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2y ago
> Okay but what's a better system? Why does promotion need a new feature? Reward for maintenance over time. Build on existing features / components. Reward for helping and up-skilling others.
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2y ago
> Abandoning the budget smartphone market is a risk for Apple. The whole article argues that a price increase on the SE or now 'e' is bad. This ignores that there's likely a general price increase (including the next iphon
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2y ago
> In my limited experience partners are usually small integrators that do maybe a small urban area. Did they get a big consulting partner/implementor or something? Those do exists. Partner was a gray area for them. Some services lik
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2y ago
> how did this government get a majority? That's not what people voted for (agreeing with the government). They were given choices and to pick what they felt they preferred.
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2y ago
What's AI capex? We're lumping everything together and calling it AI. A least a large part of it is building data centers, which they'd do anyway and can be of use even if AI doesn't pick up.
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2y ago
> Go ahead an look up I'm well aware of what happened in quite some detail. As I said I'm not saying I agree with what happened, but it's still not an invasion. You'd at most be stopping an internal riot / protes
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2y ago
If AI or analytics can determine if a startup would be successful or even just the idea there wouldn't even be VC nor investors. How does / would this work? How can it be data-driven? If there's data on it, is it still a star
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2y ago
> You’re almost 10 times more likely to be accepted to Stanford’s undergraduate program than to ever work as a hogger You have to pay for Stanford whereas Hog pays you. Wrong direction?
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2y ago
> There's only one company that I know of that's been successful at that level without sales: Atlassian. It's not precisely so. They do and have had partners that did sales / consulting work.
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2y ago
> Apple has already been in this spot. Has been. This is importance. Past tense. Maybe that's the point - they gave up on it acknowledging the extra costs / issues.
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2y ago
> So if someone wants to buy Apple hardware to run Linux, it does not have a negative affect to AAPL It does. Support costs. How do you prove it's a hardware failure or software? What should they do? Say it "unofficially"
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2y ago
Defending isn't just about outside forces. There are internal 1s too. There have been plenty of polls / surveys and it isn't united. Lots of people living there were originally from China or have some relationship to it. Ukra
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2y ago
> Have you ever worked on a military contract? Or even just a regular government contract? Yes > You seem to believe that military networks are slapped together with off-the-shelf SaaS apps You seem to believe I was talking specifical
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2y ago
> If the servers are on the island, my understanding is that they'll be fine. Taiwan doesn't have a huge data center capacity. A lot of services are in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore, etc... Of the big clouds e.g. AWS is only open
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2y ago
> Taiwan is ridiculously favourable terrain for the defenders; if they fight back, there can't be quick victory Not true. Just sneakily cut the submarine cables i.e. Internet before the "offical attack". Most of the commen
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2y ago
> 3) Other than human intellect, there is little in the way of natural resources to obtain out of Taiwan. It's economy is manufacturing and export driven. Why do people keep spreading misinformation? E.g. Taiwan grows and produces s
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2y ago
> That humiliation pales in comparison to the damage done domestically as taiwan's defenses would necessitate a gross loss of life. There was life lost in Hong Kong. Potentially not the same amount, but yes lives were lost (not just
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2y ago
> ... the same thing will apply later on after the successful "non-invasion" of Taiwan. Maybe. I never commented on if the situation is good - just that invasion is the wrong term. Perhaps it should be self-implosion.
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2y ago
> Unfortunately, dictators don't care much about damage to it's economy as long as they continue to be in power. It's not a dictator issue. The stock markets have been crashing lately due to "non-dictators". >
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2y ago
> For the same reasons they invaded and took Hong Kong. When was this a thing? Britain gave up control "voluntarily". There's been no military conflict whatsoever. Yes, I get that there were changes in law, protests and al
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2y ago
> explain? Taiwan has most of its trade with China (like it or not). There are numerous things that are e.g. illegal in China but "legal" in Taiwan and so Chinese business is conducted there e.g. online gambling sites. Then the
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2y ago
> China does. Xi does not. At the end of the day the leadership is who makes the decisions. The notion of a "country" does not.
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2y ago
> The whole premise of TSMC is that losing TSMC would cause such a global economic collapse that defending Taiwan is the only option to prevent this from happening. TSMC just hits the media often. If Taiwan goes the global economy will h
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2y ago
> I cannot even begin to imagine what madness has infected the Taiwanese government to allow this. It's jumping to conclusion. There aren't even any details in the announcement. It could be old / "mature" tech or
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2y ago
> If I were China I wonder if China actually benefits from this drama and rather not claim Taiwan (despite what they say out loud). It's currently: - the best place to show military might (the "drills") - the best place to
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2y ago
> this is a cope my friend. adapt or die. Adapt to? I'm not saying to not use AI but whether you use AI, do it manually or outsource it it's never 5 minutes. It's about being responsible. Double check what happens. Review
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2y ago
> But it also feels like a lot of VCs They only need to last until the exit (potentially next round). > The market for LLMs doesn’t seem to support the investment i.e. it doesn't matter as long as they find someone else to dump i
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2y ago
> Data point of one: ChatGPT 3.5, even the free product, is so much better at answering technical questions than Google. That's not the point of Google. It gives you a start to research the answer you need. ChatGPT just gives you an
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2y ago
> these gains are compounding. It's not really. You could have done the same using no code tools in a similar time. Question is, would you? It's alarming the amount of trust/praise that goes into "AI". > if yo
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2y ago
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