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by KKKKkkkk1 5y ago
https://archive.ph/Kwz0Z
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Amazon, Alphabet and Others Are Quietly Rolling Out Drone Delivery Across US(wsj.com)
2 points by KKKKkkkk1 5y ago|1 comments
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by KKKKkkkk1 5y ago
Personal investments in Bay Area housing by senior execs.
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by KKKKkkkk1 5y ago
Doesn't Russia have their own maps service offered by Yandex?
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by KKKKkkkk1 5y ago
Good for them. The Italian government fought tooth and nail to get an exception for luxury goods in the EU's Russia sanctions package. So clearly Gucci and Prada are not interested in getting ahead of the game. [0] [0] https:/&#x
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by KKKKkkkk1 5y ago
To answer your question, the root cause of my decision to leave the core team is a toxic environment in the meetings themselves. The catalyst was a specific meeting last summer: after being insulted and yelled at over WebEx (not for the fi
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by KKKKkkkk1 5y ago
How come the company that made Pegasus is being sanctioned, but the government that used Pegasus to abduct, kill, and then dismember a dissident - isn't?
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by KKKKkkkk1 5y ago
According to analysts, Apple made $5bn in ad revenue in 2021 [0]. [0] Apple’s privacy changes create windfall for its own advertising business . https://www.ft.com/content/074b881f-a931-4986-888e-2ac53e286...
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by KKKKkkkk1 5y ago
The book of Jeremiah had this to say about Google+: “They will not mourn for him: ‘Alas, my brother! Alas, my sister!’ They will not mourn for him: ‘Alas, my master! Alas, his splendor!’ He will have the burial of a donkey—
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by KKKKkkkk1 5y ago
Narrator: What these guys didn't know is that Compton talked it over with the chair before the meeting. If you've worked in a bureaucracy, you'll know that the important decisions are not made in meetings.
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Another thing to keep in mind is that Amazon values their stock grants as if it grows 15% every year. Obviously this is pretty optimistic and makes their offers not directly comparable to other companies that value their stock using curren
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by KKKKkkkk1 5y ago
Hey Kyle, Why did your previous CEO Dan Ammann quit just before this launch?
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For some reason, the only previously unpublished piece of info in this long article is in the last paragraph. When they first presented their case against NSO, Facebook’s lawyers thought they had evidence to disprove one of the Israeli com
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by KKKKkkkk1 5y ago
Stopping violent radicals is a pretty good motivation.
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Paul Samuelson the Nobel Memorial Prize laureate repeatedly predicted the USSR economy will overtake the US within X years. Predictions are hard!
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by KKKKkkkk1 5y ago
Snowden is twitting from Moscow. Russians in a similar position have been formally labeled "foreign agents", imprisoned, or worse. I'm wondering how Snowden managed to avoid a similar fate.
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by KKKKkkkk1 5y ago
> They were media events that lead to powerful media events, which in turn lead to investors pumping money into the stock price. That can't be the reason. Over the last 5 years, IBM underperformed the S&P 500 by 16%/year.
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by KKKKkkkk1 5y ago
> They often release good things, like Nexus tablets or the Pixel C, only to kill them shortly afterwards. And the latest: TensorFlow -> TensorFlow 2 -> JAX{Haiku, Flax}. This one is especially egregious because it's foundatio
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The Demise of Scientific American(scottaaronson.blog)
563 points by KKKKkkkk1 5y ago|413 comments
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If you're an engineer or product manager on the Alexa team, how do you solve this? I don't think they can make the product safe for children. Meta and Google's solution is to formally ban children from their respective servic
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by KKKKkkkk1 5y ago
This is because continuous optimization is useless when crossing a discontinuity, which is what control flow creates. Even in a trivial situation like ReLU, where the control flow is mimicking a continuous transition, you have the "dea
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by KKKKkkkk1 5y ago
> What would happen if it was a US company? Probably they would be forbidden from selling anything outside of the US. That's just false. The NSA bought the Swiss company Crypto AG and has been selling backdoored crypto devices all o
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Intel Announces Intent to Take Mobileye Public(intel.com)
2 points by KKKKkkkk1 5y ago|0 comments
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Timnit Gebru launches DAIR, her new AI ethics research institute(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by KKKKkkkk1 5y ago|0 comments
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by KKKKkkkk1 5y ago
> The status of South and East Asians isn't entirely clear to me here. You must have heard the term "white-adjacent".
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by KKKKkkkk1 5y ago
I read a history of the NSA recently [0], and what struck me is that every time the NSA's code-breaking techniques were invalidated, this was due to a US agent leaking secrets to adversaries. If the NSA cannot address every insider thr
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by KKKKkkkk1 5y ago
Everything you just wrote applies equally well to traditional mass media.
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I'm afraid that the war against crypto was lost once Wall Street decided to join the game. Crypto will not go away regardless of utility or externalities.
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by KKKKkkkk1 5y ago
Not true. At this point, some of them have jumped in and are cashing out. See, e.g., Silvio Micali [0]. [0] https://www.algorand.com/about/from-our-founder
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Grossman continued to press for more information. He spoke with Channing Robertson, who was a Theranos board member and a professor of chemical engineering at Stanford. Over two conversations, Robertson told Grossman that the company’s tec

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