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by manquer 11mo ago
> that's what shareholders want What else could shareholders want? Employees, management, founders, customers, vendors could all have other goals, wants or desire but when you have a large number of shareholders that is what they w
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Nobody was asking them to give indemnification or grant the license. Each of the potential holders just need to put it down on paper they aren't going enforce rights if they had any, not give the developer a complete license to use. S
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It was an obvious market, that was visible years before the project was announced. I don't think any one was surprised, it was not like Apple launching iPod or the iPhone. What was impressive is at that they solved a lot of hard proble
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Are you talking about USSR Venera program or the US Apollo program? Your statement could apply to either one.
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You get lot more data when running real world experiments . For off world missions, the best examples are the Soviet Venus missions of how iterating and sticking with the goals helped do some incredible research which would be hard to repli
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Iterations are faster than modelling, no different for software where testing in prod with actual users ends up being quicker than in a testing environment. Iterations in hardware businesses are far more expensive, particularly for early st
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> booked out How so ? F9 launches are available anytime a customer wants them. SpaceX will bump down a Starlink launch to accommodate a paying customer, All they would really need would be the payload assembly time?
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I don’t think it is only that consideration While Gross margins numbers are estimates vary widely, 40-60% numbers some analysts throw around seems realistic. In an equity only company that is good enough metric , but all the major players h
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There are certainly features and use cases where gstreamer is better fit than ffmpeg. My point was it would be hard to imagine eschewing ffmpeg completely , not that there is no value for other tools and ffmpeg is better at everything. It
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Ffmpeg is a versatile toolkit used in lot of different places. I would be shocked if any company working with user generated video from the likes of zoom or TikTok or YouTube to small apps all over which do not have it in their pipeline som
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As a bibliophile, I wish there were true. The low cost editions are significantly poor quality prints, smaller fonts crappy ligatures, margins line heights- all to squeeze it into less pages, poorer paper, monochrome, laxer quality control
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We have similar definition of streams, but It depends on a lot of things from your tooling/ language , stack etc. if your builds take a fair bit of time (incremental builds may not work in worktree first time) or you are working on a i
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If you are single tasking, speed matters to an extent. You need to still be able to read/skim the output and evaluate its quality. The productive people I know use git worktrees and are multi-tasking. The optimal workflow is when you c
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A lot of IT work that gets done in India is low skill things that could be automated even before AI codegen tools. These jobs are particularly vulnerable to AI productivity gains . The thesis here is that current gen tools should enable 2 p
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A lot of “AI” investment in countries like India is just annotation and labeling kind of work . It has so become huge there, that is getting to similar size as the traditional call centre industry, hundreds of thousand of people work on cur
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I only said he became far less productive for his level of talent not that he completely stopped contributing. I kept away from political examples as it inevitably gets contentious[1] I was just trying to highlight the challenge that talent
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What exactly is wild about the 30 odd years of his later life that he spent trying to build a unified field theory ? The rest of the physics community at the time(and even largely now) did not share his ideas, maybe grand unified theory is
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Arguably it is worse. Society tends to transfer skills/talent/achievement/luck in one field and assume those attributes hold good in all fields because they were successful in one area, even if there is no justification, so t
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I guess OP means to say it is not idealogical reasons. Op means to say this type of pardon is not to meant to win votes or satisfy the demands of constituents, Like with convicted cops or people with weed related crimes etc or pardoning dr
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Lost his final appeal would fall under deal with the resident country category I imagine My observation was in response to GP wondering why do they such criminals caught frequently, not specifically about this case.
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I wasn't talking about this specific case. It was about general statement by the parent on how these criminals can be so be dumb, i was enumerating some of the different ways it can happen behind the scenes and still be annouced as a s
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I would imagine that is lot more likely that is just only the official story rather than what actually happens behind the scenes in these situations. In the background there could be deals with the countries protecting them or with the targ
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I am not so sure. Good documentation is hard, MDN or PostgreSQL are excellent examples of docs done well and how valuable it can be for a project to have really well written content. LLMs can generate content but not really write , out of
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>> get around 600Gbps from my iPhone 17 ! What kind of magic iPhone you have? I don't think there is any device to achieve anything close to that today[1] --- [1] The recently(2024) record is claimed to be at 938 Gbps but it is o
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It is more nuanced, for example Medicare Advantage(Part C) is paid by Medicare money but it is profitable private operators who provide the plans and service it a fast growing part of Medicare . John Oliver had an excellent segment coincid
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I should have been clearer - profit maximization above all else as long it is mostly legal. Neither profit or profit maximization at all cost is nature of everything . There are many other entity types from unions[1], cooperatives , public
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Light did not mean to imply quantity of paperwork you have to do, rather are you allowed to do the things you want to do as a company. More compliance or reporting requirements usually tend to favor the larger existing players who can affor
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That would be illegal though, the goal is do this legally after all. We also have to remember all claims aren't equal. i.e. some claims end up being way costlier than others. You can achieve similar % margin outcomes by putting a ton o
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They already doing that with AI, rejecting claims at higher numbers than before . Privatized insurance will always find a way to pay out less if they could get away with it . It is just nature of having the trifecta of profit motive , socia
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It wasn’t the opposite . By 2015 they were trying to hide how much of the group growth and profits were largely contributed by just AWS , i.e. they were hiding the e-commerce margins . Without AWS and subscriptions, Amazon is quite an unpro

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