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by jxf 4y ago
Given the multistate and remote nature of many companies, it would be a huge headache for the courts to deal with the criss-crossing patchwork of what is and isn't permissible. As an employer I would much prefer that this be resolved a
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by jxf 4y ago
Facebook is practically a utility company at this point. The number of businesses whose only online presence is Facebook/Instagram is significant.
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The scale, reach, and attraction of TikTok place it on a different level, though.
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Children go with their parents to those locations and/or have trusted adult supervision. TikTok has and encourages neither.
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> IPOs have declined during a period of low rates That is the expected result. Firms can take longer to pay off because the cost of capital is lower, and VCs are under less pressure to deliver. What you'd want to see research on is
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by jxf 4y ago
You missed the "fiercely skewed" part. The VCs have to be participating to begin with. Even one of these deals can make or break a portfolio, so they have to cast a wide net -- but the capital reserve is drier now. This disproport
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VC returns are fiercely skewed: a long tail of stuff that's effectively negative to zero returns and a tiny minority of stuff that does really well. How does it do really well? By having a very profitable in-demand public IPO. How do y
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When people say software developers should unionize, this is why.
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> The only time you need to consider a client-server setup is: Where you have multiple physical machines accessing the same database server over a network. In this setup you have a shared database between multiple clients. Am I misunders
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Yes. This is covered on the site.
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Truly had no idea there was JS in PDF forms now. Wild.
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> What I will say is that from what I hear this sort of under-leveling is pretty normal and just how it is. Maybe it’s better now, I don’t know. I was offered a position with G after I left a previous employer. I also felt that I was und
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by jxf 4y ago
The compute to run it is emphatically not free.
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Not long. Sam Altman has basically said it's extremely expensive to run the queries and they need people to pay for it.
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But you shouldn't have to — that's the point of the complaint. That's like saying that if your neighbor is dumping toxic waste in your yard, you can always ask them to stop. Sure, but maybe they just shouldn't do that in
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Transmission is like if UNIX CLI design was applied to product interfaces: do one thing (okay, it does a few things) and do it well.
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This article makes an error: All programming philosophies are about state, but they're not _just_ about state.
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This is a huge revenue opportunity. Google would not be investing in it if it wasn't.
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I think you're applying the wrong standard. If you think your work has been clearly influenced by something, you might call that out in the acknowledgements of your work, for example. What Stable Diffusion does is effectively say &quot
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No one is necessarily saying that you owe Van Gogh a cut. What they _are_ saying is not to claim that you didn't train on Van Gogh or to pretend that you don't know what you practiced on.
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> But, people pay for it. They want the whittled down, inspiring experience without any of the effort or trouble. I don't know if this is the right analogy. Some people want to pay for features _not_ to be included in stuff because
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A good article, but it also makes me wonder what happened to Ted Dziuba. He was everywhere 15 years ago and then suddenly he wasn't and I'm not sure why.
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There are a couple of technical typos in the post, but overall I found this a very cool and engaging read. It also reaffirms my belief that I find Coq neither fun nor readable (unlike Befunge which I find fun but unreadable, or Java, which
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by jxf 4y ago
This creates indirection costs and counterparty risks that don't appear in the original solution.
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Now this makes me wonder if Derek Sivers is a real person or not.
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EVE Online introduces an Excel plugin for player data mining(eveonline.com)
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> But how do we distinguish real emergency scenario from fake one? A car shouldn't make that call. It should err on the side of safety and assuming the emergency is real. When you see flashing lights on the highway coming up behind
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What are the "dasher personal accounts"? I haven't heard of that before and search results seem to think I'm asking about DoorDash.
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> My friend who still lives in the Valley says this kind of sentiment is incredibly common there nowadays, e.g. advertising an open position and having discussions internally that a man won't be hired for the role. Your friend (and
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> My regular life is being interrupted by taking screenshots all the time, so I have relatively less time to work on important things. I think I lack perspective on this and am not quite understanding what you mean. Where is the interrup

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