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by bilekas 5mo ago
> If two big players control Point of Sales (POS), shouldn't someone be able to come in and make a business out of underselling the competition When your business depends on a customer focused payment, your primary goal is reach, m
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by bilekas 5mo ago
And your point is what? That nothing should ever be investigated, trials, or invested in until it has as you call it "consumer scale useage". The EU is not perfect, but these kind of black and white comments highlight why it can b
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by bilekas 5mo ago
> the problem is the banks in individual countries in Europe are not willing to give up their control in favour of a compatible standard Well this is flat out wrong. Every countries banking system pays fees for processing visa and Master
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by bilekas 5mo ago
> Pix is a good local idea, but the world needs something better. There is no problem to continue using maybe Visa/Mastercard when dealing abroad or external, but when you are a normal citizen, it's far better to use Pix in thi
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by bilekas 5mo ago
> So if this sort of "insider trading" is bad, what does this mean for other sorts off strategies hedge funds do to get an edge, like flying helicopters to look at how full oil storage tanks are? This is allowed because you&#x2
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by bilekas 6mo ago
And when they need to find a way to circumvent this, they will ask for the full height picture without clothes on. Instead of addressing the problem of this entire idea and implementation they will continue to double down on it.
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by bilekas 6mo ago
If they can do some accounting trickery to pull this off then they deserve it. Makes zero sense to me but I did not think GameStop had even close to that in assets.
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by bilekas 6mo ago
I don’t understand either but wouldn’t they still be owning eBay? Just with GME?
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by bilekas 6mo ago
This is wild.. It looks like they changed their lid to be a bit cheaper ? Looking at the version that's not recalled, I would guess it costs more to make.
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by bilekas 6mo ago
Even if they agreed and wanted to do it, they would take at least a year to get guidelines on it. Then after, they would need to ask their current tech team to sort it, that will take another 10 years.
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by bilekas 6mo ago
I don't know, maybe this will make companies see the actual value in their engineering team. In my company they are starting to see the rotten fruits of the AI push, but it's come at the cost of many jobs, little planning and big
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by bilekas 6mo ago
It's likely they wouldn't be as profitable too though, and their mandate to shareholders is to make number go up.
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by bilekas 6mo ago
My personal take would always be that it produces something that isn't in the training set, ie: Demonstrable Creativity, or innovation. For example, it's training set it purely engineering and code with general language data set,
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by bilekas 6mo ago
Imgur didn't "ban" the UK, they don't agree with the UK's privacy violations so it pulled out of the UK. That's their prerogative.
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by bilekas 6mo ago
> To me they seem to be pretty damn smart That's the sorcery mentioned in the GP, the issue comes when people believe it to be smart however in reality it is just a next word prediction. Gives the impression it's actually thin
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by bilekas 6mo ago
For anyone working in the web area during the old IE days will know, not having to have a dedicated css and js for each browser type was a gamechanger. Chrome's introduction, albeit through smoother, lighter browser experience at the t
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by bilekas 6mo ago
European bureaucracy is famously slow and the red tape can be extremely overwhelming and really hinders innovation at times, but this is another level. I wonder after so many years of this seemingly trivial 2 seconds, how interested both si
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by bilekas 6mo ago
I don't mind being downvoted, if we all had the same opinion it would be quite boring around here. I guess I'm just jaded from AI news.
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by bilekas 6mo ago
Trying LLM in the air with a 6.200 EUR laptop... Sorry if it's not exactly relatable..
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by bilekas 6mo ago
So would an Unlicensed Speakeasy, but I can't include them in the post or else everything would be destructive. I'm not defending Gambling at all, just highlighting there is a difference in how they are allowed to behave, which I
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by bilekas 6mo ago
I was having this discussion the other day with a friend, I do believe as an adult you should be allowed to do anything you want providing you're not harming others. That said, there is a HUGE need for more regulation around advertisin
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by bilekas 6mo ago
Yes I'd agree from the perspective of the model that one cohesive well established language would be more reliable. The nightmare scenario is an enterprise suite with a Hodge podge mix of every language known to man all mangled togethe
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by bilekas 6mo ago
Yeah I don't quite get his point here. He seems to be complaining that enterprise companies buy from other enterprise a d larger companies instead of him. It's a tale as old as time. Enterprise buy from large companies because tho
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by bilekas 6mo ago
This is funny.. can someone tell me if it's actually illegal though?
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by bilekas 6mo ago
This is entirely by design. From a shareholder's perspective, the only thing that matters is number go up, when you take over a struggling company, they will squeeze every last drop of life from it in order to get some profit. The fact
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by bilekas 6mo ago
I imagine it comes down to if they want to buy hardware every generation, that gets very expensive and depreciates quickly. You've then got a whole load of assets on your books that are technically obsolete for the bleeding edge. This
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by bilekas 6mo ago
This is not the problem the title makes it out to be.. It's still in development. > "Now, when we say it's a final version, it's ... still a demo version." He added the final product is not yet available for citi
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by bilekas 6mo ago
> You don't even push the megamerge to the origin. But why would I do that with git anyway ? My local branch is what I'm working of, if I'm not ready to push, why would I ? I can as you say just work off it.. And when I&#x
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by bilekas 6mo ago
I think I'm missing some major selling point of jj, to me it's just git with a different flow that might be more suitable for a rare few cases where heavy parallel work is happening, and even then git is fine if people know what t

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