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brian_spiering commented on California residents can now request all data brokers delete personal info consumer.drop.privacy.ca.... · Posted by u/memalign

brian_spiering · a month ago

I signed up for it (took about 5 minutes). I'm cautiously optimistic about it having positive return on that investment.

One of the best things I have done is sign up for DMAchoice and optoutprescreen.com which has completely stopped junk mail for me.

brian_spiering commented on Reasons not to become famous (2020) tim.blog/2020/02/02/reaso... · Posted by u/Tomte

erelong · 2 months ago

Are there tips for becoming wealthy without becoming famous, then?

brian_spiering · 2 months ago

I got a the highest paid job I could find with the skills I have that I enjoyed "well-enough". I spent less than I earned. I made mostly low risk investments (with a handful of high risk investments). I consistently did those behaviors for many decades. I also got lucky that nothing bad happened to me.

brian_spiering commented on Ask HN: What's a book that fundamentally altered your mental models · Posted by u/brihati

brian_spiering · 2 months ago

The Art of War by Steven Pressfield. It addresses the fears associated with any new endeavor and how to create systems to dance with the fears.

brian_spiering commented on The Checkerboard 99percentinvisible.org/ep... · Posted by u/thread_id

brian_spiering · 2 months ago

The Sierra Nevada region has a similar history of using the "checkerboard" pattern to promote railroad building. Organizations like the Trust for Public Land and the Truckee Donner Land Trust that are systematically acquiring many of these checkerboard inholdings to preserved them from future development and open them to low-impact public recreation.

brian_spiering commented on Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight karpathy.bearblog.dev/aut... · Posted by u/__rito__

MBCook · 2 months ago

It’s interesting, if you go down near the bottom you see some people with both A’s and D’s.

According to the ratings for example, one person both had extremely racist ideas but also made a couple of accurate points about how some tech concepts would evolve.

brian_spiering · 2 months ago

That is interesting because of the Halo effect. There is a cognitive bias that if a person is right in one area, they will be right in another unrelated area.

I try to temper my tendency to believe the Halo effect with Warren Buffett's notion of the Circle of Competence; there is often a very narrow domain where any person can be significantly knowledgeable.

brian_spiering commented on Bringing fully autonomous rides to Nashville, in partnership with Lyft waymo.com/blog/2025/09/wa... · Posted by u/ra7

garrtt · 5 months ago

Is there any hope of actually being able to fully own a self driving vehicle as a consumer? Seems that a concerning majority of the autonomous driving conversation is framed in the context of ride-sharing.

brian_spiering · 5 months ago

Yes, there is hope to fully own a self driving vehicle as a consumer. One example is comma.ai, inc.

brian_spiering commented on Effective learning: Rules of formulating knowledge (1999) supermemo.com/en/blog/twe... · Posted by u/swatson741

greymalik · 5 months ago

It feels circular. How is learning different from understanding? How is understanding different from knowledge? I’m supposed to understand before I learn. How do I understand if not through learning? I’m supposed to understand to gain knowledge. Isn’t knowledge understanding?

brian_spiering · 5 months ago

You are correct that those concepts are interrelated. It works well not to get caught up in precise definitions. Instead, reflect on your current level and take the next best step.

brian_spiering commented on The half-life of tech skills haraldagterhuis.substack.... · Posted by u/j-a-a-p

jujube3 · 6 months ago

Do people really believe that knowledge from more than 30 months ago has no value? Even the people doing keyword searches on resumes are smarter than that.

brian_spiering · 6 months ago

The Lindy effect can be a useful heuristic. Something invented 30 months probably has less long-term value something that was invented 10 years ago and is being used.

brian_spiering commented on Underwater turbine spinning for 6 years off Scotland's coast is a breakthrough apnews.com/article/tidal-... · Posted by u/djoldman

sneilan1 · 7 months ago

Not to sound like a crazy person, but, does taking energy from tidal waves mean taking energy from the momentum of the earth itself? I read a long time ago somewhere that if we extract enough tidal energy, the earth's rotation could slow down somehow. Obviously as a layperson on this matter I'm not that well-informed but just curious of the possibilities if anyone knows.

brian_spiering · 7 months ago

Given the current rate of development, it probably won't be an issue for a while.

brian_spiering commented on Buying a Home Is Probably Even Worse Than NYTimes/NerdWallet Calculators Imply tinkerdeck.com/projects/r... · Posted by u/weepinbell

ivape · 7 months ago

Is there any country where housing is not considered a primary asset?

brian_spiering · 7 months ago

In Japan, houses are presumed to have a limited lifespan and depreciate in value over time.

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A consultant specializing in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Machine Learning. Providing training to engineers and add advice on implementing cutting-edge algorithms and research to build data products.

Drop me a line - bspiering@gmail.com

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