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toomuchtodo
110,926karma·51,750submissions·October 26, 2011
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Forward deployed scholar
"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.
(No AI is used to write any content within any of my comments)
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Interest rates must go up. It’s the only lever available to push housing prices down in the near term.
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Excellent work. Please consider supporting browsing remote zip files (and potentially other formats, if able) over http. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47637346 https:/&#x…
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https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/ires/?Event=99453 https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety... …
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Head of Ethics Chloé Bakalar just left too. OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49257160 - August 2026 (235 comments…
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What does success look like? I get what I want from Twitter/X through a pull through cache. I get to read the folks I follow on Bluesky. Works for me? My feed as a utility is working as expected…
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When your AI doesn't juice revenue, you juice what you can in service of enterprise value and the stock price.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Spier
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There is nothing to save, it is a financial vehicle to funnel dollars to the Trump family and their associates.
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I see others who have suggested self hosting, I cannot speak for others, I simply do not have the time for that. I pay for a family plan, I hand out accounts, everything Just Works. I'll pay for …
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https://archive.today/4r4uo
5 pts
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Fastmail. They offer an MCP server, but keep the AI features out of the product. Data export is available and trivial. An MCP Server for Fastmail – National Email Day - https://news.ycomb…
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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/business/ai-nvidia-lender... …
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Checks and balances, the system works. > “The science hasn’t changed ...We will continue to follow the science.”
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_and_Shadow
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Fully open stack hardware video streamer, think open source Roku or AppleTV. Same for Airplay for audio. This enables open source digital sovereignty end to end for streaming media, with Jellyfin toda…
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Very cool, congrats on the launch. Are there any licensing issues with customers releasing generated courses with copyleft or public domain licensing?
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Any recommendations for open source solutions to scrape the Amazon order page?
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Because you can’t attempt to win if you don’t buy the lottery ticket. Just like a founder who spends years of their life grinding for a startup that will most likely fail, I’m just throwing some money…
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Great question. If we presume that we will always exist in systems of people, and that there will always be potential bad actors seeking leverage and opportunity to grift through power, we need strong…
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I certainly hope so, it’s just a tool, and I can’t take it with me. Would you hoard a hammer or your toolbox? Or let anyone use it who needed it? Do the Amish hoard wealth? Measure impact, outcomes, a…
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I cannot speak to communists, I currently align with democratic socialists and max out campaign contributions to those candidates. Some capitalism, but not too much, and a firm floor under everyone. I…
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If this is what Post imperial Russia looked like, sign me up comrade. We tried to hyper individualistic capitalism, and that failed unless your the very top of wealth pyramid. Insanity is doing the sa…
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https://www.daynaemcraig.com/narcissistsprayer/ “That didn’t happen. And if it did, it wasn’t that bad. And if it was, that’s not a big deal. And if it is, that’s not my fault. A…
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https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/convictional Launch HN: Convictional (YC W19) – Supplier Network for Retailers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2157…
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https://obits.syracuse.com/us/obituaries/syracuse/name/rober... …
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https://xkcd.com/1053/ Very common for spreadsheets where employees are being selected for culling to be sorted by cash and equity comp, regardless of impact. We win or we learn.…