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by petra 7y ago
Google is doing well. Some of their older investments (like AI maybe) are already making them money. And they have a few bets that with time and some luck could make them a lot of money. It's very likely they would be able to cover the
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by petra 7y ago
I agree. Also, most small businesses do stuff people want. But it's mostly commodities. So the hard part in many small businesses is marketing. And marketing is mostly hacking. As for startups,marketing is very important for a startup.
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by petra 7y ago
// Their innovations are more around key details and hardware/software integration that makes the whole system work like magic. That philosophy was Steve Jobs' key insight back than. Today many companies excel at magica
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by petra 7y ago
The problem is funding: let's say funding a self-driving project takes $5B-$10B and 15 years, until it starts to become a real, scalable business. And that's probably optimistic. Who will fund that ? I wonder if Google was too amb
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by petra 7y ago
The economics of on-demand are totally different: First, there's a delivery part. Delivery companies often become very big and make a lot of money. Second, centralizing many small dry cleaning places into one has Significant economic a
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by petra 7y ago
Why are only few breweries that good ? And is that something that can, with the right investment be scaled, and offered affordably ? Or is it inherently expensive ?
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by petra 7y ago
1. I wonder why we are not seeing "cloud brewing"? The process, as they describe it, seems very standard. 2. For restaurants, it's either "ghost/cloud kitchens" or franchises. If you go outside those, it's
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by petra 7y ago
If a company needs an almost commodity software, like most companies, it's clear that over the long term, AWS will win on reliability and probably price over an AWS startup. So why choose differently ?
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by petra 7y ago
There are plenty of ways to view the role of businesses in society. One particular way is "the triple bottom line": part of running a business is a responsibility for taking care of your employees, your community and the environme
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by petra 7y ago
>> it would be better to believe the myth that we have full control over our destiny rather than this ridiculous concept that luck controls ~100% of circumstance. Why think in black and white ? We have a lot impact on our lives, but
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by petra 7y ago
Reinforcement learning is unsupervised and goal directed.
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by petra 7y ago
You always have to be one step ahead. No competitive edge lasts forever. But there's a big difference between being cloned in a month, and being cloned in a year. Within a year, maybe you could build a brand, create v2, have some econo
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by petra 7y ago
So how do Chinese Entrepreneurs maintain competitive advantage and profit ?
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by petra 7y ago
I use noise cancellation in-ear earphones to reduce the sound of the radio. it works decently well for the low and some mid frequencies. It helps. Probably your best bet is headphones or earphones with both noise-cancelling and good noise-i
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by petra 7y ago
>> buy much more expensive wafers with lower defect rates How do you do that ? where do i read more about this ?
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by petra 7y ago
This wafer scale tech manages yield issues internally, bypassing bad circuits. That probably means their wafer yield is 100%. As for wafer prices: https://anysilicon.com/major-pure-play-foundries-revenue-per... It's $6
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by petra 7y ago
If we could do full wafer analog neural network - that's probably another 2 order of magnitude. That means we'll need 200 such chips. Why is the wafer so expensive ? Buying a manufactured wafer from TSMC ,16nm is I think is $4k-5k
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by petra 7y ago
It's possible to make anti epileptic drugs work rapidly, some in 30 minutes - but it requires an injection.
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by petra 7y ago
>> Swedish organizational culture is very meeting and consensus oriented. How does that work ? do people get a say regardless of their status ? do good ideas really rise up ? Or does it just become a different type of political game ?
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by petra 7y ago
We know how to replace doctors with nurses. It works well, in many cases. It's really a political problem. People don't seem to have enough motivation to politically fight to replace doctors with nurses, and doctors have a lot of
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by petra 7y ago
Of course the next-gen system(including people and machines) should be proven as trustworthy, before being used. Nobody here is against that.
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by petra 7y ago
Any way to train the brain to silence those frequencies , even while it's quiet outside ?
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by petra 7y ago
Maybe this is: http://www.fanlesstech.com/2019/10/exclusive-amds-nuc-is-com...
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by petra 7y ago
In the US , only about 6% of nurses are male. https://realmanswork.wordpress.com/2012/05/05/male-nurses-wo...
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by petra 7y ago
If there's demand to studying the humanities, why can't the students pay for it? You can say that the state should subsidize non-wealthy students. But why? shouldn't they, especially, focus on providing for their family, and
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by petra 7y ago
From what we know about software platforms - it's a winner takes all/most business. Wordpress isn't there(but 34% is huge). Why is that ?
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by petra 7y ago
Of course it's both. Personal responsibility is important. And even if you're bored, there are things to do other than hacking. But working mind-numbing jobs , way below one's skills and talents happens to such a large share
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by petra 7y ago
Before the internet, many people only worried, economically, from people in their immediate sorrounding. Often only in their city. Knowledge was much harder to ackuire and more valuable, and it was harder to compare prices. That led to an e
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by petra 7y ago
Noise cancelling earphones really do cancel the noise before you hear it - when they're fast enough. When they work you feel like you're at a quiet room, weirdly hearing only the high-frequency sounds. But yes, you can listen to m
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by petra 7y ago
Standard bluetooth has pretty bad quality. But Android has the AptXHD standard, for high quality wireless earphones. That's what we should compare this to.

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