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by hristov 4y ago
I know! For HN readers not familiar with the legal industry, Boies was considered the superstar of the legal world at the time and was well known to demand $50 million retainers.
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by hristov 4y ago
Using brushed motors in 2023 is really stupid. Yes I know there is a semiconductor shortage, I know Silicon Carbide is expensive and silicon is not very efficient. But seriously. Batteries are also expensive. And brushed motors are very ine
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by hristov 4y ago
So if the "troubled origin" of the Lena picture is the fact that she was nude (yet the picture used for computer science was cropped and did not use any of the nude parts) then why should the replacement be another photo that sugg
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by hristov 4y ago
#3 should be the best if you are actually knowledgeable. The problem is a lot of people are basically fooling themselves into being knowledgeable. There is a lot of dumb randomness in stocks but over a longer term stock prices tend to someh
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by hristov 4y ago
Pretty interesting. And good to see at least one merger that was blocked. It is pretty obvious that if you have one party end up with over 50% of the market you would have a reduction of competition.
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by hristov 4y ago
I tried perplexity.ai and asked it in which stadium did the chargers have their perfect season. It couldn't figure out that the chargers used to be the san diego chargers before they moved to LA and kept talking about their Los Angeles
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by hristov 4y ago
So, to summarize: 1. No beautiful woman in an adjoining cabin. 2. No high stakes poker games. 3. Not a single murder to solve. 4. No apparent spies. And given the menu had only three wine selections it would be very difficult to ferret o
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by hristov 4y ago
Usually if one wants to take advice, one should consider the reliability of the source of advice as a factor.
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by hristov 4y ago
PG was a little ambiguous about this. He said "So I asked: What would I have said?" It is not clear whether he asked himself or ChatGPT.
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by hristov 4y ago
HN should have a [chat GPT] tag for stuff generated by chat GPT. So that I can ignore it. I do not mind reading what paul graham said about how to get new ideas. I do not care what chat GPT said. What chat GPT said may or may not be a good
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by hristov 4y ago
My point is that even the original financial times article did not seem to cite sources as to the fact that Thiel sold his bitcoin in the middle of 2022.
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by hristov 4y ago
Oh and by the way, Peter Thiel is an investor in Ycombinator who runs Hacker News so it is pretty much a given that any comment criticizing his brilliance will be downvoted immediately.
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by hristov 4y ago
Who do not site their source.
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by hristov 4y ago
I would not put much weight on this article. The fund is entirely private, it does not need to disclose its holdings in public government submitted documents. This article does not cite any sources. It is always a good idea to use a heavy d
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by hristov 4y ago
That one is easy. See where toggle switches are most popular. It is in situations where the site gets some benefit out of you being confused and putting the switch on the opposite setting. This is usually for the privacy settings required b
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by hristov 4y ago
When they tell you to try to keep your seatbelts on at all times they are not kidding. I am sure some of the injuries were people like the quoted woman, people that had to take off their seatbelts to move around the cabin, but probably some
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by hristov 4y ago
Balance does not imply truth. Sometimes truthful views are imbalanced because the truth is imbalanced.
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by hristov 4y ago
ARM reported 2.7 billion in revenues in fiscal 2021 (I cannot seem to find 2022 results easily).
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by hristov 4y ago
I should note here that Apple designed and released their CPUs for mobile phones, tablets and PCs without buying ARM cores. They are still using and paying for the ARM ISA, but they designed their own cores. And their CPUs are widely held a
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by hristov 4y ago
Less license fees means lower costs. But, more importantly, an open ISA means everyone can design for it, which means more competition which means much lower costs.
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by hristov 4y ago
The greatest advantage is that you can make your own processor implementing the ISA without asking for permission and/or paying fees. Also you can make your processor open source if you wish and many have already done so. As an example
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by hristov 4y ago
For the first question, one answer is the high price of organics. For your second question, there are many options. One promising option is targeted pest and weed control using cameras and image recognition and maybe even lasers. A system l
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by hristov 4y ago
Thank you for explaining clearly and thoroughly what I have been trying to get across in many HN comments here. Putting a Man on Mars promises to be the biggest non-military waste of tax money. The problem is that it is a very well marketed
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by hristov 4y ago
This is actually the big insight big time agriculture lacks about agriculture. They are obsessed with volumes and consider their farms to be large spread out factories making commodities and the tons of commodities produced to be the only m
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by hristov 4y ago
This post should have [German] after it. By the way, I am not sure exactly what happened (I do not speak German) but if the police are worried that a sleeping driver is using autopilot they can drive up with a police car in front of it and
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by hristov 4y ago
Another reason why phages aren't used in western countries is that it is difficult to make money off of them. As I understand it, phages are bred uniquely for each strain which means it is difficult to patent them. The strains change a
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by hristov 4y ago
What if new antimicrobials do get developed? They will once again be used in massive quantities in dirty and otherwise unsanitary livestock operations, resistant bacteria will develop again and we will be where we started again. Actually we
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by hristov 4y ago
With an ICE car, if you park regularly in very cold weather, your car can fail randomly for an obscure reason and it can take a long time to figure it out or you will need a trip to the mechanic. Or you may need a massive and expensive repa
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by hristov 4y ago
It is actually bonkers that in this day and age the NYC subway cannot install accurate speed gauges on their trains. You can get an accurate bike speedometer for $20 on amazon, but the NYC subway cannot provide an accurate speedometer for t
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by hristov 4y ago
"Sure you save some lives but how many will be late!" I do not like this math. For example the accident may not be once per century. And it is good for the bureaucracy to be risk adverse if it comes to my life. The answer is that

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