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by ethbr1 2mo ago
Luckily, the current technology equity market has sound fundamentals and lacks speculative opportunities.
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Salary aside, I'd still have assumed Wikimedia would be able to find a CTO who wouldn't jump ship the next year. Either they're really bad at picking, or the job is really bad.
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What's up with the continually revolving CTO chair? (under Executive)
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And laws. The US Congress could pass updates to the Sherman or Clayton acts any time they want to. As soon as "selling the company to big tech" became more financially attractive than growing a competitor, we should have been look
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Google, culturally, seems very tone-deaf to market signals. Granted: historically they have often been the smartest person in the room (collectively speaking) But a consequence of this is that an organization (a) doesn't develop pre-re
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This is one place I think the 00s did a disservice to security. It should have been apparent to anyone by that time that "someone malicious physically standing next to the box" is an order of magnitude rarer security risk than &qu
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Nobody specified what game.
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Imho, this is the crux of the debate. Of course Linus realizes linux development is political, because he's lived that, however he might phrase it. What I think both are actually saying: Drew Devault (blogger): Linux development shou
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> largest build-out, which is in renewables Yes and... it's still a projected ~50/50 split of future datacenter energy growth being met by renewables or coal (China) + natural gas (US). https://www.iea.org/rep
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> Peter Thiel may be evil but he'll almost certainly never knowingly instigate genocidal war in a foreign land for marginal benefit to his interests "Thiel's Palantir, Israel agree strategic partnership for battle tech&q
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You've just arrived back at capitalism: it's the least bad resource allocation optimization algorithm assuming everyone is an amoral asshole and willing to take every advantage they can . Superior systems exist, but they require
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Ironically, I've been grilled harder trying to get into Canada than any other country. Not sure what it is about Canadian border guards...
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https://xkcd.com/325/ Except CBP harassment instead of a bobcat. Only 1-in-30 people will ever know there's a serious problem.
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I have no idea what it was like to live there, but did visit circa-late-90s. Remember noticing that "walls" in Caracas meant 10' high concrete or brick, topped by glass shards or razor wire. And there were walls around everyt
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Very rarely do countries go to war because they think it will improve their economy. They go to war because a large chunk of their population is pissed off about the economy. See also: US
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> And if you think that their distilling from US models was in any way anti-competitive or illegal, then I guess maybe "deal with it", much akin to Anthropic, Google and OAI's response around taking the (copyright) conten
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The irony is much of the China-ASEA acrimony seems to be over China's aggressive territorial claims in the South China Sea. Which was a dumb move because, given Chinese economic superiority, they could have just quietly negotiated 99 y
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> China can at least so far be relied upon to not shoot itself in the foot (and take the whole word with it) Here's the dangerous thing about that: modern CCP China is a newly ascendant world power. Say what you want about the US
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> And over the next few years, everyone and their dog will have local GPU compute to train locally. People have home labs, the bar isn't that high, and eventually large text datasets will escape from Anthropic and other companies,
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And yet current state ~5-13% of Americans are food insecure, despite GDP being large enough to support sufficient food for all. In aggregate, capital is not particularly humane, left to its own devices.
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The difference is that phased safety/efficacy trial costs are sunk. If it fails, you've produced near $0 value, aside from some more information (maybe) about how something doesn't work. Because those costs are strictly for t
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Phase I testing is ~$5M. Phase II $6-20M. Phase III is $10-50M. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26908540/ (up to 2012 numbers, non-inflation-adjusted) Those costs are strictly for the mandatory testing, not the precu
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UBI is an allocation question, not a total question. If GDP 2x's and labor becomes less scarce (and therefore less powerful), it's as possible that all those gains go to capital as anything else.
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Anyone who thinks wealthy people willing part with any amount of wealth en masse hasn't studied history. One of the reason democracy has tended to be a stable form of government is that it naturally finds a balance between the haves an
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> And good taste. There goes the ability to use the web as a training set.
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> Also said after seeing the printing press, automobile, calculator, etc for the first time Because society has found such sustainable solutions to capital wealth concentration in the intervening years.
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No, but the rest of the market can cause you to avoid a margin call with its belief.
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What other popular products use five separate identifiers in mass market products? (Ryzen) (AI) (Max+) (Pro) (495)
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To expand, positional definition of adjectives tends to be a bad marketing scheme. Nobody knows that pro and max mean specific things. If AMD needs to create a full cross-product of their hardware feature set, because they intend to have a
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What is this, Dwarf Fortress?

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