andrewjl

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This seemingly reasonable argument also happens to benefit the pocketbooks of those who have ownership of these social media properties. Not to mention that putting the responsibility on individuals to solve systemic problems disproportiona
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> algorithm likely determined that showing a video in that cohort leads to increased use of their app Development, selection, tuning, and ultimately deployment of that algorithm were all intentional actions.
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One persons common sense is another persons nonsense and it goes both ways with finance!
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Makes me wonder who is going to be reading all this, though I guess costs mean that producing really long-tail (in terms of readership numbers) publications becomes profitable?
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In the case of both Apple and Meta the (then, in the case of the former) founder-CEOs delegated the "how do we pay the bills" thing to a trusted COO instead, a markedly different approach from what Musk did.
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Things look backwards judging by demographics. The US is relatively younger than its peers and is most likely to stay that way because of immigration. On top of that there is an industrial boom happening as manufacturing gets reshored.[1] L
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So would a calculator if you compare numerical ability.
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Do you see any overlap between something like Roam and this?
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Is this the whole story? Seems really at odds with Apple's strategy for Device Activity[1], available only as a first-party feature at first but in iOS 14 also becoming available as an API to third party apps. I see a parallel between
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There are some interesting approaches in Swift: https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/main/stdlib/public/Obser... https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/main/stdl
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> structured Probably this
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> We are paid so well because our work can scale to millions of people, that's all there is to it. That is the case with chip designers and mechanical engineers as well but software engineers are paid significantly more than those o
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As I see it, the GP seems to be in favor of a competitive yet still regulated market, how is a public option at odds with that.
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> So what is the common thread? Free markets. Not when it comes to Japan. During the post-war boom era the majority of its largest businesses were conglomerates with interlocking ownership structures that prevented accountability to shar
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> there is no mention of what the fat and protein ratios were and only talked about carb only Wonder if this came up during peer review (and if yes, what the justification was for not mentioning)
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> You’ve just described what is called “competition”. Having to lower prices to keep up with competitors. Suppose a larger company is selling a product that competes with yours at a loss so as to undercut you due to other sources of prof
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> The auditor has a responsibility to plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether caused by error or fraud.1 Because of the nature of audit e
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Most startups don't have a CFO until they reach a certain size. Additionally many startups had covenants in their financing agreements with investors that required keeping funds in SVB so they didn't have a choice.
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We've seen the opposite since it started with a failed capital raise and double digit stock price declines.
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As well as of an oligopoly-dominated economy.
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> And I think the prominent people asking the government to bailout depositors Anyone spouting this kind of rhetoric isn't helping matters, but in any case when it comes to this situation there are really well-defined mechanisms for
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This isn't how this process works at all. Nothing precludes the FDIC from clawing back management pay if it was done illegally. > If we want government coverage then we should enact laws to cover this kind of thing We already have.
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> It would have been much more efficient if the government had designated a single workstation vendor from the beginning, and denied CPU purchasing licenses to anyone who wanted to compete with them. How would it be more efficient withou
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All 3 have very different impact on CO2 emissions.
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> Isn't there a wide ecosystem of options between "I have to physically go to DC to configure new server" and "Storing everything in EvilCorp Public Cloud"? There are several hosting providers out there that offe
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> If I upload a podcast to Apple, it's physically inaccessible unless you have a Mac or an iOS device. I'm curious if this sort of arrangement will remain in place in Europe once the DMA interoperability requirements come into
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Not a problem, the policy allows giving you the choice to opt-in to the targeted ads.
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> a hotbed of technological innovation Sounds like the type of technological innovation we could use less of nowadays.
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> Unfortunately I can't think of any solution to this problem that isn't painful. Either we inflate the rest of the economy until a loaf of bread is $15 but housing is reasonable again or we let housing collapse. Or we could bu
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Conceding that there are many types of anxiety what I read sounds rather like tunnel vision. That is not just unhelpful but can become harmful since yes these new technologies can be misused. Avoiding that is more likely when thinking flexi

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