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by boh 2y ago
Thanks for letting us know everything is fine, just in case we get confused and think the opposite.
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23andMe Files for Bankruptcy, as CEO Anne Wojcicki Resigns(wsj.com)
100 points by boh 2y ago|29 comments
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by boh 2y ago
Yeah it feels like too much "research" is just click bait at this point (or just a lazy dissertation).
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by boh 2y ago
The Alpha thing was always cringy. Reminded me of the way people used to take Buzzfeed quizzes that would define who they are. "It says I'm a Gryffindor because I'm brave!". Identity is a bottomless pit of manipulation a
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by boh 2y ago
Fellow intellectual Lenin started killing them, Stalin finished the job. And no, the country didn't need them then and they don't need them now (see Russian history of the twentieth century for more details). As Stalin has been qu
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by boh 2y ago
Without pointing out that what happened five years ago doesn't reflect current priorities, that wasn't really a thing back then either. Unless you're fresh out of college with zero previous experience, your work experience is
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by boh 2y ago
A "while back".
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by boh 2y ago
The programmer succeeding because he loves to program is a "George Washington chopping the cherry tree" kind of anecdote Silicon Valley likes to represent themselves with. Nine out of 10 times, the fun kind of programming someone
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by boh 2y ago
You can hypothetically do whatever you want, no one in the real world is hiring you because you "love programming".
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by boh 2y ago
They make the companies you want to work for slightly less profitable. I guess that counts as immoral. I'm just sick of this grass roots lobbying that we're all supposed to take seriously as a fight for freedom.
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by boh 2y ago
I always found it interesting that the big tech firms are so adamant about internet "freedom" when they've pretty much done everything they could to govern people's experience of that internet. I'm sorry if the &quo
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by boh 2y ago
Neurotic designers often misinterpret their personal affects as design decisions. If people don't care about the quality of something, maybe it's because it actually doesn't matter, no matter how much time you spent on it. Mo
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Carvana: A Father-Son Accounting Grift for the Ages(hindenburgresearch.com)
27 points by boh 2y ago|2 comments
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by boh 2y ago
Food is pretty low margin--selling more is often less lucrative than costing less, since selling more often costs more in marketing costs, hampering profitability.
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by boh 2y ago
Honestly the more I use ChatGPT, the more I see of their "moat-ish" opportunities. While the LLM itself may be ultimately reproducible, the user experience needs a UI/UX wrapper for most users. The future is not user exposure
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by boh 2y ago
Unfortunately the FDA has limited resource to actually police most of their existing guidelines and will have just as much trouble policing this one. Buy and cook raw ingredients as often as you can because the only way packaged foods make
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by boh 2y ago
If you had to bet a large amount of your own money on a scenario where you have a 3200 word text and you ask ChatGPT to change a single sentence, would you bet on or against that it would change something other than what you asked it to cha
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by boh 2y ago
Click bait. Job market has slowed? Compared to what? An anomalous time period following a once in a lifetime global event? The labor market is pretty much close to where it was pre-COVID. Many companies over-hired and then fired back to th
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by boh 2y ago
The idea of a VC firm investing in something because the founders are just swell fellas isn't easily acceptable as a premise. If you're prompting a move fast and break things culture, you can't then excuse your mediocrity wit
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Why Are Startups Losing So Much Money?(americanaffairsjournal.org)
33 points by boh 2y ago|8 comments
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Google's Shadow Campaigns(blogs.microsoft.com)
24 points by boh 2y ago|12 comments
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by boh 2y ago
I wouldn't say "new". This has been a thing for decades. While the companies who are the top spenders may have changed, Silicon Valley tech as a whole has been pretty aggressively represented for some time.
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Apple and OpenAI have signed a deal to partner on AI(arstechnica.com)
1 points by boh 2y ago|0 comments
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by boh 2y ago
That's the tech sector in a nutshell. Very few innovations actually matter to non-tech companies. Most companies could survive on Windows 98 software.
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Why AI Is Tech's Latest Hoax(youtube.com)
1 points by boh 2y ago|0 comments
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by boh 2y ago
It's funny how finding out about corporate misdoing has almost a common ritual attached to it. First shock and dismay is expressed to the findings, then the company leadership has to say it was a mistake (rather than an obvious strate
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The Google One VPN service is heading to the Google graveyard(theverge.com)
1 points by boh 2y ago|0 comments
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by boh 3y ago
You know not everyone works in tech? Or has a job that is not as available anywhere else? Or has elderly parents to support? Or lives in subsidized housing that is difficult to secure elsewhere? Or doesn't actually have the disposable
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by boh 3y ago
Of course. Intel, specifically, does not make a compelling case that they spent their cash efficiently.
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by boh 3y ago
From a basic economics perspective, companies conduct buybacks when they have no other use for the money. Since re-investment supports shareholders on a longer timescale, Intel has essentially let the market know they don't have any ot

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