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1y ago
The best way to prevent a war with China is to be prepared for it.
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1y ago
Google has enough income that they can self fund Gemini at a loss on whatever timespan they want. OpenAI does not.
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1y ago
Almost every Silicon Valley startup goes through a period where they seek growth, not profit and spend their investors money to maintain it.
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1y ago
I was in fact thinking of the luxury version. I was not aware it was an imitation.
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1y ago
Was it a normal train or the famous "Oriental Express"?
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1y ago
I should point out that making the pitch deck sound ballsy and cool was that persons goal. So it may have been a made up story.
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1y ago
Because there are multiple doctypes you can use. The same reason "varx" is not valid and must be written "var x".
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1y ago
The most valuable thing MS gets from its OpenAI dealings is that they can incorporate its AI in all their products. If you look at it as a defensive move to protect the value of Office, Windows, etc. from an AI focused competitor it's
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1y ago
I never saw it, but I heard that was the actual original pitch deck.
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1y ago
I think ChatGPT's user info will be far more valuable than twitters or even metas.
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1y ago
OpenAI and MS have been negotiating about turning that into a straight percentage of equity.
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1y ago
This is the first time I realized that restaurant POSes were open to something akin to a plugin. I'm guessing you had to set up everything for your test location. Was it more difficult than you would expect a non technical person to be
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1y ago
> They are suing Gaggle, who claims they never intended their system to be used that way. Is there some legal way to sue a pair of actors (Gaggle and school) then let them sue each other over who has to pay what percentage?
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1y ago
For an EV you want a high energy density, because it impacts range. For grid storage, density doesn't matter as much.
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1y ago
Did they ever? They used to only allow text ads, which reduced malware compared to serving random JavaScript. But did they ever vet the ad's content?
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1y ago
That's makes sense. Thanks for explaining!
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1y ago
Why would you want Gemini to do this instead of just going to a news site (or several news sites) and reading what the headlines they wrote?
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1y ago
Your starlink bill is $5 a month?
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1y ago
> if this becomes a trend Starlink may become unviable business for a market of just 300M people. 345M people. Of which, the real market is around 15M households. Everyone else already has wired broadband. I suppose some people will want
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1y ago
I'm in no way suggesting you should bill less. I'm suggesting you bill for work product and not time. I'm also stating if you choose to bill by the hour, not by the work product, you are legally and ethically required to bil
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1y ago
> Personally I bill the 3h. So, fraud? If you put a fixed price based on 3 hours, that's of course fine. If you lie about how long work takes you, that's fraud. Unless your bids are what you bill not what it takes, and you woul
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1y ago
In this case, it is worthwhile. Adjusting for the base rate, the test is correct when it indicates cancer 62% of the time. That's almost certainly worth the false positives.
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1y ago
Those two discussing it probably felt a great deal of professional pride they can get the volume to within a tenth of a decibel of the maximum tolerable volume before someone changes the channel
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1y ago
Production doesn't include advertising or distribution. Advertising can often equal production costs. And box office revenue gets distributed to several groups, not just going to the people who own the movie.
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1y ago
What makes them better?
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1y ago
It's a legally binding payment plan. Your parents must have defaulted on the plan, not filed taxes or otherwise broken a rule. Because once a plan is set up, the IRS is forbidden from seizing assets unless something rare like the previ
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1y ago
When you cant pay it, they will set up a payment plan over years (maybe a decade) to pay it off.
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I don't think it is happening in this case. The idea that a trillion dollar corporation has sufficient lobbyists/PR people in western countries to cover up bad news up to a certain level seems reasonable.
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I didn't thank you when I read your source last week. I appreciated it.
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1y ago
Other than working in the financial industry, is there a way to really understand it? There don't seem to be many credible sources (at a level deeper than the WSJ/Bloomberg).
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