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jonfromsf··on The Gentle Singularity
I don't understand this plan. Won't you lose all the money you spent buying the houses and building the quadplexes?
jonfromsf··on I'm starting a social club to solve the male loneliness epidemic
These were a huge part of the American social fabric in the past. Most of the organizations are still active, although smaller than before. There's Freemasons, The Elks, Rotary International, American Legion, VFW, Knights of Columbus, Loyal order of Moose, Shriners, Lions Club, Kiwanis ...
jonfromsf··on Wrench Attacks: Physical attacks targeting cryptocurrency users (2024) [pdf]
The obvious answer is to invest in ETFs that hold bitcoin, in a traditional brokerage account. Ironic that it comes to that (given that bitcoin was supposed to take down big finance). But it is the most straightforward and safe way for someone to own some amount of bitcoin.
jonfromsf··on How to live on $432 a month in America
Cities are lecking grounds. They're places for people to date. Once they get married they move to the suburbs.
jonfromsf··on Women's Pockets are Inferior. (2018)
If women wanted bigger pockets, you could make a lot of money selling them pants with bigger pockets. But everyone who tries that fails. Women would theoretically like bigger pockets, but they care more about the fitting and look of the pants. And pants with bigger pockets don't look as good.
jonfromsf··on Methodical Banality
Above poster is just trying to clarify that "casualties" means "dead or injured". Generally many more are injured than killed in war, so the number of causualties will be higher than the number of deaths.
jonfromsf··on The Deathbed Fallacy (2018)
Liberal arts mindset has been that Marcus Aurelius is a fascist. Stoicism is right-coded and tech-coded and has been for the last decade. I think you're right in terms of what liberal arts SHOULD be, but it's been diverted badly from that path.
jonfromsf··on Evolving OpenAI's Structure
Every consumer has very useful AI at their fingertips right now. It's eating the software engineering world rapidly. This is nothing like nanotech in the 80s.
jonfromsf··on Sexual harassment thrives in silence, even in gender-equality hotspots
Teach criminals not to crime.
jonfromsf··on Mark Zuckerberg says social media is over
No. People have endless hours to waste on numbing themselves. The worse their life is going the more they do that.
jonfromsf··on UK Supreme Court live: trans women are not legally women, judges rule
Oh man, it's the sexual orientation police. Hide the sapio-sexuals, everybody!
jonfromsf··on The effect of deactivating Facebook and Instagram on users' emotional state
Whatsapp is the main doomscrolling app for older Indians. They share endless AI generated right-wing slop, their brains are absolutely cooked by this stuff.
jonfromsf··on UK Supreme Court live: trans women are not legally women, judges rule
That orientation used to be referred to as Super-Gay (Super-Straight is when you're only attracted to biological members of the opposite sex).
jonfromsf··on Everything wrong with MCP
But couldn't you just tell the LLM client your API key and the url of the API documentation? Then it could interact with the API itself, no?
jonfromsf··on A deliberate practice app for guitar players who want to level up
Good for you Aditya!
jonfromsf··on “Normal” engineers are the key to great teams
You can hide ANYTHING with financial engineering. Like off-books liabilities, systemic risk ... anything.
jonfromsf··on Apple M3 Ultra
Birkin bags appreciate in value. This is more like a Lexus. It's a well-crafted luxury good that will depreciate relatively slowly.
jonfromsf··on The IRS Is Buying an AI Supercomputer from Nvidia
AI is GREAT at porting software to new languages. That's like one of the things it is best at.
jonfromsf··on How shut-down Bay Area tech companies ditch their fancy gear
During the great recession I went to the Kodak offices that were shutting down. I bought 4 aerons for $25 each, but could only fit 2 in my car. Fortunately, I sold 2 to a guy in the parking lot for $40 so my chairs were almost free.
jonfromsf··on I Met Paul Graham Once
The ACLU had her fill out a form where she agreed to that position in 2020. That’s why it was a topic that Fox could ask about. This is absolutely a case of a tiny minority making a point of making the candidate take a fringe position, or be bullied by the activist class.
jonfromsf··on Deepseek: The quiet giant leading China’s AI race
cryptocurrency? Really?
jonfromsf··on Deepseek: The quiet giant leading China’s AI race
I rent in the SF Bay and love it. My money does a lot better in the stock market than it does invested in dirt and bricks.
jonfromsf··on More men are addicted to the 'crack cocaine' of the stock market
If you compare the forward PE ratio to the regular PE ratio on most of these stocks you will see their profits are growing extremely fast. NVDA has a trailing PE of 55 but a forward PE of 32. TSM has PE of 33 but a forward of 23! A business growing profitability that fast is going to be valued at a premium.
jonfromsf··on Can turning office towers into apartments save downtowns?
He didn't say it would be cheap affordable housing. He said it "will relieve price pressure on existing, overpriced older housing". Which makes sense. Normally new buildings are the luxury housing and over time, as they become outdated, they become the affordable housing. Building new "affordable housing" is a fools errand, since it costs almost as much to build as luxury housing. You just build more housing period and let nature take its course over the decades.
jonfromsf··on Can turning office towers into apartments save downtowns?
I would guess that now a lot of college kids stay locked in their rooms by themselves, swiping on their phones and playing video games.
jonfromsf··on Apple introduces M4 chip
The bigger problem is when you need a new machine fast, the apple store doesn't have anything but the base models in stock. In my org we bought a machine for a new developer who was leaving town, and were forced to buy an 8gb machine because the store didn't have other options (it was going to be a 2 week wait). As you can imagine, the machine sucked for running Docker etc and we had to sell it on facebook marketplace for a loss.
jonfromsf··on Alternative clouds are booming as companies seek cheaper access to GPUs
Because with the current medical cost, it would be absolutely ruinous. The root problem is American health care is far too expensive. The entire system is massively wasteful and complex.
jonfromsf··on Professor tells student to 'get out of the Bay Area' if they want a girlfriend
NYC is the promised land for men, because there's more women than men.
jonfromsf··on The Data Is Clear: People Are Having Less Sex
Most people have better sex lives when they are young, poor, and living in shared housing situations.
jonfromsf··on Banning the purchase of sex increases cases of rape: evidence from Sweden
police freely use "human trafficking" to refer to all prostitution. Which is absurd.
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