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>, but if there were batteries inside, those weren't Swiss mechanical movements Yes. The Cartier Tank watch is mechanical. I just lumped in the other nice jewelry watches with batteries to talk about them as a group because they
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>How can it be true that they're really expensive and you can't even give them away for free on Craigslist? I tried to give away an 30+ year old Ethan Allen grandfather clock (cost about $2500 new) on Craigslist. Nobody was
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>How sad. That wall map is a nice object and a good conversation piece to boot. It shouldn't be sad to avoid adding another artifact of consumerism to one's life. I'm at a stage in my life where I've gotten rid of
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>I guess I was sold the idea that I neeed notifications, weather and all this bullshit on my wrist all the time. I understand your viewpoint but people are different. My friend is almost 80 years old and wasn't drawn to smart wat
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>I happen to work in this industry, and just a word for those that compare this with an Apple Watch or a Casio, this Vacheron-Constantin will likely be around 200 years from now, it will still be a testimony of the refinement and engine
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by jasode 1y ago
>Accenture / Deloitte are really not sexy. [...] McKinsey/BCG maybe this makes sense. Those happen be 2 different types of consulting categories. Accenture/Deloitte are more "professional services" type of cons
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by jasode 1y ago
>, it's actually about 50% cheaper to get a taxi from SeaTac to the city than to take a Lyft or Uber. That type of ride from a "hub" where a bunch of taxis congregate to take the next passenger -- such as SEATAC airport
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>but a pure Linux mainframe is surprisingly competitive not just in compute and throughput but also in pricing. It's not competitive when you consider what long-time IBM mainframe customers actually do. E.g. SABRE airline and tra
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>Depending on your workload there may be very good economical reasons to consider a mainframe instead of a number of rack-frames. For legacy companies yes but it would be very hard for new YC companies or existing non-mainframe compani
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>Companies like Mailchimp and Atlassian (in their early days) clearly qualified as startups even though they hadn't raised VC. Even the Paul Graham essay defining "startups" the way he saw it said "VC funding"
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>Maybe this is a US centric definition. It's a common definition for new companies that intend to grow quickly beyond a small/medium size and very often associated with funding from VC. 1st paragraph from https://e
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by jasode 2y ago
>I think everyone knows that, but the distinction is [...] The discussion got muddied because in this subthread, it morphed from "What if we made _all_ advertising illegal?" (original article's exact words) ... to gp&#
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If there are no modules but a "flat" global namespace which requires every function name to be unique to avoid collisions... it means people would inevitably re-invent pseudo/fake "modules" and hierarchy in metadat
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>It's from the idea in your head into natural language. Getting that step right in a way that a computer could hope to turn into a useful thing is hard. The "inside the head" conversion step would be more relevant in t
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>Amazon was founded in 1995 and became cash flow positive in 2002[1], seven years later. Thank you for the correction. My memory was faulty and Jeff Bezos actually said, "we always had positive gross margins" . Deep link:
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>It took Amazon around six to seven years to see its first profitable quarter, A key difference from OpenAI is that Amazon was cash flow positive from very early on and before that first profitable quarter. They only needed one fu
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> Moore's Law requires a healthy competition environment for it to be likely to take effect and it's been a while since Nvidia had actual competition. Moore's Law was an extrapolation on transistor density which is a
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>I can’t believe people didn’t stay on Windows 7. Normal mainstream users can't stay on very old operating systems like Windows 7 because they'll eventually be forced to install newer software that's not compatible with
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> In what sense is it inverted? The triangle is upside down: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid_(journalism)
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>We had that in 1990's VCRs with no "AI" required. It also fast-forwarded through the commercials during recorded programs. Yes, I owned several of those Panasonic VCRs with the "Commercial Advance™" feature.
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>AI is basically text-predict combined with data mining. That’s it. It’s a super-Google that goes into the body of texts and rearranges the words into a very pleasing facsimile of a cogent argument. There’s no “intelligence” behind it,
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by jasode 2y ago
>Apple Intelligence will gladly promote an obvious phishing email to the top of your inbox Sorry for not being clear. I definitely was not recommending for users to depend on Apple Intelligence. I've deliberately turned it off
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>SPF/DKIM is really about mail server reputation. So it mostly benefits larger servers like the ones run by Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. Unfortunately, that means that attempts by those larger providers to combat span using such re
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by jasode 2y ago
>Filter on whether the sender is in your address book (or inbox or etc) That strategy doesn't work when you don't know ahead of time what email addresses the sender will legitimately use in the future . E.g. register with N
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>I went to the link which is on mailchimp-sso.com and entered my credentials which - crucially - did not auto-complete from 1Password. I then entered the OTP These clever phishing schemes fool even the tech-savvy computer users like L
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>, the idea of learning anything related to coding through a video is extremely frustrating. It's a text medium. I want to look at things, take time, think it over, compare code, follow references, look up functions. That people li
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>That's completely irrelevant. YouTube's advantage is its monopoly of user attention. Free hosting is not completely irrelevant because it's a huge factor in the cause-&-effect of attaining the monopoly of user att
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>The solution is to cut browser functionality down to a size that more companies (or even individuals) can manage. Removing features from browsers isn't a realistic "solution" if the end result is a "minimal browser
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>I'm always a little surprised how we (HN readers) are so against paying for software. I talked about paying $29 for Opera for web browser software before : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16090235 I switch
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>by Alec's excellent video which I recommend everyone watch. I get what your advice is about but to add some nuance which didn't cover... you should consider that I learned of Alec's Technology Connections channel 9 year

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