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by andruby 3y ago
Is the actual working of the intelligence alliance known? I'm sure the PR departments proclaim that this is the agreement, but afaik there are no legal grounds to hold them accountable to that.
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by andruby 3y ago
Name recognition and installed user base in a 2-sided marketplace. That's huuuge. Google owns the action "to google something". Uber owns the action to "get an Uber". Also, don't underestimate the value of a wo
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by andruby 3y ago
Make the changes you'd love to see. The CTO role is vague and broad and is defined differently in most companies anyway. You can delegate things to an engineering manager or director. Or if the company is large enough to a VP. find a c
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by andruby 3y ago
possibly because the tone of your post and that it doesn't actually add to the conversation. weekday and time of day have an impact. Thousands of entries are posted each day (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newest ) mo
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by andruby 3y ago
Designed, yes. But not manufactured afaik
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by andruby 3y ago
Perhaps I am missing something obvious. Where can I buy an ESP-BOX? The github makes no mention. I can't find any on aliexpress or amazon.
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by andruby 3y ago
I'm not entirely sure about the money sink. It's probably hard to build an honest accounting of the financial benefits of having a monarch. The diplomatic missions and relations they maintain probably have some (hard to measure) b
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by andruby 3y ago
Yes they are. If a US company provides a service to a EU citizen, they must comply with EU regulations. If an EU company provides a service to a US citizen they must comply with US regulations (eg Sales Tax, etc)
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by andruby 3y ago
That’s AWS you’re linking to. Google cloud europe-west1 is in St Ghislain, Belgium. https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/
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by andruby 3y ago
Google has a large datacenter there. (europe-west1)
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by andruby 3y ago
Well, unfortunately, yes. Belgium can’t give you a license to commit a crime in another country.
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by andruby 3y ago
I’ve been lucky to have been working in smaller companies where I’ve been able to communicate the issues with that. I can’t imagine working in a place that doesn’t want to listen to its engineers or experts. (The same works the other way ar
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by andruby 3y ago
A hybrid helicopter with 4 blades? There's a lower limit for weight to fit the ICE (we can't scale an ICE down much), so it might end up pretty close to a smallish helicopter
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by andruby 3y ago
Especially since Google recently pulled the plug on Stadia because there is not enough interest. On the other hand, _Google_ shelving a product is perhaps not as indicative.
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by andruby 3y ago
If you're willing to share, what's holding your work back at 2.6. Afaik the upgrade has been reasonably smooth, and nothing like the ruby 1.9 days.
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by andruby 3y ago
What you describe seems exactly that to me. When building a new home and it’s energy neutral or very efficient, you get a large tax benefit. All home builders I know off take this into account. Do you have an example or idea of what you are
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by andruby 3y ago
Of course there is. Incandescent lights have been banned for years in most European countries to speed up the adoption of led-lighting. Street lights are being replaces by leds. Tax cuts and subsidies are given for energy efficient housing.
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by andruby 3y ago
> without a doubt the most interesting thing I think what is and isn't interesting is in the eye of the beholder. We, as humans, probably consider that the most interesting thing. But perhaps very different lifeforms find coral reef
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by andruby 3y ago
@marginalia_nu this is probably actionable feedback for you
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by andruby 3y ago
Sure, there's lot's of competition. But: the market is also really huge, and SO had a good way to differentiate. Every business is recruiting and willing to pay hundreds or thousands to fill each spot.
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by andruby 3y ago
There are some batteries that integrate temp sensors and heating pads: losing some energy to bring the battery up to operating temperature.
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by andruby 3y ago
> hasn't caused chaos on desktop platforms I beg to differ. How many windows machines were infected in the early 2000's? Would bot-nets exist if Windows had a strict app store back then? Now: I will agree that freedom to instal
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by andruby 3y ago
> But I have zero power over the EU. This is true for every powerful country that you are not a citizen of. For example: EU citizens have zero power over US regulations forcing US companies to share data with them. Plenty of examples fro
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by andruby 3y ago
My school teacher asked us this exact exercise several times. He always made sure to link abstract concepts to real applications, as well as showing us how the mathematical concepts were discovered. (note: this was not in the US, but in the
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by andruby 3y ago
This is one of the reason I dislike separating API and frontend into different teams. Find people who can do both, or create cross-functional teams that can ship things somewhat independently
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by andruby 3y ago
It’s easy to say this, but I think AI is very different from nuclear weapons. It’s hard to make nuclear weapons and there little profitability for businesses to get involved. AI on the other hand has huge profitability potential so even if
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by andruby 3y ago
Why not? Is the name that bad?
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by andruby 3y ago
> the company has a private post-money valuation of $10B and then IPOs to a stable $10B market cap. If that’s the case, and they issue 100M new shares on IPO, then the IPO is effectively a serious “down round” that halves the value of al
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by andruby 3y ago
No. Pyramid scheme requires people to bring in new money to pay the earlier people. This is giving “monopoly” money in exchange for eye scans (under the pretense of preventing bots), and hoping for said monopoly money be become valuable
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by andruby 4y ago
Users do a lot of "work" on Github (PR reviews, issues, etc). Afaik, users usually don't spend that much time on huggingface.

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