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by lysace 2y ago
Related: http://reuters.com/world/us-officials-object-european-push-b... ( https://archive.is/BTRUS ) > U.S. officials have told European allies they want them to keep buying American-made arms, amid
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by lysace 2y ago
For all of its benefits and market dominance, Tetra Brik is not really suitable to drink directly from from, but I guess we have all done it.
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by lysace 2y ago
As an investor (smallish): I think Alphabet/Google can do much better with a CEO who isn't Sundar. Also: Generally: Do consider investing in companies that run services where you feel compelled to subscribe (like Youtube Premium a
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by lysace 2y ago
To clarify: Qwen is made by Alibaba Cloud. (It's not mentioned anywhere in the blog post.)
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by lysace 2y ago
It is something else to see it happen in real-time. Like a month ago I was defending e.g. Musk against uninformed attacks online.
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by lysace 2y ago
Earth is fine. US is obviously currently not fine.
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by lysace 2y ago
Honestly? Your comment makes me feel like I'm in a Curb your enthusiasm show. Except I'm not and much more clever people are working this brand new world, and I really hope they get it right.
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by lysace 2y ago
We presume that things that have been stable for hundreds of years will continue to be stable by just some sheer force of history. This is a falsehood. See also: the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect > The
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by lysace 2y ago
https://archive.is/gjkNq
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by lysace 2y ago
More detailed links have been posted already in the thread. But I want Reuters/etc to include these links.
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Perhaps someone in the org knew. CEOs don't get all of the details ;). Nevertheless, it's a great tradition to carry forward and I'm happy you guys are doing it.
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Know the difference between big-shot news agency journalism and small-scale journalism? The latter links to the exact resource that is the source to establish their credibility. The former relies on its brand and treats the source URL as a
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We had the much more fabulous SCART. But I fear we may be drifting off-topic.
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> For example, Discover spun out from Sears attempts at having an in house credit card. I guess I agree; Amazon should split up.
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by lysace 2y ago
We mostly didn't have RCA jacks in Europe when I grew up. But nevermind; this is not the same. Amazon largely consists of two internally grown businesses: Retail and AWS. They are wildly different.
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by lysace 2y ago
Amazon (the online retailer nowadays mostly hawking Chinese alphabet-salad-named brands) and/or AWS the cloud service behemoth? I continue to find it so bizarre that they are the same company.
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by lysace 2y ago
Neat and fun PR stunt. Tech needs more of these! SGI did this almost three decades ago: https://web.archive.org/web/19971210213248/http://lavarand.s... ...harnessing the power of Lava Lite® lamps to gen
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by lysace 2y ago
Well that sucks. I've met that an instance of that kind of 10x:er (well, 5x:er, in this case). He defaulted to dismissing everyone until they had proven themselves. I don't think there is much you can do to "improve him"
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by lysace 2y ago
> I've rarely seen those 10x engineers to bring massive long term added value. I've seen it first-hand. We ended up building a support team around the 10x:er to keep things working, but it was easily worth it. It worked very we
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by lysace 2y ago
Besides suddenly like 50% less people wanting to buy their cars because of the behavior of Musk/Trump, you mean?
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by lysace 2y ago
> I haven't worked for FAANG in any capacity. Hah. Love that attitude.
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Now you can use one of your unused Raspberry Pi:s (we have all got them) to cobble together an ADSB unit that may be critical in recording important low-height ADSB flight data points in your immediate area in case of accidents. And also ge
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by lysace 2y ago
From a ROTW perspective (I think we tend to own US tech stocks): The USD is also crashing. Double whammy.
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Cheap LED light bulbs...
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The key players have likely all ingested Anna's Archive.
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In the case of Reddit: 4. It's not that unlikely that you are arguing with an actual child who has picked up enough terminology to be dangerous but completely lacks any deeper understanding.
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by lysace 2y ago
CliffsNotes (ish): https://www.reddit.com/r/nosurf/comments/1693ky4/you_should_...
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by lysace 2y ago
Reddit is unfortunately a major thing in my life. There's an eternal battle between left and right politics in my small European country's relevant subreddits. Not very healthy - it's like a never ending feed of "someone
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I've "protested" exactly once, way back in 2003, ahead of the US invasion of Iraq. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_February_2003_anti-war_prot... In retrospect it was obviously a worthy protest, althoug
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by lysace 2y ago
> including some largish ones The ones I heard of were around a few thousand at most. That is not large in this context.

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