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by gizmo 3y ago
When he mentioned lipstick and evolution right after I figured he was going to remark on the obvious connection later in the essay, but no.
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> Writing about the best essay implies there is such a thing, which pseudo-intellectuals will dismiss as reductive, though it follows necessarily from the possibility of one essay being better than another. What is the best car? Some car
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Huh you’re right. Thanks for the correction.
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by gizmo 3y ago
This game has aged very well. You can pick it up for next to nothing on GOG. Highly recommended. The game is not very hard but you will likely have to start over a few times before you get the hang of it. This is normal. Dune is best withou
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by gizmo 3y ago
I think the fixation on flakiness and hallucinations are exactly why tech people tend to underestimate how disruptive these LLMs really are. LLM tutors don't replace teachers entirely, but just being able to express your confusion and
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The status quo is already effectively a single-state solution. Israel is the only party with an army, the only party that can elect politicians, the only party with airports and a harbor, and a functioning economy. Israel also has almost to
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by gizmo 3y ago
Do you want to send executives to jail when their products kill people? The line has to be drawn somewhere, and if there is no (functioning) regulatory oversight then businesses will absolutely not self-regulate.
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Maybe, but imagine how large a rocket SpaceX would have to build to launch a train into orbit.
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Any platform operator needs policies to protect users against spam and abuse. But does Apple do a good job at this? No. Many of the popular app store apps are low quality games that exploit addiction with loot-box mechanics. But those scam
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by gizmo 3y ago
Financial crimes destroy lives as well. I think there is a double standard here where people want to go easy on highly educated people who destroy lives with computers. Violent criminals on the other hand are seen as monsters beyond redempt
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by gizmo 3y ago
SBF defrauded his investors/gamblers to the tune of billions. Bigger than Madoff. He intentionally tried to evade regulators by splitting his business into a dozen shell corporations and by operating from Hong Kong and the Bahamas. He
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by gizmo 3y ago
That is an outrageous and inhumane policy. People get panic attacks when they get told they owe 100k they don’t have. People will be terrified your internal process wrongly determines the bill is legitimate. Imagine you have to study for an
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I can imagine it's a real headache. Maybe I'm surprised because our bank just doesn't do any rounding. It's all fixed point math. Except for fees, but we don't try to reverse-engineer that black box algorithm :)
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We’ve processed millions of dollars and we have never encountered any sort of rounding issues. Our numbers always match to the penny. Yes, banks do all sorts of rounding internally, but this doesn’t affect us. We get detailed transaction st
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If you don’t do (2) from the very beginning you have no hope of getting your taxes correct. Your internal accounting and your bank account(s) will slowly diverge and the accountants won’t know where to start looking for the problem.
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Tax laws were written for cash businesses where the cash in the register never 100% matches the sum of receipts. What matters in my experience is that your books are balanced, but there is no such thing as "perfect accounting." In
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Why does rounding matter? It's not important from an accounting perspective. And your billing system doesn't need to angrily send invoices when a customer owes a penny.
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by gizmo 3y ago
You can charge customers by direct debit (bank to bank) with an API. You can create your own pdf invoices and email them. You can charge customers with paypal or use credit cards or any of the EU specific online payment methods. There is no
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Why do you believe that? You can just write software to bill your customers. There are no special laws prohibiting automation.
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by gizmo 3y ago
I'm a happy Airalo customer. But also, I don't expect to get any customer support from low margin convenience services like these. If my eSIM stopped working for whatever reason I'd just shrug and buy a new one. Why fight wit
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by gizmo 3y ago
Apple's net income was 97bn last year, Amazon's net income was 10bn. I'm not sure why you would even put those in the same category. Amazon has historically been valued on their free cash flow. For nvidia to have 100bn in net
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by gizmo 3y ago
Cisco had a 550bn market cap at the height of the bubble. That's a lot but NVDA is about to overtake Saudi Aramco in market cap. How much revenue can nvidia realistically have 5 years from now, and at what margins? 100bn in revenue (NV
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by gizmo 3y ago
Nothing. It's just a matter of scaling up production. Chinese car exports are growing very rapidly. Sure, the US and Europe will try to protect their own industry with tariffs, but China will just respond with tariffs in kind. Ultimate
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Reliability and customer support are unbelievably good. 99.995% uptime for the past 10 years. Hetzner will happily customize your servers however you like, and at their low prices you can have hot standbys for everything and still save mone
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I'm in favor of a stronger social safety net (and the taxes to pay for it).
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Layoffs are necessary from time to time to keep org chart bloat down. It's not just about the money. I don't mean this in a callous way and I understand that layoffs are painful for those getting fired. But for a business to thriv
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You can’t have any kind of democracy with that kind of wealth inequality. There’s more to society than just offering subsistence to the common people.
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No money in cars. (That's why Tesla insists it's a robotics/AI company.)
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Apple is a 3 trillion business that is out of growth drivers. They will need to squeeze more money out of everybody in the ecosystem to appease wall street. Or launch a new 500bn product line but I don’t think they have anything big in the
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I agree with all of this except for your bafflement. Justice doesn’t always prevail and Apple’s legal gambit might work. Remember how Microsoft got in legal trouble for bundling software in the 90s? A judge ruled that Microsoft had to be br

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