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by bushbaba 2y ago
Hibid has some of the auctions.
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by bushbaba 2y ago
About 10-20% of my companies gpu usage is inference dev. Yes horribly not efficient usage of resources. We could upgrade the 100ish devs who do this dev work to M4 mbp and free up gpu resources Smart move by Apple
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by bushbaba 2y ago
Or, anti trust fears.
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by bushbaba 2y ago
> Your vote is at the very least supposed to be proportionally significant to the general population that's not true in the US, a republic not a direct democracy. Never has been.
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by bushbaba 2y ago
> What is the federal minimum wage? Who benefits from it being $7.25 an hour? Not the common people Source on that. Higher federal minimum wage causes low profit, manufacturing jobs to move off shore. The higher the federal wage the more
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by bushbaba 2y ago
VR is tech in search of a problem. The iPod and iPhone had clear applications and user frustration being solved. I’m still unconvinced VR will have mass market appeal.
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by bushbaba 2y ago
And many very rich people in Germany got very very rich in ww2 by stealing Jewish assets and businesses.
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by bushbaba 2y ago
Hardware is cheap relative to salaries. It might take 1 engineer 1 quarter to optimize. Compare that to a few thousand per server.
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by bushbaba 2y ago
Is this a popular vote or electoral college polling. Popular vote doesn’t win elections
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by bushbaba 2y ago
Spanner research paper was in 2012. Bigtable was in 2006. GFS 2003. The last decade has been a 'lost decade' of google. Not much innovation to be honest.
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by bushbaba 2y ago
Or the flip side. Hamas promised to continue slaughtering Israeli Arabs, Jews, and Christians until they are all dead. Hezbollah has launched rockets into northern Israel for a year…with 100k+ Israelis forced to relocate south. What exactly
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by bushbaba 2y ago
You assume the muslim-aligned countries wouldn't be compromised. There's the potential for supply chain attacks from a domestic manufacturing partner.
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by bushbaba 2y ago
Actually quite large. Aid is in the single digit billion/year. GDP is 525 billion. So aid is roughly a percentage point or two. That’s it.
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by bushbaba 2y ago
Or you know, 100,000+ Israelis had to leave their homes in north Israel for nearly 1 year. You also had Druze Arab children slaughtered by Hezbollah. So what options would Israel have here?
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by bushbaba 2y ago
Nearly every single one injured was a Hezbollah militant. Regarding militant:civilian rates, this has one of the lowest civilian impacts of any option. Most modern wars see MORE than 1 civilian death per militant death. This pager bomb was
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by bushbaba 2y ago
It’s called propaganda of which HN isn’t immune to
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by bushbaba 2y ago
Affirmative action at the companies I’ve worked at was hard to hire less qualified individuals into roles. Those folks were often under performing but marked as “meets” at request of hr. Now with economy and other factors, they are being pe
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by bushbaba 2y ago
If lawsuit related. Maybe they wanted the backups to fail?
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by bushbaba 2y ago
Is their nursing care on cruise ships though? Not exactly the same
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by bushbaba 2y ago
You’d not use lithium ion batteries to store energy across seasons. Instead you’d do things like grid scale pumped hydro
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by bushbaba 2y ago
> When you aggregate on a large enough scale, a single workload cannot influence the aggregate peak. This is also the “power” behind snowflake and bigquery.
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by bushbaba 2y ago
Or spaceX is the only firm that inspires engineers to work hard, and take (calculated) risk. To move quick. A lot of defense and aerospace is not used to the Silicon Valley mindset. Gotta give Elon credit in achieving what he did with space
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by bushbaba 2y ago
See the google search summary below. The discussion of US vets being murderers and additional creation of a hostile workplace environment for US vets, is likely categorized as a violation of federal law. Google could be sued. >Two federa
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by bushbaba 2y ago
It’s their company culture and Google’s heavy toleration of radical political speech in the workplace. This can make Google a very toxic place to work at. When I was at Google I saw an email that went out to a large number of employees call
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by bushbaba 2y ago
And when you quit you don't get unused vacation days paid out! Unlimited PTO is worse for employees than a prefixed number of days per year.
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by bushbaba 2y ago
You’d be shocked at how brain dead the csuite who influence buying decisions can be. Oh walstreet cares about ai. What’s our ai plan. Internal team, we are buying a new AI dev product that’ll reduce headcount needs by 10%. Csuite sounds gre
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by bushbaba 2y ago
Water heaters are 18% of a homes U.S. energy usage. No reason I can’t shift when my hot water is heated throughout the day. Lots of similar industrial use cases
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by bushbaba 2y ago
Susan not only built up YouTube but also the community around her. She will be missed but not forgotten
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by bushbaba 2y ago
Eh close to free. This is the Google edge nodes in ISPs. But Google isn’t the only one with such an arrangement. Akamai, Netflix and a few others have same cost structure for in isp nodes.
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by bushbaba 2y ago
SFUSD lotto system, and the schools being far away enough. Yeah, everyone I know in sf drives their kids to school

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