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Re:Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament on Saturday October 31, 2026 @11:45AM (#50317231)
All groups of human organization are bad and inefficient and incompetent. Just have to pick between ones better than others. And this is better than self dealing entrenched politicians. When this one is bad they can vote them out too
Re:How Do You Take a Picture of a Black Hole? on Friday October 30, 2026 @11:38PM (#50312986)
The event horizon isn't the black hole. It's just the point of no return. As far as we know the black hole is a singularity with infinite density. But that probably isn't true. It's just a model and the model isn't perfect
Re:If IPv4 Were Land on Thursday October 29, 2026 @11:51AM (#50291025)
This should be scaled by population. would make the India/china numbers more drastic.
Re:If IPv4 Were Land on Thursday October 29, 2026 @11:48AM (#50290975)
one is close to hundreds of millions in cost and with likeminded stakeholders. the other is hundreds of trillions in costs with the entire human population as stakeholders.
Re:DoorDash to Acquire Instacart on Thursday October 29, 2026 @11:21AM (#50290508)
transportation is treated as a necessity to a good life. I'm not sure restaurant delivery should be treated the same.
Re:The new iPad mini on Monday October 26, 2026 @10:50AM (#50244742)
Has any non pro consumer ever noticed a display greater than 60 hz. I can barely get the regular people in my life to nice anything above 30 hz or turning off motion smoothing. I really don't see how any of this stuff matters for most people
Thanks natural gas and fracking
Re:What I Self-Host on Thursday October 15, 2026 @05:21PM (#50110451)
Self hosting has never been easier and I imagine the average person has never been further from trying it. No one will ever get anywhere close to hosting this much sruff
wow, I hate that i now know how bad that is. its infuriating
Re:I know why Mathematicians weep on Thursday October 15, 2026 @03:23PM (#50108902)
SI?
No. its going to old people and health care
Re:Building a Wall Lamp from Scratch on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @11:30AM (#49628195)
engineers have long been interested in woodworking as a distraction from work. its one of the many dream jobs/hobbys for engineers when they get enough money
Why would someone good at running a social media website be good at managing and developing ai frontier models
I'm sure they will gladly sell us both
Re:Germany maybe found a new source of renewable energy on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @10:03AM (#48921002)
Hopefully Germany doesn't ban geothermal like they did with nuclear and fracking
Food would be the biggest barrier to population growth in pre modern times
They're cool people but like it doesn't stop the world from imploding. Most of all of our code is full of trivial bugs and edge cases and most people don't mind too much. Certainly no one cares about leap seconds, they hardly even notice DST or leap days
After reading all that, maybe we should just have some bugs in our code and stop making up new things
so yes something is very wrong
trump just undid the gpu export to china to help jensen make money
well, eric's book tries to make the point that these good companies DO overperform the market. after reading the book this past week, im not convinced. feels like heavy selection bias.
Re:Shopify Is Down on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @10:58AM (#48385013)
just take the day off mate, this shit happens in every field of work
A fundamental misunderstanding of index funds and what an arbitrage is
wow thats extremely embarassing for meta
Surely that number can go lower with some tweaks
Re:The Cost of Owning a Home on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @11:12PM (#48289110)
yeah of course. theres no license for most of these things. just clarifying
Re:The Cost of Owning a Home on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @08:15PM (#48287783)
Cost of labor quite higher here. Especially house work. Any licensed person to work in your house you're looking at paying $200 minimum just to walk in the door. At least in the major metro areas.
Overall seems pretty good and level headed for changes at a large bureaucracy. If he delivers on no big layoffs then I think this is great for the legacy of isaacman
The kids are very fucked up tho by the internet in our pockets. I'm Not sure that id on OS is the solution. But we should be trying something

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