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by avrionov 5y ago
Musk can't just sell shares. People like him file a schedule with FCC in advance and sell based on the schedule. His tweets were misleading.
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by avrionov 5y ago
Thank you for the article. It says that BMW doesn't economic reason, but Audi and Mercedes are adopting it.
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by avrionov 5y ago
Even if this is possible it is highly unlikely anything to change in the next 25 years.
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by avrionov 5y ago
DuckDuckGo - is a private company. The other 2 are non profits.
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by avrionov 5y ago
2012 (if you move your date back a little) - Deep Learning. In 2012 CNN won the ImageNet competition by a wide margin. After that we have some amazing improvements in Speech to Text and machine translation.
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by avrionov 5y ago
There is a big difference between color correction or exposure compensation and adding non existing objects by ML algorithm.
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by avrionov 5y ago
I've been thinking a lot about this recently. The mobile phones photography went in a direction which makes the mobile photography quite questionable. ML algorithms can't be tested completely, there are going to be many corner cas
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by avrionov 5y ago
It is based on QT which requires modern C++ compiler, which means that it will be very hard to port.
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by avrionov 5y ago
How do you access your notes on mobile?
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by avrionov 5y ago
This all true, but avast and the vpn industry are 2 orders of magnitude smaller than the crypto.
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by avrionov 5y ago
It looks very different. Twitter CEO is replaced by the CTO how has a phd in Computer science from Stanford. Ballmer was running sales and support in Microsoft.
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by avrionov 5y ago
Visual Studio Code which is Electron app has a great performance.
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by avrionov 5y ago
I'm a fan of Top Gear, but their mocking of the electric cars was always staged and unfair.
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by avrionov 5y ago
You should be able to use vcpkg on Linux too. It supports officially Windows, Mac and Linux.
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by avrionov 5y ago
QT 6.1.3 is available via vcpkg already.
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by avrionov 5y ago
Here is a very good essay from a few years ago by Ben Evans [1] about the second order consequences of the electric cars. [1] https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2017/3/20/cars-and-s ...
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by avrionov 5y ago
Have you tried the same games on Windows and Linux? I wonder if there is a significant performance difference.
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by avrionov 5y ago
The cult of personality reached its height in USSR during Stalin's rule.
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by avrionov 5y ago
They already have offices in Dublin and Tokyo. Aren't these overseas offices from American point of view?
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by avrionov 5y ago
They've built a profitable company with 40 employees with almost no outside investment.
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by avrionov 5y ago
Crunchbase shows only $150k investment in automate.io [1]. If this is true, it is a great success for the Automate founders. [1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/automate-io/company_...
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by avrionov 5y ago
"Life, uh, finds a way"
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by avrionov 5y ago
Whoever once the $WORK stock it will be replaced automatically with 26.79 in cash and 0.0776 Salesforce shares per share.
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by avrionov 5y ago
The article is a little mis-titled. It asks the question about the Programming languages, but it goes into discussion development tools. This the correct framing of the problem, the language itself is very hard sell. It requires an an envir
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by avrionov 5y ago
Agree. They could've owned the Slack / Microsoft Teams market.
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by avrionov 5y ago
It is very interesting what happened. Google did overtake Microsoft in may areas: - The most popular operating system - More popular document suit - Higher profits Microsoft survived successfully and thrives today even if they don't
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by avrionov 5y ago
Great point. His loss is bigger than the GDP of the bottom 80 countries in the world. 113 Laos 20,440 114 Afghanistan 19,938 115 Mali 19,912 116 Lebanon (2020) 19,126 117 Zambia 18,955 118 Burki
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by avrionov 5y ago
Growing through acquisitions is not limited to Big Tech. Almost every big company has an endless list of acquisitions. Berkshire Hathaway is a conglomerate of acquired businesses. All big banks were results of M&A. Same with the oil co
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by avrionov 5y ago
It seems that he was referring to the Bulgarian oligarchs. Some of the early ones were part of the security services or were married to a family members who were involved in security. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I
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by avrionov 6y ago
Monopoly Money - Microsoft stock price is really high. They are buying a revenue and market share. Nuance has very strong presence in medical transcription, retail and a few other areas. Microsoft can move them to Azure and their own speech

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