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by jacobr1 4y ago
Social reputation IRL also has transitive properties - vouching from other high-rep people, or group affiliations. Primitive forms of social-graph connectedness have been exposed in social networks but it doesn't seem like they've
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GPT-3 and Stable Diffusion might not copy things exactly - but they certainly do copy "style" There are many articles likes this: https://hyperallergic.com/766241/hes-bigger-than-picasso-on-... The interestin
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by jacobr1 4y ago
It is a little different. The first patent troll that blazed the trail gets both more credit (for ingenuity) and blame (for the deleterious impact) in my opinion. I'll give the same internet points to these guys.
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Or you do both. Start from the point of known technologies and reverse engineering and improve from there. China bootstrapped their high-tech industry with not just spying, but also licensing technology, join-ventures, training students&#x2
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Not IOI - he wants to be Gregarious Simulation Systems
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It also shows in the switch how much they learned their lesson.
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> there is nothing on the horizon which will plausibly replace it I'm not going to be making any bets - but the one project that has possibility is WASM. A mature, polyglot ecosystem on top of WASM runtimes with web-apis seem like i
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by jacobr1 4y ago
And sometimes you are hiring construction workers, and sometimes trade-specialists. I've hired contractors to address specific tech-debt, or accelerate QA on project, to implement a CRUD type stuff for things with well-known approaches
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by jacobr1 4y ago
The big mac index tracks labor costs as much if not more-so than wholesale food prices.
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Where do you stop in the ownership chain? I brand-name that is just a department of a registered company? A fully owned subsidiary? What about majority stakes in public companies? What about ownership stakes in holding or investment firms?
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by jacobr1 4y ago
I generally take that approach now (with kids) but in my younger years I loved going to the grocery to figure out what I was making. Start with something interesting on sale on the meat/seafood section, or some fruit/veg I was les
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by jacobr1 4y ago
It might be harder to compare against countries or consider as some sort of predictor - but as a measure presuming we the methods are similar over time - the trend should be valuable. Regardless of starting point, if the measure in the US,
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Take a look at buildpack layer model and caching options: https://buildpacks.io/docs/buildpack-author-guide/caching-st...
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by jacobr1 4y ago
One of the other complaints you here on HN is that software is changing for sake of change rather than remaining relatively stable once the core feature-set has been built out. Well, MacOS strikes a pretty good balance on that score. They i
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Data Residency. Scaling to dozens of global regions is not cost effective for running your own DCs.
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by jacobr1 4y ago
This is one advantage of tariffs. Increase the costs. For some applications there are easy substitutes, for others it is harder which incentivizes the creation of alternatives. Of course the downside of tariffs are also well-known. Retaliat
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Worth noting ... there are non-adversarial union systems, cooperatives, worker-councils and even sectorial tripartitism outside of the US legal system way to structure a union.
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by jacobr1 4y ago
On the other-hand, plenty of people will buy a locked phone direct from a carrier. The Moto G you mentioned only costs $35 from tracfone. You can't change carriers, but you still can install arbitrary apps.
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Why not? A "mass-market" paperback book means unit sales on the order of 100k/year What level of market penetration would you expect? I would argue that most popular products still have a target vertical.
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by jacobr1 4y ago
I’ve learned most people tend to have different intuitions on giving vs. taking, even when arithmetically they are equivalent. It depends if the narrative is zero or positive-sum. If people perceive that some groups are getting extra at the
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Also it assumes full utilization of hardware. If you have variable load (such as only needing to run compute after an experiment). The overhead costs of maintaining a cluster you don't need all time are probably much lower than resourc
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by jacobr1 4y ago
While the states have much more diversity than many Europeans I've met assume (especially things like regional cuisine, or local laws) nevertheless Europe does have more diversity. American as just more similar on average than European
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by jacobr1 4y ago
There were attempts to introduce artificial scarcity with loyalty programs. I used to be a more frequent flyer and still fly enough that I will pay a premium (up to a point) to get the benefits - upgrades and free-personal travel. Locking i
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by jacobr1 4y ago
> There's got to be a better mechanism to force companies I'd say the current version isn't terrible. Competition has lead to creative destruction. What would be real failure is GE sticking around with a bunch of moribund
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by jacobr1 4y ago
There is also the "positive" version of the politician. They have enough technical credibility, social skills, relationships with senior management, to remove organizational log-jams. Other companies might hire a consultant to com
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And even the others who might have different views on obscenity, still hold political special to be special.
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by jacobr1 4y ago
There are some laws around maintaining the history the car. Sales must be recorded, certain accidents. I think certain types of flood damage. Getting a carfax is a must if you are buying a used car.
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by jacobr1 4y ago
No, I think the OP is suggesting that the more likely scenario is some professional-class "weekend-warrior" type bought the F150s with the 72m loan, which later on was resold to the working-class construction worker on the seconda
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Only for "non-profitable" works. It is a downside in the tradeoff. But even then the escalating price for extensions should offer an incentive to limit what works fall into this category and subsidize society when they do. We are
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by jacobr1 4y ago
> it punishes work that can't pay the copyright extension fee One tradeoff is to have the fee be proportional to the revenue it is generating. But this could encourage extension-by-default, rather than making it an intentional decis

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