jonas21

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by jonas21 4y ago
Why? When the FDIC steps in, the bank doesn't get to go on operating like nothing happened. They're shut down, the owners of the bank lose their money, and management is fired. It's the depositors who are bailed out.
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by jonas21 4y ago
I mean it's SFGATE, which is more of a blog than proper journalism (they used to be associated with the SF Chronicle, but the two split a few years ago). The AP story [1] that they based their post on strikes a more professional tone:
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by jonas21 4y ago
The comment was specifically talking about "internationally relevant" companies. > It looks like you don't know much about Europe. > Let's start with browser. Opera, made in Norway. Opera has 2 or 3% market sha
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by jonas21 4y ago
The person you're replying to is in Poland.
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by jonas21 4y ago
And here 8 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32178643
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by jonas21 4y ago
Is the DoJ's argument that if you anticipate being sued in the future, you're not allowed to use private messaging at all?
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by jonas21 4y ago
> just to sit in a stuffy room and zoom Presumably, that's what the return to office plan is trying to fix. Right now, if you go into the office, you're spending a lot of time in zoom calls because half the people in every meet
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by jonas21 4y ago
A month ago, the obvious interpretation of the headline would have been that a Bing employee threatened the student. It would have been ridiculous to suggest that Bing Search could threaten someone on its own. But today, that's exact
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by jonas21 4y ago
Everyone is encouraged to get a certain number of steps in per day (often 10,000) for health. If you don't get those steps walking to the office, you're going to have to get them some other way, like by going for a walk without a
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by jonas21 4y ago
VC funding? I think they were funded mostly by grants and their own revenues for the first few years. Then they started taking VC money (over $300M to date).
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by jonas21 4y ago
On the other hand, a $400,000 missile can bring down a $100M fighter or a $1B bomber. The economics of modern warfare can take a while to get used to.
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by jonas21 4y ago
That's odd. When I type your query into Google, I get a table at the top with: Rank Name Total Deposits 2 Bank of America $1,906,458,000 3 Wells Fargo Bank $1,479,499,000 4 Citibank
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by jonas21 4y ago
You might. But many people don't. They just want an answer and don't care if it's a clone or not.
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by jonas21 4y ago
CGAL is GPL, while Geogram is BSD. That has a lot of practical consequences in how they can be used. Plus it's nice from an educational standpoint to have independent open-source implementations.
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by jonas21 4y ago
Qwant and Yahoo are powered by Bing as well.
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by jonas21 4y ago
The RadWagon 4 has a listed range of 45 miles. In practice, people seem to be getting closer to 30 miles. The modifications look like they'll add some drag, so let's say it gets 20-25 miles per charge. If you leave the bike out in
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by jonas21 4y ago
FDroid can remove the app if they want, but it's annoying that folks decided to show up and harass the developer on his Github repo. https://github.com/deckerst/aves/issues/517
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by jonas21 4y ago
Why would LLMs be less monetizable than search? People are still going to want to buy goods and services, and being the place they go to find out about those goods and services will be just as valuable as it is today. Perhaps even more so,
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by jonas21 4y ago
In other words, he's lost $30B in the last ~2 years. Seems like a fair amount of accountability to me.
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by jonas21 4y ago
Have you ever considered that it's not some concerted effort to make you feel bad, but that there are actually a lot of people out there who could use the mentorship and social aspects of going into the office?
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by jonas21 4y ago
What? No, "subaltern" refers to a junior officer (e.g. lieutenant). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subaltern_(military)
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by jonas21 4y ago
> At no point in history have people created so much with so few channels for consuming their work. Most consumers get their content through a narrow straw — TikTok’s “For You” page, the first page of Google’s search results, Instagram’
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by jonas21 4y ago
It's not 2021 any more. Intel revenue dropped significantly in 2022, meanwhile they were hiring as though the revenue growth would continue. It's a similar story to many other tech companies. But at least at Intel, leadership is t
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by jonas21 4y ago
The plaintiffs are free to not settle and continue the case if that's what they want. Are you proposing that they should be forced to do that?
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by jonas21 4y ago
Last few months? I feel like SQLite has been popular on HN for at least the last 5 years (and the data seems to confirm this [1]). In which case, maybe it's not so much of a fad? [1] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=sqlite
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by jonas21 4y ago
> except in the case where the RSUs expire, which makes the company look bad The benefit of double-trigger RSUs over single-trigger RSUs is that they're not taxed until after a liquidity event (IPO, acquisition, etc). That's
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by jonas21 4y ago
It's a coincidence in the sense that there's probably not a particular reason for Amazon to want to be next to Intel. It's not a coincidence in the sense that Ohio recently passed a bunch of tax incentives for building "
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by jonas21 4y ago
Ah, great! Maybe this will finally break up Google's monopoly and make ads cheaper and affordable to everyone who wants to run them.
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by jonas21 4y ago
Perhaps they believe working for big tech will lead to the eternal damnation of your soul.
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Tech Layoffs Shock Young Workers. The Older People? Not So Much.(nytimes.com)
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