bob001

6 ms·

61.
by bob001 5mo ago
Yes, people spend $640,000 based on some news...
62.
by bob001 5mo ago
I think you highlighted something without meaning to. The core problem is that short of literally nuking Brussels I don't think the EU will ever think the threshold was crossed. Even then I'm not sure. The US has threatened to inv
63.
by bob001 5mo ago
> retaliation would mean more anti-US people selecting themselves into these projects. Very few people are martyrs or want to become martyrs. Even fewer in places where life is generally fine and for a cause that isn't dire to their
64.
by bob001 5mo ago
> The reason Germany didn't prepare for it was because multiple leading politicians were bought and paid for by Russia. Be totally clear about that. Former German president was working for Gazprom on the project whose stated aim was
65.
by bob001 5mo ago
Those old enough will remember when Hare Krishnas proved that for a lot of people even a single cheap flower can trigger a feeling of reciprocity. It doesn't take much. The Airplane joke exists because the best way to avoid that is to
66.
by bob001 5mo ago
I guess you never dealt with enterprise sales, lobbying or any of the hundred of ways we legally allow bribes. Or do you only consider it bribery if its illegal and otherwise it's all fine? Just box office baseball tickets, just a $2k
67.
by bob001 5mo ago
> Nobody's bribing a councilmember in an 800-person rural township. I suspect this happens a lot more often than people assume. It does not take much to bribe people to change their minds based on the publicly known international sp
68.
by bob001 5mo ago
A Director is middle management. Line managers are the ones that turn that into action and they are not middle management.
69.
by bob001 5mo ago
Middle management is also why there’s so many broken processes and challenges in the first place.
70.
by bob001 5mo ago
> Like how anyone can basically take all you work & base a proprietary fork on it with maybe saying "thanks" (attribution) if they feel like it ? :P I'd assume the Bun people got a bit more than a thanks when Anthropic
71.
by bob001 5mo ago
> The visa applications should considered based on merit and not just about capital. If it has merit then you should have no trouble getting some investors lined up...
72.
by bob001 5mo ago
> Apartment prices are ALMOST back to where they were in 1989. You mean when Japan was in an epic price bubble (ie: the imperial palace land alone was worth more than all of California) which was followed by decades of economic stagnatio
73.
by bob001 5mo ago
And yet companies file for bankruptcy and get liquidated all the time versus being bought.
74.
by bob001 5mo ago
Yeah, if the foreign entrepreneur argument is that they're helping the Japanese economy and not just barely sustaining another person in japan then the new requirements seem exactly in line with that?
75.
by bob001 5mo ago
Does Japan need more small businesses owned by foreigners (that make so little money as to be useless for economic growth) or do they actually need more foreigners to change the adult diapers of their ever aging population?
76.
by bob001 5mo ago
> then you end up with a different interface everywhere. This whole post is about someone being upset that Firefox finally did support the system level interface and shortcut. And you're upset about that while asking for consistent
77.
by bob001 6mo ago
I'd bet money that the gun lobby is behind this. What better way to dilute the anti-gun sentiment then to get useless legislation that targets a group that has traditionally been anti-gun. Even the EFF, which generally doesn't tou
78.
by bob001 6mo ago
More I'd guess since the new org needs to prove itself long enough for stock to vest. Fudge the benchmarks gives them a longer horizon before they're all fired anyways.
79.
by bob001 7mo ago
My sense is that it sounds amazing in theory to executives who have never had to themselves look at internal data. In reality the internal knowledge base is a mix of incomplete, inaccurate, self serving lies, out of date and so on. At worst
80.
by bob001 7mo ago
> well good luck for the authorities to get it. "We want your data on X, here;'s a warrant." "No." "You are now under arrest for contempt of court." People have some oddly silly views on what government
81.
by bob001 7mo ago
No, it's "if you already have engineers that know your stack and customers and business then getting rid of them to save a bit of short term cash is stupid unless you're out of runway because of bad business decisions."
82.
by bob001 7mo ago
If a startup is laying off engineers then it’s dead in the water. That means it’s not growing and focused on cost cutting at the expense of velocity. Thats what a large company does. The issue isn’t AI but the startup fundamentally being br
83.
by bob001 7mo ago
There's exception and geniuses to every rule. In general however a simple solution will be much more difficult to argue a promotion around even if you make a ton of impact. You may get a top rating and a slightly larger bonus however n
84.
by bob001 7mo ago
This lets you not even need Python, r, Julia, etc but directly connect to your backend systems that are presumably in a fast language. If Python is in your call stack then you already don’t care about absolute performance.
85.
by bob001 8mo ago
> have equal chance to be malicious. Is A has a p chance of being malicious and B has a q chance of being malicious then the chance of them both being malicious is p q. p q <= p and p*q <= q. I'm honestly not sure why its so h
86.
by bob001 8mo ago
> But this is only true if you trust the peer more than the author Peer review means that EITHER the author or the peer are trustworthy. Not one. Not the other. The failure mode is that BOTH are untrustworthy and not that EITHER is untru
87.
by bob001 8mo ago
Let's see what this study actually says, shall we? > Students who spent up to one hour per day on digital devices for learning activities in school scored 14 points higher in mathematics than students who spent no time, even after
88.
by bob001 8mo ago
The peer review process provides a minimal level of verification, and the paper provides details that can be directly looked at.
89.
by bob001 8mo ago
So was writing and yet here you are doing just that.
90.
by bob001 8mo ago
Which is all fluff until someone links to a peer reviewed study.

More ›