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by cardosof 4y ago
Any sovereign nation should decide what it wants to do within its own borders. However, since what you do in your backyard affects your neighborhood, it's only fair to put up some common sense rules into place. One simple thing to do
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by cardosof 4y ago
In three years, OpenAI will become the largest supplier of large language models. All customer facing systems are upgraded with OpenAI models, becoming fully unmanned. Afterwards, they answer with a perfect operational record. The OpenAI fu
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by cardosof 4y ago
Having lived most of my life in a very corrupt country, my view is that corruption is to society what cancer is to the body.
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by cardosof 4y ago
I've used Deming's ideas to optimize ads and it did work way better than bayesian ab testing or ML-based approaches. However, management did not like that I was using something so old, so I had to rebrand it, but it was Deming sti
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by cardosof 4y ago
They changed their name to Posit so yeah, that's a conscious move away from R.
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by cardosof 4y ago
Not really related to the post but since R is so rare here in Hacker News, I will ask anyway: is R still worth using in 2022-23? Even RStudio gave up it's R brand to focus on Python.
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by cardosof 4y ago
The three basic options: either the price for the product pays for itself and its future costs, or the product needs a subscription to run properly, or ads. Amazon didn't want the first route so they could gain market share/penetr
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by cardosof 4y ago
Here's a personal anecdote: my father is an engineer at a small, 8-person company. He's 68. They use two languages: C and Java. The short story is, they created a system for telco companies in late 90s. Said system deals directly
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by cardosof 4y ago
the AI is driving On a more serious note since this is not Reddit, I have watched movies in VR during bus trips (6h long routes). It works, it's way better than looking at laptop/tablet/phone.
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by cardosof 4y ago
He's too erratic for his position at the public company he runs and others he's part of. He tends to run away from technical confrontations. He seeks attention, most often in childish ways. He runs business based on hype, guerrill
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by cardosof 4y ago
In Brazil, what other companies are doing is this: you buy the phone, you get the charger as a gift. It doesn't need to be in the same package, and sometimes it arrives by mail days after - as long as consumers get the charger, no one
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by cardosof 4y ago
And the effect gets multiplied - all of them have a family, buy products, hire services etc.
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by cardosof 4y ago
Switches switch, routers route. More seriously, a switch connects multiple endpoints to form a network, while a router connects switches to create a network of networks, and it routes packets between nodes in the most efficient way so one
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by cardosof 4y ago
I took some business classes at NYU eons ago (2013) and most of the time we were discussing human conflicts and incentives. I think yes, many business schools, even "top" ones, may very well suck, but 90% of anything is crap anywa
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by cardosof 4y ago
Richer areas always get counted first.
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by cardosof 4y ago
I think it is more reasonable to assume most executives have similar incentives and mindsets so all companies are as "evil" as they can with all the data they have if they believe they can get away with it.
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by cardosof 4y ago
Historically, yes* - I'm not sure how things are today. * https://youtu.be/GrhSLf0I-HM
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by cardosof 4y ago
Social networks should put up warning signs and only accept 18+ users, just like cigarettes.
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by cardosof 4y ago
So if I activate this tiny muscle in my calf for a while my metabolism will be up for hours? And where all that added energy will go? I don't know a thing in this area but I know that when something looks too good to be true, it proba
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by cardosof 4y ago
Posts mentioning WordStar always make me smile. My father, a 68 y.o. C dev, uses WordStar to this day and always tells me to switch to it from whatever I'm using.
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by cardosof 4y ago
There and back again, a Georgism tale.
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by cardosof 4y ago
Can the duopoly be broken? Yes, you can have Pix, the system created by the Brazilian Central Bank for instant, verified payments and some credit/installments features. It's cheaper for business but then a central bank will know
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If Your Co-Workers Are ‘Quiet Quitting,’ Here’s What That Means(wsj.com)
4 points by cardosof 4y ago|2 comments
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by cardosof 4y ago
> they treat retail like its an embarrassing legacy offering I agree, which is such a shame because their retail brings valuable customer data they'll later monetize with ads and other things.
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by cardosof 4y ago
Same here, but everything changed as some folks started having children. Now all events are back, people attend & they are fun again. So, at least in my family, the events are there for the kids and, without kids, no one gets interested
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by cardosof 4y ago
It's not all that controversial to me. It's simple and it's been around for decades at least: put all employees in a big bell curve, fire one end and promote the other, try to raise motivation and productivity for everyone el
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by cardosof 4y ago
In general I agree with you, just want to point out that, as others mentioned, inflation was already in a historic record since 1982 by January/22, before the war. Also: > Russia No one did really stop buying Russian exports, as we
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by cardosof 4y ago
As others said: traffic goes down, restaurants close doors. Food prices may not be the culprit, people getting their meals from delivery and cooking at home may be the cause as well. Having that said, I do work in market research and gather
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by cardosof 4y ago
Cool, can you build production stuff / products or is it focused on personal projects?
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by cardosof 4y ago
Too soon to tell? If Spotify reaches "the home of podcasts" status, customers who rarely listen to podcasts may keep their subscriptions just for those rare occasions.

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