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by md_ 4y ago
A potentially simpler explanation is an A/B test of a potentially CPU-intensive feature, and a misinformed data scientist. Testing a higher-compression image format might effectively be testing relative behavior between an experiment a
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by md_ 4y ago
I think the simple answer is that "investors demand it." Investors may indeed be predicting a recession, and it's probably true that many of these firms overhired. But there's no specific fiscal reason for most of thes
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by md_ 4y ago
> These a companies with globe spanning businesses the touch much of the world every single day (I’d put Stripe in this bucket too). They’ve got much greater and earlier visibility into the state of the broader economy long before govern
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by md_ 4y ago
I found https://news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/explains-recent-tech-la... to be very insightful, framing layoffs as "social contagion." As others noted here, irrespective of whether there is a coming
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by md_ 4y ago
I don't follow. Why do meat eaters want vegans to eat this instead of soy meat? I am mostly vegetarian, and I quite like Impossible Burgers. Sadly they're not really available in Europe. They might be an idea with a small market.
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by md_ 4y ago
This wasn't me not understanding why it might be valuable. This was me asking you to explain what makes you think this is valuable, how valuable you think it is, and why you think it's a unique advantage to Tesla. One way to look
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by md_ 4y ago
Presumably a combination of survivorship bias (we are most aware of the successful tech companies with asshole-founders-and-foosball-tables-in-the-lounges, and not all of the unsuccessful companies with the same) and fundamental attribu
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by md_ 4y ago
Well, Keynsian Beauty Contest, then. As long as you play it better than the others, you win. I don't do a lot of individual stock picking, because I can't be assed to look too closely at fundamentals and I don't think I have
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by md_ 4y ago
I guess that's true. FWIW, because this chart only goes back ten years, it's not like there's some obvious trend with WalMart (as an example) where as revenue increased, margins went up: https://www.macrotrends.net
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by md_ 4y ago
Definitely. I'm not claiming it's black and white or either/or, to be clear. But, what are the characteristics investors should look at for "tech company P:E"? Presumably a non-linear profit curve driven by low uni
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by md_ 4y ago
AWS, yes. Retail? Nah.
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by md_ 4y ago
That's an odd definition for "tech company." Is your point, though, that that data are valuable? If so, what for?
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by md_ 4y ago
This is true for so many "tech" darlings: Should Uber be priced like a tech company, or a cab company? Is Amazon a tech company or a retailer? Are ecommerce outlets like Warby Parker and Away tech companies, or just retailers with
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by md_ 4y ago
The idea that a social network might ask their government for assistance in identifying foreign influence operations...is pretty run of the mill? Not sure what a "monger" is in this context.
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by md_ 4y ago
I mean, hypothetically, what if Twitter said, "We really think it's bad for our brand to be connected to state sponsored info ops, and we'd like help avoiding it. Let's reach out to the FBI for threat intel to help us ke
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by md_ 4y ago
That thread seems to show two things: 1. Trust and safety is a hard job, and Twitter was...kinda not great at it, I think? Honestly, not a big surprise. 2. In high-level discussions with government policymakers, policymakers expressed gener
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by md_ 4y ago
Can you point me to the “Twitter Files” showing the government set the bounds of acceptable topics? Like I said above, I had trouble picking through these long tweet threads.
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by md_ 4y ago
It's a neat theory, but Apple was 4% of Twitter's Q1 ad revenue. I don't think the My Pillow guy has $100M to spend on anything, let alone Twitter ads. Crypto scams and fake nutrition pills aren't the top advertisements
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by md_ 4y ago
Does it turn out that Twitter was shadowbanning? As far as I could tell from the "Twitter Files", no. The only thing "revealed" was that... ...Twitter ranked tweets? Which they always said they did? (e.g. https:/&#
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by md_ 4y ago
For those of us with, like, day jobs, can someone summarize what damning discoveries were actually revealed in the "Twitter Files"? My impression is: 1. These "independent journalists" like numbered lists instead of pros
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by md_ 4y ago
I think the poster isn’t talking about the remote server seeing client MACs (because, as you say) but, rather, about the way mobile OSes use nearby wifi access point SSIDs to provide GPS-less geolocation. Samy Kamkar raised my awareness of
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by md_ 4y ago
That thread is really hard to follow. Is the claim that Twitter changed their ToS in order to justify banning Trump? If so, can you share the before and after texts? I assume the Internet Archive would have snapshots. Or is the point, liter
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by md_ 4y ago
I don’t think “how do I write differential equations in LaTeX” is a high-ad-revenue search query? Whereas a query like “what’s the best car insurance” or “where can I buy air Jordans” is. Does GPT do a good job on those types of queries?
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by md_ 4y ago
I suspect the challenges in running a scalable distributed realtime system like Twitter are fairly significant. And while I don't know how much of Twitter's operating expenses are attributable to the efficiency of that platform, i
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by md_ 4y ago
Maybe I'm living in a filter bubble, but I think it's going to be hard to build a "super app" that relies on the presence and active participation of reputable brands--publishers, if it's a news platform; businesses
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by md_ 4y ago
So what percentage of budget from, say, the UC system went to administration forty years ago vs today? My point was that this should be public data, yes, surprisingly, is not mentioned. Per https://nces.ed.gov/programs/
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by md_ 4y ago
I agree they’re not mutually exclusive. But each additional real dollar cost is attributable to one cause or the other. Silver gate seems to only entertain one explanation for all inflation in education, despite very well known alternative
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by md_ 4y ago
There are compelling alternative explanations for the rising cost of education ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol%27s_cost_disease#Educ... ). If the underlying cause were primarily administrative overhead, that sho
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by md_ 4y ago
This is, of course, silly trolling. If international law were a tool of US hegemony, then the US would not have been afraid to sign onto the ICC. The reality is that both America and Russia have willingly violated international law in the p
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by md_ 4y ago
Some interesting reading: https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2022/october/less... https://www.iiss.org/blogs/military-balance/2022/07/russias-... tl;dr: - Low

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