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by petilon 4y ago
There is also: http://nic.google http://nic.microsoft http://nic.apple https://nic.azure/ http://nic.aws/ Is nic.* the new *.com ?
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by petilon 4y ago
If you manufacture glasses, how are you going to get it into the hands of consumers? Luxottica owns the retail stores and the insurance company.
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by petilon 4y ago
Glasses are expensive because there is no competition. One company - Luxottica - owns pretty much everything. You go to LensCrafters and prices seem super expensive, so you go to Pearle Vision and that's expensive too, so you go to Tar
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by petilon 4y ago
Related story: Musk got a note attached to his tweet removed. Edit: but now it is back. "After new Twitter owner Elon Musk tweeted a complaint about losing advertisers on the platform Friday, a note offering additional context was adde
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Regarding Twitter’s reduction in force, there is no choice(twitter.com)
4 points by petilon 4y ago|0 comments
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by petilon 4y ago
You have never heard of a board firing a CEO?
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Elon Musk Says Twitter Has Had Massive Revenue Drop(wsj.com)
7 points by petilon 4y ago|1 comments
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by petilon 4y ago
Thank God for these advertisers. Twitter is very powerful — demagogues can use it to subvert democracy, and repressed peoples can use it to start revolutions. To have this service by controlled by one person — no board and no shareholders t
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Twitter informs staff layoffs are set to begin(cnn.com)
2 points by petilon 4y ago|2 comments
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by petilon 4y ago
> "if you're a certain skin color, you're too stupid, to compete on merit" Hold on. You realize Harvard's policies have historically been designed to favor Whites, right? The whole "holistic review" p
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by petilon 4y ago
What do you think is the conservative outcome? It is not so obvious. The allegation is that Harvard is discriminating against Asians (and thus favoring Whites). California colleges are not allowed to consider race. Check Asian vs. White stu
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by petilon 4y ago
It was awful. And it was great. The awful part was C++. There were only two popular programming languages: C++ and Visual Basic. Debugging memory leaks, and memory corruption due to stray pointers and so on in C++ was a nightmare. Then Java
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by petilon 4y ago
It is now cheap enough for GM and Volkswagen: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-25/lidar-sen...
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by petilon 4y ago
But it doesn't appear to be helping. Here's an example accident where depth data from Lidar would have helped: "Tesla later said that during the crash, Autopilot’s camera could not distinguish between the white truck and the
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by petilon 4y ago
Well, the car may have had radar hardware but there are questions as to whether the software was using it: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/05/business/tesla-autopilot-... Excerpt: Mr. Rajkumar of Carnegi
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by petilon 4y ago
I didn't find his answers particularly convincing. His answer focused on costs mainly, and how "the best part is no part". We have already seen multiple accidents caused by camera's limitations [1] which would not have h
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by petilon 4y ago
It is sad... one of the most admirable technologists on the planet is also a total jerk.
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by petilon 4y ago
> He never said that Get it from the horse's mouth: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519036983137509376?lang...
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by petilon 4y ago
That's a very different position than the one he stated before, i.e., everything that is not illegal will be allowed.
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by petilon 4y ago
The problem is that a lot of miscreants hide behind the label "conservative voice". Like people who spread hate, misinformation and conspiracy theories online. We need to differentiate between these fake "conservative voices&
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by petilon 4y ago
It is in this NYT story: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/27/technology/elon-musk-twit...
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by petilon 4y ago
Republican leaders live in fear of Trump tweets, now they have to fall in line (which includes supporting Trump's lies about "stolen election") or be taken down by a Trump tweet. Not great for democracy.
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by petilon 4y ago
That's not what this story says: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/29/dorsey-wanted-musk-on-twitte...
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by petilon 4y ago
This is what happens when shareholders have no say on how the company is run. Zuckerberg doesn't have to listen to Meta shareholders because their shares are non-voting. Zuck can't be fired.
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by petilon 4y ago
Right... running a social media company is different from running a rocket company or an electric car company. I wouldn't bet against Musk though. He has already adjusted his position on what is allowed on Twitter, now that he is runni
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by petilon 4y ago
He was disinvited from joining the board. (Personally, I think CEO Parag Agrawal had good reason for doing so, if you remember Musk's tweets from that time, regarding changes he wanted to see in Twitter.)
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by petilon 4y ago
When you're the wealthiest person in the world you don't have to accept insults from anyone. Twitter offered Musk a seat on its board. But six days later, CEO Parag Agrawal tweeted that Musk "would not be joining the board af
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Musk Said to Begin Firing Twitter’s Top Executives(nytimes.com)
52 points by petilon 4y ago|28 comments
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by petilon 4y ago
I didn't get anything from that. My question was not about WASM but Docker+WASM project. Why problem does it solve?
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by petilon 4y ago
What problem is this solving?

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