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by ggg9990 8y ago
Getty indemnifies to the tune of $1m per image but that probably has loopholes you could drive the Statue of Liberty through.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
If it’s government money it makes sense to save $10m here to apply it there (in theory). But when it’s Boeing’s money it makes no sense at all. Boeing isn’t going to take the $10m they’re not spending and put guardrails on dangerous highway
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by ggg9990 8y ago
If there wasn’t, how would lightning happen?
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Trump’s election was the most democratic thing in perhaps the history of US politics. Maybe 1% of oligopolists supported him before the primaries and many prominent Republicans didn’t even support him when he had the nomination. In the wake
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by ggg9990 8y ago
This is like telling women they don’t need to shave their armpits or men they don’t need to shave their face to find a date. Sure, it shouldn’t be needed, but when everyone else is doing it, it sure makes it a lot harder to find a date if y
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Play association football in a stadium intended for gridiron football? Are you a madman?
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by ggg9990 8y ago
It’s not surprising that facial recognition has trouble with makeup... if you’ve seen some of these photos of celebrity women with no makeup you wouldn’t recognize them in a million years.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Like that has ever stopped the federal government before. All they have to do is say that “we won’t purchase anything from companies receiving tax breaks.” Done.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
What we have with deep learning is the first data center application for lots of compute with high latency. This will enable data centers in locations previously infeasible.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
If you want to work fewer hours but don’t contribute more per hour, get used to working for less pay or being unemployed.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Why does an older person cost more? Either they produce more, or they’re overpaid. The first type is definitely worth finding and paying... I’ve seen companies built solely by 22-year old script kiddies and usually the stack can’t scale. At
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by ggg9990 8y ago
The majority of great employees don't have 4.0 GPAs, but the majority of 2.5 GPA graduates don't make great employees.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
I'm not opposed to interacting with robots but I hate how these are all pushed out the door WAY before they are even at parity with a human. Self-checkout, robot delivery in hospitals, Alexa, etc. are absolute garbage
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Microsoft is a company whose three traditional strengths were Windows, Office, and Server. The first is toast and Microsoft lost in mobile, and the second is getting crushed by Google Apps. Power makes companies bad -- Microsoft was bad whe
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by ggg9990 8y ago
I know lots of Mormons and I like them. I just like my neighborhood the way it is. If 200,000 Mormons moved in, I wouldn’t move out, but I’d try to stop it. If 200,000 Muslims moved in, I’d definitely sell my house.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Sorry, I’m reasonably libertarian but “operating in communities of concern” is fine by me for transit infrastructure providers. Taxis used to have laws that required them to go to any destination requested, and stop for any person hailing a
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Not really, because raw land is valuable for three things: agriculture, real estate, and natural resource extraction, and the first two are virtually worthless in deserts which is most of Australia’s land.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
The difference is that MIT draws on the world population whereas Ecole Polytechnique draws on the Francophone population.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
That’s nuts, they could buy one Google per year. In five years they could own all the big tech companies.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Are you from Singapore? You would not get fined in the US, unless you were poor and/or black.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Jeez, at least throw it on the street to make someone’s day. Why the trash?
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by ggg9990 8y ago
That’s not what your comment says. It says that the rate of success of startups which already have $50m valuations is less than 3.8%.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
This will be the biggest struggle of post-scarcity economies. Some people need to be distracted with the struggle to survive to keep them from destructive thoughts.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
You are so wrong that I audibly laughed, even though I’m in this room by myself.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
This is exactly the wrong way to do DNA testing. These tests have a finite accuracy (say 99.99%), so when you shotgun it across a database of tens of millions of people, you get a long list of almost all innocent people, at least one of who
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by ggg9990 8y ago
More realistic than the notion that Harvard wrote the reason for a rejection in any of the tens of thousands of rejection letters they send every year. Sounds very much like a “friend of a friend” story.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
No way that Berkshire pays a $500b claim. They would find a way to stick the US taxpayer with the bill as many smaller companies have done before them.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Podcasts are a huge market because Americans drive a shitload and an increasing percentage of cars on the road have Bluetooth audio.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Rejection letters are generic. Your story is quite dubious, can you post a scan of the letter?
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Harvard is trying to admit people who will be rich and powerful in 30 years. Those people aren’t always academic achievers.

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