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by blueblisters 6y ago
This fear-mongering is ridiculous. Please cite reliable third party sources on why this would happen. Just having a feeling is not deserving of a HN comment.
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by blueblisters 6y ago
Mainland China is already Taiwan's largest trading partner by a big margin (followed by the US at second place). A lot of Taiwanese migrate to Mainland for better jobs. I am more curious what would happen, if say 50% of Taiwanese agree
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by blueblisters 6y ago
> Maybe their curriculum gives them more time to work on these things? I should have mentioned that I didn't go to college in the States. This could be true, a lot of the technical college experience in some parts of Asia involves d
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by blueblisters 6y ago
In software products and AI/Machine Learning China is at best half a decade behind the US. In hardware and robotics, China is already way ahead of the US (except certain fundamental blocks like semiconductors). Anecdotally, I remember
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by blueblisters 6y ago
> Creating another person is one of the most carbon-intensive actions anyone can do, you're literally spawning a lifetime of energy use. Cutting back on energy use is the most regressive way of solving climate change. We will almost
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by blueblisters 6y ago
Diverting some of that military budget towards something even more important strategically might help.
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by blueblisters 6y ago
How would the competitor get customers to pay higher than what DoorDash charges?
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by blueblisters 6y ago
Nah Dabbawalas are unionized and they effectively have control over what to charge their customers. The costs are low because, unlike other food-delivery startups, they are able to make money because of their ability to execute a hub and sp
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by blueblisters 6y ago
This is correct. Taiwan has a huge pool of silicon engineers and their salaries have roughly stayed stable over the years. Interestingly, because of this, a lot of engineers have been moving to China to seek greener pastures (make more mone
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by blueblisters 6y ago
FWIW, I find the AWS UI much better than the GCP interface. AWS feels much faster to navigate, even though GCP has an SPA-like design, like its other B2B tools.
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by blueblisters 6y ago
Many parts of South Asia already have home-grown solutions to battle the heat. The rise of cheap construction without consideration for local climate conditions have made them less prevalent. For example, in Jaipur, traditional stepwells du
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by blueblisters 6y ago
Are TPUs too application specific to replace GPUs? It seems cloud TPUs could be competitive with GPUs in terms of $ per number of target epochs, provided you can do data parallelism for your workloads. Also, IBM offers bare metal pricing wh
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by blueblisters 6y ago
Is there any early data on current AirBnB price trends in key markets? I was looking at some listings in Amsterdam and the prices seem really cheap for a weekend at the end of this month. The inventory seems fairly limited, however. Perha
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by blueblisters 6y ago
You can get around some of these operational constraints with technology. For example, Google had a server design with its own in-built backup battery supply, which incidentally could be cheaper than diesel generators. So backup power for y
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by blueblisters 7y ago
I had this experience when I was working with the Facebook Ad Manager. They arbitrarily blocked my @domain account while my ads were running. They asked me to submit IDs and stuff but haven't heard back in 2 weeks. No other way to co
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by blueblisters 7y ago
It's one thing of accusing him of cronyism. It's another to accuse him of swaying elections for political convenience.
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by blueblisters 7y ago
Are all 1800 SBA certified lenders going to independently develop their own loan servicing platform? Seems like a waste of time/energy. You might want to reach out to existing loan origination/servicing software vendors. They coul
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by blueblisters 7y ago
South Korea had a large proportion of young infected people: https://medium.com/@andreasbackhausab/coronavirus-why-its-so...
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by blueblisters 7y ago
I wonder if these results hold when the CNN-generated images are converted to an analog medium and back to digital (say scanning a printout or taking a screencap). If not, this might indicate that the fingerprints or artifacts left by the g
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The $150M Machine with $200B at Stake for China(washingtonpost.com)
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by blueblisters 7y ago
Yeah I have come to a similar conclusion - the labor marker for software developers in the bay area in a sense becomes highly liquid because of similar job requirements, experiences and interviews. Heck I was told by a FB interview to basic
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by blueblisters 7y ago
Is there literally no solution that exists between burying power lines and keeping the lines completely exposed that would be cost effective and improve fire safety by some factor? I imagine insulators in high risk areas might do the trick
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by blueblisters 7y ago
Ather is not only going to face competition from incumbents in the ICE scooter vertical, it is going to face competition from cheap Chinese scooters that are being tested and assembled all across small workshops in India. I think the cheape
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by blueblisters 7y ago
A smooth distribution for ML engineers doesn’t exist anywhere in the world, imo.
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by blueblisters 7y ago
I love this argument, there’s a lot of nuance to unwrap here. I see a lot of India startup cofounders who are really smart but fail to understand the challenges (often out of their control) that are in their way of making their businesses s
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by blueblisters 7y ago
I was just thinking about how long that party is going to last. I am not sure service providers can sustain this much longer without tapping into revenue from upstream value add (streaming, advertisements etc.)