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by downWidOutaFite 3y ago
The point I was trying to make is what are the situation where an independent small startup can make it big. Your examples are instructive, engineers were able to make id Software big because you didn't need a lot of hardware to invent
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by downWidOutaFite 3y ago
The real trick that made Google possible, and the following web 2.0 era startups, was that linux and commodity hardware was all that was needed at the time so engineers could strike out on their own. Comparing it to the current ML era where
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by downWidOutaFite 3y ago
I'm considering doing a career switch from one tech area to another but I hate how hard it is to see job trends. Supposedly there are job openings in "AI" whatever that is. Does anyone know somewhere to find real job trends o
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by downWidOutaFite 3y ago
This sounds similar to what's happened in Oakland, CA. When I moved here 25 years ago there was a huge underground music and arts scene in West Oakland warehouses but the last 10 years of gentrification has wiped it out. After the pand
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by downWidOutaFite 3y ago
But you're contributing to HN which is owned by VCs with increasingly aggressive political postures (which we are not allowed to discuss on here) who could pull the rug on us whenever they want to. The problem is that the n^2 stickines
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by downWidOutaFite 3y ago
Why would the math be different for apartment buildings? They also appreciate and they usually have better accountants to make sure no money is left on the table if it's available.
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by downWidOutaFite 3y ago
I don't know what the difference is between a threat and an attempt but just yesterday a U.S. House panel unanimously approved a bill that could ban it. Today Biden said he'd sign the bill it if it passes.
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by downWidOutaFite 3y ago
That follows only if your highest vision for society is optimizing profits in a capitalist framework. That the capitalist machine is first, humans second.
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by downWidOutaFite 3y ago
Political momentum keeps building for banning it in the USA as well. It's driven by both Chinese (too much control) and Israeli (not enough control) propaganda concerns.
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> the authors stress that is should remain a “waste” product and not create a market for increased shark fishing
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by downWidOutaFite 3y ago
Anyone who has owned a cloud connected device or software will tell you that companies cannot be trusted with remote access, they will abuse it every single time. And they'll have the useless cargo-cult security industry telling users
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by downWidOutaFite 3y ago
I mostly agree but the $100k is only launch cost, it doesn't include the engineering and manufacturing of the satellite or the ongoing operational costs.
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by downWidOutaFite 3y ago
That's a minor implementation detail that devs almost never have to think about.
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by downWidOutaFite 3y ago
Not available in the US as usual. There is not a single car under 2000lbs remaining in the US new car market.
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by downWidOutaFite 3y ago
The kid can handle it. In the 80s at 8 year old I would travel all over town on bikes and buses. The streets are safer now than they were back then.
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by downWidOutaFite 3y ago
I have no idea why people use Coinbase. They charge exorbitant fees and will lock your account at the drop of hat if you try to cash out.
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by downWidOutaFite 3y ago
Presumably gas planets have a layer dense enough that a solid would float.
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by downWidOutaFite 3y ago
Id like an example because i don't buy it. Unless you count something like reporting that scientists say climate change is real.
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by downWidOutaFite 3y ago
I've seen some really nice UI query systems that have plenty of expressive power for 99.9% of queries but also include an escape hatch to allow you to use a query language. Mixpanel has one that I really like and I've seen non-tec
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by downWidOutaFite 3y ago
Most Republicans want to censor just different things, just look at all the book bannings across the country. There are tons of things that lefty people complain about being censored on social media but we don't here about it because l
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by downWidOutaFite 3y ago
If you're doing worker threads with multiple callbacks to listeners whose lifecycles are properly managed to avoid memory leaks then Rx will probably be simpler. If you're not doing threading or if your listeners only receive one
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by downWidOutaFite 3y ago
This would be a lot more true if we could break up the trillion dollar tech monopolies. And we could do it if we would muster up the political will to do it. Step one is to stop idolizing the crony VCs and billionaires.
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by downWidOutaFite 3y ago
Doesn't this just mean that the LLM ingested training data where people talk about banning controversial propaganda type of newspapers while nobody talks about banning nyt or wapo?
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by downWidOutaFite 3y ago
If you were serious about this line of argument you would be appalled by the massive waste of potential in today's population, so many wasted brains especially in the "third world", and you would be an advocate for global wea
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by downWidOutaFite 3y ago
It is not economically violent for the poor people who buy the rice.
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by downWidOutaFite 3y ago
Isn't this the same rice we're eating here in the US?
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by downWidOutaFite 3y ago
It depends on your definition of elites. "Deep state" and "drain the swamp" is about attacking government elites but the same movement promotes less regulation and lower taxes for business elites.
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by downWidOutaFite 3y ago
It is not new. America is special because we are a nation of immigrants. Always have been. And it is one of America's biggest strengths, one of the reason why we have been so prosperous. The acrimonious immigration debate is also not n
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by downWidOutaFite 3y ago
1. the real keys to the kingdom are held by TSMC whose fab capacity rules the advanced chips we all get, from NVIDIA to Apple to AMD to even Intel these days. 2. the old advice is to sell shovels during a gold rush
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by downWidOutaFite 3y ago
You should stop using the generic term open source if what you really mean is Open Source InitiativeⓇ OSI Certified™ license.

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