwasher scheduled to start at midnight or manually run early in the day, washer/dryer loads run in the morning). I am home during the day which makes this easier to do though. Another solution of course would be to bank your solar generation or low rate electricity into a set of batteries that you could draw from during peak times.

Maybe not our careers, but probably our souls.

Can you take advantage of the Portuguese educational system to train for a professional career while you are living and working there? If so, I think that might tilt things in favor of Portugal especially if the prospect of obtaining an EU passport is there.

I don't know if even they know that they're looking for with the question as they marked it as experimental and optional but the explanation perhaps gives some hint:

"Optional: attach a coding agent session you're particularly proud of. This is an experimental question for the Spring 2026 batch to give people a chance to show off their skills with AI coding tools."

Maybe they're hoping to gain some signal around a correlation between good AI coding skills and future company success?

Sometimes the why is discovered when you try to change the code to what you think it should be and see it fall down in some cases you didn't anticipate or some other system is affected. It's often really hard to find out the why but either it will become clear at some point when the code is refactored or it will be irrelevant.

Maybe something more akin to the Alaska Permanent Fund - just replace oil revenue with AI?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund

Unless you have a paying customer willing to pay you with just a promise of something to be delivered (see kickstarter et al, Steve Blanks's customer discovery, etc.), you don't. If it solves a problem you have and in a better way for you than other solutions then you personally get immediate value from it. From there, it's possible others may have the same problem and will be willing to pay for it. It's not guaranteed but the number of people getting value from the software will be at least n = 1.

What’s the virtue signal in not wanting to travel to a country that might arbitrarily decide to illegally deport you to a different country other than your home country or detain you indefinitely?