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Zuckerberg's leaked email on VR strategy (2015)(scribd.com)
294 points by ppsreejith 4y ago|445 comments
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Zuckerberg interview on ignoring haters, suspecting Apple, and an open ecosystem(youtube.com)
15 points by ppsreejith 4y ago|0 comments
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by ppsreejith 4y ago
Could you share a source for this? Couldn't find much after a bit of googling.
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by ppsreejith 4y ago
Just curious but does it do anything beyond Dall-E 2's capabilities?
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by ppsreejith 4y ago
I remember this being true in my home place (Kerala, India) till ~2016. Local autos/taxis were unreliable in some parts or would charge you exorbitant fees depending on your situation (Eg: if you were a woman traveling home at night).
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There Never Was a West(theanarchistlibrary.org)
1 points by ppsreejith 4y ago|0 comments
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by ppsreejith 4y ago
> let me recall that it’s controlled by Zuckerberg who spent $419 million to influence US election administration in a seemingly partisan way For more context, from: https://www.protocol.com/newsletters/policy/z
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by ppsreejith 4y ago
You could delay division by 2 until the end. I.e ((2 * S mod N - n*(n+1) mod N) mod N) / 2 Where S is the sum of the array achieved through iterative addition with every addition mod N and N > 2n.
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by ppsreejith 4y ago
From the first line of the article > Amazon workers only make up a third of US warehouse employees, but in 2021, they suffered 49 percent of the injuries for the entire warehouse industry, according to a report by advocacy group Strategi
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by ppsreejith 5y ago
Also, the effect this would have on reducing rent and cost of living.
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Humans did not evolve to ride bicycles (2017)(cyclefit.co.uk)
44 points by ppsreejith 5y ago|99 comments
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by ppsreejith 5y ago
Update: I stand corrected, see comments below. He served with the communist POUM and sympathised with the anarchists. > Orwell was serving with a Marxist militia in the fight against fascism, in Spain Orwell actually fought on the side o
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by ppsreejith 5y ago
From: https://www.metacareers.com/life/what-remote-and-flexible-wo... > As of June 15, Facebook is opening up remote work to all levels across the company. Anyone whose role can be done remotely can request remote w
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by ppsreejith 5y ago
A recent reddit video seems relevant here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/sx7by... From the title: > An Indian Yogi filmed by Indian Army personnel while patrolling in the Himalayas
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by ppsreejith 5y ago
From the wikipedia page of Robin Li, co-founder of Baidu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Li#RankDex > In 1996, while at IDD, Li created the Rankdex site-scoring algorithm for search engine page ranking, which w
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by ppsreejith 5y ago
From a quick Google search, Facebook pay was launched in 2019. Has anything changed?
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by ppsreejith 5y ago
I’d say profiting off those ideas would probably be a better test (which seems to be what Thiel focuses on i.e profitable secrets). Also, he has many failed investments too so it’s not like his status comes from predicting more wins
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by ppsreejith 5y ago
IIRC, a black swan event highlights the problem of induction when there is _no_ prior event that you can use to learn from. Eg: humans thought all swans were white until the first black swan was encountered. So not just exceedingly rare but
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by ppsreejith 5y ago
Dupe (oldest with most comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30184104 Dupe 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30184560
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by ppsreejith 5y ago
This book is so underrated! One of my favourite parts is when overworked archangel Uriel loses his shit when trying to load New Zealand from a backup. Relevant quote: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8050527-please-aske
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by ppsreejith 5y ago
What if they're in different cities?
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PyTorch Live Launched: Build your AI-powered mobile apps in minutes(pytorch.org)
3 points by ppsreejith 5y ago|0 comments
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by ppsreejith 5y ago
Wouldn't the ultimate effect of land value taxes be to build more housing? (since that's how we can extract the most value out of land for a given tax)
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by ppsreejith 5y ago
In the book Sustainable Energy – without the hot air, Sir David MacKay says that the reason the industrial revolution happened in Britain might be due to the amount of coal Britain had. Equal (at that time) to the amount of oil under Saudi
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by ppsreejith 5y ago
Seems like they're associated with the development of Nyxt since they link to Nyxt here -> https://source.atlas.engineer/
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by ppsreejith 5y ago
Thank you! This was a very interesting watch. I've also started reading the book. For some reason, this reminds me of the debate between Peter Thiel and David Graeber on the topic "Where did the future go?" where Graeber poin
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by ppsreejith 6y ago
One of my favourite online graphviz editors for quickly creating something is: https://dreampuf.github.io/GraphvizOnline/
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How to be a more influential engineer(medium.com)
2 points by ppsreejith 7y ago|0 comments
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by ppsreejith 7y ago
To be fair, he may have motive for being "upset" since he was dismissed from being GNU Hurd's official maintainer by Stallman. From the Wikipedia link shared: "Bushnell was Hurd's official maintainer from its instig
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by ppsreejith 7y ago
I don't think the other answers here question the impact Gojek has on millions of people. > If uber built these no one will question them why don't they use some off the shelf solution. If it's over-engineered, they probab

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