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by d--b 2y ago
It’s crazy that the board brought Altman back just on employees threatening to quit, and fears that he would go to Microsoft! Employees could easily have been swayed by telling them that the guy was constantly lying and that Altman’s contri
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by d--b 2y ago
Please, tell me there's a phone coming along. Light Phone made a mistake not going Android. You totally nailed it with that casually dropped Spotify icon in that shot! I personally have zero use for a tablet. But if I can have an eink
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by d--b 2y ago
Says the paper that just entered into an agreement with OpenAi
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by d--b 2y ago
Oh, how I wish my cloud workstation was just a HD cam pointed at boxes somewhere in Pennsylvania, and people just changing things very quickly.
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by d--b 2y ago
Well if the presence of big cats is advertised in the news, you can be sure that a bunch of morons will comb that part of land to get a chance to shoot the beasts and hang their heads to the walls.
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by d--b 2y ago
My guess is that a person that gets other people to click on links is given a higher “influence score”, or something like that.
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by d--b 2y ago
Reminds me that I used to play chess by email back in the 90s.
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by d--b 2y ago
Let's see: maybe try writing sentences that starts with "I wish I could".
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by d--b 2y ago
This sounds very much like COM. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component_Object_Model
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by d--b 2y ago
Nice I’ll put some Easter eggs in my answers.
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by d--b 2y ago
Congrats! Adding 2 cents here: my wife only used a menstruation tracker when we were trying to conceive. Having the app predict/notify the ovulation day was useful.
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by d--b 2y ago
> its announcement of a first-ever cash dividend of 20 cents per share Ok so there has never been a dividend payment so far, so all the money investors get out from Google is from new investors that get in? Is that even allowed?
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by d--b 3y ago
No offense but the fashion I like is way more colorful.
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by d--b 3y ago
Yes exactly. It's very difficult to find Mexican peppers in France, just gonna grow them. No interest in growing tomatoes whatsoever.
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by d--b 3y ago
Ok the most important sentence in this essay is its subtitle: “Advice for myself around leisure activities” Personally I am no perfectionist at all, but I don’t see the fun in making stuff myself that I could otherwise buy. I took up sewing
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by d--b 3y ago
The geocities times weren’t THAT cool. We mostly had to go through pages and pages of crap stuff, cause we couldn’t find shit.
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by d--b 3y ago
This is the first time I hear about this analogy and I think it's quite interesting. As with all business analogies, it probably doesn't fit all situations. Like at some point the monkey gets split into sub-monkeys, and suddenly y
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by d--b 3y ago
Virtually all films follow that pattern. Read any textbook about screenwriting, and they'll tell you that 1 any movie has an overarching theme (here is routine life), and 2 all characters need to follow some kind of evolution arc (Phil
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by d--b 3y ago
These are quite uncomfortable, actually. They can have a negative impact on your teeth and jaws (says my dentist friend who wears one every night). So less invasive => yes, but still far from perfect.
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by d--b 3y ago
YC is not a university, they can get people they like in whenever they want.
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by d--b 3y ago
Cause it doesn’t scale. I mean there are a bunch of gadgets that are somewhat interesting to touch, but the real stuff would require someone to do something to you (the robotics isn’t there yet to create an experience that is both interesti
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by d--b 3y ago
I think this kind of tricks definitely work the first time. But my gut feeling is that if you do it several times the effect decreases as the mental image of throwing the thing in the bin becomes more familiar.
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by d--b 3y ago
Search for dermatology on your app store, there are a bunch of apps that do it...
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by d--b 3y ago
A legal question here: are we allowed to shoot down a drone that snoops over our house?
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by d--b 3y ago
The silver lining is that now you don't have to maintain it. Maintenance is hell.
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by d--b 3y ago
I'm saying it may resolve naturally, if any of the overpriced university decides that over charging for education is not in line with their ethics.
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by d--b 3y ago
Because not everything in life should be driven by optimizing profit?
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by d--b 3y ago
There are a bunch of things in a house that are time consuming that would benefit from the help of robots. In fact it’s all the things that rich people can afford to hire someone to do: - cooking - cleaning - taking care of kids You can be
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by d--b 3y ago
The single most important thing impacting developers is hype. We may not fall for basic marketing tricks, but oh boy do we run behind hype trains.
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by d--b 3y ago
Well, this post is surely going to get removed because of flaming in comments, so, which is better, post with no comments, or no post at all?

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