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by lanza 3y ago
> A new filing in California's suit against Amazon reveals that sellers live "in constant fear" of retaliation from Amazon if they allow their goods to be sold more cheaply elsewhere. Tangential, but out of context quotes
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by lanza 3y ago
This is also how politics works at this point. Politicians get A/B tested to maximize DAUs -- e.g. Fox News viewers and thus their voters. Political party stances are the local maxima of AB testing talking points to their userbase arou
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by lanza 3y ago
Do people still break their phone screens? I have never used a case even the naughts. My 3gs, 4, few Android phones, 5s were all cracked. But nothing since ~2016 has cracked at all. I haven't stopped dropping my phone or anything. They
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by lanza 3y ago
In the classical sense of "a QFT" then no there are no ways to do QG. The computations diverge. In the extended sense where you let yourself include non-QFT-like things like strings and spin foams, then sure.
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by lanza 3y ago
Yup, as somebody who desperately wants great python integration in my suite of spreadsheets I'm not even going to consider trying this.
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by lanza 3y ago
> In another comment, you said that you don't know what the Navier-Stokes equations are. Given that, I don't think you're in a good position to judge their value. It was an exaggeration given that it never came up during m
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by lanza 3y ago
A physics undergraduate degree is different than a lot of degrees in that it's 100% incomplete for the purpose of training towards a real profession. Nobody hires physics bachelors. It's just the four year mark of your studies to
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by lanza 3y ago
Former theoretical physicist here (quantum gravity). TBH I don't know what Navier-Stokes is.
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by lanza 3y ago
She just lists the standard curriculum through undergraduate and graduate degrees. I clicked the links to all the books and my Amazon has the purchase dates from when I took those courses. It's not specific at all to theoretical physic
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by lanza 3y ago
GP? Do you mean Geekbench? If so it literally includes clang performance as one of its benchmarks that it runs. And it scales pretty consistently with the overall score.
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by lanza 3y ago
Fine, but you came to a thread on the prototypical future variants of VR hardware. Just don't click if you don't want to read about it.
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by lanza 3y ago
That's like taking a $100 Nokia phone in 2002 and saying that mobile phones are nice but will never be important.
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by lanza 3y ago
The majority of the people on earth with access to the internet (~5b) are monthly Meta product users (~3.7b).
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by lanza 3y ago
Twitter's revenue is pretty small compared to Meta's. In order for Meta to actually value the revenue generated they'll want active users to reach what Twitter had at it's peak. That's not going to be this year. And
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by lanza 3y ago
There isn't a tool that can do this job faster. git takes a few seconds once you're at half a million commits. Facebook has many repos checked in in their entirety that are bigger than that.
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by lanza 3y ago
> The media would not be reconciled to the idea that such eminent persons should suffer such a cruel fate. You're imposing your own narrative here. The interest was driven by the Titanic and deep sea exploration. Whomever the six pe
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by lanza 3y ago
You're looking at this too abstractly. Meta's revenue grew by 0.6% last year. And that's up from shrinking by 1.3% the year before. Their social media platforms have reached the peak and don't really have any more users
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by lanza 3y ago
Ditto. I hate this idea. We all know the type of content that revenue drives: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc . I want a site that rewards quality, not view counts.
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by lanza 3y ago
I'm not an exec, but I've worked with people that make millions in big tech. You just don't get there unless you are fantastically competent at what you do. Pettiness and immaturity really just is an inefficiency that nobody
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by lanza 3y ago
> We've seen this story before and it hasn't ended well for the folks in Mark's position. Meta doesn't need to dominate the market. Being the Android to Apple's iOS or the Windows to Apple's macOS is way mor
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by lanza 3y ago
> Apple could always use this to their advantage, or double-back on it. Who cares? They've moved the needle in a positive direction, that's all that should matter. Because all of business history has told us that the market do
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by lanza 3y ago
> Google, FB, & Microsoft where they both control and sell your data to the highest bidder. Can we please keep this nonsense to lower quality sites like reddit? I like to pretend hacker news hasn't degraded this far yet.
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by lanza 3y ago
It's just "Mexican hat" potential. The `hot` was a phone keyboard typo and writing `top` was just a mental typo.
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by lanza 3y ago
Virtual particles are calculational tools. They aren’t concrete things the way you’re proposing them to be. They are closer in character to “completing the square” than they are a an actual physical object. They are great for trying to help
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by lanza 3y ago
> So Higgs particles don't exist under normal conditions Eh. That's like saying fully constructed lego kits don't exist under normal conditions. Yea sure, my normal life conditions don't entail me having just finished
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by lanza 3y ago
> Also a countertop swivel chair physicist, my understanding is that Higgs bosons are recruited as virtual particles all the time to bestow other particles their mass. Physicist here: nope. The coupling between the Higgs field and other
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by lanza 3y ago
I actually don't think it's a ton. Go count the lines of code of one of your small projects. I have something I spun up in the evenings over a few days and it's 2000 lines. It feels like nothing. Tech giants have thousands of
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by lanza 3y ago
Why is it depressing? Does some collection of people on earth suffer from tech giant apps having too many lines of code? It very effectively shovels money from these soulless companies into the pockets of the employees. No living entity is
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by lanza 3y ago
Because you don't make money deleting code. People at tech giants don't love their employers like they are their mother or something. They don't do things that don't get them rewarded. Implementing new features does. And
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by lanza 3y ago
> Yet why do languages end up depending on LLVM and not implement these algorithms on their own and avoid a monstrous dependency? That's like asking why construction companies rely on cranes, concrete and steel rebar when they can b

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