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@srlawton @kimmaicutler Still a zoning problem. Exclusionary zoning ➡️ supply shortage ➡️ price spike ➡️ property tax spike ➡️ Prop 13 backlash ➡️ THE ARISTOCRATS!
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Aaron VanDevender🔬
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Aaron VanDevender🔬
@APVanDevender
CEO @MethidAI, quantum physicist, skydiver, YIMBY🥑🔰, KM6PYC.
San Francisco, CA 参加日 Ağustos 2013
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Its interesting to see that many people totally missed the insanity of the genetic biohacking/DIY Bio movement from 2015-2020
Someone needs to write a book about that time.
Livestreaming experiments way before Bryan Johnson, issues with government orgs, people died, people got injured. Companies appeared and got flattened overnight. It was wild
Seth Howes@SethSHowes
Recent interest in DIY bio has led me to ponder this question: Will we ever see a hacker movement in biology akin to what we saw with personal computing in the 1970s? Take homebrew computer club as a reference. You had a bunch of amateur electronic enthusiasts congregate to mess around within a given technology domain. To see what they could build, and share their ideas. Then you have a cambrian explosion of technological development in personal computing, because the component technologies are now accessible to individuals outside of the institutions that facilitated their early development. What is structurally similar / different about the spaces of computing in 1975 and biology in 2026? Are the differences sufficiently great that the 'homebrew biology club' never exists?
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@OrevaZSN I am begging you to participate in your own survival.
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@terminaldotshop living in the agentic future out there.
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This protocol already exists and it's ssh.
You can put any CLI you want behind it and it's equally usable to humans and agents.
Sam Altman@sama
feels like a good time to seriously rethink how operating systems and user interfaces are designed (also the internet; there should be a protocol that is equally usable by people and agents)
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@sdamico Lots of Chinese kids age 6-10 ride the 45 MUNI everyday to school and nobody bothers them cause they have critical mass.
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If 100+ families in SF decided to let kids aged 6+ explore openly and use transit (which is not illegal, despite what busybodies think), the city would probably be forced to clean up muni.
This hasn’t happened because the assessed risk is (incorrectly, IMO) high, but fixing the city is probably worth having undercover private security to reassure people.
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Not a game theory problem, it's a collective action i.e., statistics problem. If you're a frequentist, you pick red. If you're a Baysean and your prior is that some 10-20% are always going to fumble the choice, you should pick blue.
Tim Urban@waitbutwhy
Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?
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@joecarlsonshow Where's my Gil Amelio Stans at?
(It was Gil's idea to axe Copland and acquire NeXT)
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There is zero chance that Tim Cook could have ever started Apple the way that Steve Jobs did.
But I also believe there is very little chance Steve Jobs would have grown Apple to the same massive size Tim Cook did.
Tim took the underlying business that Jobs created and expanded it to a massive ecosystem of products, software, and services, all working in concert, while expertly navigating politics, building supply chains, and vertically integrating key components.
Apple is the result of two leaders who each played their part as well as they could.
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@josephcohen Looks nice. How does it work for hauling little kiddos around?
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We designed Olto to be the ultimate bike lane vehicle. Two passengers. 40 miles of range. Cargo capacity. Theft proof. No license, no registration, no insurance. $3,495, about a quarter of what the average used car costs. Bike-lane legal in 50 states.
Olto is now shipping nationwide. To celebrate, we’re launching our Spring Campaign featuring ~100 New Yorkers from all walks of life. It goes live today around NYC and on the internet.
We’re very excited for Olto to be in the world and for all kinds of people to make it a part of their lives. Oh the places you will go.
Infinite Machine@infinitemachine
Olto is now shipping to customers in the United States. We designed Olto to be a new kind of vehicle, a better way for everyone to get around. To celebrate its launch, we photographed almost a hundred New Yorkers on Olto in a single day. Friends, neighbors, strangers, NYC Icons. All shot against a white backdrop, each showing how they'll make Olto their own.
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@stephenbalaban @chuanli11 Based. My 3080 Tensorbook is still going strong.
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Pic from Lambda's booth at NIPS 2017. @chuanli11 and I built our booth with parts from Walmart and IKEA. At that time, nearly a decade ago, Lambda was at a $3M revenue run rate yet we remained extremely frugal. Everybody else had these super fancy and expensive booths.
When we first hung the black sheet over the IKEA bookshelves, we realized that it was wrinkly. So, we took it back to the hotel room and ironed it out so that it draped nicely. There's some sort of lesson there about caring about the details even when you don't have a lot of resources.
