Zigurd

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by Zigurd 2mo ago
Your second part is a list of fantasies that never existed in real life. So why bother listing them except to give right wing culture warriors something to hang their hat on?
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
If by woke you mean sufficiently aware the women exist that you might want to support them in defending their bodily autonomy, then yeah. Questions like this are a dead giveaway that the person asking is a male who has more conservative mal
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
Sure but look at the sales growth!
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
It gets worse: shopping agents are hostile adversaries to Amazon unless they're paying Amazon and they've agreed to be friendly agents. No agent that won't betray you to an Amazon pricing strategy is going to be allowed acces
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
As other people on this thread will point out the Yuan is not close to replacing the dollar, nor is any other aspect of the Chinese financial system highly competitive, even with the staggering rise of corruption in the US. But this is yet
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
This idea gained visibility when a bunch of Google employees did a study claiming it was theoretically possible, in that it wasn't physically impossible. Of course a fully reusable upper stage rocket that needs refueling to go beyond l
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
Seriously? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_between_Trump_associates... Since you demand links and names and blah blah, how about a point by point rebuttal of all the connections in the article linked above?
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
There are a lot of mechanical watches that have rectangular watch faces, some of them very attractive and expensive.
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
In some basement at Google there's a group of traumatized engineers who were flogged mercilessly until they made a smart watch UI work on a round watch face because...??? I've developed Wear OS apps in the amount of effort that it
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
Horolophasia?
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
Listening to power users is the product management equivalent of armoring the places on the fighter plane where you find bullet holes. You should of course be looking for where the planes that didn't come back have damage. Smart watche
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
It seems as if the optimal outcome is to give every appearance of an assassination plan, and use that appearance to troll Trump.
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
Not to imply that AI spending isn't a bubble, but there's a difference between cash rich tech giants going slightly free cash flow negative, and a company like Oracle that's all in. Apple is sitting it out, Google and Microso
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
How many government bailouts, like GM for example, continued to trade at astronomical ratios of price to revenue, never mind earnings? Corruption can work miracles and we are in a Golden Age now, but still there are practicalities. Beltway
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
This is the story the historians will write. If you think the idea of Trump being owned by one or more adversaries is preposterous, read about some of the high-level penetrations of governments in the 20th century. Worse than Willy Brandt.
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
This is how Ayn Rand's pseudo philosophical mambo jumbo continues to poison tech.
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
It's only 6% if you pay the X blue checkmark fee, otherwise it's 4% which is in line with other high-yield bank accounts. So nothing special really.
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
I started critiquing SpaceX several years ago, on the basis that this iterative pseudo agile approach to rockets was a crock of cheese. There's still evidence that Elon doesn't grasp the fact the critical path is going to kill sta
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
Theranos was "thriving" until it wasn't. If by thriving you mean not in a cash crisis right today, then OK, there's only a handful of unpaid suppliers and contractors that I've heard of so far. Let's see if Elo
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
Have I fallen into a time warp? Didn't Meta have a head of AI who thought open models were the way to go?
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
Bluesky client with on device AI.
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
> It wouldn't have worked, period. That's the point. As yet uninvented tests and reagents are the same kind of line of BS as "let's make the rocket bigger." While I have the advantage of having a mother who is
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
Aptera is one of those things where the idea is so attractive one is far too tempted to ignore poor execution. And the current set of people there might actually be competent. But even if they are the whole series of misadventures has put p
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
Are you a biochemist? Would the Theranos machine have worked with new tests using new reagents? Is the needed blood volume not similar to, for example, payload capacity? Are we discriminating against people who affect an unusual voice?
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
In the current environment I doubt Elizabeth Holmes would go to prison. She would be saying the machine would work by early next year. After all a drop of blood is just a smaller quantity. Making the machine work is just an engineering prob
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
They're not libertarians. They are at least authoritarian. They've lined up behind genuinely fascist politicians and donated money to those politicians. You're trying to protect them from the label without addressing the real
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
That still doesn't resolve who is more likely to blackmail or otherwise misuse data. I think it's a Chinese saying: the mountains are high and the emperor is far away.
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
Sure but the cops aren't going to pull you over based on what you think about Chinese policy. Government do mess with people across international borders, but the capacity to do that is inherently limited.
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
I hate the mind-bogglingly incompetent approach to project management Elon takes. It's like a chess player who can't see even two moves ahead. TBF a starship will orbit the planet at least once, just with a fraction of the spec pa
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
No point in carrying humans until you can launch the 15 refueling missions to get it out of low Earth orbit. Elon hasn't got a single clue what a critical path is in a project plan.

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