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by beambot 1y ago
There are entire subreddits dedicated to actual footage of drone effectiveness on the front lines... It's definitely not just psychological warfare. In some cases, the fiber optic lines crisscross fields so densely it looks like spide
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by beambot 1y ago
On the flip side: Penalties should be scaled relative to one's means so that the wealthy (whether people or corporations) actually feel the pain & learn from their mistakes. Otherwise penalties for the wealthy are like a cup of co
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by beambot 1y ago
> that's steady income forever after Let me tell you about farming... this isn't true.
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by beambot 1y ago
The worst is when it's confidently wrong about things... Thankfully, this occurance is becoming less & less common -- or at least, it's boundary is beyond my subject matter expertise.
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by beambot 1y ago
Can you provide any source materials - course notes, book, etc?
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by beambot 1y ago
garbage in, garbage out...
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by beambot 1y ago
So... the same things as every other foundational model?
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by beambot 1y ago
Are these "acquihire & license" the new M&A...? I recall hearing that this was a "hack" to avoid DOJ and FTC scrutiny over acquisitions, but I have no clue how such deals are structured. Anyone care to chime in
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by beambot 1y ago
Equity: Walking away, your stake should be whatever you've veseted -- this is why you have vesting. If you purchased your shares (I hope!), then there's nothing more to do. If they were options, ask for conversion from ISO to NQ
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by beambot 1y ago
Tesla itself seems primed for a similar fate at an even greater magnitude -- the bigger they are, the harder they fall.
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by beambot 1y ago
Manicured trees & landscaped parks take a lot of active effort and expense, whereas forests are naturally homeostatic. The biodiversity in the latter is also beneficial to flora & fauna compared to the overly-sterile environment of
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by beambot 1y ago
> Early efforts in gene therapy had disastrous results Can you share examples...? Just curious as an outsider looking in.
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by beambot 1y ago
> or make it hard ro [sic] cancel Unless you're trying to cancel the Apple ecosystem as a whole...
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by beambot 1y ago
East Germany was under communist control after the fascist regime lost the war... It's accurate to describe as "authoritarian", but not "fascist."
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by beambot 1y ago
Output "1" if the program halts; "0" if it doesn't.
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by beambot 1y ago
> there is no stock market that invests tens of millions of dollars in stopping people buying stocks There definitely are -- everything from margin limitations, maintenance requirements, regulatory bodies, and counter party risk. > I
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by beambot 1y ago
Why should arbing line moves between bookies be stupid or banned? This is what market makers doing 24/7 on public stock markets. This is what creates "efficient markets".
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by beambot 1y ago
Essays are different media compared to comments on message boards, reddit, or hacker news... You don't need the former if the latter will suffice.
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by beambot 1y ago
This feels a bit like cutting off your nose to spite your face... Unlike Microsoft's antitrust case of the 90s, Google seems much less anti-competitive by nature. Sure, they have unprecedented scale in search... but even that hegemony
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by beambot 1y ago
Symbotic also has a fascinating solution.
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by beambot 1y ago
Putnam exam score might be more predictive?
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by beambot 1y ago
5 years...? I bought mine with FSD in 2018, and that was years after it was "right around the corner." Worst Kickstarter of all time... Though I do like the car itself.
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by beambot 1y ago
Funding to Mitre's CVE was just reinstated: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2025/04/16/cve-...
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by beambot 1y ago
Makes me (further) believe that Reddit is heavily undervalued...
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by beambot 2y ago
https://paulgraham.com/growth.html "A startup is a company designed to grow fast. Being newly founded does not in itself make a company a startup. Nor is it necessary for a startup to work on technology, or take ventur
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by beambot 2y ago
When you visit a ad-supported news website, you're opting in too... No one is forcing you to use that website versus it's ad-free subscription alternatives, it's just that most people have decided they'd prefer the forme
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by beambot 2y ago
Product catalogs are advertising... The Sears catalog was full of products made by other companies, and Sears paid a ton of money to get those catalogs to as many people as possible
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by beambot 2y ago
The difference between gross profit & net profit for companies like this is largely comprised of employee & founder salaries (SG&A and R&D). That delta is literally paying for their opportunity cost. Net profit is most rele
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by beambot 2y ago
MSRP of 3x COGS is a pretty common rule of thumb for hardware. Have to leave room for distribution, software, R&D, returns, SG&A, etc. End of the day, it's probably still only 30-40% gross margin -- less than half of a good S
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by beambot 2y ago
> I'm saying get rid of bad management. How do you propose measuring good versus bad management?

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