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manquer
3y ago
Polanski is French citizen though and key figure in the French cultural circles, also he was well connected enough to be let go in the US in the first place multiple times . While US would prosecute him if they could , they have not tried a
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manquer
3y ago
You wouldn’t say less to worry about when you have to do full backup or show recovery from backup within a set recovery time . This one data store is easier is a myth , it just offloads complexity from developer to infra teams who are now p
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manquer
3y ago
You are thinking of normalized ( bcnf if not 3nf) well architectures application storing structured data , unless the app is 100 million+ users or grew super fast 250TB size would be hard to get to . Timeseries (like IoT you mentioned ) or
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manquer
3y ago
For a founder maybe , definitely not for employees . AI startups need not an insignificant amount of startup capital , you cannot just spend weekends to build like you would a saas app . Model training is expensive so only wealthy individua
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manquer
3y ago
Well they are victims too , they are held in prison like compounds and forced to work 16 hours a day and physically abused . They don’t have a choice but to talk to you . Everyone you engage you are making it worse for the person on the oth
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manquer
3y ago
> to the point where they feel they need to move faster They feel the need because unlike Apple others cannot wait years to release a product or upgrade to a successful one and still sell enough. Everyone else have limited brand recall,
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manquer
3y ago
Apple can afford to build to standards, It is not like everyone else is dumb , they simply cannot pull it off the brand strength Apple has is without peer in the market. If another brand launched first at same price points they simply will
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manquer
3y ago
It does not apply to dying declarations and statements made under impending death, this is well established in law. [1] Otherwise mob bosses would just pop off every witness and go fully free if it is completely inadmissible . There are lim
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manquer
3y ago
There is reason they didn’t go with YAML like syntax the author talks about it extensively here https://github.com/usebruno/bruno/discussions/360
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manquer
3y ago
You can do that by editing the collection file directly , Bruno watches for file system changes on the collection folder
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manquer
3y ago
> 75 billion number comes from a study available on SSRN I am aware, I got the date range from page 2 of the study. 50% number came from the John Oliver segment [3] in which he refers to this UNODC report[4] (page 2 ). > "Resear
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manquer
3y ago
Keep in mind 75B is over 4 years the GDP numbers cited is for a single year . The fact it is such a large portion of the GDP is one reason why these scam compounds are able to operate without getting shutdown , there is indirect support fro
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manquer
3y ago
is it any different from evolution?
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manquer
3y ago
https://youtu.be/XHVxm12NbrY?si=8D3w4RxzU1rIGfSp This is the origin
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manquer
3y ago
> the better part of a week. People do that because it takes 15 hours to travel. 100 years before people will go visit say family for few weeks or even months because travel was slow, now we fly for thanksgiving and back at work the fo
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manquer
3y ago
That is because they don't bill by the hour, The billable hour is a simple model to visualize the opportunity cost. People at this level[1] want to get things done quickly, if they can pay to avoid loosing a half a week for couple of m
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manquer
3y ago
Bing index has always been licensable , Yahoo was using it too, and they have other customers . I don’t think Google has a publicly known licensing deal ,
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manquer
3y ago
For the most people destination is likely to be Munich , it is urban center with large population and density . People don’t think long distance trains when talking about commuting to airports, usual expectation of any urban airport is it w
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manquer
3y ago
You could also not travel and do the meeting virtually . People billing thousands of dollars an hour are not opening a laptop traveling or not, they have enough executive assistants for that.
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manquer
3y ago
It is more the price / demand curve , I.e how many will pay a cost of the flight and is that sufficient demand for to recoup the costs . Emirates (also ethihad ) have for example this ultra luxury suite with its own shower and bedroom
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manquer
3y ago
With poor public transit as well perhaps . These days even if the airport is far off (newer airports usually are ) they are typically connected via public transit pretty well. Munich is a good example - airport is good 30+km from the city b
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manquer
3y ago
You cannot replace every person with another person , there are few truly unique people like great philosophers or scientists or some artists but they are few in a generation and businesses don’t employ those geniuses in the first place.
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manquer
3y ago
Opportunity cost with respect to effort also prioritization . It does clarify your thoughts, however it may put a lot of items on the plate you are not yet ready for . If you wish to focus first on building the product , solving the problem
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manquer
3y ago
AGI as defined narrowly by OpenAI, Microsoft et al for their contracts, not what scientists would define it as . While I don’t think we are close to AGI, we also have to acknowledge that term is forever changing meaning and goal posts , eve
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manquer
3y ago
Mozilla has been doing that for 20 years ?
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manquer
3y ago
Depends on the sector, size and age of the corporation. In crypto these kind of complex structures are fairly common ,FTX has some 180 entities. Real estate companies like evergrand have similar complexities. Companies which do lot of acqui
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manquer
3y ago
Apple settled this ? https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/14/23831939/apple-iphone-bat... Where is I hate apple coming from ? I was merely referencing this well known case
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manquer
3y ago
Modern ( and ancient) democracies are not direct democracies. There are many reasons why popularity alone of the voting public does not translate into policy. The dangers of tyranny of the majority is well known, will of the people is a nec
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manquer
3y ago
Planned obsolescence that is how, we didn’t get today this without some conscious evil supervillain planning - from the time how long light bulbs lasted to apple reducing battery performance via software . What is stopping car companies to
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manquer
3y ago
If you go far enough back we all came from a super nova or the Big Bang .
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