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by matrix_overload 3y ago
MBAs can only pull this off when there is no competition and they are in bed with the regulators. You can very easily get Boeing back on track by splitting them into multiple competing businesses, but we all know this won't happen.
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
The biggest trouble is that a lithium battery that will last 8 years, and the one that will puff up in a year and lose 80% of capacity, all look the same when you buy them. It's all about the purity of materials, quality control, and o
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
>Imagine I win the lottery and hire really smart architects and tell them to make a revolutionary new building. Each one will end up pulling in their own direction, fighting with others over minor things, and nothing will ever get done.
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
Sounds like something is interfering with the CAN bus and causing multiple corrupt packets from different modules. That said, the article leaves a weird impression of being written by AI, or SEOed. Something about the repetitive sentence st
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
If you want to understand recursion, you need to understand recursion first.
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
-> went to stanford or harvard -> funded (no questions asked) -> held director level at faang -> funded It's the chain of trust. It means that the investor is already 2-3 handshakes away from the founder, and h
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
Why not offer a choice of expensive on-prem with average support costs baked in vs. cheaper cloud with savings passed to the customers?
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
There's a big difference. If you process stuff locally, uploading the entire unprocessed data to the cloud would spark a lot of criticism. So, you are stuck running analysis locally and uploading things like relevant ad topics. If you
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
Heat. Your typical 150kW fast charging is like 3 houses with 200A service all maxed out. Or 25 houses running at typical load. If you want to convert it from 240V AC to 340-360V DC (actual voltage goes up as the battery charges), you will n
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
Different users are shown different ads, so you would need to dynamically edit the video and audio stream, injecting additional content into it. It would raise the server-side costs by an order of magnitude, because instead of just serving
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
The caveat is on the operator's side. Your satellites need to be much closer to the user, that means much less square miles of coverage per satellite, due to the Earth's curvature. So you need like 1000x more satellites compared t
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
If you are new to the third-world politics, I'll give you a 101: you "donate" enough cache to the ruling party - you get your business exempted from regulations, you don't - you get squashed. All you can see in this case
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
It's good to see investigative journalism still alive in small blogs like this, but at the same time it is rather sad once you realize it gets drowned in an infinite supply of ragebait and never ends up being acted upon.
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
This is probably an intentional move by Unity. Low revenue per install is typically a sign of adware/malware or trashy fad products ("punch %POLITICIAN% in the face" kind games). It makes sense why they would not want their e
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
Hype cycle [0] progressing as it always does. We're past the peak of inflated expectations and headed for the trough of disillusionment. Give it another 2-3 years and we will see very practical (and likely very niche) applications. I j
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
That was the intent. More expenses for you, more profits to corporate.
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
Not really. Maps are also mere data, but they are quite successfully copyrightable. There's even a concept of trap streets [0] used to find out if someone used your data in their map without permission. AI models don't have an est
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
It distracts people from demanding real stuff like a higher salary or a better schedule, so mission accomplished.
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
On the contrary, to be critical of what the media tells them, quantify problems, rank solutions and check for conflicts of interest. This won't work though. The critical thinking in the U.S. culture has been replaced by obedience, and
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
2023 is a first El Niño year after a long streak of La Niña years [0]. Which means, drier-than-usual summer after multiple wetter-than-usual summers. If we assume that wetter years accumulate the fuel, and drier years burn it, it would expl
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
Which is fairly consistent with other El Niño years [0] [0] https://vancouver.weatherstats.ca/charts/precipitation-month...
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
>Hmm. Do you have any more info about 2020? Provincial parks were outright closed for some time. And people in general were too spooked to go grilling on a forest campsite with the entire extended family.
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
For anyone getting an emotional response and willing to blame climate change deniers, here's some dry government statistics on Canadian forest fires [0]. The number of fires over the past 4 decades is trending down. The numbers for are
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
Did the demo requests look like they came from legitimate companies, or just random gmail addresses? In the former case, your demo must have sucked. In the latter case the agency likely scammed you.
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
Time and again, people make the same mistake. Online ads work if you are selling a more-or-less commodity. If your product is a propane tank, paying for AdWords to be #1 whenever anyone googles "buy a propane tank" will generate l
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
Terrible advice. People are different, very different. They are good at different things and bad at different things. The key to success in life is finding the few things you are good at, and building on top of them. Also, finding things yo
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
You hire useless people and pay them bloated salaries using investors' money. Then they order something from a consulting firm ran by your wife, or just remember the favor, and hire you into an overpaid useless role next time they secu
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
Then I sincerely hope he played the kickbacks-and-favors game correctly and the reddit post is just for optics.
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
In their defence, many companies advertise various "leadership positions", but once you get to an interview stage, you see they are looking for another JavaScript monkey in the team, and the whole leadership thing is a pie in the
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
You are supposed to do all that with other people's money, dummy.

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