A_Duck

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by A_Duck 3y ago
Many nation-scale systems are self regulating and past a certain point of growth new factors kick-in. When environmental protestors are talking about your brand specifically; When political parties take notice of your impact on voters; When
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NASA astronaut's dropped tool bag flying over London – how to catch a glimpse(ianvisits.co.uk)
3 points by A_Duck 3y ago|0 comments
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Altman was raising billions from Middle East sovereign funds for AI chip startup(twitter.com)
132 points by A_Duck 3y ago|82 comments
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by A_Duck 3y ago
Seems like there could be positive uses of this, but not when combined with the US's insane plea-bargain system, a racially unequal society and a police/probation service who treat suspects as guilty.
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by A_Duck 3y ago
Context: Alpro is the soy products arm of a $17bn food corporation
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by A_Duck 3y ago
Beware that at least on my iPhone 14 the app doesn't work — no visuals, which makes it impossible to use properly That aside, this is an amazing idea. Would happily pay for a working version
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UK air traffic control outage caused by unusual flight plan data(ft.com)
10 points by A_Duck 3y ago|1 comments
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by A_Duck 3y ago
Here's the paywalled FT link: https://www.ft.com/content/9dd43216-0857-11e4-9afc-00144feab... The original article formatting is a bit easier to read on mobile if you do subscribe
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by A_Duck 3y ago
>> Unfortunately, in the EU, rules concerning credit card payments and fees make co-branded credit cards unattractive to airlines and banks In the EU card fees are capped and this is a good thing. AMEX extracting excess fees from my l
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by A_Duck 3y ago
Perfect example. For minds trained on physics and chemistry where mathematics is unreasonably effective, epicycles are a 'code smell' to be eliminated — there must be a simpler expression of the system. This instinct has to be d
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by A_Duck 3y ago
>> if a thing is made straight it will be because humanity has been stripped out of it This is a great heuristic for life. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics does not apply to human behaviour and simple answers to social pr
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by A_Duck 3y ago
10% of the cost of goods sold on R&D doesn't seem too wild. That has to include all (hardware) product design and likely a good chunk of software development costs as well. For NCR, a 'boring legacy' POS manufacturer that
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by A_Duck 3y ago
So Toast make most of their money on hardware and accompanying software Cost of Goods Sold (COGS): $2,227 million Non-production costs: $884 million R&D: $280 million Non-production and R&D costs don't seem excessive. Toast, In
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by A_Duck 3y ago
Answering my own question - just published at £1,399 Disappointing to see higher £ numbers than $. Even accounting for 20% VAT, the price should only be £1,250
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by A_Duck 3y ago
$1,299 is a great price point. I guess their share price implies growth that's not available just targeting the high-end. Any idea of UK pricing yet?
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by A_Duck 3y ago
Very well written article in that even for someone with zero knowledge of baseball I could follow along and be interested
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by A_Duck 4y ago
Reminds me of Dieter Rams’ Vitsoe shelving system: https://www.vitsoe.com/gb/606/components
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Pareto efficiency: Not optimal, but any change opposed by >0 participants(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by A_Duck 4y ago|0 comments
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by A_Duck 4y ago
The most passive aggressive solution here — instead of getting annoyed at the customer services person, look up a union they can join and explain the benefits. They literally aren't allowed to hang up on you!
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by A_Duck 4y ago
This reminds me of the kitchens in the Barbican* which were based on a boat's galley and manufactured by Brook Marine, a yacht builder. More info: https://www.barbicanliving.co.uk/flats/rooms-and-features-2/..
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by A_Duck 4y ago
The article fails to tackle or even acknowledge is that our economic system is nothing like the libertarian ideal free market. The author doesn't examine any practical realities about how wages are formed. The conclusion, "Stop ra
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Chinese conglomerate where teams can vote out their manager(hbr.org)
3 points by A_Duck 5y ago|1 comments
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by A_Duck 5y ago
Probably competitor analysis of your newsletter signup flow
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by A_Duck 5y ago
I like the idea of having humans within the flow, getting emailed, completing tasks and marking them complete. What other products are there in this space?
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by A_Duck 5y ago
This is fantastic! Thanks for the tip
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by A_Duck 6y ago
Some low-tech alternatives (1) Each client app to submit x randomly generated phone numbers for every real number, making any reconstructed social graph useless and deniable. Where x is the slowdown their very cleverly over-engineered solut
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by A_Duck 6y ago
The Guardian is published by a charitable trust of which their most highly regarded journalists become trustees https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Trust_Limited