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by Fordec 5y ago
Is it worse to be zero sum with your own business or zero sum entirely to a competing form of attention, gaming or otherwise?
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by Fordec 5y ago
Yeah hate to say it, but you're probably right. AI hype is the tech equivalent of a land war in Asia. The only slight consolation though I find is that this time when the fog clears it's not going to be a complete waste as we&#x
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by Fordec 5y ago
Skipping over the same argument that comes up every time an industry gets threatened. Farmers, Textile workers, Miners, Machine Operators. It boils down to an inability to see what comes next and a fear for ones own quarter in the year the
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by Fordec 5y ago
Basically the same dilemma industries with actual union representation encounter when individuals are picking what union to join today. Some unions have lower membership prices, some have more negotiation strength, is the organization compe
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by Fordec 5y ago
Then go a step further and get ensemble negotiation bots that aggregate the negotiation providers. Or meta-negotiate the best deal among the negotiation AI providers.
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by Fordec 5y ago
The difference being, before there was no paperwork, at all. In such an automated system, the checks, balances and oversight all still exist. They're just invisible to the human eye rather than libertarian style just gone .
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by Fordec 5y ago
At the core of it, the very core of it, tech is waged work. Just like in manufacturing, which was outsourced quite prolifically. Tech isn't special in this regard. The thing that hasn't come about yet though is, sales, marketing,
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by Fordec 5y ago
> Less than one order of magnitude these days. > only a 10-fold difference. A ten fold difference is literally one order of magnitude. Which is what the post you're replying to factually stated.
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by Fordec 5y ago
It's got a link to Greenpeace at the bottom. I wouldn't expect any less.
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by Fordec 5y ago
Apparently the researchers in question don't have tenure. If that is so, RIP to their achedemic careers right now.
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by Fordec 5y ago
The tech community, especially in sub-niches is far smaller than people think it is. It's easy to feel like it's a sea of tech to some when it's all behind a screen. But reputation is a powerful thing in both directions. Ther
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by Fordec 5y ago
In Ireland there was a referendum to repeal the ban on abortion referendum there was very heated arguments, bot twitter accounts and general toxicity. For the sake of peoples sanity, there was a "Repeal Shield" implemented that bl
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by Fordec 6y ago
Yes, because tax evasion is illegal while tax avoidance / reduction through legal means is distinctly not. The Double Irish was as illegal at the time doing something like registering your mostly SF based company in Delaware.
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by Fordec 6y ago
With my industry / product management / business strategy hat on, totally agree from SiFive's perspective. With my early days electronics hat on, the 5nm process adds additional energy performance gains that in conjunction wi
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by Fordec 6y ago
> SQLite is a relational database management system contained in a C library. This got me thinking, had someone done a rewrite in Rust yet?
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by Fordec 6y ago
After doing mobile dev that has worked directly with the Android Camera API, it shows. I believe Snapchat notoriously was held up, back in the day at least, in rolling out Android features due to how much of a mess it was. Bluetooth has tra
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by Fordec 6y ago
I'm eagerly awaiting better supported Rust integration with Python for this very reason. I really don't fancy wading back into C/C++ after being away from it for about 5 years and growing as a developer.
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by Fordec 6y ago
Meyer didn't start it, but she did put distinctly more marketing and hype into her role than predecessors which shone a brighter spotlight on the already ensuing downfall. I'd be more inclined to pinpoint the start of it to some
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by Fordec 6y ago
Yep, the mini-mill tech they adopted was pretty disruptive at the time because of it's economics.
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by Fordec 6y ago
Take the story of Bethleham Steel. Unassailable entrenched incumbent in steel production due to high capital costs. Then a completely new way of steel production came about. Nothing iterative about it, a completely different set up that cam
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by Fordec 6y ago
To be blunt, yes. It's mostly a function of how much you need and applying heat to burn off impurities and separate out by weight. Suck out the liquid silicon layer, crystalize it, slice it. Boom, wafer. Sand is used because of the hig
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by Fordec 6y ago
Raw resources? You mean Silicon? You mean 27%[0] of the planets crust? Yeah, we have a bit. [0] https://www.rsc.org/periodic-table/element/14/silicon
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by Fordec 6y ago
Let's see.. Search for evidence of life outside the solar system. Unless you're planning a trip to another star system this is all we've got in our lifetimes. Hitching a fast ride to the outer edges of the solar system since
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by Fordec 6y ago
I think Lithium is one of the last issues with current battery tech when you compare the additives and support mechanisms for getting the energy out of the battery and into useful work. Cobalt cathodes, Rare earth metals in the magnets of m
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by Fordec 6y ago
I caveated decades with "at least", not because I think that things were going swimmingly in the 1800s or earlier but more around when women attained more freedom in society to associate with who they wish by their choice than i
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by Fordec 6y ago
Women have for years had the same fear of men. Most men, good people. Or at least not criminally bad. But some are. But the social stigma of women going out alone at night, fear of first dates etc. has permeated the social fabric of how wom
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by Fordec 6y ago
Same. I'll never put GCM on my backend options list when building products after Reader. I can't operate with that level of EOL risk exposure. Will be migrating off Gmail now too with so much risk of account cancellation in the An
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by Fordec 6y ago
Unfortunately it's basic Darwinism. At first there were a mix of companies that did upfront licenses and service based. But over time, the service based companies had more consistent revenue, lock in and faster customer turn around. Th
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by Fordec 6y ago
At that point, we just make less batteries and solar panels and call it a day. An order of magnitude less energy consumption means we basically already have the necessary renewables and nuclear installed as is, job done.
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by Fordec 6y ago
The 1984 Olympics, considered to be the most financially successful Olympics ever, were ran on the basis of renovating existing infrastructure, not building new stuff in a new city because the previous two Olympics were financial disaster

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