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by marcinzm 2y ago
Fun thing about a two sided marketplace. It needs two sides. If you make life hard for sellers then they won't join and then you, by definition, don't have a marketplace.
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> Re: fulfillment — why not ask Etsy sellers to pre-stock everything that's not made-to-order into fulfillment centers like Amazon's? And, in fact, to send anything that is made-to-order to a fulfillment center first, where it&
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by marcinzm 2y ago
> The automatic enrolment in the Etsy advertising program means the platform fees for anyone selling more than 10k USD increase sharply at that point to ~20% of total revenue. That seems to assume a very very unrealistic 100% of orders b
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> and nothing to stop them Except Ebay and Amazon already existing.
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I find Google worse every day. The latest thing I noticed is a ton of AI generated sites at the top that "summarize" things. Mostly the same format. Except they're usually wrong in many ways. One site kept saying Llama 3 is a
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by marcinzm 2y ago
The goal of the CEO is to drive the stock price up in whatever horizon investors care about. Usually it's not a long horizon. It's not to build a sustainable product or even a product at all.
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No but lots of other people have: https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/search/search-results Feel free to release a computer named Apple to prove me wrong.
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That doesn't mean in any way that it can't be a legal trademark.
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Moonshot to me indicates there is a specific goal versus simply making a startup that may pivot utterly. If the Apollo project ended up building a high speed train then it'd have been a failure no matter how good that train was.
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That's how you run a large corporation. Not a successful startup or moonshot project. It is perfectly valid to ignore a risk and then assume you'll figure something out if it comes to pass. Few things happen quickly so you'll
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Something can be good for X overall but be bad for subsets of X. The fact that you find it so offensive for me to even make that statement says more about the mono culture you view the world through than the one I view the world through. ed
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The mountain climbing is also amusing since, in my experience, running moonshots needs someone who is inherently lazy. Driven, yes, but also lazy. You don't want someone who climbs mountains as a hobby. You want someone who figures out
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> McKinsey & Co.-trained entrepreneur who abandoned a Ph.D. in theoretical physics to build startups in sub-Saharan Africa That does not sound like the profile I'd want to run a moonshot project. To me you either you want someon
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Assuming that’s the only clause that they can use to cause people trouble. The article indicates it’s not.
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That's an odd straw man. I'd appreciate you not put words in my mouth. You're claiming that self-driving cars are better than public transit and will replace public transit in Europe (assuming they were available). I'm m
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So basically make the urban environment a sea of constant fast driving cars filling all available space. There's a reason a lot of cities are converting roads and urban centers into non-car area. Parking and car lanes replaced with bik
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> Self-driving cars will make things way more efficient. Road capacity has a physical limit. Unlike data you cannot convert cars into light of various wavelengths to pack more into the same physical space. Well you can but that's ca
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How exactly will it reduce congestion? The cars are the same size. The trips are the same and are likely to go up in frequency with self-driving. The roads are the same as before. If anything you will have a ton more congestion. The vast ma
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The US has 280m with half the population.
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Europeans have already solved this problem without need for non-existent technology. It's called public transportation. That's why Americans spend 101 minutes per day driving on average while Germans spend 36. Imagine how much mor
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by marcinzm 2y ago
Did you read what OP wrote? It's not mostly about wearing your seatbelt when seated but mostly about never ever ever leaving your seat. That's the constant fear part.
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> - These conditions are unpredictable and have little warning Not true at all. The vast vast majority of turbulence incidents are very well predictable. It's not 1930 anymore. > - The conditions that lead to uncomfortable or dan
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Because there's millions of those tiny acts and I doubt you've read the risk analysis of each one to decide which fifty thousand to follow. But if you actually do consider them rationally and act on them then cool. Most people who
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That seems odd since I also don't see how this differs from other approaches being published. Except what everyone else calls an Image Encoder (ie: some type of pre-trained VAE architecture) they call a tokenizer. The Apple MM1 paper u
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But then it's not about safety. It's about your need to feel in control of the situation even if the control is an illusion. That is fair in a way but saying it's a safety thing or that people are crazy for not needing to fee
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When I walk in a city I don't spend my time constantly scanning the sky and every building around me for a potential falling object. Or research the structural history of every bridge I drive over then spend hours avoiding certain ones
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I would say using an engine around Earth that emits radioactive exhaust that travels at less than Earth escape velocity is the real lunacy.
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As should have the IoT people to not conflict with the decades old LORA name used for Level of Repair Analysis.
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And LORA stood for Level of Repair Analysis since the 70s.
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> Long said fewer than eight percent of the country's 8000 beekeepers were currently affected - and there were 2900 reports of AFB made in the past year to May, down 15 percent on the 3449 reports the year before. I wonder if that&#

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