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by lowdose 6y ago
I don't think this is true in a quantum world.
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by lowdose 6y ago
Yes I know, Siemens sold their whole dutch software divisions to TomTom and thus basically pulled the plug themself. And SAP could be seen as the Oracle of Europe. For customers and consultants it's an implementation nightmare. Lidl la
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by lowdose 6y ago
It's the typical innovators problem you describe and that is pretty international. I do think you have a point about culture and in Europe in general software engineering is not seen as such a value adding activity as in the US. Salari
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by lowdose 6y ago
You can't treat people in your own office like you treat those people on the street. Office people do not have to bring their own gear to work everyone knows that.
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by lowdose 6y ago
Could it be people switched from podcast to youtube of the same channel?
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by lowdose 6y ago
Life is complicated especially when people are traumatized. I don't know about his particular case. Interpret my comment more in general as a plea for the term we should hold people accountable for what is recorded in our digital memor
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by lowdose 6y ago
It seems extreme but I think we should give everyone a chance to learn. He changed his opinions on a range of subjects. If everybody has to step down from a CEO position because of opinions and affiliations they had 30 years ago we will sev
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by lowdose 6y ago
Fair enough.
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by lowdose 6y ago
Hermes did an even greater trick with their Birkin bag. Episode of Planet Money is about how Hermes is charging 60k for leather bag. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/11/10/563342363/epis.
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by lowdose 6y ago
True, I recently bought a cow through a local initiative. Best meat I ever ate, the taste of the steak is unmatched. In the EU meat that lays a half year frozen in the refrigerator is stilled called fresh. So when meat is imported frozen fr
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by lowdose 6y ago
Write a blog about the HN traffic hose!
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by lowdose 6y ago
Yeah her work is awesome, even her github repo's work plug & play out of the box!
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by lowdose 6y ago
https://sci-hub.tw/downloads-ii/2020-04-09/c8/10.1038@s41586...
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by lowdose 6y ago
Because the recent economic stimulus didn't trickle down to the people that needed it. At least 80% of it ended up in the pockets of people that don't live from paycheck to paycheck and a after night sleep they decided to buy stoc
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by lowdose 6y ago
When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem. Josef Stalin
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by lowdose 6y ago
> Assuming that social distancing measures can substantially reduce contacts among individuals, we find net benefits of about $5.2 trillion in our benchmark case. The article linked to this paper but I find their conclusion very unlikely
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by lowdose 6y ago
The question still stands if insider jokes are an efficient source of inspiration for naming your work.
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by lowdose 6y ago
You are right that I removed in sentence because I read to quick but the whole article is about naming. Is it so strange to comment on specific names? I don't think the authors could have done worst. Synonyms for racket: haphazardness,
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by lowdose 6y ago
> There has been a distinct warming up to human-less, contactless technology,Humans are biohazards, machines are not. Let's extract the last layer of humanity in to the digital realm. Give physical contact skills to Alexa which now
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by lowdose 6y ago
I agree and the enormous amount of knowledge build up is lost overtime when not actively used. Not investing in the next project is like no more space travel after we went to the moon. We should always push these projects further for the sa
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by lowdose 6y ago
> Smartphones are broad and universal, whereas consoles are deep and narrow, and deep and narrow is a smaller market. VR is even deeper and even narrower, and so if we can’t work out a form of content that isn’t also deep and narrow. Pe
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by lowdose 6y ago
Schmidt's comments about China made a tremendous u-turn a couple of years back. At that time he was already talking about a future of two economic blocks with China in the East and everything else West, giving China slowly but surely m
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by lowdose 6y ago
And traffic bandwidth? I know it is not Christmas yet but it would be great if those prices trend to marginal cost for the sake of innovation.
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by lowdose 6y ago
We just waisted a couple trillion dollars on sci-fi capabilities at Lockheed without result shall we let China & Russia know we didn't find anything in our R&D? No just send them some sketchy UFO videos that will keep m busy!
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by lowdose 6y ago
Yes Elon has a reality distortion field but that's allowed when pushing for real progress. A reality distortion field becomes a self fulfilling prophecy and it has the ability to change the fabric of our reality. I didn't expect t
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by lowdose 6y ago
How can facebook turn a dumpster fire like reddit in a bot that response with more empathy than a human? Didn't Facebook just merge all fb messenger and whatsapp data and trained a NN on the new chat db?
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by lowdose 6y ago
> It's a complete myth that a single data point is inadequate for making predictions. For example, let's take Usain Bolt's 100m World Record of 9.58 seconds. Imagine that was the only data point we had regarding human runn
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by lowdose 6y ago
Amazon almost has 1 million employees so it would be strange when Amazon would not be hit by any corona casualties. Article doesn't mention the age of the unfortunate employee. It is probably best for Amazon to send everyone above the
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by lowdose 6y ago
Librarians are the original data scientists.
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by lowdose 6y ago
In 1918 the surviving 2/3 of the population inherited a tremendous amount of financial resources of the 100 million people that died. The population is now much larger. Corona is not going to kill more than a million people. Any refere

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