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by qzw 4y ago
China was fully committed to zero Covid until protests started happening, then it was scrapped in no time flat. And 2050 is just conveniently far enough away for it sound politically serious and yet have basically no need for actual immedia
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by qzw 4y ago
I think the ideas is to use AI for curation and discovery, but we’ll have to see whether AI can successfully distinguish truly high quality content from those that only appear high quality. I find it hard to imagine how that would work wi
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by qzw 4y ago
I like the idea in general, but any fraudsters would gladly pay quite a lot to have a chance of getting their hands on $400k. They can work out the ROI just as well as a legit customer. So the anti fraud aspect doesn’t ring true to me.
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by qzw 4y ago
They’re not worthy of having any law named for them, even a negative one. Really wish there was a Software Hall of Shame where they can go rest in infamy.
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by qzw 4y ago
AI may take over all programming jobs one day (assuming we don’t destroy human civilization first), but we’re still at the Ford Model T stage of AI development. Do you think in a few years we’d just have CEOs mumbling to AIs and nobody in b
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by qzw 4y ago
You know, where Theranos went wrong was not selling some other thing and then tack on their “Full blood test in just one drop” thing as an add-on. Oh and making sure it’s labeled beta . That’s very important.
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by qzw 4y ago
How about charging $10k for the “Full summit of Everest Experience” when you’re still sitting at base camp? Is that fraud or just failure? Or maybe it’s ok because it’s beta ?
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by qzw 4y ago
“Our metrics show that less than 0.02% of all apps are using the $26.65 and $57.30 price points. They are therefore no longer available to new apps. Existing apps using these price points will be required to change to one of the other suppo
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by qzw 4y ago
Yes, and apparently there are plans to do the same analysis on a newer sky survey that will have around 30M galaxies, which is ... also a drop in the bucket if we're talking hundreds of billions of galaxies in the observable universe.
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by qzw 4y ago
I guess it would be one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_coordinate_system... But I think for this study it doesn't really matter. As long as all the galaxies are in the same coordinate system,
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by qzw 4y ago
The obvious next step is to ask it to write the code for the k3s-kubeconfig tool as described.
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by qzw 4y ago
Most fine motor skills should be well within the grasp of robots/AI. Just look at what robot-assisted surgery can do today. But I believe soft fabrics and other easily deformed materials are still very difficult for them. So maybe time
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by qzw 4y ago
Actually it sounds like recruiting just got a lot easier for you!
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Wow, you're right! I had thought they got shut down in the US for some reason. But I see they're down to just three models.
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by qzw 4y ago
> I understand why some long wheelbase versions are Chinese-only, but I found it odd that Volvo's entire flagship sedan series is all-China. I think the reason is that the S90 isn't high volume enough to warrant more than one f
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by qzw 4y ago
Oh yeah, it's pretty terrible without ad blocking. Seems like car related sites are all similarly bad when it comes to ads.
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by qzw 4y ago
If you want to prove you know how to program, and you take some well known open source software but change it substantially enough to make it a different product that’s useful to some customers. Does that prove you can write software? I thi
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by qzw 4y ago
My personal take is that the Chinese car makers have somewhat missed their opportunity to introduce their own brands to the US market. Due to the pandemic and China's own policies, the tide is now against them. But Chinese companies do
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Both. The important thing is that in the beginning they were considered inferior to American cars in all relevant respects, so they were not taken seriously. The oil crisis happened to highlight one of their key strengths and accelerated th
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by qzw 4y ago
Exactly, Korean cars, Taiwanese semiconductors, and Brazilian jets are also good examples. Seems like GP is not yet acquainted with Clayton Christensen’s theory of disruptive innovation.
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by qzw 4y ago
I've also heard that story, but it always seemed to me that an equally, if not more, likely reason is that cake made with a fresh egg simply has better flavor and texture. I tried reconstituted powdered eggs once, the taste is still so
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by qzw 4y ago
> That's a nice sentiment, but it overlooks the fact that AA introduces this doubt, the doubt is in fact real, and can't be papered over with good intentions and turning a blind eye to cause and effect. Hey, I'm well awa
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by qzw 4y ago
Oh, certainly. A few years is all black kids and women need to overcome racial and gender prejudices in this country. Or how about we don’t assume all black kids and women are diversity hires now , and maybe, I don’t know, treat each one a
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by qzw 4y ago
People always only think of themselves, democracy or not. That's been true since the dawn of time. That's why I said the younger generations will need to overcome some of the institutional barriers. Nothing is going to be just han
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by qzw 4y ago
The current boom cycle has been juiced for so long that there’s a whole generation of working people who have no idea what a bust looks like. My wife is one of them, and when I describe to her what things looked like after 2008, she thinks
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by qzw 4y ago
I assume you’re fairly young. I know things look pretty grim at the moment, but in the longer term the younger people are going to be in the driver’s seat like few generations before. The demographic trends in most countries forecast aging
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by qzw 4y ago
Amazon is entering this space with the upcoming Kindle Scribe. I wish Remarkable luck, but the odds of them surviving as an independent entity is going to plummet if the Scribe is at all decent.
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by qzw 4y ago
Are you implying someone who would write fake reviews for his own products under fake names might also write fake blog posts about himself under fake names?! I for one, believe it was entirely written by a 100%, genuine friend of Qasim. A g
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by qzw 4y ago
Oh no! The Founders would be displeased! I'm so tired of this kind of argument, as if we should forever substitute our own judgement with games of "what would The Founders want?" They were men, some were even great men, but
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by qzw 4y ago
I believe China recently removed the joint-venture requirement. It's either a sign that China's maturing and slowing economy is no longer so attractive that they can impose such an onerous requirement, or that China thinks it&#x27

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