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by adamlett 9y ago
The difference is that it is generally easier to swap money for fulfillment and satisfaction than the other way around.
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by adamlett 9y ago
Having used many languages over the years, the biggest advantage I've seen to dynamically typed languages is that they're easier to learn. I love Ruby because of its delightful standard library, its thoughtful syntax which makes
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by adamlett 9y ago
How is it a slippery slope? Towards what? Will women eventually begin to feel uncomfortable about situations that are clearly not sexual? Women are already reluctant to come forward when subjected to overt sexual harassment, let alone &quot
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I get the idea because it's a measurable fact. Yes, in principle you can keep using your phone for as long as it is able to turn on. In practice cheap phones have worse built quality, often ship with versions of Android that are obsole
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by adamlett 9y ago
Be careful when drawing conclusions based on market share. Usage share is the more relevant statistic, although unfortunately more difficult to measure. Apple's usage share is almost certainly significantly higher than their market s
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Because the form factor hasn't changed since the iPhone 6? Do note however, that Apple’s customer retention rate, while significantly lower in China than in the rest of the world, is still higher that any other phone manufacturer’s in
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by adamlett 9y ago
Not that I believe that Apple would ever consider buying Tesla, but if they did make an offer, it would not be up to Tesla but to its shareholders to accept or reject the deal.
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The authoratative, wrong answer is what I want? Or, what if I ask, say, which actor is the best in the world? Is there any authoratative sounding answer that is of any value?
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No. What someone is willing to pay and what something intrinsically is worth is not the same thing. If the stated presumption is that the company was worth $400M before the $100M cash infusion, then it follows that it must be worth $500M af
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"how do you invest in that capability?" It's not clear to me that you can. How would you have invested in air travel in the time of the Wright brothers? None of the companies that eventually came to dominate existed then.
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I enjoy GoT too, but it's not close to being in the same league as The Wire. GoT is ultimately nothing other than escapism. The Wire is so much more than that.
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The iPhone shoots in RAW, so it rrally shouldn't make a difference.
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Productivity is not the sole measure of competency, nor necessarily even a very good one. Productivity suffers when time is spent making software robust, secure, and performant, and the reverse is obviously also true. Likewise, short term p
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by adamlett 9y ago
No, inexperienced developers need dogmatisms. Subtle difference perhaps, but it's worth remembering that every competent developer started out being inexperienced, and that it's nothing to be ashamed of.
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Good for you.
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Do you think employees at Taco Bell are payed the same, though?
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Even simplistic substitution with equivalent electronic components would be hundreds of times faster, and I'm sure we'll do better than that The way you state that one wonders why we haven't already achieved superhuman, gen
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by adamlett 9y ago
Yes, I get that. I just doubt whether it's physically possible. And like the author of the original story, I also doubt very much that cognitive labor is the constraint that limits human progress. To believe so is what he calls thin
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by adamlett 9y ago
1. I'm not sure what you mean by the "computing power of one data center". Surely not one present-day data center? And whether or not I can imagine experiencing time 1000x slower than everyone else, has no bearing on whether
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by adamlett 9y ago
I liked the article, and agree with it mostly. Here's a couple of ideas I see again and again that bother me about the singularity theory and the hype in general about general AI: * The idea of exponential growth, which seems like an i
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Yes, this is why the nerds rule over the jocks in high school. Oh, wait…
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Ben Thomson has actually written about it previously: https://stratechery.com/2017/manifestos-and-monopolies/
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by adamlett 10y ago
Facebook has close to 2 billion monthly active users (MAU). Instagram and WhatsApp – both owned by Facebook – each has around half a billion MAU. Your comment reads as "nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded".
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by adamlett 10y ago
I see the argument again and again that money should only be taxed once. I don't understand it. It seems like such an arbitrary principle. Why should money not be taxed more than once, if the result would be a wealthier and fairer soci
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by adamlett 10y ago
I agree. I don't actually think it would make sense for Apple to buy Ford. I just used Ford as an example because its market cap is roughly the same as Tesla's.
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No, building a car is actually comparatively easy, as evidenced by the myriad of boutique super cars. It's especially easy if what you want to build is an electric car, because electric cars have an order of magnitude fewer moving par
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by adamlett 10y ago
Are you kidding me? Tesla? Tesla owns one factory, which they bought used from Toyota. They have yet to demonstrate the ability to manufacture at anything approaching the scale of other, more affordable car brands. Catching up to Tesla&#x
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by adamlett 10y ago
I agree with your conclusion, but I think your analysis is dead wrong. I don't think Apple would have problems manufacturing cars at scale. They have virtually unlimited money to aquire people with the know how, and to invest in factor
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That's a ridiculous statement when you don't qualify it with the price at which you would(n't) buy. I am sure Apple would love to own Tesla too, but Tesla shares a very expensive compared to other car companies'. And i
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The only thing though... with this insane technology, we see less and less 'real racing' which is a shame. I an under the impression that it is not so much the technology as it is the rules. Specifically, the rules allow for gia

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