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by Me1000 4y ago
I'm curious how well this is actually enforced. I would imagine a lot of big tech companies have $100k government contracts: Google, Microsoft, etc. Pretty sure employees of either company are not drug tested (and a large number of the
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by Me1000 4y ago
I've been a Twitter addict for over a decade. It brought a lot of value to me, helped me meet great people, and helped me get a couple jobs. Mastodon, even with fewer people, has completely replaced Twitter for me. I don't miss Tw
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by Me1000 4y ago
A lot of the interesting tech people I used to follow on Twitter have moved to Mastodon. Not having a lot of the other noise makes Mastodon feel a lot more like the early Twitter that I used to love.
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by Me1000 4y ago
Squashing the commit history before releasing it was an interesting (and completely predictable) decision.
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by Me1000 4y ago
You're probably right, but that ship has long sailed, I fear. In order to solve for the externalities you've got to get broad buy-in, and people are already hesitant to spend money on a small device that captures participates and
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by Me1000 4y ago
But when people are directly comparing ChatGPT to Bard, it seems entirely fair to point out places where it falls short.
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by Me1000 4y ago
With the caveat that I'm not a machine learning expert, my understanding is that there can be a lot of manual tweaking that goes into building neural net models. Whatever OpenAI is doing with ChatGPT is not something Google has been ab
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by Me1000 4y ago
> Something like ChatGPT Chatbots are not new, they've been around forever, so there's plenty of prior art for things like ChatGPT. What sets ChatGPT apart is the quality. And in that respect, Bard is a long ways away. >They
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by Me1000 4y ago
As others have pointed out there are of course options: multiple accounts, buying safe bonds, etc. But those are all pretty unrealistic for most small businesses. Startups with 3 or 4 people aren't going to spend a lot of time learning
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by Me1000 4y ago
A 3 person tech startup with more than $750k is not going to buy treasures.
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by Me1000 4y ago
I can't believe we're on day 3 of this and it still has to be explained. SVBs depositors were mostly companies. Companies don't go to new banks every time their account balance reached $250k. If these deposits were not honore
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by Me1000 4y ago
That would certainly be better, but companies generally have more expenses than payroll. Lets say hypothetically I'm a healthy cloud computing provider startup and a bunch of revenue comes from startups. If those companies can't p
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by Me1000 4y ago
Just because a company is unviable today doesn't mean it will be unviable a year from now, that's the whole idea behind investing. If this had happened to Google in 1999 (a year before they would eventually make money through adve
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by Me1000 4y ago
If this happens the companies will immediately close up shop. So you get your last 2 weeks of pay then no more, no severance, nothing.
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by Me1000 4y ago
Sure, but then they'll just furlough or lay off everyone. So employees get one payroll paid out, but then they don't get anymore, and the company and all the economic activity it produces are gone too.
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by Me1000 4y ago
Yeah, I can see why in general the government wouldn't want to hold on to assets, but bonds are kind of a special class of asset in that they do eventually mature and will naturally just be something they don't need to manage (wit
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by Me1000 4y ago
Well, they were paying the salaries for hundreds of thousands of people (if not more) and making sure they and their families had health insurance.
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by Me1000 4y ago
The federal government doesn't need liquidity in the same way that a bank does, why would they even need to sell at all?
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by Me1000 4y ago
Is there any reason the FDIC itself cant just hold onto the bonds until they mature? The federal government doesnt need liquidity the same way a bank does, they wouldn't need to sell them for less than face value. Edit: this is actuall
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by Me1000 4y ago
Bad things can happen but they’re more likely to be predicted accurately when someone puts up some data. But most of these doomsayers are just working from vibes. “It feels like”. They’re unhelpful comments.
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by Me1000 4y ago
Mark Gurman is an incredible reporter who has covered Apple for years and has many inside scoops and sources. I couldn't say one thing or another about the publication, but anything Mark writes I take seriously.
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by Me1000 4y ago
This is correct, they couldn't do it if they wanted to. Sometimes Apple Dev Relations will help out and mass refund without making all the users request a refund, but they don't always (even when the developer asks).
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by Me1000 4y ago
There's a difference between canceling your subscription and getting a refund. A small company the size of the Iconfactory might not have the cash on hand to even issue full to everyone who might ask for it. If my annual subscription j
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by Me1000 4y ago
Unfortunately the refund amount is not under their control because Apple has 100% control over the refund process.
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by Me1000 4y ago
I don't think they actually shut down the API, they just revoked the API keys for popular third party apps. If you're using the API to build something other than a replacement for the official app, then I believe they still allow
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by Me1000 4y ago
Well, to be fair, pull to refresh is an adaptation of the original interaction. It was originally "pull to load newer posts". Remember that a twitter timeline would have the newest posts at the top and the older posts below it. So
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by Me1000 4y ago
That’s also not how the Senate works. Senators are beholden to their respective constituencies, not the party of which they’re a member. A conservative Democrat from West Virginia has more job security when he runs against his party sometim
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by Me1000 4y ago
Here's an example a friend of mine ran into recently: They sold their company and shut down their service for which they charged monthly/yearly subscriptions. They had a decent relationship with Apple, so they emailed their contac
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by Me1000 4y ago
> Anyone... please tell me how this actually benefits ME as a consumer and not developers? 1) Developers already raise the prices for apps/subscriptions in iOS (vs, say, the web) to offset Apple's cut. 2) Developers will be abl
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by Me1000 4y ago
There are a few clauses but the gist is pretty simple: approval of any transfer of option or underlying share must be approved by the board of directors + they may also exercise their right of first refusal.

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