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110,949karma·51,753submissions·October 26, 2011
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"We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills without being overcome by them."
In life, everything is a wager. Whether you realize it or not, you are constantly making implicit and explicit predictions about the future state of reality. To live is to predict.
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You get what you measure. Both can be wildly irrational depending on incentives and target outcomes. Would an AI solution have been in place in this context if testing revealed this outcome we’ve arri…
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Do you have examples of customer facing real results you could share?
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AI driven individual incentives for decision makers. Comp goes up for showing off AI, not hiring people. Lots of “thought leaders” who push the solution but will be gone for the consequences. Next fol…
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Consider that you could buy the smallest version, disassemble, and add a Raspberry Pi or equivalent to bolt compute and wireless comms onto your desired interface, if only to prototype form and functi…
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Its an attack on solar in the aggregate, similar to how they're using DOE must run orders to keep coal plants generating needlessly. Powerplants under DOE emergency orders are producing less ene…
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Congrats to the DroneDeploy team. https://www.dronedeploy.com/blog/dronedeploy-hits-break-even... [$15M strategic raise, breakeven reached 2025Q4] https://www.globenew…
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Rural areas need healthcare funding, funding that is not coming. Rural area politicians will talk (because talk is cheap and free versus action) until retired, out of office, or expired, but will not …
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Kimi K3 now runs on one consumer GPU - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49102291 - July 2026 https://x.com/Akashi203/status/2082555972380401852 https…
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This piece perfectly conveys the idea I have been unable to when comparing Europe to the US from a quality of life and economic success perspective. Kudos to the author.
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This simply removes liability without reducing objective risk, the solution imho is to incentivize people of reproductive age who intend to carry a child to move to urban areas where services are and …
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https://archive.today/rsXwr Related: https://www.marchofdimes.org/maternity-care-deserts-report (will be updated by the end of August 2026 with most recent data [2025…
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https://archive.today/mHcSO
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US EIA Report: https://www.eia.gov/environment/emissions/carbon/pdf/emissio... …
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> Considering it was made legal at the federal level, that is where the reforms will need to be. Also, having individual states try to regulate and online marketplace would be hell. This is not wha…
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https://archive.today/yG2Lm Related: https://evchargingstations.com/chargingnews/walmart-charging... https://www.plugshare.com/map/walmart-e…
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Businesses could only hold out so long hoping AI was going to provide the productivity gains needed to avoid hiring.
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Posted because the overarching topic of the piece is "challenge your priors," with examples provided, which I think is always a valuable muscle to flex as a curious person.
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https://archive.today/eKjyA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Hansard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Frames https://web.arch…
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Run Kimi K3 on a local computer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098395 - July 2026