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by boulos 6y ago
Absolutely. Though even the base salary pay differential between European hubs and the Bay Area are substantial. I think the firing people thing is good to point out, but many startups end up not needing to fire individuals: they just go ou
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by boulos 6y ago
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud. > Half the "open source" projects are mixed license these days. I can sympathize though. For the folks who built companies around making something awesome and having it available as open-so
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by boulos 6y ago
There are lots of theories. One of the main ones is that national policies around employee equity vary throughout Europe and are often severely disadvantageous (particularly Spain and Germany). Lots of European entrepreneurs are calling on
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by boulos 6y ago
It’s certainly a double edged sword, but as you grow it also makes the “reward” for moving higher. “We can save $100k/yr if we do this large rewrite” is much less attractive than “We can save $10M/yr. Please give us a team of X pe
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by boulos 6y ago
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud. Different people have different challenges. For companies being built from scratch today, you get to pick your technologies and providers as you see fit. In that case, I’ve always been sad when I see folk
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by boulos 6y ago
The title has been editorialized unfortunately. The page uses Actively speaking two languages protects against cognitive impairment which is an important summary of the paper: everyone in the study is basically bilingual, but the bilingua
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by boulos 6y ago
Because you kind of did Product Management for them! “Hey, there’s this idea. I have at least one customer [me]. I think it’d be pretty easy to implement like this.” It’s pretty rewarding to have a blueprint for “oh, I can deliver some valu
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by boulos 6y ago
The release seems to be dated as Feb 20, 2020.
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by boulos 6y ago
Me neither. But tortious . :).
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by boulos 6y ago
Amusingly, this is part of why some folks are deeply terrified of Robinhood: with a few clicks here and there, you’ve just bought yourself 10-15x leverage. I actually think it’s a great thing to let someone easily try out “let me try out op
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by boulos 6y ago
That was part of the argument at the time: you aren’t a confused person, you were a registered professional. Clearly, it was also “we would like to make an example of someone high profile to discourage insider trading”.
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by boulos 6y ago
Also, even though you misunderstood the leverage of options, the complaint doesn’t tell us what kind of price they’d bought in at either. That is, the stock went up 2.87% the day after the earnings, but they had purchased it over the weeks
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by boulos 6y ago
Matt Levine again: https://mobile.twitter.com/matt_levine/status/12835030809784... :)
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by boulos 6y ago
For those wondering “really, they had the Amazon earnings ahead of time and only made $1.4M?” this reminded me of a good Matt Levine writeup about a group of folks who obtained massive numbers of earnings reports ahead of time [1]. Having t
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by boulos 6y ago
See my quotes from the complaint. They definitely seemed to have transacted a lot, made a decent amount of money, but they mustn’t have been that out of the money (they put in like $800k to make another $600k, so they probably traded in the
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by boulos 6y ago
From the complaint, it was OTM calls and puts, but it seemed like they were trying to decide how much to go in. > 42. Prior to the completion of Bohra’s initial review, her Husband had purchased 500 Amazon shares in put options in his ac
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by boulos 6y ago
I’d actually recommend the discussion during the interview (kind of towards the end, IIRC). There’s a decent back and forth about the risk of political influence in journalism if the money were controlled by a government, the relative pros
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by boulos 6y ago
Ezra Klein’s interview with Margaret Sullivan of the Washington Post (formerly of the Buffalo news) included a lot of discussion on the economics of media and news [1]. Her conclusion is that historically the local newspaper(s) had a monopo
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by boulos 6y ago
WinFS wasn’t destined for Windows 2000 nor XP, but rather Vista. I was an intern at Microsoft in 2004, and personally helped make it clear that WinFS also wasn’t ready anyway. Fwiw, I think the iOS model of “makes users and apps no longer c
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by boulos 6y ago
To be clear, without this proposition the cash bail in California was going away. So this is a “do over” attempt by cash bail proponents via the proposition system. There’s only been one poll so far (39% to uphold the new law, thus ending c
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by boulos 6y ago
Some places do this! Here’s a 54000 euro speeding ticket in Finland [1]: > Finland's speeding fines are linked to income, with penalties calculated on daily earnings, meaning high earners get hit with bigger penalties for breaking t
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by boulos 6y ago
As big as you want, kind of. The challenge, as in large-scale physics, is how many nodes you can stick together with sufficiently high bandwidth (low latency is less important in the ML space, because there are lots of ops per byte, unlike
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by boulos 6y ago
The author though raises concerns about both the availability (openness) of the model as well as the current ability to run it due to cost (equity / equality of access). Making the model available would still not make it equal access.
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by boulos 6y ago
Yeah, I’m not an a11y person (nor a UI or even 2d graphics person). What about the “zoom under my cursor” type things? That seems much harder (though not impossible) if your interface to clients is “just draw directly”. Though thinking abou
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by boulos 6y ago
See my sibling comment, but the dataset that the GPT-2 folks did was “just grab whatever people on reddit upvoted”. Any grad student might have done the same (and in a sense, James Hays and Alyosha Efros did something like that long ago wit
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by boulos 6y ago
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud and have worked with the OpenAI folks on large models. This article mixes both “should research be open” and “is this work cheaply reproduced / accessible”: For smaller, open models: > The average
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by boulos 6y ago
I meant Unity in the “you’re my game engine / scene graph” sense. Like why are game engines and scene graphs fairly successful, yet the comment I replied to is arguing “clearly retained mode doesn’t work”.
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by boulos 6y ago
Interesting. I think that argument is “people can’t usefully agree on common abstractions, why bother forcing a translation”. And so for users of scene graphs, it’s basically “well, we can all agree there’s a basic graph and bounding boxes
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by boulos 6y ago
I think it’s fair to say that accessibility is an ambiguous term. Which one did you mean? (My charitable guess was a11y in the screen reader, color blindness, font size, etc. sense)

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