jollybean

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by jollybean 6y ago
Great work Kosta, I've met him, he's brilliant. The fact that it's essentially trivial for a non-technical/non-expert to uncover obvious elements of fraud I think gives pause to the oft-repeated mantle "Our Control
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by jollybean 6y ago
It's probably a lop sided u-shape. Most people lacking in self-awareness are either really smart or true outcasts, with 'high conscientious + good communicators' occupying most middle management ... but it does take a kind of
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by jollybean 6y ago
Let this be a lesson to all: intelligence does not in any way correlate with self awareness. It's likely that 'smart' people are just as likely to be unaware of their own follies or inabilities, I would argue, maybe more so a
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by jollybean 6y ago
Some very good insights that do not support the headline statement of 'how Spotify kills the system'. Music distribution can be complex, with multiple parties, it's not easy to even get listed on Apple etc., so that's a
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by jollybean 6y ago
It's not you - Python docs are very comprehensive but organized in a very odd way and miss a lot of marks. If you have time to 'read everything' you're fine but it's somewhat less suited as a raw reference. Although
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by jollybean 6y ago
Yes, obviously 'they think it's worth that' in present terms because that's why they are investing in it at that amount. They're not going to invest at some number largely different from 'what they believe it&#
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by jollybean 6y ago
"That's what people mean by digital currency." So often not though. Money without oversight will instantly attract the most nefarious users that governments don't like, so it's unlikely anything a government would p
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by jollybean 6y ago
Yes, the 'market value' would also include the risk profile. Crudely, if there's a 75% chance something goes bust, then the value is only 25% of what it would be if it was going to be 100% successful. For growth companies, th
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by jollybean 6y ago
This is getting out of hand. They had a pop-culture bump a few months ago, but are down since then. A $4B valuation with 'speculation / risk built in' means they really think it's worth $20-50B. FYI to those commenting t
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by jollybean 6y ago
That looks cool I will check it out.
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by jollybean 6y ago
I wouldn't put it past them to do something like that if that were indeed going to work out, but the more reasonable thing is that they're just bad at it. Lambda was weak for years. Also, a 'local stack' for testing prob
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by jollybean 6y ago
It did happen. But it's not really news that spy agencies spy. Although maybe a little bit that NSA was spying on Germans, but that's probably not really news either, even for the Germans. But if a private corp. doing contract wor
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by jollybean 6y ago
Yes, the AWS serverless is essentially half-baked for this reason it would be considerably more powerful - to the point of changing how we make apps - if there was a local environment provided by them that could really make testing and depl
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by jollybean 6y ago
I believe the giant misconception in 'cardio calories burned' is the fact that exercise affects your resting metabolism quite a lot and people that exercise burn calories throughout the day. While diet is a 'major factor&#x27
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by jollybean 6y ago
“They just get too used to it. That tends to be more of an issue. It’s not a lack of understanding of what Autopilot can do. It’s [drivers] thinking they know more about Autopilot than they do.” Hmm, that seems like a rather stark contradic