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by jleyank 8mo ago
If you want to be “liberal arts snarky” about things, discontinue computer degrees of any form as pure wastes of time. Either AI will render them obsolete, or coursework and schooling are poor approximations for hacking and getting starts
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They're the ones that get CRUNCHY PB raises, or the Nutella raises.
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As everybody writes, Mother Nature doesn’t give a sh*t about what people think or say or believe. They can deny that mankind influences the results, but they bloody well better accept that things change and not always to the better and pla
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Seller doing the importing, so they pay the foreign entity for their goods and sends the appropriate cut to the US Government. At that point, they either eat the additional cost of business or make their customers do so. Or something in b
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by jleyank 8mo ago
Seller wasn’t involved in the tariffs. Rather the importer paid them, etc.
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So, does Congress just make the necessary law or changes to law or does the President just ignore the ruling?
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by jleyank 8mo ago
It’s going to be, err, fun living in a world of one-off, hard to debug software that’s overly large and complex and regenerated from time to time. Ad and behaviour data is great and wonderful but remember the goal is software that’s easy e
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I suspect Gresham’s law kicked in years back. Some people have things to say but they’re not interested in the current state of internet comments. Particularly if their topic is esoteric or, horrors, seen as controversial. And ai commenta
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by jleyank 8mo ago
Well, if the EU is really going to detach from the US tech embrace, they're going to have to create and deploy new software. This will demonstrate the validity of the post.
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Too terse to be fully clear, but the BBC is on the case: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj98egkl7l1o
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While they weren't a startup, they were a small pharmaceutical company (Novo Nordisk). Yet Ozempic in its various forms totally upended the diet and "comfort food" marketplace. They even distorted the economy of Denmark...
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Betteridge's Law. Unless it's more of an essay competition for text to feed the AI beast.
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Reliable ally?? Hell, the US is not a reliable business partner. They've thrown away like 70 years of soft power, alter business or political conditions on a whim and view the whole world as (somewhat?) hostile parties. Business and
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Can't read the article, but in my experience in computers or science, if you want to train 'elite workers', you don't hire bosses. You hire things like professors or excellent elite workers - people who can improve the
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To cure a cancer, assuming “by luck” isn’t a plan: We need a target, something to affect with the med. We need a biological model, as human screening isn't ethical. We need a number of compounds that are active against the biological m
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by jleyank 8mo ago
Enough people seem to dislike Musk to whack Tesla sales. Facebook retention might rely on “it’s free” and people just don’t understand or care what’s really going down with Facebook use.
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by jleyank 8mo ago
Leopards. Faces. Too many people imposed their desires on political candidates rather than actually listening to what they said. And particularly about what they said they’d do. Pay attention next time!
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State noncompete law handling. Weather. Availability of massive funding opportunities. Boston is doing just fine with biotech/pharma.
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by jleyank 8mo ago
Keep in mind we live in a consumer society so the goal is to increase consumption. Keeping it constant doesn’t fit the growth paradigm or maintain stock prices. And much of the consumption is fuelled by wage slaves…. So, reducing the aggr
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If they can't tell the work's being done well without seeing them, they can't tell whether the work's being done well... Software (or hardware) that's fit for purpose can be produced independently of the sweat and
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Actually, it has two of them as the Separatists are poised to win in Quebec. However, it’s (far?) less likely to see an independent Quebec look to the US as they’d have to give up on French. And if they’re going to do that, why not stay w
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by jleyank 8mo ago
It’s an anecdote, but in my experience older (40-ish) parents or those in places with chemical exposure seem to have a lot of daughters.
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I fear boots on ground means soldiers or others returning in boxes. Are people ready and willing to bet their determination against Iran’s?
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They work (well) when the fitness function is well described but lacks a gradient.
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If that engineer isn’t heavily involved in designing the application, writing the code or debugging the code, they better make sure their 6-month emergency cash reserve is properly funded.
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Hell of a gamble on a company that sells ads and rents computer time.
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Are you a medical professional? If not, you present an anecdote which is unfortunately common. But, there are also anecdotes where medicines work as prescribed. Most of us typing here and elsewhere are playing proctologist with our repli
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Might be collecting lots of money as tariffs but they’re acting as a national sales tax. Defrays the cost of the tax cuts to some degree I guess.
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Little choice when you can't depend on "former mechanisms" to secure one's position. In the 70's, the Bundeswehr had a fair number of troops of (considered) high effectiveness. In the past, various forms of German
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Which is why the current administration and their (very rich) backers prefer tariffs to income taxes...

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