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Sometimes at work I get slop emails from some VP or other, and the problem isn't the tone or use use of AI per se, it's that 2 sentences of meaningful content is diluted into 3 paragraphs for no discernible reason.

Isn't starlink and its competitors a cheaper way for rural places to get fast internet?

At some point I did some research and the Atacama was suggested to me as the best vantage point on earth for simple skygazing. Definitely on my bucket list.

I have many concerns with this kind of funding model, but I don't think the measurement problem is so serious. Performance incentives in education typically reward improvement of the student cohort relative to how it was performing the previous year, or even use value-added models that use multiple past years to predict the student trajectory.

Additional point: wage increases not uniformly distributed, whereas costs are moreso.

I'm Swiss. My grandfather has stories of family members afflicted with Goitre. What a great read!

Can you link to a source?

I love cities that embrace street food. My home (New York City) is well-regarded for street food, but I found it that it's nothing in comparison to Mexico City where a vendor seems to dot every single street corner.

With our density, New York could have a much richer street foods scene if the permitting and regulations allowed it.

I have put Fukuoka on my travel list.

The law targets short-term rentals generally, not only Airbnb specifically.

From guidelines:

> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

I am an airbnb host, and exclusively rent out my own apartment on the handful of weeks per year that I'm traveling.

If airbnb was banned, my apartment would be vacant during that time. This would push tourists into hotels, driving up the cost of a hotel room, and furthering the affordability crisis since developers would see more upside in hotels rather than residential development.

wouldn't that reward the seller, and still be potentially costly for OpenAI?

A friend of mine is VP (not partner), and he seems to spend most of his time on deals. Market research, building financial models for a potential LBO, or for the sale of a portfolio company.

From what I understand, the on-the-ground management work after acquisition is outsourced to specialized executives with whom the firm has a relationship. They can bring expertise in a specific industry, and the deal structure pays them with large performance incentives.

I think LLMs can transform between precise and imprecise languages.

So it's useful to have a library that helps and the input or output be precise, when that is what the task involves.

Serious question: is it typical to describe client-side computing as "on the edge"?

I thought running something on the edge referred to running it in close network proximity to the user, rather than users having control and running things themselves.

One reason is that inflation has a lot of inertia, because inflationary expectations drive more inflation.

A strong labor market drives up wages. When not matched by GDP growth, those wages increase costs, which cause workers to demand higher wages to keep up with those costs, and so on.

The cycle needs to be broken even if there is short term pain for workers.

Many of us have already dealt with a 20% haircut, at least on the RSU portion of compensation.

* Higher cost of borrowing is putting pressure on growth companies that relied on cheap capital

* Economic downturn makes it harder to do business and lowers stock prices, which makes up a big part of any 400K SWE package

* Tech companies can allow RSU grants to expire rather than implementing formal paycuts. Whereas companies in other sectors might lay off 5% of the workforce before giving everyone a 5% paycut, we may see a different trend in tech.

I think you're conflating the standard english word "optimal" with mathematical optimization.

There is no such thing as a published scientific journal available to only one country.

Nobody is saying that the government can't fund private research (as it surely does in the context of security, defense, etc). But that if research is _published_, it ought to be open access rather than behind a paywall.

I'm not an expert in this area. But a fairer comparison would be a US service like Venmo. In my experience Fraudulent payments with venmo are much harder to recover.

I think a lot of fraud prevention tech can reasonably be done in a matter of seconds. FedNow also proposes to be domestic only for the time being, which means the recipient accounts are in US jurisdiction and easier to shut down and prosecute. Finally, there's no reason a wait-period/cooldown can't be implemented in another layer.

I think you could have written this opinion instead of your initial comment, and it would have been better received.

In my view, it's not one or the other. Studying and correcting mistakes of the past can also provide a hint for where to find injustice in the present.

I don't think VC money is "smart money", it's just not designated for investment in public markets. The "expertise" of a VC is in private growth equity, not liquid public stocks.

I agree when it comes to plans.

But in general, aren't there some cases where we want to moderate our communication based on how it will be received? Honesty is the right default, but not universally correct.

The classic example is that it might be preferable to tell someone that a dress they just bought looks good on them.

I think as children we tend to be too honest, and then overshoot as teens or young adults by worrying too much about social acceptance. And we have to find a middle ground.

Every school I've attended opened its doors before classes started. This has other benefits like making sure kids have access to breakfast.

There are still crypto projects whose primary focus is privacy (eg monero). But unsurprisingly, it's difficult to spend that money without going through a KYC process.

I think the "dream" of truly private transactions was always unrealistic. Governments have many tools at their disposal to get what they want.

Even cash is only so private. In the USA cash purchases over $10,000 require a report to the IRS.

Well, I guess measurements of the early universe (100-250 million years after the big bang) can test predictions made by models of the inflationary period.

I think even highly skilled engineers end up needing to be available for certain kinds of meetings.

To whatever extent I'm highly skilled, I'd prefer that it be reflected in my responsibilities and compensation, rather than leverage to blow off meetings.

Wow, there is a potentially a lot of money at stake here. It looks like I could be eligible to join this lawsuit if it goes forward.

Recently learned about Bitwise funds. They seem reasonable on the surface but I haven't done much research.