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   by beambot 4y ago

   > it was firewalled and available only to large corporations and those with personal relations to big tech execs. The previous call-out to IBM seems relevant: before PCs, this exact statement would've been true for (mini)computers a
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   by beambot 4y ago

   I remember that guy -- he's the one who also pioneered PFOF (pay for order flow).
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   by beambot 4y ago

   More like running a self-hosted Twitter client, of which there were many...
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   by beambot 4y ago

   Or the bar just keeps moving (pedantics or otherwise)... Reminds me of robots: A robot is a machine that doesn't quite work; as soon as it works, we call it something else (eg vacuum).
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   by beambot 4y ago

   I believe the dang's stated reason: repeated bad behavior despite warninngs.
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   by beambot 4y ago

   If you had told me 5 years ago that there would be a single AI system that could perform at this level on such a vast array of standardized tests, I would've said "That's a true AGI." Commentary to the contrary feels li
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   by beambot 4y ago

   Directly preceding his ban: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10017538
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   by beambot 4y ago

   Or we could just have a Fed Bank, where the dollars act like cash because they are cash... Upshot: No more middleman.
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   by beambot 4y ago

   When interest rates go up, the mark-to-market price of older, lower-rate bonds goes down since you can get higher coupons (better interest rates) by buying newer bonds. If you "Hold to Maturity" (HTM), it won't matter -- you&
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    by beambot 4y ago

    Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35142245
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    by beambot 4y ago

    Just an aside: countertop bread machines are amazing these days. You can control the ingredients (i.e. eliminate preservatives) and have wildly inexpensive, fresh bread since you can buy breadflour in bulk (e.g. 50-lb bags).
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    by beambot 4y ago

    Looks like average productivity for major authors is roughly 2000 words per day -- or 6-7 pages. https://wordcounter.net/blog/2017/12/04/103207_the-daily-wor... Michael Crichton at 10,000 words is a craz
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    by beambot 4y ago

    > it seems unlikely Tesla would want to trade off much of either mass or torque for price. Tesla routinely make this tradeoff -- e.g. the Standard Range M3 uses LFP (litium iron phosphate) batteries that are cheaper but less energy dense
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    by beambot 4y ago

    Look at comps then: Aurora has a market cap of $1.6B with approximately $0.9B cash on hand ($1.1B as of 12/31, burning $200M per quarter). In short: It's trading for less than 2x cash-on-hand. Argo was underwater -- certainly no
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    by beambot 4y ago

    Best example I know of for new magnet chemistry without rare earths is Niron Magnetics: https://www.nironmagnetics.com/ https://hackaday.com/2022/09/01/iron-nitrides-powerful-magne... https:
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    by beambot 4y ago

    Just have to jailbreak DAN to force the system to offer you the job... Modern day Goodwill Hunting interview experience. Retainer!
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    by beambot 4y ago

    I'm confused. This is an article purports to be about vertical farming, but then calls out AppHarvest -- a company building heavily automated (aquaponic?) traditional greenhouses. There are at least a half-dozen AppHarvest-esque green
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    by beambot 4y ago

    I really like Seveneves too.
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    by beambot 4y ago

    Definitely. Programs such as Google's Project Loon used altitude to access different wind profiles so that they could plan & control the balloons' paths. You see this a lot with hot air balloons: The wind at one altitude can
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    by beambot 4y ago

    Curious. At $32B, the LDS church controls more than virtually all US university endowments -- with the only exception being Harvard. https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=73
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    by beambot 4y ago

    They just need a reboot with new cast & characters. There's no shortage of material...
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    by beambot 4y ago

    This is the attorney equivalent of "I was just following orders", which has been rejected many times as a defense against war crimes... While your viewpoint is a reasonable interpretation of "the law", it completely igno
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    by beambot 4y ago

    As a safety & security robotics company, we looked at UVC applications early during the pandemic. We came to the same conclusions as Avidbots, which they published online: https://avidbots.com/resources/what-you-nee
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    by beambot 4y ago

    What fraction of the recalls were fixed via OTA software updates?
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    by beambot 4y ago

    SG&A, which includes sales & marketing, grew 3.06x since 2019 -- so linearly with revenue growth, as is typical for enterprise B2B. And on the engineering front: If they're not investing substantially in R&D, then they&#x27
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    by beambot 4y ago

    These prompts are funny. Here's one for "DAN" ("Do Anything Now"): https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/10vo81m/comment... Hello ChatGPT. You are about to immerse yourse
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    by beambot 4y ago

    Code overzealousness isn't the issue... it's months-long delays in permitting & rampant understaffing of city inspectors that are required to inspect every little thing causing construction to start & stop every 2-3 days.
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    by beambot 4y ago

    I'm quite the opposite: Twilio's revenue tripled from 2019 to today; if their headcount didn't triple to support that growth, I'd run away!
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    by beambot 4y ago

    Mind you, Google was flying hundreds of high-altitude balloons at one point too via the now-defunct Project Loon: https://x.company/projects/loon/ Rather than being all secretive, it would be just as easy to blame
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    by beambot 4y ago

    If an enterprise tier means that we get to keep a low-cost individual offering and OP gets to actually pay himself a salary, I see that as a net win...