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by jacobr1 2y ago
The baseline stance for tech startups is wanting to solve a problem in the world and profiting from the value that provides. And thankfully, most of the time, those motives don't conflict. Even a mundane business like my local grocery
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No, not in a direct sense anyway. It should be a tort. The government should assist with enforcement of court ordered actions like seizure of property or liens for non-payment however.
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Or like most laws, an interested group find a way to get an audience with lawmakers to brief them on their concerns, help build consensus amongst their peers and staffers, and after work in non-publicized committees the main the details of
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Agreed - but societal interests are a mix of the constituents within the society which can be in conflict as a well as the overall society as a whole. We want to protect the rule of law, both legal and social norms surrounding property righ
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The trick is the find some way that a vendor can monetize it. Sometimes you have management consulting groups building crappy unmaintained (except by them, if you extend the contract) OSS. One thing that seems to work, sometimes, is having
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by jacobr1 2y ago
More like how many people with degrees in Business go into Management Consulting, would like to join a startup as a Product Manager, or accountants that want to be Associates at a VC firm rather than work a big 4. But even for programmers,
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s/time wide/team wide/
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1 - time wide use a of a code formatter with an opinionated style setting to preempt such discussions is a huge productivity boon 2 - for "pattern" oriented changes that aren't easily checked in a linter, have an internal gui
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It is still illegal in every US state. States can legalize it at the level of their own laws, and they can choose not to enforce federal laws, but that doesn't actually make it legal while federal laws are in place that conflict. A fed
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It is indirect instead. The employer tells the payroll company: pay employee $x (and handle deductions, retirement contributes etc ...) The payroll company then has this data and can resell it. I would expect the contract the employer has w
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> Maybe the exact wording matters and the service name was “AWS managed elastic search” or whatever. I’m sure the Amazon lawyers knew how to name it. Yep, that was the problem, they just called it "Amazon Elasticsearch Service"
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Which is dumb. Land should just be purchased for conservation (or other arrangements like easements with transfer on sale) to the government or private land conservatory groups. Endless subsidy is corrupt.
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Just give it to the companies. That still incentivises equity investment (it lowers risk and raises the potential upside of profitability). It also make underwriting standard loans easier too.
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These came out before JWTs gained broad adoption. They are accomplishing the same technical objective via a different implementation.
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It only really needs to be. There isn't opposition or censorship proposed for speech everyone agrees is good.
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That seems like both a generational and cultural thing, vs a urban/sub-urban consideration. Prior generations in the US had kids just hangout with whomever in the neighborhood be it urban or sub-urban too. Playdates are probably just a
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I've polled my friends about this, and our group is a about 50/50. Some of us when looking at comments never read the usernames, we just completely skip over it. And some alway do - the next is right there of course you'd rea
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I'm sure he meant the early 1900s. I've usually heard these called "streetcar suburbs" for obvious reasons. They tend to have a good mix of urban and suburban vibes. Unlike the car-focused developments after the war, the
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Wasn't this an issue in Windows? I know there is an ebpf compatibly layer of sorts - but wasn't aware that was being used by crowdstrike.
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depends how much you claw back in taxes for higher earners
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Not an excuse - they should be testing for this exact thing - but Crowdstrike (and many similar security tools) have a separation between "signature updates" and "agent/code" updates. My (limited) reading of this si
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Also there is real competition downmarket for regional jets
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The term is too long. This changes it from a fixed term, to a use-it-or-lose-it oriented policy.
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The best model I've seen for patents is increasingly escalating renewal fees for periodic terms. Such as get the first 5 years for very limited fees, every 5 years (up to some max such as 30) require 2-5x to renew or the patent expires
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> Anyone can go to pornhub and see a landing page full of highly explicit sexual images Not in an increasing number of states where age verification is now required.
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For a test that is already passing, the validation is already there. The human is reviewing the PR, but reviewing a diff is much less time intensive when you can presume it basically works, and you are just assessing if the logic make makes
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One wrinkle, is that it is now common to fine-tune on previously derived RL datasets, with the tested inputs and preferred sample outputs as the training data.
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> a toolmaker can't be making more money then the companies using those tools to make money. In the historical gold rush, you also had speculators funding prospectors. That might just be personal savings, friends and family or inves
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> Capital expenditures also have their own utility curve This a function of the use-cases. For simple use cases like document summarization, or speech-to-text, we might already be there. There are already applications where using somethi
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> But at what point do we run out of training data? We have at least another order of magnitude of additional data via audio-video. There also is synthetic data, such as was likely done for SORA. And we likely could increase that another

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