Closi

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by Closi 4y ago
Agree that it's not the strongest factor, but disagree that it can be discounted as much as you are saying. I've personally worked on projects for two completely different companies (as a consulting role) where the client has disc
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by Closi 4y ago
> That one is simple. The US for example has at-will employment, no mandatory paid time off... I think they were more talking about the impact on strikes in terms of foreign direct investment - where there is definetly a link (albeit i&#
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by Closi 4y ago
> Can someone explain how Google has a monopoly when there are competitors in their league? Being a monopoly doesn’t mean you have no competitors - it means you have enough control of the market to artificially affect/set the market
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by Closi 4y ago
The cap is 100x, so assuming Microsoft is investing billions in a current valuation of $29 billion as rumoured, the cap will only really come into place once OpenAI becomes the most valuable company in the world.
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by Closi 4y ago
If by "exploit" you mean "offer a clear and optional exchange of money for labour in return" then yes, I guess people were explotied here. As per everyone in employment.
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by Closi 4y ago
> Isn't part of inflation that this doesn't work at scale? As in, if everyone gets higher wages, bigger bonuses, and more money is being poured into 401ks, inflation gets even worse? Or do wages become a rounding error when you
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by Closi 4y ago
> MSFT stock is barely moved on the announcement. Doesn't necessarily seem like the market is rewarding them. It's always hard to distinguish signal vs noise in stocks, but it has gone up 0.5% in 24 hours, which is a $8bn raise
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by Closi 4y ago
I don't think so. The role of 'travel agent' as it existed back in the 1980's is almost entirely obsolete in 2022, replaced by online travel agencies. There were 124,000 'travel agent' jobs in the USA in 2000 w
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by Closi 4y ago
I think this is an optimistic take - one technology can improve productivity and drive an industry, while the next technology can turn that same industry on it's head. Take for example the traditional 'Travel Agent' job - a r
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by Closi 4y ago
That would be awesome! Huge opportunity in education. I'm still experimenting with the right prompts to make gameplay fun. Without prompts GPT-3 will tend to 'play the game for you' or allow you to do non-sensical actions (e.
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by Closi 4y ago
You are right, and to go a step further - Generating full games with AI is possible now . Computer games that weren't even considered possible 2 years ago. I've been playing text-based adventure games that I have made with ChatGP
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by Closi 4y ago
> I suppose the thinking is that by having each employee of a big organization do a small amount of work, they can avoid hiring a central person who just accepts receipts in envelopes and deals with them. In a big company that person who
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by Closi 4y ago
> Due to the products being bought and shipped, (and not even factoring in marketing costs) this easily equates to a total net loss of 250k for our business. This is double counting, and not how you calculate net loss. You can't tak
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by Closi 4y ago
Sure, you can operate at a significantly higher cost base with more people and more equipment traveling more miles to achieve the same outcome with less emissions, but that's a bit weak. Best way to get much broader adoption of EV&#x27
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by Closi 4y ago
> Using three tons vehicles for long-distance journeys or for the transport of goods isn’t efficient: trains (and last-mile delivery on cargo bikes) are a lot more economical You are right - Rail freight is extremely expensive (typically
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by Closi 4y ago
> The solution is really quiet simple, recharge the trucks and buy a few more to account for the fact that you have to recharge an hour for every 4 in operation. Stop trying to run your trucks for 12 hours straight. "The solution is
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by Closi 4y ago
Ha, yes. AGI-Hard also needs to be contrasted against Human-Hard, which is done in most of the article, but equally we probably get to a place of saying "Hard things are Hard". Another example is that the article says "It wou
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by Closi 4y ago
Worth noting that these are machine-generated from a more verbose and clear codebase.
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by Closi 4y ago
It's all Regex. > The Patterns folder contains all the regular expressions that fulfill the recognizers logic. It's divided by supported language.
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by Closi 4y ago
> (in fact they broke this and that along the road, the latest and most cruitial for me is the taskbar, and I am not talking about the alignemnt, not at all, but all the other possibilities gone, starting with the option of grouping&#x2F
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by Closi 4y ago
There is a real cost to consistency/change, and I don't personally believe that this is just laziness or poor design on Microsoft's behalf. Sure, Windows could have changed the look and layout of every component with every re
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by Closi 4y ago
> Often "unused" is tricky too, although customers may not 'actually' use it, sales uses it as a selling point. I think there is a semi-truism in enterprise software too, which is that 90% of customers will only use
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by Closi 4y ago
Ha, I was joking - I was just playing the game of 'claim the original suggestion isn't what a true supporter would do, and heighten the previous suggestion' by suggesting a semi-illegal 'stalk and dump unmarked cash&#x27
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by Closi 4y ago
This article seems to make the assumption that the dates for 'bad news' (e.g. layoffs) is set predominantly because of the best date from a PR perspective. This PR-centric view seems conveniently simple considering they appear to
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by Closi 4y ago
The right thing to do is to identify where the artist lives, then withdraw unmarked and untraceable cash which you post through their mailbox as a 'gift'. This means that you can guarantee all the money goes directly to the artist
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by Closi 4y ago
I don't buy the idea that in a world where self-driving cars are safer, we should have 'less safe' human drivers just because we can blame them when they kill someone. Car manufacturers shouldn't have to show something i
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by Closi 4y ago
> So they finally figured out that "self driving" was really just a divisionary/marketing tactic with lots of legal liability? > When a "self driving" car kills someone, guess who shares legal responsibility?
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by Closi 4y ago
Ah yes - Go -> A programming language created by Google Google Go -> An android app to help you search Android Go -> A lightweight version of Android created by Google.
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by Closi 4y ago
> Hiring is hard enough. You want to know something you can't possibly know, so you have to use very imperfect, approximate signals. I don't know why you'd want to kneecap yourself on purpose like this. You might as well j
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by Closi 4y ago
What I mean is that they are only intertwined because of that campaign financing rule - they aren't inherently intertwined. And the more obvious and immediate solution (to me) is to change that rule and stop them from being intertwined

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