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by petra 5y ago
Why are the Chinese so terrible at marketing? How hard is to hire a western marketer to do a good job ?
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by petra 5y ago
Will this work if you just want to make lots of money?
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I don't care about the machine. It will work just the same without my participation(in most roles). // Being the best burger flipper gives you job security. Burger flippers earn close to the minimum wage. They always have dec
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by petra 5y ago
// Being motivated about a job whether miltary /civilian should be about what you can do Usually why people care about that is in-job competition and status hierarchies and ego. But the role of those psychological/biolog
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by petra 5y ago
I served in the Israeli military, like every 18 year old male. In ours, there are many places where people don't care. A lot depends on the role one plays. some are very meaningful. In some you carry a direct and deep responsibility(fo
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by petra 5y ago
How is this legal?
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by petra 5y ago
Nestle has an operating profit margin of 17.5%. That's pretty good. Maybe it's possible for Beyond/Impossible. Also, if capital costs of building a plant are low relative to yearly revenue, say 10%, even at profit margins of
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by petra 5y ago
This isn't happening just in India or consumer retail. "Amazon business" does the same for B2B products across every sector, and globally. Revenue is $25B. Actually, they also operate in India, so this disruption would have h
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by petra 5y ago
Why use ninite instead of chocolatey ? what's the difference?
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Did anyone measure how did the chatbot affected the conversion rate?
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by petra 5y ago
What's different in Amazon's bot implementation? And is it accessible to smaller companies somehow?
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by petra 5y ago
To create a chip requires machines from many vendors and integrating them. So there's a collaborative roadmap for the industry. A single vendor couldn't speed this process by much, because he won't have those missing tools.
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by petra 5y ago
Nicely done. Subscription pricing a commodity. That's a nice way to lock users.
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by petra 5y ago
What does "reading well" mean? Is there a good source to teach me that skill?
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by petra 5y ago
Isn't not lying, at least for the purposes of making a living quite naive? Because many sucsessful people, especially in tough economic situation use lying as a tool, and it seems to work. Heck the fields of marketing and sales often u
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by petra 5y ago
Which cars are 60 mpg?
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by petra 5y ago
What about China? They really want to win that race, is there a reason they wont be a serious competitor?
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Does anybody knows how secure is windows with VBS compared to Qubes OS ?
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If I remember correctly, Google did some work on machine learning for optimizing chip layouts. Maybe they think we're at the stage where ML can significantly help with cpu design?
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by petra 5y ago
I don't think we need to go as far as to remove the brain. But let's say we map all the pain receptors and pain-like receptors(like loneliness) and engineer a chicken without those or with them blocked ? It's a doable thing w
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by petra 5y ago
An interesting story about this from MIT technology review : https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.technologyreview.com/2021/0...
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by petra 5y ago
The market is no magic, it commoditizes most employees.
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by petra 5y ago
Ethically , are robotics a good idea ? Who knows. People do need good jobs, or even just jobs, and it doesn't seem more robots are going to help with that.
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by petra 5y ago
Isn't 6 to 12 months that ages in wartime ?
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Even if the project isn't successful, it's a required part of innovating. it's a real contribution.
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by petra 5y ago
Want a lower risk ? Be more humble. Join some group that is doing things that matter, contribute there and you'll surely do good.
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by petra 5y ago
Buying a company is much more expensive than paying for a manufacturing line.
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by petra 5y ago
Why do they need 100,000 of the same part in a 10M$ machine?
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by petra 5y ago
Musk's companies win(usually, not always) by finding niches with sleepy competition and doing great engineering work there. The semi industry is really far from that.
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That last line isn't true . There may be things that are too difficult or expensive to automate, so they won't be automated. Also if software development tools reach high enough levels, it may be that domain experts, or business a

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