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by cheriot 3y ago
What could possibly go wrong > Bayer marketed diacetylmorphine as an over-the-counter drug under the trademark name Heroin.[91] It was developed chiefly as a morphine substitute for cough suppressants https://en.wikipedia.org&
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The only other asset class whose value is greater than it's practical use is gold. Even silver is losing that status. In the last 10,000 years many things have been used as a store of value, but the only one that's maintained it i
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by cheriot 3y ago
Good or bad, I wouldn't publicly comment on my employer without a throwaway. Unnecessary risk.
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Yes, a bubble is a mismatch between price and value. Saying value > 0 is not disproving a bubble.
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My point is that Google benefits from the status quo. What's better for the consumer is a different topic
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Google is more profitable in ads and search than anyone else so they can rationally bid higher for access to users. It's part of the moat. Banning these payments is bad for Google because then Apple and Samsung will ship their own apps
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I wish SFPD used drones more often. Instead they say nothing can be done because they're prohibited from high speed chases where it endangers the public.
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Nobody should be surprised by this or think that these are the only bribes at DBI. It's a system designed to make bribes necessary, https://thefrisc.com/how-long-it-really-takes-to-get-a-build... The city invested in a
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by cheriot 3y ago
Your customer isn't going to decide salaries, promotions, or who gets laid off. Here's your universal truth: focus on the person whose decision affects your outcome. If you work for people that will see and reward your focus on th
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> 10) You will profit more from good soft skills than from good technical skills Related to this, your customer is not the company's customer, it's your management chain. It took me an embarrassingly long time to internalize th
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Wages can fall off a cliff within modest distances. To use unemployment rate as a proxy for driver pay, Bakersfield, CA 7.5% and San Francisco, CA 3.5%. Go a little farther to Los Vegas 5.7% and one can avoid California's minimum wage.
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I think that's a lot of it. Even the way econ/finance interpretations of surveys has changed because responses are now driven by politics. People will say their own finances are great, but the economy is horrible.
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That's not what this is saying. It's a long term shift in food spending to restaurants.
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I think I'm getting the unit right on this graph. Food at home as a percentage of disposable income: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1aWLA
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Agreed. There's a lot of smart people on HN, but the economics commentary is consistently not great.
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That's a reflection of a growing economy. Real incomes are higher so people have more to spend. Edit: add data Real personal income https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RPI Real GDP https://fred.stlouisfe
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Shadow Stats is tin foil hat style economics. Price level measurement is complex and there are worthwhile debates, but this is not that.
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Wasn't the methodology change on housing costs? If this is under counting inflation then spending at restaurants is up even more. I guess people have money to spend and are enjoying the restaurant scene.
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by cheriot 3y ago
Before the doomers run away with this thread, real spending on food prepared at home is down . This is more than off set by increased spending at restaurants. This returns to the pre-covid trends.
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My point isn't the number of weights, it's that the whole model is a bunch of numbers. There's no access control within the model because it's one function of text -> model weights -> text.
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It's 175 billion numeric weights spitting out text. Unclear to me how we'll ever control it enough to trust it with sensitive data or access.
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Maybe the authors saw this comment because the page you link to says, "A: Passkeys imports and exports will be included in a future release."
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The shareholders are poorer than they were 10 years ago. This company is an employment program for incompetent executives.
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M&A of stagnant businesses, yes. Cisco, Oracle, and private equity are acquirers to worry about. They buy after growth has stalled and milk users that have high switching costs. Acquirers of growing businesses generally want that growth
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How are they surveilling your every move? Every company has records of what we do in their app. How is using that data for advertising, "constant unchecked access"?
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I don't get the analogy. Facebook is using data you give them when using the app. How is that similar to invading your home?
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This is a normal way for companies to shut down competition. No cleverness required.
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The approach to alcohol isn't all that different: It's entirely legal for a parent serve alcohol to their kid. If it were possible for each store to determine the parent's wish's, we'd probably have that. Parents co
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Credit card debt as a % of disposable income is similar to pre-covid https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1aFmn Most of the "consumer debt reaches all time high" events are explained by a larger economy and i
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Judge: Why do you let your kids use social media? Parent: All the other kids are on it. ... PS There's some in between, https://support.google.com/families/answer/7103340

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