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by randomsilence 5y ago
That's consistent with the way, children react to languages and faces. When we are born, we are open to all languages. When we grow up, we only remain receptive to the language structures to which we had been exposed previously. Of cou
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by randomsilence 5y ago
An "appropriate" use is of course targeted advertising. You can create products with a brand image that appeals to specific personalities. Then you buy advertising space when the person is in an emotional state where they are most
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by randomsilence 5y ago
Puneet Mulchandani's answer is there: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/415293/sunsetting-j... > less than 1% of our monthly users engaged with Jobs > Most employers found our sourcing system too
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by randomsilence 5y ago
What's their reason for shutting it down? The older submissions mention that they want to focus on managing company images. Why would they shut down before establishing the new income stream? What happens if it doesn't work out? W
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by randomsilence 5y ago
Not wanting Steam is the biggest issue. They could include further shops and even individual games. There also needs to be an option for people who want to do scientific computing. Having vouchers from scientific institutions would exclude
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by randomsilence 5y ago
You would have to saturate the market with specific mining devices. Like with bitcoin ASIC miners, the crypto mining demands have to increase to the point where using gaming graphic cards becomes unprofitable. Otherwise miners will buy the
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by randomsilence 5y ago
It's the 'secret Coca Cola recipe' leaked to Pepsi situation: The source code is still protected by copy rights and patents. AMD cannot just take it.
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by randomsilence 5y ago
With IQ tests identifying you as intelligent, you could be in a small class with other terrible students and a teacher who knows how to reach and motivate you. After some weeks you could rejoin the best students and learn at a much higher p
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by randomsilence 5y ago
Why reinvent the wheel? It's a selling point that Elasticsearch queries can be used. If he changes the engine he might as well implement the Elasticsearch language then for the new engine.
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by randomsilence 5y ago
Which will lead to the remote workers changing companies. If there is no substantial advantage, those companies will become second class companies.
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by randomsilence 5y ago
Harvard Business Review on the disbanding of Haven, the venture to disrupt U.S. health care formed by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase:[1] >Perverse incentives. We still live in a world where the larger portion of hospitals
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by randomsilence 5y ago
Why would they shut it down? Discontinuing a successful social app during Covid times doesn't make sense at all. Bandcamp seems to be too big to be closed like that though.
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by randomsilence 5y ago
Does anyone of them see the web as their future platform? Each one of them apart from Amazon has at least one competing technology.
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by randomsilence 5y ago
Because the other half can access the app with a react native wrapper or something like that. In the long run, having to install the native app is an inconvenience to those users and their next phone will be less limiting. Apple is famous f
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by randomsilence 5y ago
>Behavioral problems, not technical skills, are what separate the great from the near great. True for those with technical skills. There are also the ones with social skills that haven't honed their technical skills. Is there a comp
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by randomsilence 5y ago
What's the point of equilibrium? How many housing units will be needed to offer affordable housing to everybody who wants it?
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by randomsilence 5y ago
Old numbers, but the trend was stable [1]: >Simple division yields an estimate of 13.982 million GPUs mining Ethereum on April 16 2021. >40 million graphic cards produced in 2020 It's just 1/3 of one year's production t
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by randomsilence 5y ago
An implementation can be found there: https://libraryofbabel.info/
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by randomsilence 5y ago
That must be Meta's long game with their social network. It's much easier to identify signals if you know who is sending.
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by randomsilence 5y ago
In a sense, it's the prequel to Megalopolis. We need to know who we want to be before we can discuss how society is supposed to be.
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by randomsilence 5y ago
We could as well skip the movie and start the debate right away. >What he dreams about, he said, is creating something like It's a Wonderful Life—a movie everyone goes to see, once a year, forever. “On New Year's, instead of ta
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by randomsilence 5y ago
>Consume public APIs as simpler programmable building blocks Is the 'r' in simpler there intentionally? In which way are the building blocks more simple than simple blocks?
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by randomsilence 5y ago
Fair point. So what's your evaluation of the real value of education? I don't see how I can answer your questions in a short comment because they depend very much on individual circumstances. E.g. nowadays you have to be able to
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by randomsilence 5y ago
Of course you need educated people for a democracy. That's why the old generation dedicates enough funds to educate the next generation. Regarding the value of education. If it has a value, why can't it have a monetary value? At o
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by randomsilence 5y ago
In other words, does a16z ask for startups to attack MS on their home turf? There can be a niche for the product creation stage. But how does a company scale in MS's market? Sooner or later, it's a Slack vs MS Teams situation.
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by randomsilence 5y ago
>Isn't the real problem the economisation of education? The desire to express the value of education in monetary terms is really only useful for those running education businesses, like e.g. many of today's universities in the
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by randomsilence 5y ago
And yet, Google tries to show the right links to wrong search requests. *edit: To me, this seems to be the greatest obstacle towards artificial intelligence. We search AI within computational concepts, where GIGO holds, whereas society alre
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by randomsilence 5y ago
Actually they can and only they can. As noticed, once Reddit builds a search engine, people will flood it with spam. But Reddit is in the unique position that they can figure out who is a genuine user. They have the ip addresses of all the
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by randomsilence 5y ago
>They had a ton of spare resources Is this true? There was the story about the resources they need for Christmas shopping that went unused for the rest of the year. But recently somebody mentioned here (I don't remember where) that
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by randomsilence 5y ago
Could you add two multi-player options? 1) participants guess in turns, every correct choice gets a point 2) participants guess competitively and first right choice gets a point. Wrong choices are shown to others, result in a point deductio

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