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by epups 3y ago
Will you get a check for your posts on HN? Your tweets? No, right? So all this talk about paying people for their data is rubbish, and what is really at stake here are checks between huge corporations that already stole it from you in the f
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by epups 3y ago
Since they are trained on all kinds of Internet content, might be a little tricky to manage paying >1B people
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by epups 3y ago
Yes, the premise is absolutely ridiculous here. A country where you might be safer from homicide (doubtful) but where the government can just imprison anybody at will, and is abusing that power daily - this is not the safest country in Lati
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by epups 3y ago
Chavez had similar approval ratings at some point. He even won fair elections actually. I don't believe for a second that thee numbers are real. It might hard to hide a death, but not recognising it as a murder is actually pretty easy.
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by epups 3y ago
A ridiculous statement. It is based on data provided by a police force controlled by a dictatorship who is promoting indiscriminate mass imprisonment.
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by epups 3y ago
If you open a company right now, what would be your criteria for promotion?
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by epups 3y ago
Do you promote people at your company based on the same principles you declare as universal? Or do you at least try to promote the more efficient/useful people?
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by epups 3y ago
Not sure what point you're trying to make here. You can go and start your company any time, sure, but I would much rather be a VP in a medium sized startup than a founder. And to get to VP, even in a small organisation, you certainly n
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by epups 3y ago
It would arguably be less warm at least.
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by epups 3y ago
Robert F. Kennedy has also been making statements against videogames. Quite disconcerting that we still have to listen to this after the mountain of data proving the opposite. And also that these are coming from supposedly progressive polit
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by epups 3y ago
> IMHO, all the garbage videos I see of people doing "pranks" (which are often low grade violence against strangers) just make impressionable teens and young adults feel is is OK do engage in that sort of behavior I'm sorr
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by epups 3y ago
The parent said he could simply shut it off entirely without consequences. I'm not sure he could sell it right now for even half the money he put in.
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by epups 3y ago
This is healthy but some of us find themselves in a position where caring about the company has tangential benefits like bonuses, stock options, que promotions and other objectives with a well defined incentive for you to personally care ab
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by epups 3y ago
This is actually not true. His wealth is propped up by trust. If everyone starts to believe that he's incompetent, stock prices will go down and loans will be more expensive. Also, he bought twitter by taking debt against his other ass
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by epups 3y ago
How does it work in the EU for you? In my experience it's the same bullshit
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Except Google, who would presumably lose advertisers by increasing prices, and the advertisers themselves who now have to pay more.
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by epups 3y ago
The article doesn't give out numbers, but we can estimate. As per levels.fyi, an average Software Developer at Twitter earns approximately $160,000/year. Not everyone laid off was a developer but some were also more senior, so let
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by epups 3y ago
If the comments all belong to Reddit, are they legally liable for any illegal stuff on them?
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by epups 3y ago
Why don't you answer my question? Can you point to a country that uses electrolysis and hydrogen at scale currently? Because if we are going by estimates and projections, I can also talk about fusion and other pipe dreams on the nuclea
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by epups 3y ago
This is a good point. The other side of the coin is that by not moving to a modern day stack, the company slowly finds it harder and harder to attract staff to maintain it. So, keeping up with trends is not just good for the ICs.
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by epups 3y ago
There is no easy way to economically produce a synthetic fuel at scale as you suggest. It is irrelevant whether breeder reactors work or not, I can point to dozens of countries with a significant impact of nuclear in their mix, but you cann
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by epups 3y ago
Can you point me to a country that can store even 1% of their energy needs currently? If not, you're talking about unproven technologies that may or may not fix this problem. I hope they do, but until then we are in a world where closi
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by epups 3y ago
Sorry but your source is bad - no details whatsoever about which storage solution they are aiming for. Regardless, we know for a fact that not a single country has storage capabilities for even 1% of their energy needs. Lots of initiatives
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by epups 3y ago
Renewables are great but they don't provide a good base capacity capability. That means you still need hydro, geothermal (both limited), coal, gas, oil or nuclear in your grid, with enough capacity to provide energy in case it's n
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by epups 3y ago
The clean up was absolutely over the top and not guided by objective measures. The government effectively already absorbs all costs involving the externalities of coal, oil and other dirty sources of energy, which add up to way more than 15
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by epups 3y ago
Reddit has a ton of revenue - $500 million per year. Considering the work of actually running the site is done by volunteers, what is baffling is that they cannot be profitable with this amount of money.
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by epups 3y ago
Why wouldn't your friend just open up a practice and compete with this dysfunctional company?
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Ok but in that scenario, a natural emergence would have come from a strain from Wuhan, while the lab leak theory explains why a virus from relatively far away had an outbreak in Wuhan.
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A case could be made that this state-level independence is a strength, not a flaw: you can experiment and see what works and doesn't, and also accommodate to local realities if needed. In practice, I agree with you, states are not doin
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by epups 3y ago
I don't understand this line of argument. The facts are that 1) the virus outbreak was in Wuhan, 2) that there ws a local lab working on virus samples that come from all over the world and 3) as far as we know, the particular strain th

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