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by arunabha 2y ago
Do yourself a favour and search HN for people's stories about their BigCo accounts for paid services being closed for no apparent reason. Most of the time these are accompanied (by design) with no way to getting beyond automated deni
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by arunabha 2y ago
Hmm, the alternative of being a second class participant in trade with your biggest trade partners seems to be worse though. Britain is finding out just how bad Brexit was for them.
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by arunabha 2y ago
I'm wondering if the idea of making a counter offer matching the Chinese offer ever crossed the execs/govt's mind? The primary value prop China is offering to these engineers(money) is the easiest to counter. I doubt many eng
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by arunabha 2y ago
Is there an alternative to Firefox that is not controlled by big tech? One of the saddest outcomes of what seems to be the inevitable demise of Firefox would be that there would be no viable alternative to big tech browsers.
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by arunabha 2y ago
> It's just Clausewitz, effectively: Drink! Apologies to fans of Bret Deveraux :-)
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by arunabha 2y ago
But by the same metric, The great recession hadn't happened before 2008 so it would imply that the rules up to 2008 were sound? With hindsight we know that the rules were far from sound and allowed banks to take on massive risk which t
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by arunabha 2y ago
And right on cue, wall street fights back! Expected, but still rankles as bit. 'JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says 'it's time to fight back' on regulation' from https://www.reuters.com/business/finan
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by arunabha 2y ago
Congratulations on getting this out! You will inevitably face a lot of the typical questions like 'Why not just use RocksDB', 'Why is this necessary' etc. All I'd say is, don't get disheartened if/when tha
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by arunabha 2y ago
Interesting! The use of 3D printer electronics is a great idea as they are cheap(ish) and get reasonable accuracy. I'm curious what you mean by a custom NC manufacturing robot? A CNC mill?
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by arunabha 2y ago
It can. I have the developer edition and it came with a primitive but functional android version which I was able to get Fdroid installed and subsequently, KOReader and Termux.
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by arunabha 2y ago
The sad thing is T-Mobile knows this and are banking on the fact that ATT or Verizon or pretty much any carrier you go to, will eventually pull something similar. We seem to have reached a point where there is effectively no place you can g
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by arunabha 2y ago
I'm wondering if any of the antitrust cases will be pursued as vigorously in the next administration. Neither presidential candidate seems to be a fan of Lina Khan. She has done excellent work in bringing antitrust enforcement back int
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OpenAI to Become For-Profit Company(theverge.com)
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by arunabha 2y ago
Yes,revenge(or rather a desire for reversion to the previous norm) might be part of the reason, however there might be another aspect which makes it more urgent for the execs WFH is overwhelmingly popular amongst employees and has the most
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by arunabha 2y ago
Or that management wants to make the most of the downturn in tech hiring to make sure the rank and file don't get the wrong ideas about who actually has the power. The extra attrition is probably the icing on the cake. WFH is overwhelm
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by arunabha 2y ago
The cognitive dissonance from the CEO class is astonishing. From the article '“We’ve observed that it’s easier for our teammates to learn, model, practice, and strengthen our culture; collaborating, brainstorming, and inventing are sim
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Amazon tells workers to return to office five days a week(wsj.com)
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by arunabha 2y ago
But unions don't automatically imply seniority based wages, or even uniform wages. The SAG and the NFL players unions are the most obvious examples. Also the last two years should have taught the tech rank and file that the good time
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by arunabha 2y ago
> But IMHO people should just find a different job, there are plenty available that pay better. Genuine question, why is that better? There are plenty of reasons why employees might be overall ok with the job and prefer to work out impro
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by arunabha 2y ago
> There are neutron stars that create chunks of gold and platinum larger than the size of earth itself. Aren't neutron stars 12 miles in diameter on avg?
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by arunabha 2y ago
I'm confused. The article ends up using a cloud service (NVidia NIM) as the backend anyway, so is it still self hosted?
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by arunabha 2y ago
I'm curious as to what alternative you invest in. The received wisdom is that TBills are the closest to a 'risk free' investment on the planet. However, as you're pointing out, historically with increasing debt, some kin
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by arunabha 2y ago
Looks like Schmidt has walked back his claims now. https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/google-eric-schmidt-ai-remote-wo... From the article "I misspoke about Google and their work hours,” Schmidt said Wednesday in an
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by arunabha 2y ago
I think the point was that it used to be different at Google in the past(I saw it first hand). People ensuring services functioned correctly after launch were valued and rewarded appropriately. Over time, the value given to maintenance
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by arunabha 2y ago
>> Now, if you have a population that doesn't want to elect lawmakers who will actually pass laws The population as a whole _does_ want lawmakers who will pass laws, however that collides with the structural misrepresentation bui
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by arunabha 2y ago
Thanks for the links. While they are great to get started with, it only highlights my point about comprehensive docs. The starter links are not enough to be able to answer any of the questions that need to be answered before making a bet on
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by arunabha 2y ago
Maybe I'm missing it, but I don't see any links to any documentation beyond the surface level. The closest seems to be the technology page at https://openkoda.com/technology/ which seems to be aiming to sell
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by arunabha 2y ago
> The crypto mixer, on the other hand, has no real use case except money laundering Is that true though? What if I am in a country which disapproves of $activity that is legal in most of the world but not in my country. I might simply wa
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by arunabha 3y ago
> firstly, the President's failure to exhibit due care in the content of his speeches (an increased responsibility due to his lofty station) There is no such legal requirement, right? What's holding the president accountable?
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by arunabha 3y ago
As a meta comment, I was really surprised by the rapidity at which this story is falling off the front page. Yesterday there were three different submissions about this which reached the front page only to speedily fall beyond the third pag

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