I also used to personally hand out $2,000 off discounted quotes for conference attendees. Video below. I cringe a bit looking at this but I know that's the kind of hustle that is required to make it. If the flier led to a purchase, it often meant winning a customer for life. So the math works out. I'm sure some people on X still remember our fliers.
I don't know who needs to see this, maybe it's a founder out there, maybe it's a future or current Lambda team member. I hope that the message of frugality, not being afraid of putting yourself out there, and caring deeply helps somebody.
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Long-term real estate ownership is basically speculating on the increasing value of land.
If local government demonstrates to you that it will not allow you to monetize the growing value of land devoted to multifamily (for example, by imposing rent controls), you ought to consider other uses for that land which you *will* be allowed to fully monetize.
Joe Cohen@CohenSite
This reads like a parody, but nope it's a real LinkedIn post
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Seems like there's a Gödel Incompleteness corollary that says for any sufficiently expressive model there must exist prompts which are bad but not provably misaligned.
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@wayne_culbreth @typesfast @grok I’ll give him credit he’s got a point. A very technical point but a point nonetheless.
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Lmao the Japanese would like a word with you
Ryan Petersen@typesfast
Is this the first time the Navy’s opened fire on a container ship?
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@moseskagan @dylankendall So that everybody in the neighborhood knows who did it is in fact the whole purpose of gang tagging.
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There is a gang in Echo Park that has probably caused 7 figures in property damage just since we've been operating over there (not to mention all the shootings, etc.)
I am 100% certain the police know who they are and where they live (everyone in the neighborhood knows!) and yet they are allowed to keep doing it year after year after year
Infuriating
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Gang tagging means broken lives. A lot of boys, recruited right out of middle school. Boys who are going to get imprisoned instead of educated. A lot of babies born and then picked up by the foster care system.
Parts of our Council District are covered in gang tagging.
When I talk to people at community events, I can feel how desensitized we've become. We cannot afford to be.
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@wolfejosh If your discount rate is above 8%, the cheap bag looks like the better value. If you're putting it on a credit card with 40% APR it's a no brainer.
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6/ a $35 bag that lasts 1.5yrs costs more per year than a $200+ bag that lasts 15yrs
sure kids might want new bags every school year
but repeat failure ALSO means repeat revenue so the crappy bag is the better product from a shareholder's view...
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1/ cool article
I love backpacks + mostly use WNDRD PRVKE
they didn't pay me for this nor did i fund them
i paid $250+ and own a few (small 21L for every day carry or 'edc' as bag nerds call it; 31L for camera trips + larger 41L for travel where i throw my kids stuff in too)
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Hope he's ok. A stadium landing like this is tricky even without a huge flag as the winds warp and eddy around the stands. He should have ditched the flag at 400' once he was downwind of the field and getting dragged by the flag.
JIMMY@yakubbsmonster
Guy parachuting into Virginia Tech Spring game is stuck on the scoreboard after rough collision. #oops
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@joshcrnls Figma is intended to empower designers. Claude Design is intended to obviate them.
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can someone explain to me why everyone thinks an ai lab made up entirely of engineers is going to build a better design product than a company who has lived and breathed the needs of designers for a decade
Claude@claudeai
Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs: make prototypes, slides, and one-pagers by talking to Claude. Powered by Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable vision model. Available in research preview on the Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, rolling out throughout the day.
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@gbrl_dick You don't need a kit. Build a dc brush motor out of a coffee can, a coat hanger, and some wire the way God and MacGyver intended you to.
youtu.be/RdalvgGQQlo?si…
YouTube
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the state of the kids toy market right now is an absolute nightmare. my 3yo son is very interested in engines, so i've been trying to find a simple model engine we can build together. the options are like, plastic slop or 700 piece die cast engines for 29 year old men.
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@tunguz The Sort explicitly selects for tenacity, that's how stuff gets done. Not a bug.
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This was my predicament in life as well for many years. It also didn’t help that I had to go through the immigration hell. Only got unstuck thanks to getting a whole different skill set, primarily online, and got it validated through competing on Kaggle. I was one of the more tenacious and fortunate ones. So many of my former friends and colleagues from grad school floundered.
creekseeker@mudscryer
It’s really awful being 143 IQ and such a total failure in life. I got my PhD in biology thinking I was going to help save the world but no one has hired me for a permanent position in over a year and a half of searching. I thought proof of my high IQ was supposed to land me a job
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