braza

9 ms·

31.
by braza 1y ago
I had similar experiences seeing WWII artifacts and museums in Romania, Hungary, London, Brussels, and Berlin. In the first 4 I had the most immersive experiences seeing memorabilia and artifacts from the Allies and Axis. Things like unifor
32.
by braza 1y ago
> Disrupting" YouTube is difficult because the social conditions that created YouTube do not exist anymore. I think the Zero Interest Rate era made a lot of business like this. I can think about YouTube, Uber, several food delivery
33.
by braza 1y ago
In this case, the core issue is still not the privatization intrinsically, but the mechanisms of corruption and competing interests with some other areas. I'm not a free market absolutist or a privatization zealot, but I'm curious
34.
by braza 1y ago
> Water should never have been privatised. At least not without a framework for a national strategy for water. But one can make a very fair argument where you can have a strong regulatory framework to ensure investment goals, exit clause
35.
by braza 1y ago
> People across England are already banned from using hosepipes, with more restrictions probable over coming months. > So how on earth did famously rainswept England, notorious the world over for being green and wet with our national
36.
by braza 1y ago
Of course, languages always have their pivotal moment when they become a factor widely adopted in the whole world. I cannot say for the back and general usage, but at least for AI/ML definitely that moment happened between 2014 and 201
37.
by braza 1y ago
Ferrari F1 internal meme?[1] [1] - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nCoxNLdUSaE
38.
by braza 1y ago
At least in some sort, this new venture market dynamics in those private markets is looking more similar with the Art market. I remember that J used to follow several private auctions where most of the auctioneers had some sort of ring wher
39.
by braza 1y ago
Not a Ponzi, but definitely some markup and valuation engineering. Let’s say that Databricks has 100B valuation (just for the sake of simplicity). They do this round, and due to this markup they can do acquisitions via stock option exchange
40.
by braza 1y ago
I know that we're writing on the Y Combinator-sponsored forum, but after the events of the Windsurf/Google fiasco, the exits of Instacart, and how the acquihire is scaling, is there any indication that SO is a really good incentiv
41.
by braza 1y ago
I think we come from different perspectives; you placed a more individualistic perspective on how things are good for your particular situation, and I am talking about a broader and more absolute part where, whether we like it or not, the w
42.
by braza 1y ago
> The European principles that created your social guarantees are largely incompatible with an individual-centric, growth-focused society that would reward certain ambitious individuals much more than others. I agree in terms of the nega
43.
by braza 1y ago
> And we don't care as much about money. I think this is a very broad statement that does not reflect the reality on the ground for a significant amout of non-etnical-europeans. Europe is a very diverse continent culturally speaking
44.
by braza 1y ago
> Europe does not have that talent pool nor do they actively retain or attract such talents. Disagree. Not only does Europe have the demographics and educational institutions, but on top of that, it has very high social mobility [1]. I a
45.
by braza 1y ago
It never gets old "Stop Writing Classes"[1] [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9pEzgHorH0
46.
by braza 1y ago
> His meal was not long, for he did not favour elaborate food, saying that such food bothered his stomach and disturbed his memory. He drank clear and simple wine, light in colour, well cut, and not much quantity nor great variety. Like
47.
by braza 1y ago
> As a manager, your empathy needs to be highly conditional. Your job is to get to the truth of a matter in a respectful way, not make your team feel good. You are largely stuck with your coworkers, and you need to get stuff done togethe
48.
by braza 1y ago
> The three biggest levers are (1) “N-1 backfills”, (2) requiring a business rationale for promotions into senior-most levels, and (3) shifting hiring into cost efficient hiring regions. I had the experience to work in a scale up like Ca
49.
by braza 1y ago
> Maybe it was all VC funded solutions looking for problems? Remember, from 2020-2023 we had an entire movement to push a thing called "Modern data stack (MDS)" with big actors like a16z lecturing the market about it [1]. I am
50.
by braza 1y ago
> History is full of “what if”s, what if something like DuckDB had existed in 2012? The main ingredients were there, vectorized query processing had already been invented in 2005. Would the now somewhat-silly-looking move to distributed
51.
by braza 1y ago
This has the same energy of this article named "Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster" [1] [1] - https://adamdrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-...
52.
by braza 1y ago
I don't think this is adequately addressed by the "complicated vs. complex" framing—especially not when the distinction is made using reductive examples like taxes (structured, bureaucratic, highly formalized) versus climate
53.
by braza 1y ago
One of my pet peeves with the usage of complex(ity) out of the traditional time/space in computer science is that most of the time the OPs of several articles over the internet do not make the distinction between boundaried/arbitr
54.
by braza 1y ago
If there’s one place in the internet that people can be sincere, probably it will be here in a YC Combinator forum. Said that… There’s a lot of interesting perspectives: From YC: it’s a logical and quite unique business decision. YC can cap
55.
by braza 1y ago
> Google translate -- I don't know about if people use their APIs, but for me personally, I have not used translate for a few years. ChatGPT has been my go-to. Hard to agree on this one. Most of the time when I’m the country side of
56.
by braza 1y ago
+1. Someone nailed it in the thread above related to the -time/+money, but after a couple of years working on it, I realized that the people that use those services are not the public that would go to a restaurant for a gastronomic exp
57.
by braza 1y ago
> What is the incentive really? > I would maybe understand, but they aren't even available in a wider than a small radius around your house, so it is always more convenient to walk/cycle/drive to wherever you would ord
58.
by braza 1y ago
> As you can imagine, this is highly unattractive to skilled engineers who know their worth. No one sane wants to leave a high-paying cushy job to work for (not with) a bossy guy while battling the already intense stressors of Entreprene
59.
by braza 1y ago
> AI applications, when taken to the limit, reduce the need of interaction between humans to 0. > But if AI is advanced enough - why would someone go see a movie that you generated instead of generating a movie for himself. I would be
60.
by braza 1y ago
Honest question: what does it mean this new pricing that every product has today in terms of “credits”. Sounds quite apache given the fact that you will need to track utilisation all the time for something like prompting. Does someone has a

More ›