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A Google Antitrust Case Could Determine the Future of AI(mattstoller.substack.com)
3 points by gcheong 3y ago|0 comments
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by gcheong 3y ago
Parroulette?
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by gcheong 3y ago
Yes and this should be too as should Amazon be barred from making and selling its own products based on data collected through its marketplace.
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by gcheong 3y ago
I think it's more disingenuous not to have quoted the rest that qualifies this statement compared to renewables:"...and able to meet growing U.S. calls for electrification and global needs for basic economic growth". The rest
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by gcheong 3y ago
Sponsored in part by PG&E a major cause of wildfires. Seems like a bit of deflection to me.
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by gcheong 3y ago
The findings of this one study should be rigorously evaluated and replicated first, not that much of our public policy is based on any kind of evidence but that would be the right way to go about it.
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The Military-Industrial Stock Buyback Complex(mattstoller.substack.com)
3 points by gcheong 4y ago|0 comments
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by gcheong 4y ago
I just released an iOS app a few days ago so it hasn’t been a month yet but so far it’s made a grand total of $0.00 :). https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stretch-timer-dx/id6447534919
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by gcheong 4y ago
I would have a look at The Algorithm Design Manual by Skiena first or at least as a comparison. I think you’d get much more bang for your buck with it than with Knuth.
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by gcheong 4y ago
Interestingly, during my one bar night out in Seoul on an overnight visit to change visas for Japan, some dude started a fight with someone and tried to grab a knife sitting on a table while being escorted out. The people around me didn&#x2
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by gcheong 4y ago
Good thing there are other groceries and farmer's markets and Prime delivery to fill the gap left by the one WF closing then. Living in the Sunset, yes it's true if I want to go to a Whole Foods I'd have to either drive, or
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by gcheong 4y ago
"On the street except for murder cops won’t even take your report anymore." Completely false and you only have to look at the police crime dashboard to know that. I'm a resident and can say that the numbers track pretty close
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by gcheong 4y ago
If you want to try your hand at building one yourself Apogee has downloadable plans and a parts list: https://www.apogeerockets.com/Falcon-9-Crew-Dragon-Plan
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by gcheong 4y ago
The 1 Gbit is the service to the house, not the LAN, and it was (still is?) the fastest we could get at the time we got it (2016). The remodel was the kitchen cabinetry, electrical, and plumbing only, no network. While I personally don&#x2
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by gcheong 4y ago
This article doesn't read like a PR piece in the way PG describes at all though in that there is no discernible tie-in to AI or GPT as far as I can tell, so if the goal was to promote something other than the idea that people can somet
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by gcheong 4y ago
I think you want to be a bit ahead of where the technology is now to have some room for future possibilities and assuming you're pulling cable you might as well pull the "biggest" one you can(i.e. fiber). To give an analogy,
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Vietnamese Refugee David Tran Became America's First Hot Sauce Billionaire(forbes.com)
3 points by gcheong 4y ago|2 comments
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by gcheong 4y ago
We all grow antlers and nobody works 3 months out of the year during rutting season?
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by gcheong 4y ago
How far away can the condenser be located from the air handler? Does it have to be outside or can it work in a garage? Also, how do I determine the size of system I need? Biggest problem with our current nat gas furnace, which isn't a
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by gcheong 4y ago
Are the quantities you get grocery store quantities or are they portioned out like the meal kit services? One thing I liked about the meal kit services was not having a bunch of leftover stuff that I wouldn’t end up using before it went bad
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by gcheong 4y ago
If you have to pay for it out of pocket then I probably wouldn't as a couple years work experience with a Bachelors is more or less equivalent to having a Masters as far as most companies are concerned. If you're thinking it would
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by gcheong 4y ago
Or maybe they just spawned a bunch of companies that they will eventually have the pick of to acquire when they decide they need to do "something" with their cash hoards and the founders are looking for a payout.
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New York Magazine Blasts SF Techies’ NYC ‘Neighborhood’(sfgate.com)
2 points by gcheong 4y ago|0 comments
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In 2023, humanity moved closer than ever to self-destruction(qz.com)
1 points by gcheong 4y ago|2 comments
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Mass layoffs: a history of cost cuts and psychological tolls (2019)(qz.com)
1 points by gcheong 4y ago|0 comments
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Mass layoffs: a history of cost cuts and psychological tolls (2019)(qz.com)
4 points by gcheong 4y ago|1 comments
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by gcheong 4y ago
Not "always", at least not the kind of mass layoffs we are familiar with today though most people here are probably too young to remember when it was uncommon. For example IBM had a no-layoff policy until 1993 and when they ended
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by gcheong 4y ago
“In my case, I typically charge the car to 80%” My understanding is that the preservation of the battery is built into the charge controller and you shouldn’t have to worry about it. In other words when your car says it’s fully charged it’s
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by gcheong 4y ago
Oh yes, I did a stint as a cashier when I dropped out of college. It was why I dropped back in. I also worked as an usher at a performing arts center and between the two ushering was far more pleasant .
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by gcheong 4y ago
I haven't tried this but I've heard good things about the Middlebury immersion programs: https://www.middlebury.edu/language-schools/

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