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by grobbyy 2y ago
Deadware should be open source under the law.
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by grobbyy 2y ago
A good lesson, but a more nuanced one is to do sure diligence. There are companies I would never build my business around (Google, Oracle, etc.) for a variety of reasons. There are ones I know I can trust (at least until they change). There
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by grobbyy 2y ago
IT is easier than CS, but it's a huge amount of knowledge. It just takes the to learn. Enormous accounts of time. Even more practice to be fluent and fluid. CS has deep theory. IT doesn't.
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by grobbyy 2y ago
Explain it like I'm five: I'm a shareholder. I get defrauded. There's a shareholder suit. Where does the money come from? It feels like we'd be suing ourselves. Wells Fargo defrauded us and if we win, we'll get mone
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by grobbyy 2y ago
Amazon has a uniquely large spread, in that case. I use S3, EC2, Route 53, and RDS. That's more or less it. I advise others to do likewise. Not the same set, mind you, but the same mindset.
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by grobbyy 2y ago
Having been on both sides, it often makes a lot of sense. A lot of companies have surprises requirements in contacts, such as HIPPA or military/classified or whatnot. The cost of adding a new vendor can be astronomical compared to the
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by grobbyy 2y ago
We have no idea the growth curve here. People make predictions like this, or on the other side, of singularity, but it's all just speculation. A good approach is to plan on all things, from plateau to linear growth to polynomial to exp
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by grobbyy 2y ago
To expand on your point: My lesson from the dot com boom is that's it's very hard to pick the winners. For every Amazon, there were a thousand pets.com. Investing in DEC, Sun, Yahoo, and friends would not have paid off. That'
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by grobbyy 2y ago
Yeah, no. Most software is cludged together with little design and grows organically. Overall, putting on the time to do it right -- if possible -- parts give dividends. Software done right from 30+ years ago is still in broad use. There is
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by grobbyy 2y ago
Gender and physical contact. I am at close to zero rush within group (creepiness, leading on, sexual harassment, etc.). Same type of casual physical contact across gender groups, and it's a trip to HR or a cancellation. A lot of langua
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by grobbyy 2y ago
At the risk of posting a reflexive comment, what should we be doing here? It seems like everything has unintended consequences (not on a cost-benefit basis): - Minority affinity groups pull people from majority groups and decrease integrati
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by grobbyy 2y ago
This is very, very confused. It comes off as dishonest, but isn't; it's just the case that the developer doesn't get it. It seems well-meaning, but badly done. Developer: I am, in all honesty, glad for the experimentation. Ho
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by grobbyy 2y ago
My gut reaction to the license was exactly OP's -- it felt shady and sleazy. Then my logic kicked in and I came to the same conclusion you did -- it's not open source, but source-available means people can audit that it's hon
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by grobbyy 2y ago
I'm abstract, you're correct, and a typical setup for an educational experiment is a calibrated pre / post test to see what changed over the course of interacting with an activity. Both tests are effectively identical and mea
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by grobbyy 2y ago
I'd go down to about $2M, which is where MIT was at a quarter century ago, when it was it's prime. Being answerable to funding sources, tuition, etc. is a good thing. Having money to soon off from is not.
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by grobbyy 2y ago
Yes. Do you realize how insane this is? A colleague of mine used to have a chart of staff per faculty member at MIT versus time. That figure has gone up around 20-fold on that chart. It's almost all bloat and overhead made possible by
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by grobbyy 2y ago
I think about it the other way. Businesses with high $/revenue per employee, high margin, etc. tend to be fundamentally better managed and more robust. I'm not claiming that applies to Nvidia either way specifically, but it's
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by grobbyy 2y ago
Believe it or not, elite universities are reaching similar heights. MIT is at roughly $20M endowment per faculty member. All caveats apply. 20≠100, employees might include staff and grad students, etc. Still, I would never advise anyone to
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by grobbyy 2y ago
> Now tell me how not doing anything to discourage people from blocking YouTube ads supports Google's long term interests Google maintains a monopoly and their brand. Profits are entire the of percent lower by the few power users wh
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by grobbyy 2y ago
I can elaborate a little bit but not a lot since that would be essay-length. I can simplify and explain roughly. The short story is that most states assessments are designed almost as binary measures, to see if students are above or below a
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by grobbyy 2y ago
Problem is most states assessments can't measure growth and "growth measures" are numerically nonsense. Growth measures do exist, but they require adaptive tests.
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by grobbyy 2y ago
I think Yahoo or HP would be the most likely candidates. HP is at about a fifth of it's peak market cap, largely as a result of a similar play. I'd short Google, but there's an old saying that markets can be irrational far lo
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by grobbyy 2y ago
This is a strawman. No one is suggesting Google should encourage anything. Openly user-hostile actions devalue brand and trust. That's doubly-true for power users who are thought leaders. If Walmart has store security shoot suspected s
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by grobbyy 2y ago
Google has entered into a phase where short term profits outweigh long term growth. If you're a startup, don't do this. Maximizing the growth exponent does a lot more than tweaks on per-user revenue. Intentionally annoying users i
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by grobbyy 2y ago
64gb is an impressive amount to fit on an LP. Come to think of it, I should back up my ZX Spectrum magnetic tapes to LPs for archival storage.
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by grobbyy 2y ago
Closed-source. I'm not sure why this is interesting. ML API companies hoping to hit it rich are a dime a dozen. With the exception of a few like OpenAI, I can't imagine much success over open source models. If it can genuinely pre
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by grobbyy 2y ago
This is where GDPR and friends should come in. If they won't do it the friendly way, they should do it the hard way. Lawyers are a little more expensive than handling a click, especially at scale.
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by grobbyy 2y ago
It's more complex. If my app causes someone else to violate ToS, it's very much on realm of the types of things which lead to expensive litigations as I've seen in related domains. It's dumb, but that's the legal sy
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by grobbyy 2y ago
I agree. However, YouTube's legal argument would be tortious interference. As much as that's a stupid concept, it might be enforced. That might be a good reason not to have a legal entity in the US but a jurisdiction with more sen
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by grobbyy 2y ago
I would encourage you to look more closely. Safest mainstream car is Chevy Bolt which (1) isn't bought by douchebags to show off (2) does 0-60 on 6.6 seconds, on par with muscle cars, exactly as I described.

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