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by TrackerFF 4mo ago
Lack of network/connections. The first company that flips the land, will go into the deal with potential buyers, and lowball the crap out of the seller. Sometime the sales (when they flip) are done via acquisition by the target company
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by TrackerFF 4mo ago
More than once I've read stories about small local counties selling huge plots of lands to companies promising to build data centers, only for those companies to flip the land instantly for double or triple the price. There seems to be
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by TrackerFF 4mo ago
Social media feeds have been completely broken for many years. What social media used to be, has now moved to group chats and channels. But, I guess, there's still room for those channels to be run through the enshittificator. Wouldn&#
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by TrackerFF 4mo ago
One thing I’ve learned over the years is that dreams are often just that, dreams. Once they are realized, many will not live up to the expectations. Managing your expectations plays a big part. So at least for me, that knowledge has helped.
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by TrackerFF 4mo ago
Having grown up in Norway, where soccer has always been very popular, accessibility is a factor - I'd agree with that. The majority of soccer we played as kids wasn't even on a pitch. If you had a wall, a football, and two objects
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by TrackerFF 4mo ago
My pet theory is that it is more nurture than nature. These (VC) veterans have seen thousands of startups come and go, and become so desensitized to the ruthlessness. Of course to people like the author, it seems borderline sociopathic to c
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by TrackerFF 4mo ago
Heard one tailor say that business was suddenly booming again, as many regular and new clients would come in to have their clothes altered, after jumping on GLP-1s.
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Musician BERNTH's 1.5M-sub YouTube channel demonetized over missed physical mail [video](youtube.com)
1 points by TrackerFF 4mo ago|1 comments
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by TrackerFF 4mo ago
TL;DR: After moving from Europe to the US, he had to verify his address by entering a code from a physical YouTube letter. He requested it three times, but it never arrived, so his channel was demonetized.
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by TrackerFF 4mo ago
I also think that's one reason. Where I'm from (Norway), the majority of computer science and software engineering studies do not have the same math requirements as, say, engineering or math/physics/etc. - nor do they ha
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by TrackerFF 4mo ago
Not American either, but in the US many schools use/used standardized admission tests (SAT/ACT) on top of things like HS GPA/grades. There are many countries, especially in Europe, where entrance/admission tests are not
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by TrackerFF 4mo ago
As a guy that started experiencing moderate hair loss in his 20s, I spent countless hours researching the Turkish hair transplant industry. It's a case of having the right people at the right place, at the right time. Turkey have some
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by TrackerFF 4mo ago
I used to work for a oil company, and 15 years ago they were discussing this idea of installing sensors on desk which they wanted to use for practical reasons: Instead of having to walk across the building to see someone, you could simply c
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by TrackerFF 4mo ago
Absolutely, but at least in the pure / less applied fields, access to computation hasn't really been that critical. The more towards the pure and theoretical, less so. But now you have people like Gowers and Tao, pure mathematicia
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by TrackerFF 4mo ago
I've said it before, but there's a massive risk that we simply stop educating researchers. So much of a Ph.D revolves around the person learning how to do research. They learn how to read papers and literature rigorously. They get
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by TrackerFF 4mo ago
I think it could work for some things. Years before LLMs became capable of doing anything substantial, people were selling "legal services" via websites where people could dispute trivial stuff like parking tickets, and what have
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by TrackerFF 4mo ago
In many (most?) countries you can defend yourself, waive your court appointed attorney. You are of course highly discouraged to do so. But sometimes people do it, mostly for smaller claims where they don't want to rack up legal bills f
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by TrackerFF 4mo ago
One crucial thing we've learned for the past few years: - You can't blindly trust the US, or US businesses. Even less when it comes to critical infrastructure. - You can't rely on underwater cables to be safe. Starlink is a p
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by TrackerFF 4mo ago
I think it is a typical example of where N% (N tends to zero) of the population GREATLY benefits AI models, while the next bracket (casual users) enjoy some benefit, but the vast majority would not feel any difference if they lost the tech
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by TrackerFF 4mo ago
Wouldn't surprise me if the rise of AI leads to some sort of Khmer Rouge / Cambodia-lite type of situation, where anti-technology and anti-intellectualism will grow. Right now the message is more or less: If you want to "AI-p
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by TrackerFF 4mo ago
I think it is interesting to see how fractured things are even in western Europe. I'm in Scandinavia, and at least here, Messenger is by far the most dominant messaging app. Meta in general has a really tight grip here.
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by TrackerFF 4mo ago
Follow the money. ZIRP caused a massive overhiring in certain fields, especially in tech. The post-COVID hiring started to cool down around 2.5 years ago, and hit rock bottom 1 year ago. There were almost 4 times as many listings at the pea
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by TrackerFF 4mo ago
I work as an analyst, and our group has roughly 20% analysts with strong technical (software engineering) skills, and the rest are more traditional analysts / domain experts. In the past year we've seen these non-technical analyst
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by TrackerFF 4mo ago
My take is that this all comes down to the stores being franchises. Yes, franchisor hold a lot of power, and in the big picture the franchisees are small owners and a move like this ($200k of merch they haven't paid a dime for) can aff
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by TrackerFF 4mo ago
I've personally never heard of consignment deals where the consignment store becomes the owners of the goods. Not once. Back in college I used to make money flipping stuff on Ebay, and did that extensively. I did consignment for others
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by TrackerFF 4mo ago
That's called "copy trading", which has been around for decades. If there's no connection between you and the trade you're copying, there's nothing you can be charged with. Normally there's a natural laten
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by TrackerFF 4mo ago
One byproduct of me storing all my harddrives going back to 2001, is that I also have all my chat logs. Last fall I decided to invest in some HD adapter, as I was looking for pictures of my friend for his 40th birthday - miraculously all dr
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by TrackerFF 4mo ago
The last enjoyable LAN party I went to took place in the summer of 2004. The next year, most of the guys that would frequent these parties were completely engrossed in World of Warcraft. They just weren't interested in playing any LAN
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by TrackerFF 4mo ago
Regarding the first you posted, it sounds very much like a "feature" sweatshop. Meaning that they have some product with customers, and will implement absolutely every single request they get from customers - and really just want
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by TrackerFF 4mo ago
Indeed. I've had a bunch of jobs, and my experience has been that the job interview sort of reflects the people and structure / organization you'll be working with. To put it this way: The best places I've worked at also

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