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Meta to pay nearly $15B for Scale AI stake(reuters.com)
3 points by aylmao 1y ago|0 comments
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by aylmao 1y ago
> The line between marketing and misleading isn't always so clear. In the general I kind of disagree with this. I am not a lawyer, so I don't know all the details, but if you look for it, you should be able to find the line sin
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by aylmao 1y ago
I was watching Everyday Astronaut's feed and he seemed a little bummed. I don't follow SpaceX launches closely enough to know, but when they plan to "fail on purpose" do they not mention it ahead of time? Of all people,
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by aylmao 1y ago
Only 1 out of the 5 Canadian army divisions is headquartered west of Toronto [1]. [1]: https://www.canada.ca/en/army/corporate/ie-map-divisions.htm...
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by aylmao 1y ago
But that wouldn't be the case here, would it? Canada wouldn't keep its arms closed as it looses its most profitable province, connection to its western ocean, and over 11% of its population. Unless the USA vows to defend Alberta,
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by aylmao 1y ago
> I don't want to be a conspiracy nut, but I have to wonder how many separatist and protest movements are unknowingly getting external support to produce geopolitical disorder. I'm Latin-American, so this doesn't sound at
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by aylmao 1y ago
They can't be an independent country, because their position is indefensible. Over 3/4ths of their borders would be with Canada— that's enough influence and threat to thwart any separatism. Who do you trade with? How do you k
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by aylmao 1y ago
If Alberta were to separate, I can only imagine it would be to become part of the USA. If Alberta became part of the USA, there would be many factors pushing the North West Territories, the Yukon and British Columbia to follow. The Northwes
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by aylmao 1y ago
This certainly sounds to me more like a Texas situation. Independent for about a year, to then join the USA.
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by aylmao 1y ago
> Turns out, the vast majority of Chinese citizens with any means are interested in foreign products (like most people in the world). Is there data that backs up this claim? Is this broadly the case? Cause I do know that local brands hav
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by aylmao 1y ago
Beyond national security or nostalgia, there's also simply the issue of skill and expertise. Factories are full of people actually working the tools, materials and processes. This is where generational experience forms— people learn a
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by aylmao 1y ago
China's GDP (PPP) is already ~22% higher than the USA's [1]. Arguably, isn't this a better measure of value? PPP measures the real value to the citizens in a nation, and more closely measures actual economic activity. Say a b
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by aylmao 1y ago
China is automating at an impressive rate. Isn’t automation easier to face with population decline than with population increase? I’d imagine young people mind getting replaced by machines more than old people.
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by aylmao 1y ago
I can't decide how I feel about Google's design for this looking so Apple-y. Didn't they just release Material Design Expressive a few days ago [1]? Instead of bold shapes, bold fonts and solid colors it gradients, simple lin
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by aylmao 1y ago
This is incredibly Google-y. From the ridiculous KPIs that attempt to create some framework of quantifiable improvement, to trying to make a big-deal launch out of what seems to be a minor iteration on what was there before (Material You).
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Bill to tax remittances sent by migrants, visa holders to their home countries(nbcnews.com)
8 points by aylmao 1y ago|2 comments
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by aylmao 1y ago
It doesn't have to be in the middle of the ocean to be less accessible than an on-ground data-center. Even if it's in a giant pool next to an any existing data-center— accessing a machine that's underwater probably takes long
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by aylmao 1y ago
> New York's subways were built by private companies. So were America's railroads. Didn't this cause a lot of problems, which is why they were eventually consolidated under a public authority? I do find interesting and coo
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by aylmao 1y ago
Famously authoritarian pre-1950s USA [1]... [1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-08-31/why-is-am...
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by aylmao 1y ago
> Microsoft had/has the Natick project which was an undersea data center testbed which allegedly had a bunch of benefits. That doesn't seem to have gone anywhere - or at least isn't really scaling up. I think at the core o
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by aylmao 1y ago
> It feels like everyone and their mother is building coding agents these days. For real. I think it's because code editors seem to be in that perfect intersection of: - A tool for programmers. Programmers like building for programm
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by aylmao 1y ago
Subscription services can sell ads too. See Hulu, or Netflix. Spotify might not play "radio ads" if you pay, but it will still advertise artists on your home screen. These models being expensive leads me to think they will look at
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by aylmao 1y ago
> Unless somebody else figures out something which is better by orders of magnitude and that Open AI can't copy quickly, it's going to stay that way. This will happen, and it won't be another model which Open AI can't
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by aylmao 1y ago
I'd go further and say the US government wants "an instrument more powerful than any nuclear weapon" to be built in its territory, by people it has jurisdiction over. It might not be a direct US-govt project like the Manhatta
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by aylmao 1y ago
> There's too much change for the sake of change. +1 to this. Like a lot of issues, I think the root is ideological, but this one in particular very clearly manifests organizationally. The companies building everyday software are ev
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by aylmao 1y ago
> There's too much change for the sake of change. +1 to this. Like a lot of issues, I think the root is ideological, but this one in particular very clearly manifests organizationally. The companies building everyday software are ev
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by aylmao 1y ago
> A lot of the value in big tech comes from scale and integration and is inherently not sensible to have a thousand mom and pop shops do it and keep the same value. Some of the most impactful large-scale tech that exist today isn't
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by aylmao 1y ago
Out of curiosity, what does SNI stand for?
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by aylmao 1y ago
> passenger volume will not be high enough to justify the costs. Roads generally don't pay for themselves
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by aylmao 1y ago
The amount of conversation around this is testament it's not everyone's desired lifestyle.

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