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by asah 2y ago
interesting example because we defeated Germany without nukes...
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by asah 2y ago
well, in the 2000s googlers really did joke about the "robot army"... now we actually have it...
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by asah 2y ago
Google Fi plus wifi calling or whatsapp/zoom/etc.
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by asah 2y ago
Just C is set to a high enough value, including personal penalties and imprisonment for any executives who failed to stop this decision (including the failure to setup reporting to hear about such decisions).
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by asah 2y ago
99% this was a marketing piece masquerading as a blogpost - see plug at the bottom.
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by asah 2y ago
IMHO some light users should be free - niche users who don't have significant budgets or would be a support burden. Others get enormous value in 5 minutes, have easy budgets for this category of software and should be paying. I would
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by asah 2y ago
do blood donations tests check your cholesterol etc ? or just infectious disease?
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by asah 2y ago
26 Kelvin!
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by asah 2y ago
bad example? you can book hotels etc on AirBnB and everybody offers listing services which crosspost across the booking sites. There are few exclusives in the travel industry.
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by asah 2y ago
obvious reference! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age
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CodecLM: Aligning Language Models with Tailored Synthetic Data(arxiv.org)
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by asah 3y ago
I'm gonna guess that the true number was a lot higher, simply because it became a meme. That said, the Salem witch trials were only a couple dozen people: https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+people+died+in+sale...
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by asah 3y ago
Nice. This is 404ing: https://levelup.gitconnected.com/how-cloudflare-achieved-55-...
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by asah 3y ago
Price is determined by the value to the purchaser, not the cost of production. Particularly for digital products with no per-use COGS.
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by asah 3y ago
um, I've done it in production for years?
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by asah 3y ago
sorry, I meant innovation * from here * - gflights WAS innovative, but what incentive do they have to innovate any further? (vs putting resources into 1000s of other google projects...)
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by asah 3y ago
For analytics, the database can be anywhere and the niche providers offer multiplicative performance/cost gains.
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by asah 3y ago
I love Google flights but can see the argument that it stifles competition and innovation. Not sure what the solution is, but a bunch of search result links sucks.
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by asah 3y ago
WDYT about a "don't do this" feature that INFO/WARN/ERROR you when you try to use a given feature?
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by asah 3y ago
> Archived Table > To prevent deleting data by mistake, we invent soft-delete pattern by having a is_deleted column. However, this brings extra complexities around foreign key, unique index enforcement. Ideally, PostgreSQL could allow
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by asah 3y ago
JWO can work in cultures where most people are honest e.g. Japan. JWO stands no chance in cultures where grift is the norm e.g. NYC where people jump turnstiles let alone snatch groceries. Even self checkout struggles. In these cultures, ch
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by asah 3y ago
Sorry but no: I've seen lots of great companies die from #1-3 and competitors copy the PMF product and win. One of my saddest investments was an amazing company gummed up in co-founder squabbles too far gone to recover, even while the
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by asah 3y ago
This was true in 2009. Since then, multiple PostgreSQL-compatible databases have launched.
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by asah 3y ago
The acquisitions were kiddie toys compared with what gsuite is today. Ditto for YouTube. my source: I was there and I'm friends with 100s of the people involved, and saw firsthand how hard everyone worked.
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by asah 3y ago
yes - photos is huge. Remember that it's the default photo storage/sharing app for 1B+ Android users.
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by asah 3y ago
+1 gmail missed a golden opportunity to uplevel from "email" to "communications" and in doing so, avoid the fragmentation of slack/discord/etc.
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by asah 3y ago
My 0-bit, no-input model can predict if you have cancer with 99.5% accuracy and 0.5% false negative rate. Don't ask about whether the cancer cell(s) are benign.
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by asah 3y ago
East meadow, Levittown, North Merrick, Brookville, Manhasset Hills, ... Just look at Google maps, turn on transit to see the stations, then count all the towns that ain't walking distance... I do actually know what I'm talking abo
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by asah 3y ago
Sorry but you're painting bike sheds here - the point is that these guys at least APPRECIATED quality work (before then cutting corners). The truly non-technical folks don't understand what corners they're cutting.
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by asah 3y ago
Please see Google maps: there's lots of places in Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau and of course NJ, Westchester, Connecticut, Staten Island This is particularly true off-hours. One friend from Nassau reports 20-30 mins drive off peak but mass

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