DevX101

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by DevX101 7y ago
This guy was a badass. He Mcgyvered a 1 kilometer data link using LIGHT because he was annoyed his employer, PARC, opened up a new office up the road and he couldn't test his printer. Excerpt from Dealers of Lightning: ------ Starkwea
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Thanks for the context. Thought that this was contemporary. The language did seem antiquated.
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Unlimited PTO is not unlimited. It's a financial sleight of hand to reduce the liability on the company's books.
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This is awesome! Thanks.
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Launch
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I think the main reason the world agreed on limiting CFCs to prevent ozone depletion was because there were technological alternatives in HFCs. So adopting the belief that CFCs are dangerous was not that costly because we could just use so
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It's wasn't self-evident to me or to many millions of people. There's an enormous energy spent in attempting to convince people that they're voting for the wrong political party, that climate change is real, that God do
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One of the most impactful essays I read this year was this one by Kevim Simler on how people adopt beliefs: https://meltingasphalt.com/crony-beliefs/ It's changed my beliefs about beliefs. I've always though
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Americans drive ~70 billion hours each year. You don't need autonomous cars to drive that anywhere near that volume to determine whether it is safer than humans. To prove with 95% probability (arbitrary but widely agreed upon standar
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I don't think Facebook is really pushing back on this because it's a free speech issue. They're pushing back because it's technically and financially challenging to do. If claims in political ads were easily falsifiabl
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It's easier to bootstrap a new network if you can take your data with you. This is how Facebook/LinkedIn got much of their early viral growth. They would scrape your email (at that time the biggest network) for contacts and invi
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Having issues here in US East as well.
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At this pace he would beat lots of amateurs ON A BIKE!
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The benefit of the support runners wasn't just to help him keep pace (he could probably do this with music). They also provide a drafting help to limit any head-on air resistance.
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Until another replicated study comes along to dispute this, I'll take the word of the author and the editors at JAMA over your 'feel' that this isn't statistically significant. "There was a significant interaction (
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8k billable hours per year = 153 hours per week. Not even Elon Musk works that much.
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Slightly worse versions are already out in the wild. Bot using the published technique will be live in a couple of months tops.
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Are there any english language sources that cover trends in the tech ecosystem like this in China?
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You don't spend $34B to not interfere.
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> The locations will also have more experiences, like play areas This is how you compete with Amazon.
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I still use vim keyboard bindings to navigate code. It's helpful, but not necessary if you already have native commands wired in your brain.
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You try to get health insurance and provider denies you because you have an allele that makes you susceptible to lung cancer. Your DNA happens to be at the scene of a crime (you didn't commit). Police do a DNA dragnet. Now good luck
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The New Deal was politically infeasible until it wasn't.
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The rise of Apple computers latest era started with the ad campaign "I'm a Mac/I'm a PC" which made computing choices a cultural signal, mocking PC users as stodgy and out of touch corporate types. It worked. The t
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Sure, but access to the U.S. market could have been used as an incentive to ensure data security globally.
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The long term impact of this Huawei dispute will be China building out a complete vertical communications/computing stack from low level chips to operating system to phone design. They won't get any market share in the U.S. but t
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Sorry to be crass here, but what kind of bullshit lawyer did you hire that let this pass?
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Github has already been blocked by China, albeit briefly. After Chinese bloggers posted 'sensitive' content on the site, Github was blocked for a few days in 2013 until there was a big pushback from developers in China, including
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The use case for gaming VR at least in the near term is a next generation VR arcade in the spirit of laser tag meets Ready Player One. Back when I was a kid, arcades were an awesome place to be. Consoles have long since killed that scene,
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They're talking past each other. Thing is, they're both right. Paul seems to be saying you don't have to be rich to do a startup. Matthew is saying lots of founder have some resources (family home, savings, great education,

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