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by fleddr 4y ago
"If the central bank of a cash-strapped nation started buying tech stocks with their foreign reserves, they’d rightfully be called out as loonies." It's all optics. Because the above is exactly what happens, stocks got pumped
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The US hit public debt of 135% 2 years ago. The US has not had an annual surplus since 2001 and in the last 2 years had a deficit of about 3T(!). I know, better rating, world reserve currency, etc. Just adding some context to "fiscal r
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by fleddr 4y ago
Next, do tech stocks. No matter your position, you have to be pretty bitter to actually develop and pay to host such a lame "told you!" site in a bear market. "Oopsie woopsie! They're very down! Would you also like to ir
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Where did I say otherwise?
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I need no convincing that performance matters, I'm a performance engineer by profession. You're kind of contradicting yourself. The numbers you use (100ms, 1s, 3s, etc) are well researched performance perceptions linked to our bio
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The Google Research that is often quoted might have been well intended, but is grossly overstated and misused. The thing with bounce rate is that you don't know WHY the user bounced nor did you know their intent. Typically analytics ar
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I think you're severely underestimating things. You should project the current state (which has some shortcomings) into an exponential rate of improvement.
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The team at gov.uk is doing an excellent job regarding web performance, credit where credit is due. In many ways role model behavior. Still, the results are such a stretch as to not have that much meaning. They have to descent all the way t
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There's a lot of negative angles towards AI art generation, many of which I personally agree with. But at the same time we should not be blind to possibility. I think this example, even if rough around the edges here and there, looks i
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Definitely, this is just an extreme version of it.
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It's a simplified conclusion, but the era in which a mail man could support an entire family with ease was a historical anomaly. You can pinpoint the timeline exactly, where the above wealth stagnates or declines whilst the rest of the
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There must be something in the water in California. Mozilla excessively prides itself on progressive signaling, whilst internally running the place like the most cruel neoliberal companies out there.
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The amount of internet users keeps growing significantly, where almost all new users are dedicated mobile users, whom tend to use Chrome/Safari. So the market grows in size, almost none of that growth being distributed to Firefox, henc
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Five years ago, Firefox was already declared dead: https://andreasgal.com/2017/05/25/chrome-won/ Mozilla can't push their browser. They don't have Android, Youtube, various other services with
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We seem to have some things in common. I'm also a software engineer with a creative hobby: wildlife photography. In that space, there's already a kind of abundance problem. It's saturated. So even in the case of a "hit p
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I get what you're saying, but that would be the bottom tier of the creative industry, which is just one portion of the whole.
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When you think about this more deeply, a well working status system is an existential threat to several layers of management. If all you do is collect metrics and reports to aggregate them upwards, the value added is minimal. Maybe there re
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I think it's both the individual personality as well as growing up in an online world. I'm not an expert but I'm thinking it has the power to actively rewire a person's brain. If in your entire lifespan so far you do not
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Thanks, did not know that. I consider it to be good news.
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I think the speed of product turn-over has a lot additional harmful side effects beyond things just breaking down. Reviews have effectively become meaningless. There's so many contenders in each category releasing so many products freq
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This is easily solved, just subscribe to the HP Cloudcare Print Feed Spool Renewal program for a lifetime of print happiness. Terms and conditions apply.
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It seems the more interesting legal question is not regarding input, but whom owns the copyrights of the output, if any. Interesting article: https://www.technollama.co.uk/dall%C2%B7e-goes-commercial-bu... If I interpret th
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I have to admit that I did not see it coming. Ignorant of AI's capabilities, I always imagined it to automate away our boring, mechanical, repetitive stuff. Which in some hopeful utopian scenario would mean that we could focus on the h
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A bullet dodged, I guess. But yes, norms are changing, not for the better.
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Pretty good guidance, could be extended with a step 8 and 9. Step 8: emails that shouldn't be emails. For example, asking for a status update, whilst you have a status management system already in place. Complicated cross-department di
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I think the concern is fully justified. Those still being skeptical of AI art fail to understand exponential progress. Usage of various algorithms is about to explode, feeding back billions of signals to correct the model. A second or third
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How many people listed in the Panama papers have been arrested? Their assets seized? Fines? Zero. London's "the city" is pretty much one giant laundering operation for Saudi and Russian dirty money. Money laundering, monetary
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Capitalism or not, you need to monetize. Supporting a platform with billions of users requires a huge amount of resources. Resources are not free in any system.
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"What about this time around we build products whose primary focus is actually the stated mission? Share with friends and family and the world, to bring it together (not divide it)! Instead of something unrelated, like making lots of a
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It's all optics, their supposed "progressive" view. Wealthy people angry that GPUs got so expensive, overpowered energy suckers they'd gladly use for high-end gaming whilst having the AC on full blast. Nobody cares one b

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