losteric

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by losteric 4y ago
Zuck has to push, otherwise he's out. He can't gracefully abandon the Metaverse after spending $12B and literally rebranding the company. Metaverse will either succeed, or Zuck will be sidelined.
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> The answer to how to keep it going is to run it like a grocery chain with experienced leaders and good board governance. PCC is also known to treat employees relatively poorly, just like grocery chains. There are also complaints about
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> The increase in mortality that has been attributed to higher BMI is more likely due to hyperinsulinemia and inflammation rather than obesity Not sure I understand this sentencen. Are they saying hyperinsulinemia and inflammation are in
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by losteric 4y ago
"Physical" engineering fields will probably come first... think AI-generated architecture, with AI-generated structural engineering, plumbing, electrical wiring, etc... with human-guidance of the generative process, and human-re
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> all this is misdirection from the real challenges of nuclear, which is finding somebody who can build it and somebody who is willing to take the financial risk of nuclear, when it looks like a terribles mis allocation of capital, if on
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Beautiful! Any plans for web or Android native?
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Possibly referencing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_gw4eTr-hM (discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/ArkInvestorsClub/comments/uv278a/wh... )
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> Exxon only extracts the thing, it doesn't burn it. Tesla burns a lot of energy to build cars. ESG supposed to provide a holistic measure of impact. Exxon and Tesla's ESG score would include the impact of using their product (
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> Higher margins is exactly what we would expect in a supply constrained environment... The natural temptation here is to enforce price controls or whatever, but they come with their own problems. Or in markets with limited effective com
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> Why do MBAs keep pushing this? Are they TRYING to exchange short term retention for long term viability? Isn't that the stereotype? Join to juice some metric, jump ship while everything looks green, leave the mess to someone else
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From an efficiency perspective, it seems "cheaper" to presort each item upon ingestion rather than mixing everything up and sorting later. For most people, placing an item in the right bin is a subconscious action on "autopil
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by losteric 4y ago
I did something similar for a while, but I still found myself distracted when the phone was out of the case. I ultimately opt to simply make the phone less addictive. On Android, I used Digital Wellness to monitor how I was spending time. T
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> What do you expect the Feds to do about the weather? Intervene and rebalance the water markets, which are currently unsustainable based on bad decades-old science.
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Also stereotyping of individuals based on group trends, positive or not...
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> My salary also hasn't increased much, and feel like I'm severely underpaid based on the # of years of experience but I struggle with evaluating my value in the market to determine my worth Sure sounds like it. I've run 1
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Prime has gone up quite a bit Nearly every business seeks to maximize profit. Right now AWS is in growth phase - why wouldn't they raise rates in the future?
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by losteric 4y ago
Isn't QLDB a blockchain tech? Albeit a real-world practical one.
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Does AWS ban Bitcoin mining? Why would they care as long as the bills get paid
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by losteric 5y ago
So Africa and Middle East regions, and India, Mexico, Indonesia are most at risk. Economic/climate immigration politics will get ugly
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by losteric 5y ago
Which phone? Silky smooth on pixel 4 using Firefox
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by losteric 5y ago
He's getting old. This is Putin's last opportunity to cement himself into history. Putin still enjoys tremendous domestic support. He has no effective opposition. Putin wants to claim Ukraine. Ukraine can't fight Russia alone
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by losteric 5y ago
I feel like you're spouting Agile (TM) rather than https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development - Agile is not one thing, it's certainly not a checklist. There are general philosophies of software
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by losteric 5y ago
> Imagine throwing out every process you just described (minimal specs and plans, no contracts, no documentation, avoiding as many processes and tools as possible), and instead replacing them with conversations. You'd have those con
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by losteric 5y ago
What you're describing sounds much closer to my experience on a waterfall development cycle. Huge commitments without any dev-input, leading to the dev team constantly churning around knowledge silos or poor tooling setup. My experienc
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by losteric 5y ago
Citing adblock feels like clickbait. Google Tag Manager can't run ads so I don't follow the comparison. Marketing analytics could always side-step anti-adblocking tools through server-side tracking.
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by losteric 5y ago
I got an invite within several days of waitlisting back in January. Unfortunately the invite expired before I got around to signup, so no idea how the service actually performs...
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I want to support the content creator first and foremost. That's not how premium works.
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by losteric 5y ago
crypto currency is not intended for making purchases?
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GCP is a profit center and diversifies the business, why would Alphabet deprecate it?
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None of these "cryptocurrencies" address inequality. One can draw parallels between generational wealth in our present system, and the wealth of early adopters in both proof-of-work and proof-of-stake systems. If anything, the att

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