Breza

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by Breza 7mo ago
The pharma industry begs to differ, the generic drug industry is massive
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by Breza 7mo ago
The government enforces your claim and you pay taxes on anything you earn from it. I bet most IP generates a whole lot more money for the government than enforcing the copyright costs.
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by Breza 7mo ago
You just nailed the difficult balance in copyright law. I agree that life+70 is wayyyyy too long. But you also want to incentivize creators to keep trying to make something of their existing IP. Sapkowski is one example. Another good one is
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by Breza 7mo ago
This is fascinating! I find it especially interesting to see the solar increase and decrease based on sunshine and what replaces it in the different regions.
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by Breza 7mo ago
Best I can do is a sexbot powered by GROK-69
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by Breza 7mo ago
The administration is certainly trying its best at that... https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/02/stre...
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by Breza 7mo ago
I highly recommend the book Accounting For Slavery to anyone even remotely interested in this topic. You talked about the costs of buying a human being, which is already horrible. But once an enslaved person was owned outright, they were us
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by Breza 7mo ago
This was incredibly common here in Washington DC. Think about construction. Building the Capitol required a ton of temporary labor, for example, so Congress contracted for both free and enslaved labor for its construction.
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by Breza 7mo ago
One of my favorite challenges to give data science candidates is to generate a dataset with a column for date and a column for attendance. With some added noise, attendance started at 1000 and decreased by two per day. I showed a year of da
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by Breza 8mo ago
And the open source models are only months behind, so the big AI companies need to keep burning money on R&D with no end in sight. If OpenAI took a quarter off from model development, they might fall behind forever.
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by Breza 8mo ago
I agree. This is why I think Google has the long term advantage. They already have so much data. I can ask Gemini a question and it'll reference an email I sent a month ago.
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by Breza 8mo ago
I completely agree with you. Our family's first computer ran Windows 3.1. Moving to Windows 95 was a huge revelation about the potential that a computer could unleash.
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by Breza 8mo ago
Yes! Mobile apps are the worst about this. As a rule, I don't update any apps unless I have a clear reason to do so.
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by Breza 8mo ago
If a company has a fundamentally good business model, I can just buy the stock and forget about it for years. I wish there were something equivalent for companies with bad business models. You can't just short something and come back t
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by Breza 8mo ago
In my experience, a back end on the cloud isn't necessarily any less complex than something self hosted.
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by Breza 8mo ago
For sure! Twenty percent moves you from "Game changing tech" to "Slightly improved self checkout."
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by Breza 8mo ago
I've been FASCINATED by Automats ever since I watched Bugs Bunny as a child. The idea that you could just walk up, look at what looked good, and buy it seemed indescribably awesome.
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by Breza 9mo ago
It is worth pointing out that many executives cash out the old fashioned way: by selling stock. That includes Bezos. https://www.secform4.com/insider-trading/1043298.htm
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by Breza 9mo ago
I cover thousands of miles a year on my feet. Darn Tough socks live up to the name. I've never put a single hole in them. I've torn up socks from most other brands in a few hundred miles.
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by Breza 9mo ago
I see two different things going on. First, there's some market for humanoid robots, and Hyundai is spending a small amount of its R&D budget exploring the options. Second, I have to imagine that there are spillover effects for the
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by Breza 9mo ago
I think we'll start seeing humanoid robots doing boring things in controlled settings within a decade. Imagine that Hyundai built a robot that can empty a Hyundai dishwasher and take out the trash from a Hyundai trash can. I could imag
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by Breza 9mo ago
There are tons of really impressive robots that can't relocate from where they're installed. At this point, they're so common that they don't get HN threads. I doubt Hyundai is betting the farm on humanoid robots, but it
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by Breza 9mo ago
I think the earlier point was the Hyundai is active in every area as Tesla and then a few more to boot.
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by Breza 9mo ago
I spend about $10/year on scratchers since I like the causes they support. But most of the volume that I see being bought at the corner store down the street comes from folks who really don't appear to understand the odds.
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by Breza 9mo ago
Happy to see a shoutout to QBASIC in this thread. That was my first programming language, taught in 10th grade intro to programming. I loved it! I then took C++ at the local community college then AP Comp Sci in 12th grade.
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by Breza 9mo ago
Yeah but the day-to-day is intense. That's a lot of work during those limited hours.
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by Breza 9mo ago
My friends in that sector all seem to have a lot in common with any other job in a massive corporation. Lots of red tape, hard to advance, but you know your paycheck will clear the bank and nobody's demanding that you put in 100-hour w
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by Breza 9mo ago
In my experience, infosec jobs are a mix of being bored (as you describe), doing meetings and documentation (e.g. Sales has a prospect that wants assurances that you take security seriously before signing a contract), and absolute blood cur
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by Breza 9mo ago
I've worked in all three sectors. My experience in the federal government suggests that government jobs are clearly defined, but not necessarily easier than a corporate job. If you want to do a specific thing for the next decade, you&#
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by Breza 9mo ago
You absolutely nailed it. I'm the Director of Advanced Analytics in a company called Cision. I've spent a lot of time analyzing content quantitatively. It's easy to find spurious correlations in this kind of data and present

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