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Market power just means having a negotiating position that allows you to determine prices, regardless of how that negotiating position is obtained. It can either come from illicit means (say cartels for example), or from true innovation and
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What about googling then? I often google how to do X while writing code or developing because I don't remember the exact CLI flags and reading the manpage takes more time than asking google. I'm not a big LLM user yet but I imagin
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Python is already fast where it matters: often, it is just used to integrate existing C/C++ libraries like numpy or pytorch. It is more an integration language than one where you write your heavy algorithms in. For JS, during the time
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There is a lot of IoT: autonomous forklifts in a parking lot, TVs that upload which TV shows you watched, oil pumps in the middle of nowhere, smart meters. Some make more sense, others less. But yeah, often consumer privacy and user control
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> The password alone can identify each client, and activate different configs for each one. That's interesting, first time I hear this. How would that be represented in the hostapd config file? Would it be WPA enterprise using a rad
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Companies like Google for example. Their business model revolves around accessing websites of other people, downloading them, keeping that copy around and then presenting snippets to people who. Here is them arguing against retroactively ap
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The USA often ignores the international community in many things, if the right domestic interest groups are behind it. It's just that currently the USA has powerful domestic companies/interests that are against copyright term exte
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> I picked a relatively large, recent, US based solar farm from the list of plants in wikipedia > Agua Caliente Solar Project (2016) Note that solar being cheaper than nuclear is a more recent phenomenon than 2016. The solar panel pri
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> One kilogram of uranium-235 (50 cm^3) can theoretically produce about 20 terajoules of energy. That's missing the huge and expensive nuclear power plant around that kilogram of uranium. If you don't account for the conversion
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Humans might evolve tools to lower cultural drift or get it to zero even, which is also needed I think if you want to build galaxy spanning societies, for precisely the reason you state. E.g. you could have many jobs in society be done by m
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Your figure is accurate for the global scale. In the USA it's also around 3%. In the UK, it's 8% though: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/28/scientists-...
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The UK is surrounded by water, and ships are a comparatively slow means of transportation.
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The global extinction event is here, yes, but it can always be worse. The slower climate change is, the more easily we can adapt to it. Maybe we will reach tipping points later like the release of frozen methane. This gives valuable time to
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I have seen some political journalism first hand (in a micro cosm, not the big world stage) and I saw how wrong journalists can get details sometimes. That was even without assuming a bias of the journalists involved, which is more often pr
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You take a software engineer's point of view. The people who build cars, especially at established car companies are mechanical engineers however. And they design consumer technology, they don't design military vehicles or ambulan
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Capacity limits for drives exist because the maximum capacity of SD cards depends on the protocol used: SD, SDHC, SDXC, SDUC. Each protocol requires driver support in the device. Hardware wise, there isn't many changes required though,
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I'm neither VC or founder, what I wrote just bases on assumptions. It definitely helps my arguments I think that successful tech founders have went to Harvard, like Paul Graham, Bill Gates, Nathan Blecharczyk, and Mark Zuckerberg.
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> What other places outside of DC does federal law apply to? In theory, anything owned by the federal government is under federal law. This means federal court houses, branches of the fed, federal waters (anything above 3 geographical mi
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When looking for CEOs, they don't look for top notch engineering talent, they look for top notch CEO talent, where talent means capability. CEOs do need deep technical understanding, anything else and you have an enviroment that scares
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If you have the available RAM/SSD for a birthday attack, you only need 48 bits worth of complexity, which makes this a manageable problem. I suppose the ASICs for bitcoin mining don't have the needed bandwidth to storage devices w
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Tbh with 5G around, there is no need for Google's data. Carriers can localize phones well enough already now.
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There is a tiler who lives in a region that houses engineers of companies like Audi and Siemens. Apparently these folks take their habit of being so extremely strict, the same habit that is the base for Germany's economic success and t
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> Local landowners can kick people off their land. Sounds like subreddit moderators to me? Still builds on human labour, this time unpaid and from community members.
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Microsoft had a bunch of solutions to handle their massive Windows repo: VFS for Git (GVFS), Scalar, and now it has a bunch of MS specific patches on top of the official git client, but apparently that one is also not required any more as p
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Their last AI marketing flop from January had a larger drop of 9%: https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-ai-chatbot-bard-of... It's weird that they had two such marketing flops in a single year, and both for
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coreboot just initializes the hardware, the logo is something that the payload displays: https://www.coreboot.org/Payloads The most typically used payload is u-boot: https://docs.u-boot.org/en/latest&#x
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It does happen that tech CEOs found companies that compete partially or completely with their prior creations. Usually at that point the founder CEO only owns a small portion of the company, and the new company might give them the opportuni
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You can fine tune it, which gets you far, don't get me wrong. But you cannot study how major model changes to Llama or changes during the training process behave when you apply those changes from scratch.
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> Desktop is just happen to be supported for the hobbyist market. That Linux hobbyist market is barely relevant. Desktop Linux is supported by Nvidia because it is a big thing in the SFX industry.
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> Blink and Webkit are still far more similar than any other two platforms. It's easier to develop for two browsers than even two Linux distros / package managers. Given the EU digital market's act, this will deteriorate v

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