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On the one hand, it makes it easy for you to reach customers. On the other hand, it makes it easy for your competitors to reach customers. I'd argue that, on the whole, the internet has made starting "just an idea and a garage&quo
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That was the root of Google's evil, but they would have gotten there anyway. Afaik, it wasn't McDonnell Douglas/Boeing, where DoubleClick executives metastisized their culture in Google. It's just... Google realized it&#
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Preemptive intervention has never been politically palatable in democracies. A concrete bad outcome is necessary to galvanize action. Look how often even SNAP gets shade, and that's literally about feeding people . But democracy worst
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Two things can both be true. It's a zero sum game, and it's the morally right thing to do. Part of the annoying thing about the modern progressive movement is how they'll twist themselves in knots to market something, when th
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> Helping the [less] fortunate isn't a zero-sum game. Yes, it is, and it's fine to be honest about that. I'm not less fortunate. I support helping the less fortunate more. And I realize doing so is going to require sacri
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An interesting question tagged as duplicate with two unrelated references. Who would have guessed?
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Investors don't understand AI past "It will change things." Which means there needs to be a plan to deal with change. What the end deliverable of the plan is doesn't matter: effectively it's the company demonstratin
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I had a Miata second gen 6-speed for a few years, and 110% agree on the fun level of street legal go-carts, over heavier but more powerful. Thanks for the impression. I'll make sure to test drive one if the opportunity comes up. RIP Mi
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bTeVgfPM0Xw&t=5m29s Life, uh, finds a way.
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From my understanding, Databrick's core value proposition is -- 'We let you do things you want to, with the people you have .' It may surprise HN to learn, but most companies don't have top-tier technical talent. Conseq
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The reasons I've seen cited, chiefly individual unit plumbing, don't jive with modern building construction. Most office buildings are reinforced concrete floors, supported by internal load bearing columns, with glass facings. ...
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> Making arbitrary rules unbreakable has always seemed iffy to me... It creates better hackers.
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How'd the MR2 drive? I've had one of those on my quirk to-buy list for awhile.
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Indeed. People cannot be said to be making a choice when they're uninformed about the relevant details. Study after study has shown that the general public has no idea about how their data is bought and sold, beyond "Oh, yeah, som
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The only reason those 3 aren't selling data is that they have the vertical integration to launder and monetize it themselves. They don't have to sell it, because they can keep it, productize it, and then sell the targeting infor
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Parent was likely talking about activities for which there is only a "mobile app" solution, with no fall-back human option. The usual pattern is: 1. Company releases mobile app 2. Company directs users to mobile app, for data coll
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This. Netflix's jumping the shark and pandering to blandest common denominator killed my interest. For a while, there were still interesting original shows in other countries (Money Heist, Dark), but then those seemed to dry up as well
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To me, the most important feature would be the same as the web's -- easy hypertext linking. Likelihood of human recognizing that a summarization is bad ~= ease of a human to review the raw data for something questionable. Since modern
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> Idk why governments think they can make things cheaper simply by just saying "this is now the new price and you can't change it". Because authoritarian regimes and price controls are two sides of the same coin. Economi
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Yes. Lost transcription of public meetings & summarization are one of the greatest impacts of the decimation of local media. It's not glorious, but many stories began with a comment or motion at the end of a 4 hour meeting.
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It's always nice to see actual numbers in a debate! (and hat tip to Thad Starner [0] and Haynes) If you take nothing else away from this: - Try to keep detail and gaze in the 10° to 30° range (from view center) to limit fatigue - Peopl
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> Any concentration of power is bad Multiple failed, weak democracies that were subsequently replaced by dictatorships, several in France, would beg to differ. It's a balance between centralization (stability) and decentralization
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Indeed. Companies hate unions because they increase labor costs and benefits. Does anyone really think corporate anti-union talking points are in their workers' best interest? Unions have their faults (e.g. bureaucracy), but corporat
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There's capital and then operational costs. If a Coast Guard ship heads out of St. John's or a Navy aircraft/ship/submarine transits to the area, they burn fuel but already existed with all their trained personnel. So mo
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You're going almost 4000m underwater. What percent should it have said? 10%? 5%? 30%? 90%? Anything other than "We've tried to make it safe, but there's a lot higher than 0% chance of death" would seem a lie. People
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Sonar beacon. Radio is useless underwater. It reportedly has radar reflectors and radio, for when it's on the surface. At 3800 m+ underwater, it'd need to be a powerful beacon. Even most military sonar maxes out around half that.
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Yes. "Missing" Assuming it sunk, it'll be order of week before it's found. It'll be order of month before it's raised, if it can be. And then after analysis we might know why it sunk. +60 hours after lost conta
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With unlimited history? Why not just leave them visible but read-only?
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If they said they were, and I did, presumably.
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>> OceanGate says it is an experimental vessel, and when CBS travelled onboard the correspondent had to sign a waiver accepting that it "has not been approved or certified by any regulatory body, and could result in physical inj

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