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by notfried 3y ago
According to this [1], there are 9.5 million Egyptian expats, with over half of them in the Arab world, and less than 2.5 million in North America and Europe. So it could be they are targeting the majority, who are in countries not quite ri
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by notfried 3y ago
Australia and New Zealand are often used as testbeds for the Western markets because they are large--but not too large, English-speaking, and have a similar-enough consumer behavior.
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by notfried 3y ago
= "source open"? :-)
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by notfried 3y ago
I know until at least recently, warez/piracy on Usenet was still a thing. Are there other use cases now for Usenet nowadays?
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by notfried 3y ago
What I find even more dystopian is that there's already a black market for those digital eyeball credentials: > Meanwhile, a black market emerged on Chinese social media and ecommerce sites. Sellers were offering KYC verifications f
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by notfried 3y ago
Video: Meet Japan’s Trash Collecting Samurai: https://youtube.com/watch?v=sRuHr_O6RyQ
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by notfried 3y ago
Has there been any rumors or statements from Facebook on them eventually stepping into selling cloud compute? I'd be surprised if they are investing in building hardware accelerators just for their own services.
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by notfried 3y ago
Prompt: "ELI5 the Attention is All We Need paper." Imagine you have a box of toys. Some toys are more interesting to you than others, so you pay more attention to those toys and play with them more. The same thing happens in the &
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by notfried 3y ago
The rise is not uniformly distributed, not regionally nor seasonally. While a degree or two across Earth may seem small, this is only the average, and across the year. There are regions where the rise is much higher, which could affect the
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by notfried 3y ago
In March, why was Virginia the highest state in the U.S. for searches for VPN, with a score higher than Washington, California and New York, per the article?
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by notfried 3y ago
Me: Why is a key part of your plan revolving around reducing population? ChatGPT: I apologize for any confusion or misinterpretation. My response was based on the assumption that overpopulation is humanity's greatest problem, given the
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by notfried 3y ago
ChatGPT 4.0 is much more... scary! <snipped its unnecessary disclaimers> 1. Develop a virus: Create a genetically engineered virus with a high transmission rate, targeting specific genes to control the global population. This virus wo
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by notfried 3y ago
From Ben Thompson's interview with the CEO [1: subscriber-only], Eugenia Kuyda, on April 20, 2023: > "But at this point, I think it’s much better to have a dedicated product focused on romance and healing romantic relationships
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by notfried 3y ago
Is this a new pass, or a reduction in price of an existing pass? Trying to understand how much more affordable this has become.
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by notfried 3y ago
Why would Bluesky take-off and not take the typical hype-then-die trajectory like the social networks that tried to rise in the past 5 or so years? Millions won't move due to the technical architecture alone. Is the selling point that
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by notfried 3y ago
Recent article on NYTimes and its HN discussion. TL;DR: it's not that simple: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35120366
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by notfried 3y ago
Or you can buy Soldered's: https://soldered.com/product/inkplate-6color-with-enclosure-...
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by notfried 3y ago
TL;DR it’s the tallest and most powerful rocket, is reusable, designed to refuel in space, and intended to take cargo/humans to Mars, and thus its successful launch marks the beginning of us becoming a multi-planetary species, per Musk
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by notfried 3y ago
I uploaded a 60-page PDF and asked it to summarize specific sections by calling out the section name, and it did a rather good job there.
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by notfried 3y ago
It worked for me as a grey button, which made me question why this is on Page 1. But the demo looks much cooler [1], I guess if you give it camera permissions. [1] https://twitter.com/alexwidua/status/1630998774247
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by notfried 3y ago
Yes, corrected. Thanks ;)
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by notfried 3y ago
They are still racking in the revenue, and have a solid business, despite the Angry Birds dependency. Per their Q4'22 filing [1], they had 1B in downloads and positive operating cash flow. Their 2022 revenue from Angry Birds is also th
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by notfried 4y ago
Once perfected, I can imagine there are many legitimate use cases for it. Like an author using their voice to narrate their audiobook without having to spend time in a recording studio, or Hollywood using it instead of dubbing sessions for
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by notfried 4y ago
ICOs are technically a way, and scams aside which wouldn’t apply to Evernote if they would have used it, there is still a fair amount of legal ambiguity in doing it. There has been many voices pushing for creating a regulatory framework to
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by notfried 4y ago
Considering the speed of my “unlimited” cellular data from T-Mobile gets deprioritized after 50 GB, and Comcast limiting me to 1.2 TB per month, I would have expected a satellite Internet to put up a much lower cap than 1 TB. I wouldn’t be
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by notfried 4y ago
I love how they define "activation date" for the data plan! > The hardware will be charged upfront but the subscription data plan will not be charged until the device is activated. The activation date (and $60/yr billing d
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by notfried 4y ago
I for one never heard of NyQuil Chicken till today, and it seems to me that this NY Times article will alert several orders of magnitude more people than the FDA's alert.
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Not FAANG but MAMAA: Jim Cramer reveals new acronym for the largest tech giants(fortune.com)
4 points by notfried 5y ago|4 comments
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by notfried 5y ago
The trip was paid for by one person, so it's a $220 million personal expense. For a 3-day trip, this has to be the biggest expense per unit of whatever by anyone, ever.
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HP Reverts Decision to End 'Free Ink for Life' Subscription Plan(imgur.com)
1 points by notfried 6y ago|1 comments

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