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by blueboo 7y ago
I see: if you're a big enough operation, you can't be held responsible because responsible behavior is just kind of inconveniently costly. Eventually, you serve the tools instead of building them...
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by blueboo 7y ago
ah yes, the famous "intrinsic simplicity" of writing, compiling, and deploying an app to an embedded device... ...perhaps you mean the countless drag-and-drop code-free frameworks that enable people to create apps without writing
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by blueboo 7y ago
The opposite is the case, actually. It's far easier than ever to make animations and write software. I would contend Flash was a miserable developer tool, a near feature-free IDE, and rather than "balance", it took a kitchen
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by blueboo 7y ago
Hair-splitting. The obligation is enshrined in law. Shareholders invoke it. The consequences are a change in leadership, not jail. To quote the linked opinion: > In nearly all legal jurisdictions, disinterested and informed directors
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by blueboo 7y ago
Publicly shared companies have a legal obligation to make money for their shareholders. If a stakeholder in a major market can influence whether or not these companies can make their revenue forecast (and therefore making institutional inve
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by blueboo 7y ago
The finest way is to run Catalina on a $5000 iMac Pro.
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by blueboo 7y ago
Precious relativism in defense of idle apathy.
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by blueboo 7y ago
All those demo gifs omit the one thing they all require. Hands. Stumbling around trying to interact with a magic window your holding is a crappy experience. AR is “second-nature”, now? Very few bother with the novelty a second time.
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by blueboo 7y ago
Oh, please. It’s not the case with science. This effect arises from human nature, not pre-quantum theory science culture. And whatever lesson Feynman May have learned, academia (including science academia) can hardly claim to have univer
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by blueboo 7y ago
Or, it’s true. Amazon did predatory price for several years, subsidising sale and delivery with venture capital. I’m baffled by the nonsense point about reinvesting profit from a lack of profit. AWS doesn’t excuse the years of cynical pred
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by blueboo 7y ago
As Yann LeCunn observed in a recent interview, program synthesis is a genre of problem that neural nets seem to be horribly inefficient (bad) at. The successful applications of SOTA program synthesis are laughably specific, as a recent HN
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by blueboo 7y ago
As always with these fears, you can substitute with nuclear weapons, guns, bronze weapons.. though > The machine doesn’t have the discernment or common sense that the human touch has. Discernment or common sense has proven no barrier to
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by blueboo 7y ago
Gets lots of press. Google doctor interns lack of sleep for a litany of deeply-researched news articles. Hospitals are being privatised and private universities dominate medical education. Where’s the political pressure point?
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by blueboo 7y ago
“Beyond recuperation” is sloppy, imprecise, awkward. The kind of phrase you suspect the author himself would have strained out had a thorough edit been bothered with. I appreciate your persistence. I too want lyricism and the fullness of
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by blueboo 7y ago
A resentment and desperation to be indefinitely contained by the technology we're all building. gj folks!
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by blueboo 7y ago
They have process to discourage each of those so called key elements. To earn a living wage, drivers need to earn bonuses by driving at specific times, for at least a target number of rides per session. They’re not taking coding contracts
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by blueboo 7y ago
No, it really doesn't. Ad revenue is not typically a significant part of the budget of college newspapers.
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by blueboo 7y ago
They're not against it. They're against licensing it for free, and what permitting media-shifting surprises might do to damage all their licensing agreements.
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by blueboo 7y ago
Try making the argument that the invention was developed purely over the course of lunch
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by blueboo 7y ago
Their grandparents might! Kids have already learned how to sift through the dross .. it’s internet survival 101.
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by blueboo 7y ago
This is absolutely spot-on. AWS doesn’t replace email servers, as one commenter suggests. It offers compute infrastructure, a new need that grew alongside a truly novel business. Where’s the novelty of WeWork? Even now Wework has real c
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by blueboo 7y ago
People fondly remember using Encarta as children. It was a child's encyclopedia for children. > In a world of 4k streaming video, global wireless, and high-speed everything, there's really no analog to the feeling we got watch
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by blueboo 7y ago
This is not correct. The vast majority of subprime loans were issued and packaged by private entities into structured entities — those high-risk securities were then rated as low-risk by rating agencies. Your misunderstanding is probably
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by blueboo 7y ago
> Also, a lot of beginners are perplexed why vi uses "hjkl" keys for cursor movement. It's because the 1976 ADM-3A terminal didn't have any dedicated arrow keys like the 1986 IBM PC 101-key layout I dunno if accommoda
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by blueboo 7y ago
Or rather, the speech wasn’t “free” enough. > 8chan’s founder, Fredrick Brennan, created the site in response to what he sees as the ongoing and vast loss of free speech on the Internet. On 8chan, “anyone can say what they want and mean,
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by blueboo 7y ago
This may not have the latest record, but lots of interesting and relevant info here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_per_watt https://streamhpc.com/blog/2012-08-27/processors-that-
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by blueboo 7y ago
The opposite narratives are just as plausible: it weakens its hold because it -has- to add its name to signal the connection; that it is so poorly intertwined with the core product that they slapped the Facebook name on it; that it’s so unc
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by blueboo 7y ago
Kevin wept.
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by blueboo 7y ago
> In all reality, once the L.A. Times’ formed their guild, many writers found employment elsewhere, and those that have stayed are constantly bailing water out of their sinking ship. Check your notes, folks. There were layoffs at the be
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by blueboo 7y ago
1 is an insightful, outstanding market need. Build it folks

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