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by manquer 2y ago
Advantage where ? Chinese tech companies are not competing outside China with one notable exception of TikTok (1) . Global tech companies do not compete in China, the market is brutal for non Chinese companies with level of espionage, theft
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Median has little difference to mean when it is a bounded variable . Rating can only vary 1-5, so mean and median will always be pretty close . For variables like say wealth that skews the average with outliers is where median is more usefu
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by manquer 2y ago
Life is still life, pain(not only death) caused needlessly whether windmills or in factory farms is still cruel. Birds are intelligent, curious, emotional, they are social animals and get depressed. Other attributes the bird may have (wild&
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by manquer 2y ago
Goodwill is realized only a sale yes. It is the difference between the fair market value of the assets and the price (i.e. value) paid of the asset. FMV is calculated and updated in books periodically, price or value is only possible to a
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by manquer 2y ago
And all of those numbers pale in comparison in how we cruelly we treat birds used in the food supply chain (eggs, chicken etc). The recent kurzsesagt video is a great intro to the topic ( https://youtu.be/5sVfTPaxRwk )
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by manquer 2y ago
You are right that everything is about money in a for profit enterprise, however that does not preclude organizational values. Those things are profitable too, by generating goodwill (which is accounted for in GAAP), positive brand influenc
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by manquer 2y ago
Where I come [1] from, they would prefer education over everything else . Material benefits or wealth can be stolen away on the whim of the stronger party, as history has proven over and over again. No one can steal my education however. —-
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by manquer 2y ago
Mozilla VPN is a service Mozilla provides though. White-labelled Mullvad or not, it a contract between Mozilla and the user and therefore presumably covered by this terms of use. I would say porn is probably in the top 3 if not number 1 use
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by manquer 2y ago
That is true for all kinds of IP . The balance between the two is what IP laws do. Give inventors some protections to encourage innovations while keeping the public benefits in mind . Copyright is time limited author’s death and 70 years f
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by manquer 2y ago
It shouldn't be surprising ? It is the same problem people trying to open sourcing closed projects experience, there is all sorts of locked-in proprietary code which the developer and the customer only have the license to use but not s
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I think the point of the lawsuit is less about CANVAS schema itself and more about the ability of the government to hide this kind of information from FOIA requests.
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by manquer 2y ago
> What would finally be enough to shake your faith? Permanent and major market crashes is the only thing I can think of . After the last crash a lot of fraud and incompetence got out because they couldn’t stay solvent, stuff like Celsius
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by manquer 2y ago
I rather AP stick to its principles rather than loose integrity, AP has a core function in elections in calling races I would prefer that no one doubts their integrity and legitimacy
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by manquer 2y ago
The renaming is a political stunt perhaps . Using the style guide as a reason to exclude some press on other hand is not a political stunt at all. It is mechanism to influence and control around the messaging of executive actions in the mai
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by manquer 2y ago
War pension claims like that were common and not fraud. The pension is claimed by the wife of the veteran , it was a practice to marry a very young girl very late in life partly because of the pension. https://en.m.wikipedia.org&
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by manquer 2y ago
> you can make money but you're essentially gambling. It is much worse than that, legitimate gambling is fine. In meme coins everyone knows they are scamming and and it is a pump and dump but just think that there would be some dumb
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by manquer 2y ago
A lot of developed countries do this. They just sent you your assessment automatically with they you think you/they owe if anything, you need to file anything only there if you believe there is difference . The US system is pretty back
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> you can make it faster Simplest ( works in enterprise too) is to say pay for it to be faster or even considered.
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Not if you are making a dirty bomb . Any radioactive material even at the levels found in power reactors can be dangerous. The point is not the usage is harmful or not, almost any tech can be used for bad purposes if you wish to do so. You
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> You can't remotely detect that somebody is training an AI. Energy use is energy use, training is still incredibly energy intensive and the GPU heat signatures are different from non GPU ones, it fairly trivial to detect large scal
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>water is recycled A sweeping statement, like plastic is recycled. It is more complex than that. It is energy intensive (and expensive) to recycle both low purity and ultra pure water (UPW) used and for some fabs it is just 40% [1] and t
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Talent is the reason. Same reason taiwan works very well.
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Arizona seems a particularly bad place to choose freely. Fabs consume enormous quantities of water and Arizona (and the sw) are already in precarious position, and not even a semi viable theoretical option like desalination possible in the
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Taiwan is a humid island on the ring of fire , is any of the environmental factors actually all that important?
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Cloud providers AWS in particular uses storage and transfer pricing as means of lock-in to other products , they can never be cost competitive to Backblaze , they has a thriving prosumer business . I don’t think it is going anywhere.
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https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/resources/storage-po... This is what backblaze use themselves currently able to hold 60 drives .
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Backblaze custom designed and uses what they call a pod holding 60units for a long time now https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/resources/storage-po...
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Very generally it is ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble... ) about the conflict of interest between agent( people taking action) and principal (the entity or person on behalf of whom action i
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The attempt is commendable, but the agency problem is well understood and none of these alternative structures have really solve for it.
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Twitter owns some shares in xAI . This has made the value of twitter debt improve from 55-60 cents to as high as 90 cents on the dollar according to some reports. While other factors may be involved, that debt is shopped around assuming the

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