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> what leads people to this type of thinking once they get in a group setting Game theory! The downside of being brave vastly outweighs the upside. For the C-suite, there is no cost to herdlike-behavior, regardless of the outcome. Howeve
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> Everyone’s strategy looks exactly the same. If one is a CxO who's looking out for one's job security, herd-like behavior is the safest option, due to the (near universal) structure of "performance"-based executive r
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> In most cases, LLMs can get you 80-95% of the way, sometimes less, sometimes more. That's my experience too, but it's 60-95% solutions in my case[1], with about 120-140% of lines of code required. I wish there was a harness t
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There used to be over 50 memory manufactures in the US alone. Everytime there was a bust (following a boom) there'd be bankruptcies. The lucky ones got bought out and consolidated. Empirically, attempting to capitalize on memory booms
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> SK Hynix and Samsung are South Korean. The Korean memory makers are playing the same game as Micron and simply moving existing capacity up-market. GP was referring to upstart Chinese memory manufacturers like ChangXin, who - if their y
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It sure looks like Sam Altman's masterful gambit to corner the memory market has had unforeseen consequences.
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No thank you.
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https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-red-cross-raised-...
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Which is why, naturally, the American Red Cross is the gold standard for NGO donation efficiency.
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EV =/= software-defined vehicle, and Chinese EVs are doing well in both areas
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> US suppliers are fine and won't go bankrupt, they can just focus on serving... For a while, US automakers thought the same of Japanese, then Korean car manufacturers, and Musk laughed at Chinese EV makers in an interview >12 ye
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> more importantly actually publishes those advancements so everyone can benefit from them. I suspect American inference providers implement the efficiency gains, and pad their margins rather than pass the savings along to the consumer.
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> I'd do a reasonable pay per view on Netflix You know it's not going to be reasonable because Netflix management wants to show continued profit growth, ad infinitum. Streaming micropayments will likely include dynamic pric
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Under US law, LLM outputs are not under copyright. Even if those companies were under the American jurisdiction[1], the worst thing they would be guilty of is a breach of ToS. 1. OpenRouter is based in New York, and offers a 1% discount whe
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Everyone knows the kindergarten rule on stating an observation: "They who smelt it, dealt it."
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Left/Right alignment is relative, and the American political center is...where it is, and has been drifting rightward since Bill Clinton's "Third Way".
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> My ex moved to ATL from Seattle, and it was just WILD watching her go… “you guys have RAIN, here… like it comes down HARD” So it makes sense to first rollout to a place with frequent, lighter rain - no? As an outsider, Waymo's app
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> I've definitely had people say it as an actual complaint in different contexts I think fan loudness is an outgrowth of conspicuous consumption because a certain OEM decided to make it a marketing bullet-point. I was equally disapp
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If perfect information and perfect competition were attainable, the free hand of the market would deliver such a service to you. Since it's not, you'll have to bear the dudewipes ads.
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People don't hate micropayments because it's Cloudflare promoting them, it's because it truly is a shit idea, for many reasons. People would equally reject Netflix, if Netflix fooated the idea of replacing the subscription m
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> The question is: why haven't you fixed this already? Since you're of the opinion that this is taking too long, what do you think is a reasonable time for a fix, and why? I'm assuming Waymo didn't have a team of floo
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> This is only the 10th city they've deployed to, all in the south, and nowhere there's significantly inclement weather You may be relieved to hear Waymo is rolling out to Portland, Oregon. It's not in the south, and with
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Don't worry - they'll make it up with volume!
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That depends on what you think of existing liability insurance coverage, such as the one commonly sold to physicians. The way I see it, if you are not granting immunity, and also creating the possibility of financial penalties, then you
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> Microsoft hasn't yet fucked it up the way they have so many other things. Not for lack of trying, the amount of CoPilot cruft bundled with the core IDE is growing quarterly.
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We're appending "AI" now to English words, to match the Anguilla TLD that are fashionable and will never become dated. - Mike, co-founder of MoistAI
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> Never heard of this from AWS or Azure. AWS does it more efficiently; it takes down many startups at a time when us-east-1 goes down.
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Everyone has a plan until they get punched on the mouth. The plan was a quick decapitation strike, perhaps followed by a Venezuela-like arrangement.
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> Obviously it wasn't successful, they should have either built a bomb or not bothered, in hindsight. The JCPOA obviated the need for a nuke. It was a reasonable assumption that the US would honor its side of the agreement under the
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> I don't think religions should appeal to outsiders You'd have made strange bedfellows with cranky Catholics who thought so too, 60 years ago after Vatican II's modernization reforms. > You can see this with the numb
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