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New comment by danielmarkbruce in "Waymo Premier"

danielmarkbruce — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:22:33 +0000

The part of route 130 you are referring to is technically owned by texas, but under a long term lease/manage situation, I believe the lease is 50 years. It's private in practice. There are many more such situations in the US than folks realize. Chicago Skyway, Indiana toll road and others. Cities/states will contort structures to be able to say "we still own it!" while economically not owning it.

So, the ones in states that can't afford to build or maintain them are often private roads or PPP.

New comment by danielmarkbruce in "Waymo Premier"

danielmarkbruce — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:28:12 +0000

they aren't public works.

New comment by danielmarkbruce in "I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA"

danielmarkbruce — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:18:11 +0000

Actually you can have your cake and eat it too. Market incentives aren't awful in most cases. The worst incentives are actually stock standard owner/manager misalignment (or "principal agent problem") whereby the agents are short term oriented because they are comped that way.

New comment by danielmarkbruce in "Apple Watch for Your Kids"

danielmarkbruce — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:42:34 +0000

i have this for both my young kids and it's great. It results in me letting them do all manner of things I wouldn't otherwise let them do because in an instant they can call me if things go sideways.

It ends up being less "tracker" and more "if they really really need me they can get me". It's win win - they get to do more, and I get to feel better.

New comment by danielmarkbruce in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

danielmarkbruce — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:00:14 +0000

But this doesn't sound exciting to folks who like a good conspiracy theory. The google/xai deal is the least interesting thing at spacex.

"you have compute, i need compute, i'll pay you for some compute.".

New comment by danielmarkbruce in "Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?"

danielmarkbruce — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:47:42 +0000

The article is about global soccer, I'm talking about global baseball (MLB takes all the best players in the world). If you are a pitcher wanting to make it to the MLB, getting to 18 and throwing 65 mph and claiming "well that works in my country" isn't going to help you. You are miles behind.

New comment by danielmarkbruce in "Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?"

danielmarkbruce — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 02:52:38 +0000

Not if you want to develop world class talent. Baseball is incredibly technology dependent at this point. Ultra high speed cameras, radars, bat and ball sensors, software tying it all together, it's become rocket science. And honestly, if you don't have access to that technology, your chances fall dramatically.

New comment by danielmarkbruce in "They’re made out of weights"

danielmarkbruce — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 03:15:11 +0000

To repeat: your behavior ruins things. Hall monitors aren't needed everywhere.

New comment by danielmarkbruce in "They’re made out of weights"

danielmarkbruce — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:54:28 +0000

Nobody called anyone any name.

If you are going to quote rules, be bothered to read what was actually written. Your behavior ruins things, it doesn't make it better.

New comment by danielmarkbruce in "They’re made out of weights"

danielmarkbruce — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:32:37 +0000

It's not an insult to suggest one is out of the depth on a topic, especially when it isn't one's field of expertise. You are giving the pop science explanation of various things.

New comment by danielmarkbruce in "They’re made out of weights"

danielmarkbruce — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:32:12 +0000

SSRIs are not evidence that we understand how neural activity becomes behavior. They are evidence that you can perturb a system usefully without understanding it very well. That is exactly my point.

Respectfully, you are miles out of your depth here.

New comment by danielmarkbruce in "They’re made out of weights"

danielmarkbruce — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:18:17 +0000

Saying we have a good idea of how the brain works massively overstates the case...

We know how neurons fire. We do not know how a brain turns that into thought, meaning, intention, experience and on and on. That is not "pretty well understanding the brain", it's understanding some components and hand waving the thing we actually care about.

New comment by danielmarkbruce in "Morningstar values SpaceX at $780B, half its IPO target"

danielmarkbruce — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:42:48 +0000

Markets dictate the price. The terms "price" and "value" generally have actual meanings as used in financial markets. The idea that nothing can ever be mispriced (defined as price != value) is not really held by anyone serious.

New comment by danielmarkbruce in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

danielmarkbruce — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:39:50 +0000

No, it's not. It's a stupid thing to say. Perfectly stupid assumption. There are 1000s of multi billion $ revenue companies operating and as a % the number that are fraudulent is close to zero, especially those public or looking to go public. There is always the possibility, but it's extremely naive to think it's likely.

New comment by danielmarkbruce in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

danielmarkbruce — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:29:27 +0000

This says more about you than the other person. Some people like giving good answers and are less concerned about being the source themselves.

I'll sometimes do the exact thing you are talking about. The reason is that I basically know the answer, but also know there is a nicer explanation to the question. I'll type in the question, often iterate a few times, get an answer that I basically knew but couldn't explain as clearly, and respond with it.

Humans haven't been "self sufficient" in 100,000 years. We've been building/using tools and specializing since the start. If you went back just a few hundred years some people (the version of you basically) would be profoundly sad you couldn't build your own house.

New comment by danielmarkbruce in "Private equity bought America's essential services"

danielmarkbruce — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:58:31 +0000

PE isn't really the issue. Some things just shouldn't be run for profit - doesn't matter who the owner is.

New comment by danielmarkbruce in "Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs"

danielmarkbruce — Tue, 26 May 2026 23:07:11 +0000

This is probably correct. Perhaps prompting just brings out the very worst in specification.

New comment by danielmarkbruce in "Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs"

danielmarkbruce — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:20:44 +0000

It's 100% this. Many people suck at prompting. It's likely that habits from search are ingrained. But in general some people are just so bad at it .

New comment by danielmarkbruce in "Why the smart home bubble popped"

danielmarkbruce — Tue, 26 May 2026 05:35:40 +0000

The value prop is just really really low.

New comment by danielmarkbruce in "The Eternal Sloptember"

danielmarkbruce — Mon, 25 May 2026 05:01:26 +0000

Neurons? Go lower. Just atoms. Dumb, senseless atoms.