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BuckYeah commented on Forget Gladwell   culture.ghost.io/forget-g... · Posted by u/earthboundkid
kk6mrp · a year ago
Despite being recommended Malcolm Gladwell's books by good friends with whom I enjoy having deep conversation; I, for the life of me can't stand reading these books. Does anyone else feel this way?

I read this a while back and it resonates with my feeling as I read, but I still can't put my finger on what it is that I dislike: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/when-malco...

BuckYeah · a year ago
A very smart person once said if you want the right answer to a question, don’t ask for it. Instead, provide the best answer you’ve got and let the critics exhaust themselves proving you wrong until they eventually hand the correct answer over for free.
BuckYeah commented on AI chipmaker Cerebras files for IPO   cnbc.com/2024/09/30/cereb... · Posted by u/TradingPlaces
pants2 · a year ago
Agreed, it just seems like Nvidia chips are going to be easier to produce at scale. Cerberas will be limited to a few niche use-cases, like HFT where hedge funds are using LLMs to analyze SEC filings as fast as possible.
BuckYeah · a year ago
Where/how did you learn of the hedge fund usages?
BuckYeah commented on 'Three New York Cities' Worth of Power: AI Is Stressing the Grid   wsj.com/business/energy-o... · Posted by u/sbuttgereit
sirsinsalot · a year ago
Yes yes because the solution to the myopic God complex of the tech industry is more of it.

Wow. Really chugging the coolade.

BuckYeah · a year ago
You thought you wouldn’t find kool aid drinking tech fanboys here? You might need a new compass.

Tech companies and their cults are perfectly represented by the South Park episode about Priuses

BuckYeah commented on 'Three New York Cities' Worth of Power: AI Is Stressing the Grid   wsj.com/business/energy-o... · Posted by u/sbuttgereit
2OEH8eoCRo0 · a year ago
I think you might misunderstand your analogy. If you owe the bank two billion dollars it's their problem because a missing 2 billion dollars is large enough to be painful for the bank.
BuckYeah · a year ago
I think you and the original metaphor maker are still not seeing the failure of the analogy. The bank with a $2B default gets bailed out by taxpayers and the billion dollar borrower gets bailed out through bankruptcy court—also the taxpayer. The person borrowing $2 screws themselves, and the same person borrowing $2 gets to bail out the bank and billion dollar borrowers.

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BuckYeah commented on How Apple Rules the World   bloomberg.com/features/20... · Posted by u/alexcos
pyeri · 2 years ago
Part of it is psychological warfare. One of my relatives who works at a big MNC practically believes that iphone users have a certain "class" which is superior to the "class" of Android users.
BuckYeah · 2 years ago
Psychological warfare? Apple’s loyal fan boys can definitely come off a little culty but to compare apples marketing to something violent is just being dramatic.
BuckYeah commented on Blood puddles, mold, tainted meat, bugs: Boar's Head inspections are horrifying   arstechnica.com/science/2... · Posted by u/speckx
BuckYeah · 2 years ago
Ha! The age old vegetarian/vegan joke is too real
BuckYeah commented on New York bans 'addictive feeds' for teens   theverge.com/2024/6/20/24... · Posted by u/ruddct
pie420 · 2 years ago
first airbnb, and now this, you love to see it. hopefully banning all gambling is next
BuckYeah · 2 years ago
I’m always amazed by how much some people want the government to control.
BuckYeah commented on The regenerative urban garden I: No-till gardening   makegathergrow.com/blog/r... · Posted by u/squircle
idontknowtech · 2 years ago
I'm all for gardening - there's something therapeutic about seeing a plant grow and evolve over time. You can see something tangibly change over time as a result of your work, something quite rare in today's world where we spend our time on computers producing ephemeral things like files.

That said, I'm completely opposed to urban food gardening (including chickens) because the land you're growing in is likely poisoned by years of urban pollution. Whatever you grow in those areas is going to bring that bad stuff along with it, which means your backyard tomatoes probably wouldn't pass FDA approval.

Chickens are even worse, because they'll eat whatever's on the ground and that stuff gets into the eggs. So while it looks great on Instagram, your backyard eggs are probably full of rubber, asphalt, gasoline, plastics, and all the other stuff that's wafted into your property over the years.

So anyway, by all means garden and have fun doing it, but if you haven't had your urban soil tested and verified as safe, don't eat anything that comes out of it.

BuckYeah · 2 years ago
Don’t forget chickens eat bugs that eat things dosed in pesticides
BuckYeah commented on CoreNet: A library for training deep neural networks   github.com/apple/corenet... · Posted by u/rocauc
BuckYeah · 2 years ago
As someone who owns apple stock. I’m good with it

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KarmaCake day12December 3, 2023View Original