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by jasmer 4y ago
Hundreds of millions of people use it. That something happens to be under some control of private interests, doesn't make it necessarily a private thing. To the extent that something is in the commons, well it's public. At least n
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'New Elon / New Kanye' I think is disillusioning for a lot of people. It's one thing to see a random celebrity or business person lose their marbles, but there was (and continues to be) high hopes for Elon at least with
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This is satire?
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Tax optimizations. I have no problems with this, legit things can be done under charitable umbrella, and we should be thankful for the donations. (Massive paintings of oneself on oil canvas notwithstanding ... ahem ... Mr. 'President&#
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It's interesting how many people say this. Much of it is great compared to an abysmal baseline of terrible APIs often in C++ ... ... but they have a magnificent 'context' problem: Qt is complicated and you never really know w
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Indeed - but that's also an example of how someone who has destroyed their credibility can't be effective. Nobody in the world is going to take Trump seriously for good reason, because he doesn't have any integrity even if yo
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I will call your '2014 Obama' and raise you a '1981 Ronald Reagan'. The Americans have been trying to push Germany away from Russia literally for decades. [1] https://www.vocaleurope.eu/how-russian-pipeli
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Sorry, but what 'scandals'? The one where he had a handful of people in his garden? I mean theoretically during COVID administrative actions, but in practicality it has nothing to do with anything at all other than optics? BoJo wa
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'Outsourced Tinder Photo Selection to Third Party' - 2022! I mean, it makes sense obviously. But still!
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Java compilation and packaging is actually probably the most clear, well documented of all languages. Most of the tooling is provided, and it's coherent and robust. Ultimately - both Maven and Groovy, which are used for production leve
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You tell me in 5 years if that actually worked out. I suspect probably not unless they were following/copying some very tried and true path of an upstart. 'New Models' have so many dynamic aspects, you need 'good people
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Oh looks like they've changed their model. I would trust them to give strategic advice about something, or maybe some insights from an industry expert they might happen to have. Actionable or not, who knows. But I wouldn't trust t
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Those would be completely different exercises though, one with fiduciary rationality (bringing in a fixer), the other definitely not (placing friends in high places for rewards).
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Your proposition of 'bad for founders' and 'they have too much money' and 'slipping in overpaid staff' don't very well correlate to each other. Also - I don't see any evidence in the article for how t
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For starters - 'McKinsey' actually doesn't do implementations. So you're not going to hire them to build something. Second, it's hard to fathom their value because it's very secretive. There's nary any rea
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So that's actually not 'hoodwinked'. Paying $1B for a site that should cost $50M is 'hoodwinked'. $150/hr is really not that much money, depending on the importance of the project, and having devs from India is
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Five medical nurses in a 'good' Hospital could not find the setting. So tell me where the 'joke' is? (and frankly it doesn't matter what 'phone' background they have.) The 'joke' are those (espec
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After trying Android on Samsung for the first time in a few years ... I feel it's a bit of a disaster. I could almost not find the 'settings' with the help of 5 other people. I was at a loss to know what I could delete and no
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He makes a good case. Apple and Google have an oligarchy in mobile and Google has a monopoly in search. The amount of self-dealing is overwhelming. Google consistently prefers their own experiences to those of other companies. Apple does as
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Banks are for money, not wild Ponzi schemes. People can play Ponzi schemes as they like, banks probably should not be involved.
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Those dreamlike images are human-generated. And they can be narrowed in focus. You will see: Animated series generated from words and text, no labour needed. Just make the characters, the base models, a few demos. South Park has a staff to
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They have enough population.
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This is relevant document. The ability to automate and make 'good quality' content is decisive in the information space. The world is greatly moved by photos and video of horrible things, and if that can be faked with high fidelit
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Paycheques are very hard to walk away from but a lot of very bright minds will go into defence right out of school and never look back.
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Russia is definitely taken apart. They may be able to hold that bit of territory with suicidal bodies in trenches, but they are in really bad shape. They are down to ancient weapons, ancient tanks, their Navy almost entirely defunct. Most o
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It was - and still wishes to be 'Imperial' in it's direct sphere of influence, which is to say, most of E and S/E Asia. China is not ever going to invade the USA of course.
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That norm is definitely mostly broken. While I suppose we should always question old norms, we probably should apply at least as much scrutiny to new ideals as well. Despite some gains here and there (and some of it irretrievably important)
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Oh, we can absolutely debate their value as an ally. And if a union wants to boycott Taiwan, or Canada god forbid, they probably should have the right to do so. It gets a bit more complicated with buyers however, what happens if companies d
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MS, G and AWS have locally incorporated entities. Google in Germany is 'German'.
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This is mixing a few streams. "A government would be stupid to hand over all their citizens data to the US via US technology companies" They have been for decades in some cases, and where is the problem, specifically? It is possib

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