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marcinzm
4y ago
>But, how does it come, that these procedures to get building permits have been slowed down/bureaucratized to the point that it almost seems intentional? NIMBY. Whomever owns the land/house right now wants it to go up in value
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marcinzm
4y ago
I'm wondering if due to the station being at the same pressure as outside a catastrophic breach is less likely. Slow flooding versus implosion.
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marcinzm
4y ago
You're basically complaining that a single model doesn't have full knowledge of every single area of all of human knowledge. It's got decent knowledge of most areas including programming with probably better overall knowledge
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marcinzm
4y ago
> If your criteria for whether a model is good is "it fooled a 9th grader" well, I don't know what to tell you. Fooling a 9th grader is amazing. That's a pretty well formed human being right there except with less lif
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marcinzm
4y ago
The point of a normal for-profit company is to make money for investors (ie: owners). Period. The employees are merely a means to an end and irrelevant beyond that end.
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marcinzm
4y ago
The important question in light of a return to office mandate would be what percentage of those in the office utilized the service rather than absolute utilization.
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marcinzm
4y ago
Didn't the person in charge of the free food publicly disagree with Musk?
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marcinzm
4y ago
To some people simply living for some time requires more courage than any reasonable person would muster in a lifetime. Reprimanding them for not having even more courage seems a sad thing to say.
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marcinzm
4y ago
>It requires ruthlessly deleting features and annoying a subset of users for the greater whole. Which generates bad PR and companies like to avoid that. I've seen quiet a few highly voted hacker news threads which get angry at: - A
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marcinzm
4y ago
And commercial software may very well be one intern copying stack overflow to keep the lights on. Until the the day they stop and shutdown the product with no further updates. For example, the issue here isn't FOSS but rather a small c
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marcinzm
4y ago
The question is what changed which in this case Elon shows up on my feed a lot more and his posts are a lot more annoying. And as I said I stopped Twitter to not see his posts. edit: I could block him but then there's the second order
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marcinzm
4y ago
Musk's drama posts if anyone you follow follows him. Stopped Twitter partially because I'm tired of reading whatever his current emotional outburst is.
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marcinzm
4y ago
>The argument is that the money could be better spent on lobbying for government aid and price limits. So it's better for lobbyists to get the money to encourage pharma companies to increase US prices to give Africa free doses? I do
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marcinzm
4y ago
So what is your argument in this case? That no one is allowed to portray themselves as the good guy unless they're 100% perceived as good by everyone?
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marcinzm
4y ago
Part of a CAs job is to manage public opinion because their job is to maintain trust in the CA system. If they cannot instill trust then they should not be a CA.
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marcinzm
4y ago
Top tech companies and VC startups will take a lot longer than a few months to resume hiring. So even when the glut of supply passes there will still be lower demand for a while. Or at least lower demand at the higher TC levels.
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marcinzm
4y ago
I never said we had no applicants (that at least passed the resume screen) but simply that we now got a lot more applicants.
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marcinzm
4y ago
I was hiring until a few weeks ago. The market is flooded with candidates right now and it wasn't three months ago. Lower supply and increased demand means it's a much worse job market for candidates. It doesn't take much to
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marcinzm
4y ago
Startups that aren't profitable (ie: most of them) are in even more trouble than large still profitable companies. There's less VC money and they need to preserve runway or they'll go out of business.
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marcinzm
4y ago
Unless you're thinking of getting an abortion.
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marcinzm
4y ago
In my experience Data Science is based either on optimizing short term easily measurable KPIs or producing impressive looking BS. So if you're joining a new team and they can't explain in one sentence what they're optimizing
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marcinzm
4y ago
Competent people will tell leadership what's wrong which leadership perceives as a threat to their egos/power. Incompetent people will tell them they're doing great while simply cashing their checks.
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marcinzm
4y ago
>You do that with people for several years, they're not just friends but pretty much family. In my experience, right until the moment you're not longer stuck together and then you start to drift apart pretty quickly.
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marcinzm
4y ago
It worked for launching things into space. It did not work as a weapon for the various reasons the wikipedia article points out. What got him assassinated is more likely his other work referenced on his Wikipedia page: >The Iraqis then t
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marcinzm
4y ago
In my experience there are differences between clouds so while all have the same basic problem in practice some may be better than others. I've never had issues getting GPUs on AWS but GCP constantly has issues with GPU/TPU capaci
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marcinzm
4y ago
No, a letter summarizing a law says that, the law itself says: >Section 2 places a moratorium on air permit issuance and renewal for an electric generating facility that utilizes a carbon-based fuel and that provides, in whole or in part
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marcinzm
4y ago
Reading the background this seems a ban of fossil power plants that are used for on-premise crypto-mining rather than crypto-mining more broadly. Basically expanded regulation on which fossil fuel power plants can be allowed to run . Miners
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marcinzm
4y ago
This is about crypto-mining operations that are running power plants that would otherwise not run. So to your point they are in fact banning the source of the pollution which is fossil fuel power plants. You're still free to pay market
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marcinzm
4y ago
Did you read the linked letter? It says the ban is specifically on crypto-mining that uses fossil fuel power plants but allows it using other power plants.
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marcinzm
4y ago
- I get items in 1-2 days including fairly niche items. Some items take longer but it's clear which ones and those are just as slow elsewhere. - I see reviews for the items and some of them aren't fake. The negative reviews with
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