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by achow 3y ago
This is a PDF link. Weblink: https://think.ing.com/articles/china-economy-not-in-a-great-...
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"Yet with the world at his fingertips, Musk seems joyless, marinating in misery, surrounded by an air of existential bleakness." One can get behind this, though.
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"Each device cost $20K"!
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Now I'm not sure what their army of designers were doing? This is 101 of product design - put in place a standard UI Guidelines. This is particularly important for a 'platform' player like what Meta is aiming for (Ex. from ot
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by achow 3y ago
> since when a company capable of routinely acquiring other established companies for tens of billions of dollars a startup The acquisition was for “several hundred million pounds”, nowhere near tens of billions of dollars.
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by achow 3y ago
Also, this maybe distracting for either parties - Affinity team (if they are pressured to go beyond professional designers or change to subscription, go to cloud, web etc.) - Canva. Professional/enterprise is a very different ball game
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Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe(finance.yahoo.com)
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Sure there maybe scope of improvement in the products, but the point is they have $Billions in sale (year on year) to those customers (Ad agencies, movie studios etc.).
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> Deep UX wrappers for image editing and video editing while owning the end to end stack for image generation or video generation would be a great focal point for Stability that separates itself from the competition. People don't p
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by achow 3y ago
https://archive.is/NHdKM
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Farmed salmon leads to loss of nutrients, instead eat 'feed fishes' directly(lancaster.ac.uk)
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Thanks. The other submission was flagged.
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The final draft that was sent is good enough, maybe all that one needs.
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How hard or expensive is it to embed a PDF link in the Univ news article. It maybe less harder and expensive than the stock image that they have used. Stanford maintains an extensive catalog of research papers: https://searchwork
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by achow 3y ago
Yes, it was published through Nature. But what stops Univ' site to have original research paper available for download? Nature magazine is just a distribution channel (they did not sponsor the research so should not have exclusive righ
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by achow 3y ago
More details at Washington Univ' site: https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/neurons-help-flush-waste-out... Could not find any free access to the paper, even though the Univ' says "This work was supported by
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Potentially 1.4 million units of Insulin per day per cow! Holy cow! Edit: As per WebMD a type 2 diabetic needs 10 units of insulin per day.
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+1 for 3rd level.. the simple solution (as per me) using two tiles does not work, even though the ball reaches the finish podium.
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Thanks for pointing this out. The title should have [2020].
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Key takeaways (for me): 30 people tech team 2 mobile developers 2 front-end developers 2 designers 0 product managers
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Las Vegas Sphere has 4KTB SSD storage, 400GB/s throughput, unique 16K display(techradar.com)
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Relevant section.. “Intuition that’s based on Earth is now a liability,” Dr. Metzger said. He gave the example of trying to push over the refrigerator in your kitchen. “It’s so heavy that a slight push is not going to push it over.” But yo
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by achow 3y ago
A little more information https://www.offshore-energy.biz/lng-dual-fuel-byd-explorer-n... The ship was built for the US-based shipping company Zodiac Maritime and leased to BYD as the first of eight new units in the car mak
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by achow 3y ago
> Microsoft gained exclusive licensing to OpenAI's GPT-3 language model in 2020. Microsoft continues to assert rights to GPT-4, which it claims has not reached the level of AGI, which would block its licensing privileges. Not sure
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Acquired.
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Dup https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39534608
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> "We know what it takes to create great products that are used and beloved by billions of people and businesses" Really? For the resources that Google has (people, dollars) they really come up short on that.
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> ..you would have known that they relied on lecture videos by instructors, mostly Byju himself, and not on animations and glitter. That is the same - content creation. Not disagreeing to the fact that he perhaps did much better job th
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by achow 3y ago
Making youtube video with thoughtful animation etc. however good is not tech product building, it is content creation. Instead of creating content for YouTube, becoming YouTube platform itself is product building. One could sense how far th
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The main trouble was Byju (the founder) was never a tech person or a product builder. Byju was a tutor (at mass scale), he at best was an excellent service person. The VCs (Sequoia, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Tencent, Lightspeed, Naspers..

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