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by orky56 7y ago
OS?
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AOL [1] among others in the early days did exactly that. Without using a search engine, you could access whatever type of content you wanted. Similar to a communism vs capitalism argument, you don't quite the same amount of variety but
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Are you referring to APM/infrastructure monitoring, etc.? I was curious to find out if you're thinking BI capabilities need to be just as powerful at the backend as these frontend tools.
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Productive x2! Love it. For second generation immigrants and I'm sure many others, learning a new language often comes while watching foreign language films, sometimes with subtitles. This seems like a more productive way to not only l
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The question becomes, are companies that are successful due to network effects worthy of anti-trust probes? Network effects will always lead to monopolies since the incentive for someone to switch to a new service must have an increasingly
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At their size & scale, these tech behemoths want to be your platform and be in between everything. So the question becomes, everything else being equal among them which would you choose and why? Privacy is a good enough reason for me an
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by orky56 7y ago
Good question. There's data missing in the table to determine how that column is calculated. Essentially, it's how much protein you would get in that total amount of calories while "protein" is how much protein you would
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As an HN user, you would make more money with your current skill set in the current job market. With that in mind, your net value to society through said job would be higher than the value you would provide fixing the city with that UBI mon
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Unfortunately my hospice volunteering sent me further into depression, perhaps even an existential crisis. I knew the impact of hospice and that was enough reason to put myself in the situation where maybe I could help. The patient I was wo
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It's interesting to think about this in terms of UBI (universal basic income). This test is the opposite in some ways since it's providing the utility as the motivation rather than the income directly. The premise of UBI is that t
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If you're comfortable, I would like to hear more about the Kaiser-related incident.
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Highly recommend reading Stratchery's take on this: https://stratechery.com/2019/disney-and-the-future-of-tv/
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Usually FAANG pre-Netflix
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This is great. It would be beneficial to also see other forms of compensation including bonus at a minimum, RSUs, etc. Sometimes a dip in salary might be explained by these other factors, so it might tell a more complete story.
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They need billions and OpenAI has implemented this type of LP structure. I don't imagine they'll as picky with investors.
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"Our investors include Reid Hoffman’s charitable foundation and Khosla Ventures, among others." I'm assuming these investors have already provided capital.
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What's to stop someone with a vote but not an investment from significantly investing in an AI application (business/policy/etc.) that directly aligns with one of OpenAI's initiatives? The spirit of this LP structure is
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SSN on its own is sufficient for verifying identity. SSN coupled with a phone verification step is more secure for authenticating than DOB.
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It's the centralization, not the aggregation, that's the problem. If entities, even if under the umbrella of a single corporation, were organized based on datasets to aggregate this info, the risk and punishment could be commensur
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For one payroll, I completely forgot to sign a set of checks for 40 employees. Not one employee came back and said their check did not clear. Scary world we live in.
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Thanks for keeping us inspired and trying to bring the future to now. Few thoughts & questions after reading the article & comments here... Some of the reasons Tesla has succeeded that may be relevant for Speeder: -Safety: Tesla&#x2
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Moonshots + Resources = Success. Love to see it in action!
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It shouldn't but can be
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Improving our daily lives is more than just that. You are getting the convenience of faster delivery. Less people in cars means less accidents, less pollution due to optimized speeds/routes, fewer cars due to batching similar tasks t
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Unfortunately, it's the hacking mindset when it's applied to the treatment of other humans.
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We are looking at the problem all wrong. College Board, a for-profit private corporation, is the company responsible for administering the SAT/ACT which is essentially a college entrance exam. Its cost is non-negligible for a low incom
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It's only used for positive news
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This could definitely revolutionize the electric car market by removing one of the main complaints, slow charge time. The other pending issues for even greater mass adoption are availability of charging stations & range. If charge time
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That was just the sample size when they first tried to publish. It seems like it's been retested since and only now has been accepted into publication. No hard numbers on that in the article though.

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