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blackmesaind
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blackmesaind
3y ago
It's less about building something that is useful to many people, and more about selling something that is useful to many people. The fact that what they built was sold by others is a problem they should have thought about.
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3y ago
For example, I never went to college, but I can easily do calculus and science in my head. Some of us just naturally would exceed without needing to be lectured.
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3y ago
Because his name isn't Geoffrey Hinton
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3y ago
Yeah, you're right.
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3y ago
> No. Members of the public can own stock. The public does not own stock. Members of the public own stock, so the public owns stock. Your distinction here is pedantic at best, but generally plain wrong. > No. I have not purchased a Fe
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3y ago
The public have bought stock (a.k.a partial ownership of the company), so the public owns it. You have bought a Ferrari, so you own it. Having performed an "Initial Public Offering" (IPO) means explicitly that the public has purch
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3y ago
I've never heard someone confuse private sector with privately owned. What do you think is being traded publicly? (Hint: it rhymes with blownership)
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3y ago
A false equivalency. Websites want to entice you to visit, stores do not want to entice you to steal gift cards. As for whether you can make blocking ads an ethical imperative, I'd agree that without ads, there likely wouldn't be
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3y ago
Pointing the finger at another is often not a very compelling argument.
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3y ago
That "one weird trick" is probably 60-70% of why you would pass an interview. If you've gotten to an interview, they already believe you have the technical qualifications. The technical / white board interview is just du
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3y ago
I've never once been banned from a subreddit, no matter the size nor the frequency of my posts. I assume it's because I don't participate in the divisive dialogue so pervasive on Reddit. You'll find weak people with grea
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There's no general analytical method to solve for a material with specific properties, including superconductivity. The properties of materials are governed by the quantum mechanical behavior of electrons and their interactions with th
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3y ago
MIT posts their AI/ML Degree requirements online, as well as the courses, for free. Shouldn't take you more than a year to finish it and start reading research papers.