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by avrionov 5mo ago
The word empire is used for anything these days. Mistral is successful, but their market cap $14B is less than than revenue of OpenAI or Anthropic. They may not have the scale to compete with the American and the Chinese companies.
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by avrionov 6mo ago
Yes. I tested it. It downloaded 3.1GB
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by avrionov 6mo ago
Looks great. Which libraries / themes did you use?
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by avrionov 6mo ago
a big part of the process is getting the permits in each city. Even if there is a miracle, they still need to go to each city and establish their operations.
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by avrionov 7mo ago
This is the best site: https://layoffs.fyi/ We don't really know, if the layoffs are because of AI. https://www.thelayoff.com/ - This site is a discussion forum, some fake information before the actual
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by avrionov 7mo ago
Not everyone was laid off immediately in the government. Some people were given 6 months notices, etc. Then the local authorities started to discuss the gap in their budgets. In my town they stopped hiring first and then they decided to cut
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by avrionov 7mo ago
Don't forget that Anthropic also predicts similar revenue in in the next 4 years.
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by avrionov 8mo ago
For me Go and Rust match this to a point. Especially Go once installed it generates executable extremely fast.
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by avrionov 8mo ago
We've gone full circle. I asked Gemini what is the sale price and I got this answer: "Within the tech community (such as discussions on Hacker News), estimates have varied wildly. While some speculate on a "9-figure" dea
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by avrionov 10mo ago
Their game is survival. Their original data business is under heavy attack from smaller companies and the cloud providers. They had to pivot somewhere and the cloud business looks like a natural direction for them. They play the role of the
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by avrionov 10mo ago
Xbox was never the leader. They were always the challenger from the begging, but it looks like things are not getting better.
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by avrionov 10mo ago
The biggest difference is not the morality of the management of the two types of companies, but the type of business they are into. Many private companies are growth businesses. On the opposite side, private equity targets businesses which
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by avrionov 10mo ago
What are the alternatives?
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by avrionov 10mo ago
"Code Red" if implemented correctly should provide a single priority for the company. Engineers will be moved to the most important project(s).
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by avrionov 11mo ago
It depends how big is the panic. It could take down many companies.
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by avrionov 11mo ago
It will affect Microsoft, NVidia, Oracle at least and many other companies which have deals with them.
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by avrionov 11mo ago
Evernote was in decline in more than 5 years before their sale to Bending Spoons. The sale didn't improve anything, because Bending Spoons act as private equity. They layoffs, moving the job to cheaper locations and increasing the pric
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by avrionov 1y ago
The housing prices and the rents are extremely high right now. Everyone who bought in the last 3 years, doesn't have much room to work for a lower wages. In addition to that health care will become more expensive, the student loans wil
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by avrionov 1y ago
Additional sources: https://www.reddit.com/r/oracle/comments/1n70uyr/megathread_... https://www.thelayoff.com/oracle
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by avrionov 1y ago
Brave is based on Chrome (Chromium).
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by avrionov 1y ago
For now!
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by avrionov 1y ago
This was addressed in the presentation. The are partnering with eyewear brands starting with Gentle Monster and Warby Parker.
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by avrionov 1y ago
It way worse. The US companies, pay $3-$6 per hour to outsource their support to the Philippines. The companies which provide the service have very high turnover rate. For some companies the employees stay on average about 6 months. There i
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by avrionov 1y ago
Here is NYTimes article about this: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/us/politics/musk-cuts.htm...
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by avrionov 1y ago
The audience is Google cloud customers + investors
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by avrionov 1y ago
NVIDIA operates at 70% profit right now. Not paying that premium and having alternative to NVIDIA is beneficial. We just don't know how much.
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by avrionov 2y ago
The number of trips increased 10x from Sep 2023 to August 2024. https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/waymo-robotax...
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by avrionov 2y ago
Both companies are not public. The investors need to agree on the price and the deal is done.
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by avrionov 2y ago
Costco moves their products around.
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Life imitates Xkcd comic as Florida gang beats crypto password from retiree(arstechnica.com)
5 points by avrionov 2y ago|1 comments

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