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by ethbr0 3y ago
Contemporary? Belarusian KGB, Chinese Ministry of State Security and United Front Work Department and 610 Office, Cuban Intelligence Directorate, Iranian Ministry of Intelligence, Haitian Service d'Intelligence National (funded by the
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by ethbr0 3y ago
The real issue is finding the right 100+ engineers and then managing them. That takes calendar time. There's a multiple to what people are willing to pay for SaaS solutions precisely because HR for knowledge work is such a pain.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
That sounds a lot like corporate leadership.
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They also have the benefit of being able to travel large distances through an environment (air) still largely unrestricted by humans. Long distance land movement for terrestrial wildlife is more fraught these days.
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Parent is taking issue with SVB's long date preference for the yield bump, which from a risk standpoint wasn't appropriate for their depositor base, in an inflationary environment.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
I don't think parent was suggesting to expand it to other industries -- they specifically meant banking CEOs. Which mirrors what Buffett was suggesting.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
The differences I've observed between successful-and-unsuccessful, Scrum-and-Kanban have been dominated by people over process (yes, I know). 1. Does the team have the right people, with the right skill sets, wearing the right hats? (e
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by ethbr0 3y ago
That's showing multiplied Celsius in terms of Kelvin , no? 1 Celsius = 274.15 Kelvin 10 Celsius = 283.15 Kelvin Obviously 283.15 K != 10 * 274.15 K. But that's not what's being said, per my lower comment -- it'
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Finally, APL's day is here! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Yes. Parent's spaghetti examples weren't the most illustrative. What I believe they're griping about is that "10°C does not have 10x as much heat as 1°C." In actuality, "10°C has 10x the difference in heat
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by ethbr0 3y ago
I'd say he realizes that a bit part of change is calibrating a message to a wide audience, to recruit them to your cause.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Howso? If the conversion to Kelvin is additive (as opposed to something more complicated), and multiplying in Kelvin is fine, then how is multiplying effectively-unsigned in Celsius not fine?
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by ethbr0 3y ago
I'd hazard that, given its content and writing, can16358p and technical reactor geeks are not the primary audience this was intended for.
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Yes. Lead-bismuth in the 7 boat Alfa class https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfa-class_submarine Presumably you wouldn't want to use something that violently catches fire (sodium) in a vehicle designed to tolerate
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Specifying "times" in Celsius is fine... as long as you stay either positive or negative. Implying that you can only specify multiples in Kelvin is being pedantic.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
As someone who literally would have never existed albeit for human experimentation, I have something of an opinion that sometimes pushing the boundaries of science is worth ethical sausage making.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
I clarify because, at least in the US (Canadian laws may differ), afaik building inspection is buyer beware. If an inspector checked something and if they noted the flaw then it would have been addressed. Or they could have just not checked
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by ethbr0 3y ago
> systematically checking that the rules have been followed (I believe building inspections work like this) For residential, building inspectors certainly don't work systematically, at least in the US. When and what they check is
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Defining "any old app" is a pretty nuanced decision nowadays.
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The real kernel is that the FT at least has someone on their cyber security team who was able to recommend and implement the change. Journalists shouldn't have to be cyberopsec experts. Journalists absolutely should have access to such
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by ethbr0 3y ago
It's important to note that NSLs are an exception rather than a rule, and one over which a freely elected body (Congress) has oversight. I'm not sure the same claim can be made about China.
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Oof. I did. Ribbon felt enough like magically disappearing menu items to me.
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In this case, the LLM isn't generating the output. It's only generating the sequence of actions to implement the user input. Think less "make a signature for me" and more "here's the signature I want to use, ma
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The irony is that LLMs are actually the real solution that Ribbon took an awkward half step towards -- how to quickly get to what a user actually wants to do. Originally: Taxonomically organized nested menus, culminating at a specific funct
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Post-Harvard, pre-everyone
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Well, in a global sense it's a race to the bottom: if X doesn't claim efficiencies of scale then Y will, and put X out of business. Germany would probably be the best counter-example to look at? Re: how to create and maintain medi
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I'd hazard to say a fair amount of low-income rentals are still paid in cash. It's not like the "don't declare income" slice of the economy disappeared. If you're paid in cash but not declaring it, you probably
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by ethbr0 3y ago
I'd say Facebook was on-the-whole good when it was limited to .edu users. It had a purpose, it solved it better than previous options, and (critically!) it had a ceiling on total addressable userbase. Once it metastisized into "ex
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If the criteria for FTC thumbscrews is "Become a 2023.USD$630 B market cap company" then I'm comfortable with that. Fuck combinations (to use the original 1900s phrasing); restore competition.
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I'm in no way suggesting one invest in Chinese real estate. Governments with xenophobic and nationalizing tendencies tend to be poor bets for private investment. Picking up pennies in front of a steamroller, etc.

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