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by potamic 4mo ago
> if the sales team call you make sure legal is in the room. What's the deal? It couldn't harm just listening to sales, could it? I presume legal would it be involved before anything is signed in any case?
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by potamic 4mo ago
This was a great read unfortunately tainted by horrible graphics. If the publisher is reading this, please consider this feedback. 1. Animations are meant to distract by design, and putting them where someone is deeply engrossed in the arti
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by potamic 5mo ago
A wealth tax than caps one's inflow to something like a million a year makes a lot of sense. To all the billionaire sympathizers who worry about incentives and technological progress, this here is a perfect (and not the only) example o
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by potamic 5mo ago
As long as the foreign companies operate within the country under the country's laws, it shouldn't be a big problem. But being dependent on only one vendor and not having redundancy in the system is a problem though. This is why c
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by potamic 5mo ago
There is the silver medal syndrome.
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by potamic 5mo ago
What's the average cost per interaction?
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by potamic 5mo ago
Cool concept! What's the idea behind draft version and higher version?
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by potamic 5mo ago
For every investor who has made money, there is another who has lost an equal amount. Money cannot be created, it can only change hands!
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by potamic 5mo ago
> The logic is to cause difficulties for the civilian population so much that they will then turn against the militants The beatings will continue until morale improves!
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by potamic 5mo ago
> During this period, I was instructed to delete her contact and the text messages between me and her from my phone. I complied, as I was scared to lose my job. Those messages, which would have been favorable to me on the question of who
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by potamic 6mo ago
> In some countries (like Canada), soft-drink manufacturers are required to disclose the exact amount of each artificial sweetener they use in the drink Can you share some links? Neither amazon.ca nor walmart.ca seem to show this.
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by potamic 6mo ago
Institutions do not stake their own money and are somewhat averse to the direction of the market. As for common people, they're generally not known to do the most rational thing.
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by potamic 6mo ago
Dated Jan 9. When the headlines is in present tense, it is kinda misleading to post as-is at a later time.
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by potamic 6mo ago
Can't see replies, what did they say?
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by potamic 7mo ago
They didn't have any natural resources that could be exploited.
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by potamic 7mo ago
CEOs turning civil when backlash on their company goes viral is a trope as old as time. I guarantee the CEO green-lighted this entire thing in the first place.
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by potamic 7mo ago
> You can do local AI inference and get Claude Opus-level performance (Kimi K2.5) over a cluster of Mac Studios with Exo.Labs Does it do distributed inference? What kinda token speeds do you get?
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by potamic 7mo ago
Off topic, but selecting text and right clicking does not work on this site. I'm finding more and more sites of late where this is the case. Wondering if this is intentional or some issue with a popular framework everyone's using.
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by potamic 7mo ago
Most things that go viral actually have a concerted marketing push behind them. I suspect that was the case here. Something about the way people talked about it didn't come across as very genuine.
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by potamic 7mo ago
Can someone who is new to Star trek start with DS9 or need to watch earlier series for context?
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by potamic 8mo ago
The people looking at invisible gamma farts at the edge of our universe is what led to understanding of supernovas, and the research on supernovas is what enabled ASML to build an EUV light source for their machines. EUV machines are arguab
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by potamic 8mo ago
You're right. If you were educated, you would have learnt about the numerous applications of particle physics in modern technologies.
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by potamic 8mo ago
Love the brutalist style. Are the components all hand-rolled or something off the shelf?
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by potamic 8mo ago
In such cases does the registrar jack up prices next year or do you get to lock in the price forever at the time of purchase?
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by potamic 8mo ago
Blurring the cost-benefit analysis in the interest of downplaying the costs.
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by potamic 8mo ago
There was a narrative here earlier that I'd rather trust Google/Apple with my data than any other company or any government. The end result is the same in the end. When it comes to privacy, the only thing that works is zero trust.
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by potamic 8mo ago
Member when today's biggest advertising company used to claim no ads as their USP? Tegridy members...
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by potamic 8mo ago
You don't have to believe one's bullshit. You just have to believe others will believe the bullshit.
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by potamic 8mo ago
I suppose the question of how to prioritize scientific funding is itself a scientific problem, so we would first need to decide how much to allocate to the scientific funding sub-discipline so that all of scientific funding is as efficient
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by potamic 8mo ago
> Everyone looks really busy though, I guess that’s all that matters anymore. This is a dangerous tide incoming. I once had a conversation with a new exec as to why a certain team doesn't "look busy". In their mind people

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