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I'm not really on an anti-China rhetoric, they can be a valuable partner and I think we do have a positive relationship with them. BUT, they don't need to win all public government contracts by undercutting local companies. They'd be equally upset if we did the same.

I do agree that the global market is causing quite some trouble, although that could be avoided by most (all?) countries being nice to each other. Or even excellent to each other!


The question is, why are people underperforming? Engineering tasks take super long, and are super hard to plan. So is underfperformance from the difficulty or the work and poor scoping, or is it from not trying hard enough?

I’m old enough to remember people complaining about the exact same thing except they called it eternal September.

Speaking a second language live is much harder than taking your time and writing something.

Yikes, your reaction to a study showing infant deaths halving in Kenya is to assume the researchers skimmed some of the money?

The article describes a randomised controlled trial, and explains the result is from better access to healthcare. What would make you happy, should they have sent you the money instead?


This is a far more negative comment than the linked article for those who wish to read it.

everyone is patiently waiting for the tsunami of cheap used GPUs once the bubble pops

Acknowledging the mistake immediately seems like a good start, as I've said.

Life doesn't always have to be from the perspective from “a manager”, these are community volunteers doing untold hours of unpaid work. Just be a person, whose acquaintance is upset you replaced their handmade postcard with an AI-generated one.


You’ll likely need to wait a couple decades for this. Kids need to not spend all their free time helping on the farm first and their currency has to appreciate such that they can afford a computing device that isn’t a toy. With yields seeing such big increases it looks feasible, but we’re still early.

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You built something good.

Now you need the right people to notice, consistently.

And of course, you want it to be automated, but not sound robotic.

That’s where I fit in. I work at the intersection of positioning, copy, email, and systems -- turning a good product into attention and a steady pipeline.

GTM engineering + B2B lead gen + copywriting + email + automation.

Open to full-time, part-time or fractional roles with smart teams that need help in this area.

-Filip


With terrahertz rectifiers you can use antennas and diodes to convert light to DC.

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


Thanks

I agree in principal, but this whole post is lazy if it's AI-produced. There's certainly no original thought and as the comments mention here, most of the math is outright incorrect

In 2001, they grounded almost all air traffic for about three days. It would take take a while for this move to catch up to that.

A few years in corporate managerial role will turn you into a bot.

I built TestiWall as a quick experiment to fix my own pain collecting testimonials for my SaaS projects. It’s early but fully functional, I’d love feedback on how to make the landing clearer or the product more appealing to founders and creators.

it will get more exciting once those solar panel can charge electronic cars

It’s a well made, elaborate infomercial with a science hook.

> You get about 5-8 minutes of face time with an actual doctor, but have to wait up to weeks to actually get in to see a doctor, except maybe at an urgent care or ER.

This depends heavily on where you are, and on how much money you want to throw at the problem.


Forbidding things works. People drank less during prohibition, and they do less drugs than they would were they legalized. Hence there is no serious proposal to legalize most hard drugs

Inane appeals to tradition are boring as fuck and completely useless. We should continue to circumcise infant males because we did it for decades (centuries?) and got by just fine! This says nothing about whether kids having access to cellphones is worthwhile and everything about how garbage your argument against them is.

My country's national postal system still uses an IBM mainframe based system from the 80s. The clients these days are desktops with Linux Mint and a terminal emulator but it's still very much TUI based.

The more I learn about emacs the more I feel we took the wrong fork on road in terms of the desktop metaphor decades ago.

I’m in the Netherlands and I get ads for Bol.com on YouTube now with narration that would be more appropriate to Fitter, Happier. I’m surprised advertisers are ok with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tepztGLNYcE


Why not?

> The move comes as air traffic controllers have missed their paychecks due to the government shutdown. Air traffic controllers and Transportation Security Administration screeners are among the essential government employees who are required to work during the shutdown.

Slavery never went away, it just shifted.

But at least the Republican goverment is doing something positive to curve climate change. If they shut down enough of the economy and people cannot afford gas anymore that will produce less CO2. Win?


You aren't getting it. Basically every country on earth hates the cartels and wants them dead. They aren't going to complain when somebody is making that happen, and they don't much care how it's done as long as it isn't happening on their soil. And they care even less that the people doing it aren't saints themselves because nobody is. Nobody is going to stick their neck out for a cartel.

A few things that stood out to me:

- One of the key factors in powder over pods in his prior videos was cost. Cheap powder runs about 6.6¢/oz. The brand he’s promoting is $1.11/oz, nearly 17x more expensive than traditional powder. When comparing per-load costs, Cascade pods are about 39.5¢ per load and the promoted powder is 58.5¢ per load, or 48% more costly than pods. The price to performance is terrible and could only be justified if you also consider external factors like their sustainability practices and the donation of all profits to coral reef restoration. Not discussing price seems like a huge gap to me.

- I was disappointed that he only personally compared and tested washing performance against a pod and the promoted powder, rather than also evaluating a traditional powder. Could he have replicated and compared the subpar performance reported by others?

- I would have assumed that, if the pre-rinse is supposed to get hot, the heater would run until it reaches the temperature target. Is it normal for a unit to simply not care? Last I had done reading on this, whether to attach to the hot or cold side is actually a contentious issue, mostly around the cost of gas vs. induction-based heating costs in water heaters, in addition to temperature losses in the pipes. If the pre-wash expects hot water, then that’s an extra point for the hot side backers. I guess one should always check their manual to determine best-practice on the purge and line placement.


I don't think boiling water with dishwasher detergent in it is a great idea (because of potential fumes). I might have misunderstood what you mean by "make coffee" but maybe something to look into if you do this regularly.

If you want to be nitpicky: randomly killing people isn't necessarily murder. There's eg also manslaughter and a few other legal categories.

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