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by dkural 9y ago
Bias warning: I am a liberal democrat. I see wikileaks as more of a 'balance of powers' organization. It sees all concentration of power, especially state power, as presenting a great danger to people. Thus it tries to "equa
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Except, airplanes kinda do flap their "wings" - each motor blade is a wing. The motors then turn those blades - i.e. flap the blade wings, for the same purpose - push air and generate lift. Airplanes also have an additional set o
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by dkural 9y ago
Out of curiosity, what's the KPI? p.s. I don't think papers qualify as a "demo". I'm with you re: not running it like an academic lab and chasing a minimal publishable unit or fashions of the time. Demo = Demonstrab
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I understand, I don't mean commercial progress either.
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Would be great if they showed some demonstrations / proof of any kind. DeepMind did great in that respect. I understand they're working on a different problem, but it's been a number of years; usually correct ideas don't
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Hope sells well, against reason. It's a soft way to gamble. Gambling also sells well.
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Puff piece.
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I think in the long run you are likely be right - at scale software margins are amazing. As of today, Slack looses some money & is unprofitable.
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Better buy than Slack for $9B.
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Amazon's been a prudent steward of its cash and shareholder value. I'd be really surprised if it spent this sum over Slack & encourage Bezos to go get his head checked. Messaging platforms come and go. Many better ways to spen
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by dkural 9y ago
Actually he could. Vanguard would easily absorb it. Vanguard has about 4 trillion dollars of assets under management. $40B corresponds to about 1% of it, about a single day's stock market wiggle.
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As the comments in the article point out, it's very convenient that a female prostitute gets blamed for it without firm evidence.
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While I agree that 102% marginal rate is ridiculous, you are incorrect, she didn't have to pay more than her total income.
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Those were just example figures. A month-long project will finish 1-2 weeks later. A 4 year long project, will finish 1 year later - for instance, a smartphone.
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I'm basing everything I say, including the numbers used, based on the article: He accepts that his weekly output is at 80% compared to before.
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He also doesn't really think well from the company's perspective, here's an Employee FAQ to complement the Boss FAQ on what's not addressed: 1. There is a fixed cost to having an in-house employee no matter how many hour
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by dkural 9y ago
You read hackernews, which alone suggests you are in the far, far tail of average developed country consumer. Most people hate, and always hated computers. Most people don't even have college degrees, and don't need heavy utility
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reading a book is a significant investment of time. when published by untrustworthy institutions, i am not willing to make that investment.
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I read books to gain information. Books are convenient collections of facts where ideally the author has gone through the trouble of scholarship and synthesis. Thus, when I read any book, I like starting with a high bayesian prior of being
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To me it sounds exactly like they're playing the two instruments on top of each other, if not 'side by side' - which is to say, not like something I've never heard before.
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vaccines, antibiotics etc. are pretty big improvements upon the natural order. Brings the famous New Yorker cartoon about cavemen observing their life spans to mind.
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Which is published by the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, known among other things, for climate change denialism of all sorts: 1) saying it will be minor / non-existent, 2) if it is real, it won't cost m
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by dkural 9y ago
Would've been nice to see more photos of the non-reconstructed pyramids. Most of the photos were either sand or reconstructed pyramids.
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If I had to pick one piece of advice for software developers looking to jump into entrepreneurship, it is that most companies fail because they build something no one wants. In fact they build it really well. Thus technical debt, scalabilit
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This Man Is Spending Millions to Break Elon Musk's Trump Ties(bloomberg.com)
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You'll then get a job within 2-3 months at a higher salary than what your startup paid you ... plus you'll have a brand new network in your startups industry, with competitors that respect what you've done & gone through.
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Adults aren't quiet "in public" either. While I do believe in boundaries, as long as kids aren't physically bothering strangers, they have every right to run around and make noise in public as the street musician, the lo
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by dkural 10y ago
I think the long form is less clear - Stanford University is the common name. Stanford is a fine and commonly used abbreviation. Many people don't know the full, long name.
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He didn't start out with that kind of size. He built it from nothing, with strong competitors like Walmart who had more volume for physical goods that could negotiate better deals with UPS and FedEx for years. AWS is beating Google, Mi
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I am not sure. In Turkish, for instance: bakimliliastiramadiklarimizdanmisiniz? It's a single word. It means: Are you one of those people who we tried to convert to take care of themselves better but failed to do so? The language prop

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